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The Lucas Terrier was developed in the 1940s by Sir Jocelyn Lucas who ran a pack of Sealyhams from his famous Ilmer kennels. He became concerned that the Sealyham was becoming too cloddy for his purposes and so crossed it with a Norfolk terrier. The result was the Lucas Terrier.
(Picture of Fina, Pat Smythe’s Lucas Terrier which was given to the show jumper
by Sir Jocelyn.)
Over the years the Lucas itself lost some of the
characteristics which Sir Jocelyn admired and so in the early 1990s noted
terrier expert Brian Plummer was asked to step in. He crossed the Lucas with one
of his Plummer Terriers to create the Sporting Lucas Terrier. Adding the Plummer
blood improved the nose and coat of the dogs, increasing their working ability.
Brian’s intervention led us to our present generation of terrier - a dog which
is equally at home in the field or home. But whatever he’s used for there’s
never a dull moment with a Sporting Lucas Terrier about.
And looking at the picture of Pat Smythe’s Fina and Keith Francis’s Llanwenarth
Doodle there doesn’t seem much of a distinction between today’s model and the
original.
(Picture of Doodle)
