There's a photo in the Homes new book on Cavalier origins (p. 56) of Cannonhill Richey - a ruby result of a helf-brother/half-sister mating with Plantation Robert as the common parent, and father of the first champion, Daywell Roger - a very early (early 1940s) and influential Cavalier. Apart from having a rather more domed head (I think his father Plantation Robert was a King Charles or a KC son), he is the spitting image of my Oliver - certainly in head size, which in Oliver is a bit large for today's fashion. Yet Oliver has CM and SM. It's what happens at the base of the skull which seems to be important, not the actual size or look of the head. Clare Rusbridge has said that you cannot say that a Cavalier has CM/SM (or not) simply by looking at their head - it's what's happening inside the head which is important.
Kate, Oliver and Aled
HEAD SIZE
Thanks Kate for starting this new Thread.
If I could put a wee bit of Cavalier History in my Post , CANNONHILL RICHEY ,had a Full Length Photo in the 1980 CKCS Year Book,yes he is an example of the Larger Head that I am talking about than many of to-days' Cavaliers, he lived to 12 as did his son Ch Daywell Roger.
This is where Cannonhill Richey's Pedigree gets a wee bit interesting ,.
There is a Cavalier or what ever they were called in those early days,in the Pedigree Back-ground of Cannonhill Richey, named RANGERS NICKY PICKY,B/T.
For years no-body knew her Pedigree, she was always marked as Unknown in her Pedigree .Then a few years ago a letter was found at a Sale , where Rangers Nicky Picky 's Sire was discovered to be
HENTZAU BUCK'S HUSSAR b/t,but still her Dam is not known.
She was mated to KOBBA OF KORUNDA ,who has turned out to be her Half Brother,one of the Off-Springs from that mating was PLANTATION TWINKLES,born 25-6-1935.
Plantation Twinkles was Cannonhill Richey's Grand-Mother.
I will also mention Ch DAYWELL ROGER born 7-10-1945,his Sire CANNONHILL RICHEY is closely involved in HALF- BROTHER TO
HALF -SISTER matings,but CH DAYWELL ROGER'S DAM ,DAYWELL NELL is the result of a FATHER TO DAUGHTER mating.
Now if some of to-day's Cavalier's Heads are Larger and look like those Early Cavaliers that I v'e just mentioned, and still have SM ,did those early Cavaliers have the Genes for CM/SM.
All I have said that many of to-day's Cavaliers' Heads are Smaller than they were in earlier years, never that this was what is causing SM.
So if the CM/SM Genes have been around in our Cavalier Breed since the Breed originated in the 1920's and 1930's,
then the Cavalier Breed could be in big trouble because of the many Cavalier Carriers of the CM/SM Genes that will be in to-days' Cavaliers
Then this must show how it's so important to find both the Genes for MVD and CM/SM or else the Cavalier Breed is finished.
What Kate's Post has shown,is that the Cavaliers' Head is not so important , it's the CM/SM Genes that have to being discovered.
I am not really bothered about about the Size of the Heads of Cavaliers ,it's the finding of those Genes for CM/SM that is going to save the Cavalier Breed.
I hope others will join in this Discussion and give their views as well.
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