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Hy-Brasil sounded familiar to me so I went digging, even drug out my old CFA yearbooks from the seventies but didn't turn up any references. :) Oh well, its loads of fun to hear stories about Siamese from the "old days", can't say I particularly liked the look of Siamese from the 60's and 70's, asthetically they are generally more pleasing nowadays - to me anyway.

Interesting to hear they were still struggling with the neotnic standard in those days as well, and I thought Siamese were supposed to have been bigger back then. Thank God they finally took the word "dainty" out of the standard! I bet I would have liked your boy, we like Siamese to aspire to the description "statuesque", which 99% of todays cats only reach "miniatures". Our current boys have been docked and overlooked on account of their size on a regular basis but we are bound and determined that WILL change :)

I went and dug out my old books - Cormac was born in November '78 and made his championship in early '80 (that Johnson City show was around the first of the year IIRC). I wish I had a photo of him up on the 'net, I'll have to go digging through my scrapbooks and scan something.

My current cats are sort of a grab-bag. The little Lilac whose picture is back up this thread is descended from Maloja's Mr. B, Maloja's Billy Budd (I LOVE the Maloja look - majestic blue points!), the Taikablu BP line, and a whole crowd of Brock'Ann Lilacs. Her grouchy great-uncle the Blue Point is also a Maloja cat on his sire's side, his dam was a delightful BP lady but had Ophir and Thaibok in her background - NOT good for temperament! (I personally witnessed Thaibok Teriyaki take a large chunk out of a judge in the ring next to me!) He also has Fan-T-Cee and Quire Gal-X-C back of him. My "middle cat" the neurotic Siamese was purchased at a show when I fell in love with her dam. She was bred by Catananda, mostly Singa and Bel Canto on her sire's side, and Chanthara on her dam's. She is afraid of children but she loves our dog (go figure!) I think she was traumatized when my kids were toddlers . . . :-(

Went to your website and LOVE your kitties! The blue point girl at 11 mos. is the spitting image of my middle girl, she is now 12, my big male is 14, and the little Lilac is 2 and running the others ragged.