Showsight - April 2022

LINES FROM LINDA

Even more enjoyable for him has been his breeding career, done on a very small scale but has produced over 50 champions! As a young teenager, Larry was most impressed with the Gingeor line and began a friendship via mail with George Horn. He was eventually able to obtain a sable bitch from George, but sadly, a litter was never to happen. However, the friendship with George continued on and George always inspired and encouraged him in his pursuit of breeding and showing excellent dogs. In the late 1970s, Larry was able to become more active in breed- ing, and in partnership with Grace Kosub of Vanity Collies they were able to breed their daughter of Ch. Marnus Silver Sabre to Ch. Gin- geor’s Indelibly Blue. This was his first pivotal breeding decision as it produced four champions, most notably the 1979 CCA RWB Ch. Vanity Blu Daze who went on to become a many-time specialty Best of Breed winner and Larry’s first champion, and a very special heart dog, Ch. Windcrest Vanity Fair. “Fairah” was a truly special show dog and finished her title by going Working Group First from the classes. She earned several more Group wins along the way as a special. This was not an easy feat in those days before Herding was split off from the Working Group. As it happens, this timeframe is also when I first met Larry at a show and I just loved watching Fairah in the ring. Larry and Fairah were truly a team. The Windcrest family line was able to continue on thru Fairah’s daughter, Ch. Windcrest All’s Fair, who was bred to Ch. Tel Star’s Night Capers in 1982 and produced a couple of blue boys. One of those was my beloved “Decker,” Ch. Windcrest Sundown Sensation, who became the first of many dogs that I have had the joy of co-owning with Larry. Decker followed in the footsteps of his grand-dam by win- ning several Groups, and on one very exciting day in November 1985, he won Best in Show under Roy Ayers in an entry of 3,000 dogs at Oklahoma City. In 1986, Larry acquired a sable bitch puppy from Twin Creeks, sired by Ch. Twin Creeks Tuff Guy out of Ch. Twin Creeks Crown- ing Glory, named Twin Creeks Windcrest Breeze. She was bred to Ch. Tartanside Spellbound, eventually, and from this breeding would come a tri-factored sable bitch that was later bred to a dog that Larry fell in love with at a judging assignment where he had given the dog a 5-point major. That dog was Ch. Gambit’s Freeze Frame, and he certainly needs no introduction here.

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