ORLAS NICHOLAS FLAMEL

Owner : ORLAS
Breed : Golden Retriever
Birthdate : 27th July 2006
Health Tested

Health Tests

• Eye Examination : Clear - 1st October 2011
• Hip Score : 4/3 = 7 - 13th May 2008

Yet again we are very lucky with the two boys we kept from Hermione's (Orlas The Temptress) litter in 2006, they have both turned out to be excellent quality Goldens.

They are quite different in type which is not surprising really as theirs was not a close line bred mating. Nicholas is paler than Remus and seems to take after his Grandfather Hamish (Twilly Jack The Lad at Orlas). He is a calm and gentle boy, with the same come to bed eyes as his Grandfather Hamish. Hope he takes after him for soundness and quality in his offspring and also the ability to improve on the hips scores with his progeny, as Hamish invariably did.
Nicholas has a lovely head, with a deep muzzle and beautiful soft expression. His head will be quite strong when finished, yet will maintain the soft expression which we so admire, there will be no harshness there. He is quite slow maturing which again we like in our breeding as they then maintain their beauty right through to old age.
We are hoping that the boys will gel with our home bred bitches and maintain the wonderful soundness and temperament we consider paramount.

March 2008
We are awaiting Nicholas's score from the BVA at the moment but Mr Lewis from Evesham who did the X-ray plates says he should be under 10 total but we are not holding our breath because we know how unpredictable the BVA scoring scheme can be.

Well, I guess I shall have to eat my words, because for once the BVA got it right and Nicholas's hip scores came back at 4:3, we had Eliza (Orlas Eliza Doolittle) scored at the same time and hers came back 3:5 so we cannot complain this time.
Nicholas's brother Remus (Orlas Remus Lupin) hip scores are 6:9

May 2008
Nicholas has just mated his first bitch and he was so quick and proficient you would have thought he was an old hand at it.
We await the arrival of this litter with excitement as the pedigree of the puppies will contain four of our stud dogs, and because two of those dogs were bought in and were virtual outcrosses with our bitches it makes the pedigree, on paper, just right, not too close.

September 2008
Nicholas's daughter from his very first litter has now come home to live with her father. She will be named Jemima (Bouldtree Aspects Of Love for Orlas)

Aug 2009
Nicholas has sired nine puppies to Ruby (Rudbeckia Goldquest). The puppies in this litter are again lovley quality goldens.

Aug 2011
Deb decided to repeat the mating between Nicholas and Ruby and this time they had eight babies. It is a suberb quality litter and there is one lovely pale boy in it that is to die for, wish I had room for him here.

Oct 2011
Hips scores have started to come through from Nicholas's progeny.
Our own Jemima (Bouldtree Aspects Of Love for Orlas) are 4:4 which we are thrilled with.