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 "Rocky" |
FC-AFC RIVER OAKS WAY-DA-GO ROCKY October 16, 1986 - September 4, 1996 Frozen Semen Available **** OFA Good, Eyes Clear, Throws Black, Yellow and Chocolate. A 1993 National Open Finalist. Progeny include an FC AFC bitch (FC AFC Dust
Devil’s Ambush Annie), an FC Chocolate male (FC Nandool’s Elwood Blues),
another chocolate male with an Open win at just 3 years of age, eighteen
dogs on the National Derby List, and many Qualified Open All-Age offspring
currently running Opens and Amateurs. Frozen semen available with planning well in advance of breeding.
References available upon request. |
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"Portrait by Sherri Walker" |
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| "Rocky"
AmiableLabsElite Refuge MemberRegistered: Oct 2000Location: Wheaton, IL USAPosts: 1977 A Final Word About FC-AFC Rocky Friends, I am sure most of you are tired of hearing about my litter and its sire "Rocky." But please indulge me one last time, then I'll drop it. We had six puppies. We now have money in hand for four, we are keeping a fifth, and there are three parties currently talking to me about the sixth. Essentially, the litter is sold. All by word of mouth. So far, we have two pups staying local, one going to Connecticut, one going to California, and one going to Tennessee. My bitch has a "great" pedigree, with superfantabulously strong bitch lines. But in the end, she is still unproven and untitled. All this success was because of Rocky. We bred to Rocky because he was a field trial dawg that throws good, classic-looking Labs. But Rocky's contribution to the breed is much more than that. Rocky has sired multiple FC-AFC field trial offspring; multiple MH and HRCH hunt test offspring; multiple CDX and UD obedience offspring, and multiple MX agility offspring. Most people don't know that. The first deposit we took was from the lady in Connecticut. She sent it over a month before we even bred the litter! She is a die-hard Agility competitor. She takes to Agility like the rest of us do to duckhunting (except she gets to do it year-round). She is replacing for agility competition a Rocky-grandson she had who died prematurely on the operating table. Now we just got word that another Rocky-daughter (Candlewood's Ribbonquest) was the #1 Agility Lab in the nation last year for her category. My wife took her Rocky-son "Banner" to the Labrador Retriever National Specialty last year. He passed the Senior hunt test. He passed Open-B Obedience with a qualifying score of 194 out of 200, and she competed in the conformation show, although he did not place. Nonetheless, he was one of only five dawgs at the whole speciality to earn the coveted "Dog for All-Reasons" Award. That is what Rocky's contribution to the breed was --
multi-dimensional. I cannot think of a single contemporary Labrador out of
show lines that can make the claims about their progeny that Rocky can.
And few if any out of field lines. And to me, that is what makes Labs so
very special -- they are multi-dimensional. So tonight I will smoke a
premium cigar, and lift my glass to the late FC-AFC River Oak's Way-Da-Go
Rocky (1986-1996). A dawg that did something very special -- he left a
positive multi-dimensional contribution to his breed. Now I'll shut up
about the dawg. Kevin __________________ "It won't be 'Heaven' without my dawgs." Let's roll... |
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