Studying the pedigrees
of chocolate Labrador Retrievers, you often wonder where the chocs are
coming from. All of a sudden they are there, out of the blue. I studied
the files in the LabradorNet database, which contains the pedigrees of
more than 34,000 Labradors, and came to the conclusion that there are roughly
8 routes to the origin of chocolate Labs.
One of the reasons
that you'll find no chocolate Labs in the older files, is that they weren't
in fashion for many decades, so they just weren't registered. However,
the blacks and the yellows carrying the choc gene kept reproducing, and
that's why we're able to trace them all the way back to the late 1800s.
According to the
studbook of Buccleuch
Kennels, the chocolates in that kennel came through FTW Peter of Faskally
(1908). However, Peter of Faskally was a descendant of Buccleuch Avon (1885).
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Buccleuch
Avon
.
Peter
of Faskally
.
The Earl of Feversham
had some typical specimen of chocolates, his Nawton Pruna (who produced
yellow offspring) doing well at field trials in the years preceding the
First World War.
One of the chief
supporters of chocolates was the Hon. Lady Ward of Chiltonfoliat, near
Hungerford, the dogs from her kennel being very typical with particularly
good tails and coats. Her chocolate bitch FTW Darry of Chiltonfoliat (Braeroy
Darkie) (1930) was sired by an unregistered chocolate dog called Jimmy,
while her dam descended from the chocolate Flatcoat Clyde (see further
down).
Mr. J.G. Severn
of Tibshelf Kennels wrote: "My first experience of the chocolate Labradors
was in February, 1938, when I visited Dr. Montgomery of Sutton Ashfield,
about three miles from Tibshelf. We had mated his black bitch Shelagh of
Brasidonia to my black dog Danilo of Tibshelf. Result: 4 blacks, 2 chocolate
dogs, 1 cream bitch. I later bought Shelagh and mated her again to Danilo.
Result just the same."
Miss Wills of Metesford
Kennels produced several chocolates in the late 1940s, early 1950s, but
their descendence is not known.
Further more we should keep in mind that there are a lot of missing links in our database, and sometimes the reasons for this are rather obvious. I found 21 interbred or fullbred Flatcoats or Chesapeake Bay retrievers in our Labrador retriever database, all born in the U.K. between 1914 and 1933. Of all the 21 interbred or fullbred Flatcoats or Chesapeake Bay retrievers, most of them being Field Trial champions, we could only track the ancestors for more than two generations of two dogs. The information about the ancestors of the other 19 interbred dogs was simply removed from the files in the 1930s. It seems that some well known Labrador breeders didn't want the public to know that their succesful dogs were partly the offspring of interbred dogs.
Two well known Chesapeake
Bay retrievers were a dog called Jolly, who sired the male Labrador retriever
Jolly Sam, born before 1933, and the bitch Corydalys, who was the dam of
the female Labrador retriever Micklefield Juno, born before 1925. Clyde,
born before 1923, was the "liver" (chocolate) Flatcoat retriever who sired
the male yellow Labrador FTW Folkingham Bexter (1925), who in turn sired
the yellow bitch FTW Limekiln Rhoda (1927). She and the yellow dog FTW
Golden Morn (1926) had a litter that was registered as "half Golden Retriever
and half Labradors". The separation was by coat length, because all puppies
were yellow. Apparently the third generation showed some traits of the
original breed involved.
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Sandylands
Mark
.
Route 1 (version
1): Morningtown Tobla (f, choc, < 1976) - Brentville Ebony (f, black,
<1974)- Knavery Mistress Meg (f, black < 1972) - Sandylands Mark
(m, black, 1965) - Reanacre Mallardhurn Thunder (m, black, 1960) - Mallardhurn
Pat (f, yellow, < 1958) - Poppleton Lieutenant (m, yellow, 1949) - Poppleton
Golden Sunray (f, yellow, < 1947) - Poppleton Golden Major (m, yellow,
< 1940) - Poppleton Black Lancer (m, black, 1934) - Haylers Danilo (m,
black < 1932) - Banchory Danilo (m, black, 1923) - Banchory Bolo (m,
black, 1915) - Scandal of Glynn (m, black, < 1913) - Shelag of Glynn
(f, black, < 1911) - Shelag (f, colour unknown, < 1909) - Munden
Sentry (m, black, 1900) - Munden Sixty (m, black, 1897) - Buccleuch Nith
(m, black, 1891) - Buccleuch Avon (m, black, 1885) - Malmesbury Tramp (m,
black, 1878).
