Top Producing Golden Retriever Sires and Dams

Top Producing Sires and Dams

We have heard about the limited gene pool for Goldens, particularly for Field Goldens. As with many such issues,
this may be ill-posed and the requisite data unobtainable or non-existent. Here we begin to try to understand a
limited part of this question using our database of performance Goldens. Although the total number of registered
Goldens is a bit over 2 million, the percentage that have attained a major AKC title is only 0.8%.

Since we are doing the work we get to define what we mean by a "performance" Golden. We mean any Golden
with one or more of the following titles: CH, UD or above, All-Age or above, AX or better, AXJ or above, RE or
above, TDX, VST, or MH. All-Age is not an AKC title but there are very few FC or AFC Goldens.

Our database is based on the Golden Retriever Yearbooks, the GRCA Magazine, AKC Awards magazine, k9data,
Field Trial Retriever News, and the on-line databases of the AKC , OFA and RetrieverResults. In so far as
possible, "every" Golden retriever who has attained a major AKC title through March 2017 has been included.

This database contains more than 21,200 Goldens with major titles. Dogs with CH titles constitute 52%. All-Age
Goldens (or better) constitute 7%. 53% are males.

The more than 21,300 Goldens with major titles were produced by 5777 known sires and 11073 known
dams. In addition, 35 sires and 38 dams are unknown and 359 dogs in the database are ILPs or PALs.

The top 150 sires account for 29% of all Goldens with major titles!
The top 150 dams account for 8% of all Goldens with major titles.

The top 25 Kennels in terms of producing Goldens with
major titles. Topbrass leads the pack!

*This assumes that the Golden's name begins
with the kennel name.

The following Goldens hold major AKC titles, so do both parents, all grand-parents, all great-grand-parents, all
(Note: None can go back one more generation without having at least one forebearer who lacks a major AKC title).

Goldens with major AKC Titles on all forbearers in each generation

Which Goldens produced the greatest number of offspring who
made the top producers list?

Sires with the most offspring on the Top Producers List

Dams with the most offspring on the Top Producers List

Out of those litters with at least one major title holder:

11,745 litters had only 1 major title holder (55%)
2505 had 2              11 had 8
761 had 3                4 had 9
266 had 4                1 had 11
115 had 5
50 had 6
20 had 7

Repeat Breedings

This looks at successful breedings that produced litters on 2 or more separate occasions and
produced offspring who attained major AKC titles in each breeding. Note that Misty Morn's Sunset
and Faera's Future Classic were each bred to 11 different dams at least twice and each time
produced titled offspring.

Repeat Breedings

The following provides a link to the lifespans of those
OFA Hip classifications are also listed. The code for the
hips is as follows: E - Excellent, G - Good, N - Normal, F -
Fair, NI- Not Listed.

Top Producer Lifespans

The following dams had 6 different breedings of which each one produced at least 1 offspring who attained a
major AKC title. Note: Some may have been a repeat breeding to the same sire.

CH Amberac's 'At A Girl Kindra OD
CH Asterling's Just Buster Loose CD OD
CH Beckwith's Malagold Starfarm OD
Breakwater Topbrass Roulette OD
CH Candlewick's Magic Chain CDX JH WCX OD
Emberain All Buttered Up CDX JH MX MXJ WC OD
CH Krishna's E Z Livin' OD
CH Meadowpond Teasel CDX OD
CH Rush Hill's Crime Of Passion OD
CH Summits Mysterious Ways OD SDHF
Sunfire's Rainier Lux OD
Tanbark's Here Comes The Sun OD
CH Thornfield Skylark OD

The following dams had 7 different breedings of which each one produced at least 1 offspring who attained a
major AKC title. Note: some may have been a repeat breeding to the same sire.

CH Laurell Yats Of Luck OD
Shenandoah Of Stilrovin CD *** OD
Shoreland's Razz Ma Tazz CDX OD

Litter with the most ADHFs

Litter with the most HTHFs

Litter with the most ODHFs

Litter with the most SDHFs

Litter with the most VCXs

Litter with the most MNHs