A work-bred Clumber Spaniel from the first litter in the breed's history to have both a sire and a dam who were Any Variety field trial award winners. Caesar stands at the Venaticus kennel in Buckinghamshire, which has held a line to working type without interruption since the mid-1970s, and which is the most successful exponent of the Clumber Spaniel in field trials in well over a century. He is proven at stud, with ten litters to date — including two in Germany and one by artificial insemination in Norway. He is available to overseas bitches only, either by natural mating in the United Kingdom or by AI.

Sire: Midori Diamond Huddlestone ("Rigg"). Dam: Venaticus Isabella ("Spot"). Caesar is the product of the first litter ever bred in the Clumber Spaniel from two parents who both held Any Variety field trial awards. His dam, Spot, was overall winner of a working test, running in the puppy section, at eight months. She won her first field trial the day after she turned fifteen months old, from a field of seventeen, and gained three awards in Any Variety stakes, including a historic Second — a record unmatched by a Clumber bitch since 1912. His grandam, Venaticus Henrietta, was the breed's most highly awarded bitch since 1900. The line behind him was assembled deliberately and slowly. Venaticus has never been a commercial kennel: litters were bred when the kennel itself needed them, with the surplus placed only with owners who would work the dogs.

Work-bred throughout, in a line maintained separately from show breeding since the 1970s. Entered at Windsor Championship Show on two occasions and placed first in his class each time — notable for a dog bred entirely for the field rather than the ring. Described on the Working Clumber Spaniel Society stud register as handsome and substantial, with a beautiful temperament: birdy, stylish and determined in the field.

Ten litters sired to date, including two in Germany and one by artificial insemination in Norway. Caesar has been used extensively in the United Kingdom and has made his contribution to the breed as working gundogs here. In a population this small, continuing to use one dog would narrow the gene pool rather than widen it — so his owner has deliberately withdrawn him from UK service. That decision is the reason this listing exists in the form it does.

Hips (BVA/KC): 5 / 6 — total 11. Elbows (BVA/KC): 0. Eyes: clear certificate 2018, clear again 2022. EIC (exercise-induced collapse): clear. PDP1 (pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase 1 deficiency): hereditary clear. These figures are published on the Working Clumber Spaniel Society stud register, which states that the health screening information on it is checked against Kennel Club and owners' records. The dog's Kennel Club profile is public, so a buyer can check the record rather than take our word for it. For context: laboratory estimates put the PDP1 carrier rate in Clumbers at roughly one in five. Caesar is hereditary clear of both PDP1 and EIC. No coefficient of inbreeding is published against this listing yet. We would rather leave the field empty than publish a figure we have not agreed with the owner. Sources — Working Clumber Spaniel Society stud register: workingclumber.co.uk/team-4 · Venaticus kennel record, breeding and terms: venaticus.co.uk/venaticuskennel.html · Kennel Club profile for Venaticus Julius, linked from the Registration field above.

Available to overseas bitches only — by natural mating in the United Kingdom, or by artificial insemination. Not available to UK bitches. This is the owner's decision, taken to avoid the overuse of a single dog in a breed that registered around 160 puppies in the UK last year. A quantity of frozen semen is held in storage at the veterinary practice in Wales that carried out the collection. Further collection can be arranged where there is demand. Terms are long-standing at Venaticus and unusual. No fee is charged for the mating itself. The fee is for the siring of a litter, so if no litter results there is nothing to pay. The full fee applies to a litter of four or more puppies surviving to seven weeks, and is reduced pro rata below that — two puppies, half fee; one puppy, quarter fee. It falls due at eight weeks, or when the first puppy is adopted. The amount is set by the breeder: whatever the breeder charges for a bitch puppy is the fee. First choice of puppy, after the breeder's own, may be asked instead.