Country of origin: United Kingdom Country of residence: United Kingdom Registration: KC 55698
THE BIRTH OF BEN OF HYDE In 1899 a black bitch bred by Lord Wimborne was in whelp to Mr. Radclyffe’s Neptune 1892, also a black dog. The litter was born in 1899 of which one dog and one bitch were yellow. The dog was called Ben and the bitch Juno. Both were bred from and Juno’s stock were all black but Ben’s were yellow and consequently CRE Radclyffe (my grandfather) decided to concentrate on yellow labrador retrievers. It was Ben of Hyde who was the first yellow labrador registered with the Kennel Club and from whom so many of the yellow labradors of today are descended. Ben was also renowned for being an excellent retriever of fish. It apparently took two generations before there were no throwbacks to black. My grandfather continued to breed yellow labradors and his sister-in-law Audrey Radclyffe continued to trial yellow labradors until well into the 1980s. https://gundog-journal.com/training/the-labrador-pioneers/
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