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Reanacre
Mallardhurn Thunder
.
Route 1 (version
2): Morningtown Tobla (f, choc, < 1976) - Brentville Ebony (f, black,
<1974)- Knavery Mistress Meg (f, black < 1972) - Sandylands Mark
(m, black, 1965) - Reanacre Mallardhurn Thunder (m, black, 1960) - Mallardhurn
Pat (f, yellow, < 1958) - Poppleton Lieutenant (m, yellow, 1949) - Poppleton
Golden Sunray (f, yellow, < 1947) - Poppleton Golden Major (m, yellow,
< 1940) - Poppleton Black Lancer (m, black, 1934) - Haylers Danilo (m,
black < 1932) - Boris de Main (f, yellow, < 1930), child of: Sceptre
(m, colour unknown, not registered, < 1928) and Countess (f, colour
unknown, not registered, < 1928). However, Buccleuch Avon, born
in 1885, so almost 40 years before, is known to have produced some chocolate
offspring, so it's more likely that either his sire Malmesbury Tramp, or
his dam Malmesbury June (f, black, 1880), or both, already carried the
chocolate gene.
Follytower
Merrybrook Black Stormer
.
Route 2: Follytower
Merrybrook Black Stormer (m, black, 1969) - Sandylands Tandy (m, yellow,
1961) - Sandylands Shadow (f, black, 1959) - Diant Pride (f, yellow, <
1957) - Poppleton Lieutenant (m, yellow, 1949) - Poppleton Golden Sunray
(f, yellow, < 1947) - Poppleton Golden Major (m, yellow, < 1940)
- Poppleton Black Lancer (m, black, 1934) - Haylers Danilo (m, black <
1932) - Banchory Danilo (m, black, 1923) - Banchory Bolo (m, black, 1915)
- Scandal of Glynn (m, black, < 1913) - Shelag of Glynn (f, black, <
1911) - Shelag (f, colour unknown, < 1909) - Munden Sentry (m, black,
1900) - Munden Sixty (m, black, 1897) - Buccleuch Nith (m, black, 1891)
- Buccleuch Avon (m, black, 1885) - Malmesbury Tramp (m, black, 1878).
Fabracken
Comedy Star
.
Route 3: Fabracken
Comedy Star (m, black, 1979) - Martin of Mardas (m, black, 1975) - Ballyduff
Marketeer (m, black, 1974) - Sandylands Mark (m, black, 1965) - Reanacre
Mallardhurn Thunder (m, black, 1960) - Mallardhurn Pat (f, yellow, <
1958) - Poppleton Lieutenant (m, yellow, 1949) - Poppleton Golden Sunray
(f, yellow, < 1947) - Poppleton Golden Major (m, yellow, < 1940)
- Poppleton Black Lancer (m, black, 1934) - Haylers Danilo (m, black <
1932) - Banchory Danilo (m, black, 1923) - Banchory Bolo (m, black, 1915)
- Scandal of Glynn (m, black, < 1913) - Shelag of Glynn (f, black, <
1911) - Shelag (f, colour unknown, < 1909) - Munden Sentry (m, black,
1900) - Munden Sixty (m, black, 1897) - Buccleuch Nith (m, black, 1891)
- Buccleuch Avon (m, black, 1885) - Malmesbury Tramp (m, black, 1878).
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Martin
of Mardas
.
Route 4: Olivia
of Blaircourt (f, black, < 1954) - Lawrie of Blaircourt (m, black, <
1952) - Fiona of Blaircourt (f, black, < 1950) - Treesholme Thunder
(m, black, < 1948) - Triumph of Treesholme (m, yellow, < 1946) -
Poppleton Golden Sherry (f, yellow, < 1944) - Poppleton Golden Gleam
(f, yellow, < 1942) - Poppleton Golden Major (m, yellow, < 1940)
- Poppleton Black Lancer (m, black, 1934) - Haylers Danilo (m, black <
1932) - Banchory Danilo (m, black, 1923) - Banchory Bolo (m, black, 1915)
- Scandal of Glynn (m, black, < 1913) - Shelag of Glynn (f, black, <
1911) - Shelag (f, colour unknown, < 1909) - Munden Sentry (m, black,
1900) - Munden Sixty (m, black, 1897) - Buccleuch Nith (m, black, 1891)
- Buccleuch Avon (m, black, 1885) - Malmesbury Tramp (m, black, 1878).
