Best in Show Dogs

Black Diamond - 1st American All Breed Best in Show Winner

  1st American All Breed Best in Show Winner

Eng/Am Ch. Offley Black Diamond

   

  Black Diamond had a total of five Challenge Certificates in England prior to his  

  importation into the United States.

  He was Best of Breed at the first (and only pre-War) Specialty of the Papillon Club 

  of America, held with the Morris and Essex show in 1936. Four months later, 

  on September 7, 1936, he won Best in Show at the Bridgewater K.C. It would be 

  a long 34 years before another Papillon reached for, and obtained, the red, white 

  and blue rosette ( BIS ). After his Best in Show, although he was only 3 ½ years 

Black Diamond - 1st American All Breed Best in Show Winner

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  old , Mrs. Danielson retired him so that he could never be defeated, although she continued to show him as a member of a 

  team composed of four English/American champions.

  

  Black Diamond died in February 1939 of "acute indigestion and heart failure". Mrs. Danielson wrote to Mrs. Kemmerer, 

  "It is a shock from which I shall never recover as he had become so devoted, understanding & obedient and was so

  beautiful, the only "Papillon" ever to go "Best in Show" ... I am a wreck, have not left the house in over a week - - cannot 

  face or accept it !”
 
  Black Diamond’s picture appeared in two PCA Handbooks, 1957 & 1963

Page made : December 2005  

  

   

   Eng/Am Ch. Offley Black Diamond
  Imported from England
  Sire :   Eng. Ch. Black Opal of Ardna   Call Name :   
  Dam :   Marguerite Jardiniere   Breeder :   Mrs. H. C. Lake ( England )
  Born :   March 5, 1934    Owner :   Mrs. DeForest Danielson
  Color :   White & Black   Handler :   Mrs. DeForest Danielson
     

      

 

Pedigree : Eng/Am Ch. Offley Black Diamond

Ch. Offley Black Diamond's pedigree

 

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