Download this page in PDF formatTDHP just added a remembrance of Frank Hardy by Stanley Orne, editor of “The American Dachshund”, from that magazine’s December 1967 issue. The article was published after Mr. Hardy’s death and was a reflection on the influence this giant presence (both figuratively and literally) had on Dachshunds and Bassets from the time he married Dorothy until his death.
He and Dorothy dominated the East Coast Dachshund rings for years, showing for Mrs. Nancy Onthank, Mary Howell, Peggy Westphal, Mrs. Charles Statler, Miss Delano, Dorothy Pickett, Vera Falco and others too numerous to mention. In Bassets, he was the handler for Peg Walton and Pat Fellman among others. They won too many DCA BVs and BBs to enumerate. Their crowning achievement was Frank’s winning back to back Group 1’s at Westminster in 1968 and 1969 with CH Crosswynd’s Crackerjack for Mrs Charles C. Statler’s Barberry Knowe Kennel.
The list of great dogs shown by them include the aforementioned Crackerjack, CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester, CH Pondwicks Hobgoblin, CH Bayard le Souvenir, CH Wilheen’s Knight Wire, CH Westphal’s Wandering Wind, CH Van Tebe’s Draht Timothy … the list goes on and on.
The Hardys bred under the Hubertus prefix as well as guiding many others in their own breeding programs. They also had many assistants through the years, but perhaps the most well known were Bobby Fowler and Dee Hutchinson, both of whom literally came of age in dogs working for the Hardys.
To read more about Frank and the sincere outpouring of affection for him at his passing, go to:
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