CHANDHARA'S EMIR OF GRAY DAWN (Imp U.K), born 20 4.67. Sire of at least 21 champions, including the Sydney Royal B.I.S. winner, CH. CALAHORRA TURBAN, the blue twins CH. CALAHORRA QUETZLCOATL and CH. CALAHORRA QUO VADIS, AUST N.Z CH. CALAHORRA FIESTA BRAVA, CH. CALAHORRA ISHMAEL and by 19 year old frozen semen In 1995, CALAHORRA FROZEN ASSETS (Al).

CHANDHARA'S EMIR OF GRAY DAWN (imp U.K.) - Kamal - was another tribute to Joyce Davey's astute feeling for how the breed would develop. We imported him in co-ownership with her after she heard from Stephanie Hunt-Crowley about his sire being resident in England for a short time from the U.S.A. (Later Am. Ch.) SCARA- MOUCHE OF GRAY DAWN (imp and exp. U.S.A.) was a son of Shirkhan and his son, Kamal, brought us our real introduction to the values of what Sunny Shay did for the breed with her marvellous Grandeur lines. He also carried some precious Majara bloodlines from Arnerica. As a bonus, Scaramouche had been mated to SAMANTHA OF CHAMAN, whose lines incorporated many of the famous hounds represented by Molly Sharpe's well known prefix and she was also a WAZIR OF DESERTAIRE daughter. It is impossible to describe how different Kamal was from everything in Australia at that time. He came out on a P & O passenger boat looked after by a close friend of ours, Peter Warby, and when we saw him we were stunned. He looked like a big spider, all legs, long tail, long neck, huge body and what seemed then a small head. He was supposed to be black but was really a dark bronzed/burnished black, a colour not helped, we must add, by having to be bathed in sea water during his seven weeks on the ship. He was incredibly dominant for his own fabulous qualities, the ability to look so refined and elegant but to weigh a ton, really houndy, with long legs of really dense but not heavy bone, huge feet and a deep (but never gundog-type in breadth) chest, with fabulous spring of rib carried right back to a strong, short but very flexible loin. Very prominent hipbones and long tightly ringed tail. Marvellous chiselling on foreface and the blackest triangular eyes.

CH. CALAHORRA QUETZLCOAL R.U.B.I.S.S. winner, born 24.4.70, sire of at least 15 champions, including CH. CALAHORRA INCA, CH. CALAHORRA ROBERT E LEE, and from 17 year oldfrozen semen in 1993, CH CALAHORRA ON ICE (Al) with three littermates well on the way to finishing as well. Photo: Michael Trafford

Kamal went on to produce at least 21 champions during his lifetime and we hope there may be more to come from frozen semen as we have a small amount left in storage. They included Turban, Ishmael and Pada mentioned above, and also two of the first really important blue Afghans in Australia, CH. CALA- HORRA QUETZLCOATL and CH. QUO VADIS (ex Rypunzel of Isfahan (imp U.K.) ). When mated to our AM. CH. CADBURYHILL j FLASH N FILIGREE (imp U.S.A.), Kamal 'i produced CALAHORRA MAGNOLIA, from j whom the well known Rahzmundah line has descended. Kamal's daughter CALAHORRA FROZEN ASSETS (AI) born in 1995 from nineteen year old frozen semen and his grand- children CH. CALAHORRA ON ICE (AI) and her littermates sired by his son CH. CALA- HORRA QUETZLCOATL in 1993 from seventeen year old semen, all exhibit these characteristics to a marked degree. Ch. Cala- horra Quetzlcoatl, produced at least 15 champ- ions during his lifetime, and the most famous being our great black CH. CALAHORRA INCA, and so far one more from frozen semen has since finished and three littermates are on the way. We also have enough semen stored from Quetzl to try for at least one more litter. Of course both these inseminations were to selfmasked cream CALAHORRA BORN TO PERFORM, who carries nine lines to Kamal, so the fact that his many wonderful characteristics continue to be reproduced is hardly surprising..

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