OFA Certified French Bulldog Stud Service

 If you're a breeder who's serious about carefully planning an amazing litter, Benny's pedigree has some serious players, which explains a lot of what is behind this quality French Bulldog Stud.  Most of Benny's lines are full of Hungarian and American champion lines, with a heavy saturation of Von Der Monarchia, Du Champagne, Belboulecon, Super Bully, Smokey Valley, Tisza-Parte, Gold Sierra, Pelshire and Glenlee.  Several key foundation dogs are represented top and bottom giving the "engine" the power to "bring forward" all the right players.  

Who Were These Dogs? If you don't immediately recognize them that could be in part because the main players in his pedigree are NOT from the "Fad Color" breeding that started with the popularity of the Blues.  In fact, the Blue that is in his pedigree is a minor chapter in the Color world, but it was enough to bring forward two copies of dilute (d/d).  A careful analysis reveals a heavier focus on chocolates imported from Hungarian kennels, such as Von Der Monarchia, Du Champagne and Super Bully, who used Champion show dogs (Smokey Valley's Hoop Shot, Belboulecan Du Champagne Mondo, and Pelshire's Picasso Picco) to bring forward tan, blue and what was then "untestable" chocolate (now known as Cocoa co/co).

Benny's sire, Star Il Dago Ungherese was visibly chocolate and carried a copy of blue, which is why he was used to chase after Chocolate and  "Lilac" in the day, siring several well-known, compact lilacs with exceptional bone and prominent headpiece.   One of the original foundation sires of Bastile-Ore,  Star produced several notable offspring that included flashy blues lilacs and chocolate tans along with some very interesting color patterns like "reverse sable". You can read more about his unique history HERE.

Scroll through the photo gallery and you'll get a sense of which dogs are major players in this pedigree, some making up to 11 appearances each, such as International champion Smokey Valley's Hoop Shot.  If you think about that, it's even more impressive because that dog was born decades ago, which is like an eternity in dog years.  We've provided links and photos to help out with the history, as many of these dogs were not campaigned as "Fad Color" and had successful careers in the ring as well as contributing to the beautiful color world of French Bulldogs.  In fact, a few of the programs mentioned are actually strong advocates against color breeding and are not pleased that Benny's pedigree effectively joins many of these key champions together, normally reserved for the pedigrees of the "preservationist" clubs, with genetic "Fad Color".  If you look closely, You will see a strong collaboration between Belboulecan, Smokey Valley, Du Champagne, Gold Sierra, Super Bully and Glenlee as they imported and shared their lines together in the 70s, 80, 90, etc. 

Open Benny's Ingrus link to display 9 generations and you'll see the magic display in full color: 

• Von Der Monarchia (43x) Hungary - Multiple Champions - (too many to list)
• Du Champagne (22x) Hungary - champion show kennel
• Super Bully (35x) Hungary
• Smokey Valley (29x) USA/WA - Multiple AKC Champions & Extensive Health Testing
• Belboulecon (23x) Canadian Champion
• Tisza-Parte (23x)
• Gold-Sierra (12x) Hungary - champion show kennel
• Glenlee (8x) UK - champion show kennel
• Predator (8x)
• Pelshire (8x)
• Suveren (8x)  Czech Republic
• Von Glandorf (7x)
• Kakasfogo (7x)
• Carpe Bull (6x)
• Ragina Gold (6x)
• Havasi (8x) Hungary 
• Sopianae Imperator (5x) - Champion show kennels in Hungary and UK
• Kissabullz (3x) - USA/CA - Home of the first all Cocoa chocolate litter in the US.
• Buffalo Run (3x) - USA/OK - One of the pioneers in Cocoa, blue and lilac.
• Kingsblood (2x) 

 " Ch. Pelshires Sonlit Mario.  Mario was a big, mushy sweet laid back boy with a gorgeous headpiece, big black eyes and stunning conformation. He had a patch over one eye and on his little rumpkus but was white as snow otherwise.  Pat (Mentiply of Pelshire's Kennel) bred Mario and from that came a bitch (Marilyn's Reno).  Pat also bred English import Tikka (a.k.a Ch. Allstone Douglas)  to American Ch. Lebo's Pollyanna).  Down the road a couple years, the Tikka grand daughter (Excel's Pelshire in Excess) was bred to a Cox/Delaparure dog (Miss B'S Stormcrest Chivas R ) .  The final product was a most handsome brindle boy with Pat's kennel name on it (assumption: Pat's dog) which was then exported to Europe.  His name was Ch. Pelshires Picasso and he is behind many of the top winners and producers throughout Europe...and by way of being imported back to the USA, now many American and Canadian winners as well.   He is behind the red fawn pied European grand champion winner, Ch. Super Bulli Monarchia-Mirabeau, from where these clear red fawns and red fawn pieds with black masking have in no small part, emerged. " 

 "Fast forward a few years; a fellow breeder here in Minnesota suddenly discovered a black and tan bitch in her litter of purebred French Bulldogs.  There was no accounting for where this color pattern emerged from but many speculated she was crossbred.  She was not but she was from such respectable bloodlines it was hard to account for her illicit color.   

This top producing bitch is behind the brindle American BIS. Winner Ch. Affabulls King of Diamonds.   Still, she was of good type, beautiful in color and her owner bred her several times.  The color was never reproduced even in subsequent linebreedings...which many legitimate breeders held a keen interest in.  Yet, her color made its way into the pedigrees of Frenchies worldwide through a dog exported by Belboulecan Kennel in Canada to Europe, named Ch. Belboulecan Du Champagne Mondo.  Mondo, was a BM fawn gr. grandson of the brindle pied Hollylane bitch (Ch.Sunoak Sunspot) that was also granddam (2x) to the black and tan (Hollylane's No Regrets)  

" So, let's put this all together in a way that makes sense...the combination of Tikka and Mario was  a stroke of brilliance on Pat's part (I assume) because it created a virtual inbreeding on the dogs behind Tommyville (very famous Kennel in England owned by Maureen Bootle, winner of 28 Best in Show at Crufts), which of course, were actually Grimmelsburg, just as they are behind DeLaParure. The top winning kennels worldwide appear to have all emerged from the same basic kennel in Germany with some additions here and there.  However, with the same stroke that the du Shepherd, Sopianae Imperator and Super Bulli bloodlines of Europe were created, the so called "rare colors" were unleashed simultaneously." 

" Blue Moon, meanwhile was doing in OZ what, apparently, Picasso and Mondo had been doing in Europe.  Improving breed type. These were quality dogs of quality breeding - and ours at least, Pats and mine, were health tested breeding stock.  The notoriously shy black and tan coat pattern disappeared into the American woodwork only to reappear in the hands of European dog profiteers (puppy millers) later, who seemed to make the color pattern magically appear at will.  

Keep in mind that the champion dogs I've described were superb specimens from top bloodlines whose progeny fell into nefarious hands... As with all products that are salable, profiteers seek a 'hook' to snag buyers with and having found it in so called 'rare colors', have pimped it to the max.   Let me tell you, the dilute colors were not rare.  They were HIDDEN.  Hidden by breeders who were ashamed of admitting they occurred in their own breeding programs."   - Carol Hawke, AKC Judge and founder of Sonlit Kennel