Shelly is our Abby daughter.  Abby is so special to us that when looking for a male for her, we had a hard time deciding what to do.  We felt Abby didn't need to be fixed structurally.  We only breed to improve, so we  decided to go back to old pedigree and bring back that old health and longevity in those older lines. Shelly's bit of different look comes from the old English lines of her sire. He was a beautiful English type male with a history of longevity in his pedigree. We are thrilled with the results. Shelly's movement is breathtaking, effortless and something I have never seen in all of my years in goldens.  Shelly started out her show career with three back to back major wins at a benched UKC show when she was just 6 months old. We put her back to grow up more before we started her AKC career.