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Originally Posted by yorkiekist

Thanks!! But I forgot to finish because I got busy with laundry. Anyway, the best representative of the breed will also be a crap shoot to breed if there are no champions in the background and will probably be an outcross to the female being bred.(the other one with the great pedigree might be an outcross too). Being the there are no champions in the background, you have no guarantee of what kind of quality the dog will produce. He might have been the only one for generations to turn out gorgeous. The dog with the jillion champions will be a little easier to predict as you have generations that have produced well and can research what they have produced in the past. But, with both being of no relation to the bitch being bred, (outcross), it will still be very uncertain what they will produce. You might get one good puppy out of 4, the others being very pet quality. Or you might not get good quality at all. Or you might get one nice puppy on the first litter but never a nice puppy on other litters. Hope this makes sense.

Yes this does make sense to me and thanks for going into great detail about it. I love learning about Yorkies. Lee