The story behind our dogs...

Dogs mainly from Show bred lines

Are all descended from our foundation bitch born in April 1968

Champion Royal Pal of Catcombe (Honey)
11 Challenge Certificates, 3 Reserve C.C.’s, 8 Best Of Breed and a Gundog Group

Four generations down the line

Honey

Honey’s daughter Amber Charm of Catcombe

And her grand daughter Catcombe Cherish.

And her great grand daughter Catcombe Choice


	Honey had two litters the first to Pennard Golden Brumas (we kept Amber Charm of C. who in turn produced C. Cherish and Ch C. Charm) Honey’s second litter was to Rainsgold Rainaway . We kept Crystal, Ceraphin and Cherubin (Dam of C. Cupid) All pictured left.
Cherish (sitting) and Charm	Amber Charm of C. mated to Sh.Ch. Brackengold Max produced Cherish and her sister Charm. Charm won her title and later went Best of Breed at Crufts under the late Jimmy Iles in 1982

Champion Catcombe Charm she won... 8 C.C’s and 4 Reserve C.C’s
Catcombe Crystal 1CC	Catcombe Cordoroy JW Res CC

The photograph below shows our dogs in 1982. From Honey’s two daughters Amber and Cherubin we established two lines of descent. All our show-bred dogs today are descended from them.

Photo taken on Christmas morning 1982.
The back row shows Amber on the left with her three children Classic, Charm and Cherish.
Middle row shows Cherubin on the left with her kids Chamois, Cupid and Ceres.
Front row from left – Ceraphin (Sigh), Crystal, Silk lying down (first of our Field Trial bred line.)
Czar (Son of Choice) and Choice (daughter of Cherish)

The Story behind our dogs of

Field Trial breeding

Bred exclusively from generations of dogs which have shown exceptional ability in the shooting field – our pedigrees include many Field Trial Champions and Field Trial Winners.
In 1978 we bought a bitch puppy from Lucille Sawtell – Sheersilk of Yeo from Catcombe – FT Ch Holway Chanter x Shotsilk of Yeo
She was our first working bred Golden and was fast, stylish and so biddable. She won over 11 Open Working and Cold Game Tests and a Novice Field Trial. We had two litters from Silk and kept Caper and Calamity from the first and Cataclysmic (Klizzy) and Chaos from the second. During this period, Rumba came to Catcombe.
He was a very special dog indeed. Our present day working dogs are his children and grandchildren.

They are all descended from:
Field Trial Champion Standerwick
Rumbustuous of Catcombe (Rumba)

Rumba pictured in 1996 aged 14 with his three sons who were two years old at the time.

From left to right:
Clever Credit Canny
They are all Field Trial winners. Canny has won three in all and also two third place awards in Open 24 dog stakes

Chancey their sister, together with Cherokee produced our next generation. They were both mated to F.T. Ch. Ashsham Counsel . Here are their off- spring with the trophies they won in 1999.

From the left:

Carrera, Chrysler
Carli, Chenouk
Cellist, Cornet

At that stage they had won 6 firsts, 18 seconds, 5 thirds 4 Certificate of Merits in Field Trials and many awards in working tests.
Today, being older, they have all been retired from active competition but during their careers Crysler went on to win a 12 dog Open Stake, and awards in 24 dog stakes. Cellist won an 12 dog Open Stake and Cymbal won a second in the Northern Golden Retriever Association two day Stake and then had to be retired from active competition through injury.

Carli won an Open 12 dog Stake and then sadly died of Lymphosarcoma within 6 months. He was only 4 years old. His loss was devastating.
He is pictured on the left.

Chenouk won the Golden Retriever Club two day Open stake in 2002 and ran in the Retriever Championship that year. She also won the Golden Retriever Year Book Page for the dog winning most points in Field Trials in 1998. She is pictured on the left. Both Carli and Chenouk were owned and handled by Danny Burgess.

Our Catcombe dogs are allrounders! Besides many successes Field Trails and Heelwork to Music we now have a rising star in Obedience. We are so proud that Cyder with his owner and handler Meriel Bentley, on his second appearance working in the ticket class, won the Dog Obedience Certificate in August '08. This young boy, a son of Calloona and Clever, has a brilliant future ahead of him and we wish him every success.

Our present day working-bred dogs February 2006

All descended from
Field Trial Champion Standerwick Rumbustuous of Catcombe

Canny and Clevet at the back. Calloona, Copper next row sitting with Credit,
CoCo and Comedy lying down. Front row Cymbal and Cyber