Some time ago I got an email with a request to write something about Sandylands Charlie Boy and would I please publish a photo of him.

The photo thing proved to be easier said than done because in spite of the fact that this dog is so well known I haven't been able to come across anything that shows what he looked like. As I never got the previlege to see him myself I am unable to deliver any description of what he looked like. Charlie Boy is behind the Jayncourt dogs; J Star-Extraodynar, J Star-Exelance - themselves both behind good winners and I'm sure there are also others with various connections.

First time I read his name was in 1975 when several of his children from one litter over here started to make a name for themselves. The late Brit-Marie Brulin, Puhs Labradors, had imported the black Keithray Marianne, a Mark daughter and littersister of British titleholder Keithray Marcus, in whelp to Charlie Boy. There were two really nice litter sisters being shown at Sto ckholm international in 1975 under Michael Boothroyd called Puhs Maya and Puhs Parvati. Maya won intermediate on the day and I think Parvati was placed 2nd or 3rd but later they both went on to bigger things. None of them became import broods.

From the same litter came the black dog Puhs Indra, see photo above. I did see the dog once or twice but his offerspring seem to have made a longer lasting impression on me as I remember them better than Indra. There were several nice ones, the first that caught my attention was a yellow bitch called Western-Sun who went on to win her title and tickets under visitng UK breed specialists, another was the yellow eye catching dog Cannons Be Good. One frosty February morning in 1981 I went to Tönsberg in Norway with Lennart Wumer (Rodarbal) to help out with some of the dogs. Inge E-son Thoor was judging and Eva Mjelde was there with a young Surprising's Mathias. He did very well and anyone could see here was a star in the making, later he went on to very big things.

Mathias then became an important sire. It would be a major undertaking to mention all of his winning offerspring but since I found a photo of groupwinning Minnows Tilda I thought she would illustrate a pleasant example of what Mathias was able to produce. Tilda was a granddaughter of Sandylands Poser by Poolstead Problem out of Sandylands Midnight Magic out of Sandylands Katrinka of Keithray, dam of Charlie Boy.