I truly believe our breed has a serious issue to consider with markings on tricolors. This year at the ACKCSC national - the open tricolor dog class, that was quite well entered and represented, was comprised of a complete black saddle marked tricolor on every single entry. I have been to two CKCSC/USA shows in recent months and the problem exists there as well.
Many of us have kept heavily marked tris (including myself) on occasion for whatever reason (pedigree, health, construction, type) and I'm the first to admit that I think health, type, and soundness are all much more important than markings. However, I think that too many of us accept heavily marked tris as okay compared to heavily marked blenheims simply because that is more common and it is really hard to get well broken in tris. The standard is the same for Blenheims and Tris - "well broken ...." and I think we all need to keep this in the back of our mind. Ask any Springer breeder and they will tell you that saddle marking can be easily locked into your breeding program - it is nearly impossible to get rid of it! Lamont Yoder Woftam Cavaliers Lamont & Charlene Yoder Sunbury, Ohio ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
