This bitch was born in 1955, and she had a litter with CH AFC FC Craigmar’s Dustrack in 1957.
Very nice looking bitch, isn’t she?
She was bred by Donovan and Gertrude Fischer. The image comes from Gertrude Fischer’s The New Complete Golden Retriever (1984).
Going back to the breed origins, do I recall correctly that a Russian circus dog was part of that, or is my brain cell playing up again?
That was a flight of fancy that was later disproved.
Golden retrievers are nothing more than yellow variants of the old wavy/flat-coated retriever.
The kennel records of their founding dogs were released in the 1950’s, and they showed that not a single Russian dog.
http://www.countrysportsandcountrylife.com/sections/gundogs/GoldenRetriever.htm
Even the bloodhound cross that even mentioned here has very little evidence for it. If it occurred at all, it was used to improve the bloodhounds on the estate, not the retrievers. And the crosses, if they existed, never contributed to golden retriever lines.
En las lineas actuales y ocasionalmente se pueden apreciar cráneos más abombados (cúpula occipital ) y ejes craneofaciales convergentes o paralelos en contraposición a las líneas antiguas con ejes divergentes.¿?.
Un saludo
PD. Aún así lo que impera son las pruebas funcionales…
That visible occipital bone is pretty common in golden retrievers and a lot of larger dogs. An old wive’s tale is that if a dog has this trait, it is smarter than normal. It’s called “the bump of knowledge.”
Ch Pele of Flarewin was a granddaughter of Mrs Fischer’s first Golden, “Flare” (Ch Des Lacs Lassie II, a daughter of Bart Foster’s famous Ch. Des Lacs Lassie CD). Pele’s sire, Ch Oakwin Junior, was a British import who had considerable impact on the breed in California back in the 1950s.
I know of two progeny in the litter by Dustrack — Ch Pele of Flarewin’s Cavalier owned by Gold Quest kennels (Nancy Lanigan, Ohio) and Pele of Flarewin’s Gold Falcon, owned by Mark and Rachel Page Elliott (MA). “Dennis” was Mark’s very competent waterfowl retriever, working the rocky coasts of Maine every year. He was also a very handsome dog.
One of the Fischer book’s strength are her anecdotes about her own dogs, Candy and Flare, that are mixed into the text at appropriate times for illustration purposes.
Very few breed books successfully use anecdotes in this fashion as she did.