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Originally Posted by YorkieRose  Do you know the only Yorkie to win Westminster, C.D. Higgins was sold by the breeder as a pet, then his new owner decided to show him...of course, he was not from a pet pedigree? |
Pat, Where did you learn that he was sold as a pet. I know that mrs. Clark carefully inbred to create him, breeding Toy Clown (out of Wildweir's Pomp 'N' Circumstance) to Miss Debutante and than to their daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter, gradually building a prepotency of Toy Clown's genes in both the sire and dam of Higgens. It's incredible that he could have almost missed the ring after all those years of work! In his 5 generation pedigree he had 14 champions on his sire's side alone. Of course most of them were the same dogs. There were 16 champions on his dam's side in his 5 generation pedigree.