Sandylands
Tweed of Blaircourt
.
Route 5: Pride
of Craigavon (m, chocolate, < 1974) - Taffy of Keithray (m, black, 1965)
- Sandylands Tweed of Blaircourt (m, black, 1958) - Ruler of Blaircourt
(m, black, 1956) - Olivia of Blaircourt (f, black, < 1954) - Lawrie
of Blaircourt (m, black, < 1952) - Fiona of Blaircourt (f, black, <
1950) - Treesholme Thunder (m, black, < 1948) - Triumph of Treesholme
(m, yellow, < 1946) - Poppleton Golden Sherry (f, yellow, < 1944)
- Poppleton Golden Gleam (f, yellow, < 1942) - Poppleton Golden Major
(m, yellow, < 1940) - Poppleton Black Lancer (m, black, 1934) - Haylers
Danilo (m, black < 1932) - Banchory Danilo (m, black, 1923) - Banchory
Bolo (m, black, 1915) - Scandal of Glynn (m, black, < 1913) - Shelag
of Glynn (f, black, < 1911) - Shelag (f, colour unknown, < 1909)
- Munden Sentry (m, black, 1900) - Munden Sixty (m, black, 1897) - Buccleuch
Nith (m, black, 1891) - Buccleuch Avon (m, black, 1885) - Malmesbury Tramp
(m, black, 1878).
Route 6: Cookridge Oscar (m, chocolate, < 1960) - Bickerton Salmon Prince (m, yellow, < 1958) - Blondie of Gloamin (f, yellow, < 1956) - Raider of Gloamin (m, colour unknown, < 1954) - Marquis of Gloamin (m, yellow, < 1944) - Poppleton Golden Major (m, yellow, < 1940) - Poppleton Black Lancer (m, black, 1934) - Haylers Danilo (m, black < 1932) - Banchory Danilo (m, black, 1923) - Banchory Bolo (m, black, 1915) - Scandal of Glynn (m, black, < 1913) - Shelag of Glynn (f, black, < 1911) - Shelag (f, colour unknown, < 1909) - Munden Sentry (m, black, 1900) - Munden Sixty (m, black, 1897) - Buccleuch Nith (m, black, 1891) - Buccleuch Avon (m, black, 1885) - Malmesbury Tramp (m, black, 1878).
Route 7: Chocolate
Lady (f, chocolate, < 1954) - Harehope Bliss (m, black, 1936) - Weston
Bunty (f, black, < 1934) - Adderley Tyke (m, black, 1929) - Adderley
Trim (f, black, 1927) - Beningbrough Tanco (m, black, 1924) - Banchory
Corbie (m, black, 1921) - Banchory Bolo (m, black, 1915) - Scandal of Glynn
(m, black, < 1913) - Shelag of Glynn (f, black, < 1911) - Shelag
(f, colour unknown, < 1909) - Munden Sentry (m, black, 1900) - Munden
Sixty (m, black, 1897) - Buccleuch Nith (m, black, 1891) - Buccleuch Avon
(m, black, 1885) - Malmesbury Tramp (m, black, 1878).
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Munden
Sentry
.
Route 8: Hiwood
Mike (m, black, 1935), via Pettistree Dan (m, black, 1934) - Quest of Wilbury
(f, black, 1930) - Muntham Raven (f, black, 1924) - Banchory Corbie (m,
black, 1921) - Banchory Bolo (m, black, 1915) - Scandal of Glynn (m, black,
< 1913) - Shelag of Glynn (f, black, < 1911) - Shelag (f, colour
unknown, < 1909) - Munden Sentry (m, black, 1900) - Munden Sixty (m,
black, 1897) - Buccleuch Nith (m, black, 1891) - Buccleuch Avon (m, black,
1885) - Malmesbury Tramp (m, black, 1878),
AND via Pettistree
Poppet (f, colour unknown, < 1933) - Cransford Flapper (f, colour unknown,
< 1931) - Peter of Bircham (m, colour unknown, < 1930) - Banchory
Danilo (m, black, 1923) - Banchory Bolo (m, black, 1915) - Scandal of Glynn
(m, black, < 1913) - Shelag of Glynn (f, black, < 1911) - Shelag
(f, colour unknown, < 1909) - Munden Sentry (m, black, 1900) - Munden
Sixty (m, black, 1897) - Buccleuch Nith (m, black, 1891) - Buccleuch Avon
(m, black, 1885) - Malmesbury Tramp (m, black, 1878).
