BEAUT This family starts off with an unregistered bitch by the name of Yieldshields Beaute. I have no idea as to when she was born except for the fact that I have found a bitch called Yieldshields Peggy that was registered with the Kennel Club in about 1912. She was by a dog called Model Statesman out of a bitch by the name of Yieldshields Grace. This family did nothing at all for twelve generations. Then suddenly a bitch comes along to change it all. This was Biddy of Daddystown. And did she make a difference. She was born in August 1943 which was in the middle of the second World War. So she was getting on a bit when the show scene started again but she was good enough to win her way into the Kennel Club Stub Book. But it was as a dam that she really excelled. She was mated to a dog called Don of Oldpark. He was by the second of the Eden Esquires. I have no knowledge of his dam. but he was he was also the sire of a bitch called Eden Erasmic that won a Challenge Certificate and is the last bitch in the line of Ruby 111. DAM LINE of: Ambartr’s May Queen As I have written there were no lines coming from this line for 12 generations until Biddy of Daddystown came along. Then a huge number of offspring came directly down from her. To save space I have just put in an eight reverse dam generation. As you can see the most important bit is that she was the great granddam of Shoinemaw Sheena the dam of Ch Mywicks Meadow Lancer. Unfortunately that line seems to have stopped with a bitch called Linamac Gentle Breeze born in 1998. Biddy of Daddystown was born on the 30/08/1943. Her owner I have to assume was Mr F Robson due to the number of Eden bitches in the line. She was seven generations behind Ch Mywicks My Lady Fair. This was an interesting bitch because she was awarded Best of Breed at Crufts but was disqualified as she had been entered as Mywicks My Fair Lady. Biddy of Daddystown had three litters. Each of them produced bitches that bred on. But two litters are of special interest. The first to a dog called Killartry Rex produced two bitches that were bought by Mr Robson of the Eden kennel. They were born in May 1946. The other litter also produced two bitches bought by Mr Robson. They were born in July 1948 and the sire was Don of Oldpark. However it is Eden Edwina and Eden Epaulet both by Killartry Rex that was of major interest. I have put a reverse pedigree of her here to show what an influence she had on the breed. To start off this line from Biddy of Daddystown is her daughter Eden Edwina that was at the start of the famous Mywicks line of Ch Mywicks Meadow Lancer and Ch Mywicks My Lady Fair. Her next daughter of note is Eden Epaulet and she was at the start of the famous Carramar line. I have to say here that almost all of today’s Collies go back to Biddy. She is even more important if I include the male lines from her. REVERSE DAM PEDIGREE of: Biddy of Daddystown Biddy of Daddystown is the great granddam of the next prolific bitch in this line that is simply called Black Ricky. She was by a dog called Alstonian Normington. He was by Ch Caesar of Cobieux out of Lamour of Ladypark. Her dam Glendoran Golden Miranda was by a dog called Eden Excellent. There is a problem here as there are two dogs with this name. This one was born in 1946 while his namesake was born just twelve years earlier in 1934. Why the Kennel Club allowed this I do not know. I have to think that their database was not very good. Anyway Black Ricky was the dam of a Champion bitch, granddam of two Champion bitches and the great granddam of three Champion bitches. All were blue merles. The Champion daughter of Black Ricky when she was mated to Ch Westcarrs Blue Minoru was Crosstalk silver Belle and she was one of the very few Champion bitches to breed on successfully. She was the dam of CH Corviross Silver Joy and CH Kingsville Corviross Gay Silver. The sire was Clayswood Don Nicholas. The Clayswood prefix was owned by a Mrs Clay who refused to show her dogs. She evidently claimed that showing was corrupt. She was probably right but we just have to grin and let it go. We just have to accept that all sport is more or less a bit dodgy. Ch Corviross Silver Joy was the dam of a Champion Ch Tilehouse Thistle who unfortunately followed the trend of not producing, but her other Champion Kingsville Corviross Gay Silver did breed on and produced two champion bitches that were to breed on themselves. These were CH Asoka Gay Mist who was the dam of CH Acorus Blue Grass of Rokeby. While her other daughter CH Dream Baby of Kingsville went on to establish her own lines. Though is another daughter of Ch Crosstalk Silver Belle, Woodlyn Corviros Silver Sue that carries on the line up to almost the modern day. We go another five generations before we come to another Champion bitch Ch Stelroy’s Rhapsody In Blue that was by Nite Porter of Rokeby out of Stelroy Misty Blue. This Champion bitch unfortunately only produced the next bitch in this line, and it was another eight generations before we got to another Champion CH Gemastra Flirty Girty. She was by Sundorne Spiritulist who had made quite a name for himself as a stud dog. It seems a great pit y that this line which was quite strong for a time died out in about 2008. REVERSE PEDIGREE of: Black Ricky. I have removed those that were not involved in Blue Merle Champions. There are thirteen Blue Merle Champions in just 4 generations.
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