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 and OFA . In so far as possible,
"every" Golden retriever who has attained a major AKC title through April. 2014 has been included.

This database contains more than 19,400 Goldens with major titles. Dogs with CH titles constitute 52%. Major
field titles contribute less than 12.5%. 53% are males.

The more than 19,400 Goldens with major titles were produced by 5352 known sires and 10,184
known dams. In addition, 47 sires and 50 dams are unknown and 322 dogs in the database are ILPs or PALs.

The top 150 sires account for 31% of all Goldens with major titles!
The top 150 dams account for 9% 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.

Efficient Producers?

Some of these Goldens were, surely, bred more
often than others. Sadly, the number of breedings
is unknown to us. Thus we can not normalize by the
number of breedings to see which Goldens were the
most efficient producers. Moreover, owners play a
critical role. How would one adjust for that basis?

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:

10,842 litters had only 1 major title holder (56%)
2261 had 2              9 had 9
688 had 3                3 had 9
227 had 4                1 had 11
104 had 5
47 had 6
16 had 7

Repeat Breedings

The following lists the sires and dam who were breed to each other on at least two 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
Top Producers for whom I have a death date. COIs and
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 DDHFs

Litter with the most FDHFs

Litter with the most ODHFs

Litter with the most SDHFs

Litter with the most VCXs