I researched some 30 well known chocolate Labrador Retrievers without any known chocolate anscestors, and their pedigrees all fit in with one (ore several) of the routes above. Please keep in mind that famous Labradors like Boothgates Headliner, Lindall Mollie Malone, Morningtown Stormette etc. all descend from Morningtown Tobla (route 1).
Aroscas Chocolate
Surprise:
route 1, via Sandylands Mark.
Bradking Cassandra:
route 2, directly and via Ardmargha Mad Hatter and Sandylands Mark.
Brendale Brown
Betty: route 2 and 5.
Brentwoods Sweet
Molly Brown: route 2, via Mardas Brandlesholme Sam's Song.
Captain Kirk of
Rangeways: route 1 and 2.
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Castlemore
Bramble
.
Castlemore Bramble:
route 1 via Sandylands Mark, route 5 via Pride of Craigavon.
Charway Mattie
Brown: route 3.
Charway Sally Brown:
route 2.
Chocolate Lady:
route 7, via Harehope Bliss.
Cookridge Oscar:
route 6, via Bickerton Salmon Price.
Cookridge Tango:
route 5, via Sandylands Tweed of Blaircourt.
Could Be's Chestnut
Wrangler: route 4, via Could Be's Rusty Rock, Could Be's Haven Rock,
Indian Valley Rob Roy, Bart of Blaircourt and Rush of Blaircourt.
Follytower Brownthorn:
route 2, via Charway Blackthorn of Follytower.
Gunfield's Super
Charger: route 8, via Shamrock Acres Super Drive, Super Chief, Paha
Sapa Chief II, Freehaven Muscles, Grangemead Sharon.
Gunotter's Chocolate
Nip: route 5, via Harris Tweed of Ide and Sandylands Tweed of Blaircourt.
Haverhill's Brown
Belle: route 1, via Dickendall Flip Flop, Sandylands Midas and Reanacre
Mallardhurn Thunder.
Ironwood Cocoa
Mocha: route 8, via Del Tone Colvin, Cork of Oakwood Lane, Coastal
Charger of Deer Creek, Little Pierre of Deer Creek.
Lawnwoods Chocolate
Fudge: directly via route 2, and route 1 via Lawnwoods Tapestry and
Reanacre Mallardhurn Thunder.
Lawnwoods
Hot Chocolate
.
Lawnwoods Hot Chocolate:
route 2.
Lenches Chocolate
Liquor: Route 1 via Lasgarn Ludovic and Sandylands Mark.
Loughderg Fiona:
route 4, via Ruler of Blaircourt.
Marbra Leprechaun:
route 2.
Pride of Craigavon:
route 5.
.
Pumerang Connection
With Stormley: route 2, the easy way via Harrop Black Jack, or take
the detour via Stormley Lynx with Pumerang, Ravenshall Charmer at Stormley,
Clayford Music At Midnight At Stormley, Lawnwoods Midnight Folly and Lawnwoods
Fandango.
Roydwood Rowntree
at Ravenshall: route 1 and 2, via Keithray Lucinda, Contessa of Keithray
& Sandylands Tandy.
Simandem Sam Browne
of Balrion: route 2, via Charway Blackthorn of Follytower.
Sorbus Brown Jay:
route 5, via Alvgardens Sam, Alvgardens Jet, Alvgardens Flap, Sandylands
Twanah and Sandylands Tweed of Blaircourt.
Tracers Sweet Georgia
Brown: route 2, via Follytower Chevalier of Ranfurly and Follytower
Augusta.
Waltham Galaxy
of Condor: route 1, via Jayncourt Stormer and Sandylands Mark.
Whisky Creek Brown
Buina: route 4, via Indian Valley Raed Wulf & Bart of Blaircourt.
Williston Brown
Smith: route 1, via Sebastian of Anderscroft, Sandylands Midas and
Reanacre Mallardhurn Thunder.
I'm pretty sure that at least 99% of all chocolate Labradors can be categorized using one of the 8 routes above.
Jack Vanderwyk,
LabradorNet
May 5, 2003
http://labradornet.com
Email: labradors@usa.net
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