Rummer Run History page 2

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History of Rummer Run Boxers, continued: Click on the dog's name for a link to their photo

In 1992, we bought a wonderful puppy from Eileen McClintock. She was from a repeat breeding of Ch Shieldmont's Let's Make a Deal and Ch Heldenbrand's Raven Holly Lane. The first litter produced four champions for Eileen, and the second breeding produced four more. We were lucky enough to acquire HollyLane's Free as the Wind from this second litter. Breezy, as we called her, finished her championship from the 9-12 month puppy class, handled by Johnny Johnson, then went on to win the 1993 American Boxer Club Futurity. She won one All-Breed Best in Show, but was campaigned only a short time.

In 1999, Breezy's son, Ch Rummer Run's Major General, sired by Ch Rummer Run's Lucky Strike, won the American Boxer Club' Futurity. In 2003, Major General's son and Breezy's grandson, Ch Bayview Strikes Again, won the American Boxer Club Futurity. We believe that this may be a first -- three successive generations winning this prestigious prize.

Breezy produced another outstanding son when bred to Ch Hi-Tech's Arbitrage. Ch Rummer Run's High Noon ("Cooper") became a Sire of Merit. One of his daughters is the incomparable, Ch Carillon's Elegance of Rummer Run. (Her mother was Ch Lonestar's Tangipahoa). "Ellie" won 23 All-Breed Best In Shows. She won Best of Breed at the American Boxer Club National and Regional Competitions in 2001. In 2002 she won Best of Breed at the American Boxer Club National, and she won the "Top Twenty" Competition that same year. She was Best of Breed and Group 3 at the 2002 Westminster Kennel Club Show. Ellie was #1 Boxer and #3 Working Dog in 2002.

Stardust, Ellie, and all of our champion dogs since, have been expertly handled and cared for, throughout their show careers, by Leigh and Rick Justice of Pinson, Alabama. Leigh also was a co-breeder of Ch Carillon Elegance of Rummer Run.

Our present breeding program continues to include variations on the combinations of the Shieldmont, Holly Lane, Hi-Tech and Excalibur bloodlines that, when melded together with ours, have produced many Rummer Run Boxer champions through the years. We have tried to produce Boxers that are a combination of elegance, substance, balance and good movement. Also of extreme importance to us are beautiful, majestic but sweet Boxer expressions, and friendly outgoing dispositions.

We are in the process of focusing our present breeding program around the bloodlines of a few young dogs that appear to have great potential for producting excellent Boxers. One of these is Ch RummerRun's Excaliber Chips. He has been line bred for five generations. "Chips" is double High Noon and Hi-Tech's Arbitrage and is a proven sire.

The current bitches that we have decided to focus our breeding efforts on are Ch RummerRun's Pom Pom and Ch RummerRun's Excaliber Cheers, both of whom are sired by Ch RummerRun's High Noon, SOM. Complementing these two High Noon fawn girls in our breeding program are two additional Champion bitches, Ch RummerRun's CoCo Chanel and Ch RummerRun's Vanity Fair, both of whom are daughters of the incomparable Ch Carillon's Elegance of RummerRun.

We are looking forward with anticipation to the next five to ten years of our breeding program.

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