10/06/2024
Интересный старый пост от AKC мне попался, и интересный текст к нему... Слова Сеппалы о том, что собаки Лорны приближены к первоначальному типажу его собак - с более тяжёлым костяком и короткими лапами - прямо вразрез идут с сегодняшним вектором разведения очень многих заводчиков с именем, где длинноногость и лёгкость возведены практически в идеал и абсолют🙂
International KC of Chicago, 1960: Judge Walter Reeves gives Best Team in Working Group to Lorna Demidoff's Siberian Huskies from Monadnock Kennels.
New England was always a hotbed of sled-dog breeding, and at mid-20th century Mrs. Demidoff and her rival, Eva "Short" Seeley (Chinook), both of New Hampshire, led the way with dual-purpose Siberians that excelled in the show ring and in harness. Chinook and Monadnock produced foundation dogs for almost every U.S. show line after the second world war, and they also fielded some of the era's top racing teams.
Husky fancier Janis Church Stadler (Midnight Sun), who spent a lot of time at Monadnock in the early 1960s, wrote:
"Something that almost no one knows, as far as the original type: Lorna told me she never told anyone this at the time because she didn't want everyone mad at her—but when [legendary sled-dog driver and breeder] Leonhard Seppala visited New England in 1960, he toured a lot of Siberian kennels, and he told Lorna that the dogs in her kennel were almost exactly the same style as the original imports he had (heavier b***d, shorter legged)."
Photo by Frasie
