French tricolour hound (Dog standard)

French tricolour hound is a large pack hound, elegant, sufficiently well boned and muscled.

FCI-Standard N° 219 / 15.09.1997 / GB

FRENCH TRICOLOUR HOUND
(Chien français tricolore)

TRANSLATION : Mrs. Peggy Davis, revised by Dr. Paschoud.

ORIGIN : France.

DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD : 13.01.1965.

UTILIZATION : Pack Hound for big game.

FCI CLASSIFICATION : Group 6 Scenthounds and related breeds.
Section 1.1 Large SIZEd Hounds.
With working trial.

GENERAL APPEARANCE : Large pack hound, elegant, sufficiently well boned and muscled.

HEAD : Not too imposing, but quite elongated; occipital protuberance marked.

CRANIAL REGION :
Skull : Very slightly domed, skull quite developed.
Stop : More accentuated than in the Pointevin.

FACIAL REGION :
Nose : Black; open nostrils.
Muzzle : Straight, rather long and sometimes slightly arched.
Lips : More substantial than in the Pointevin, i.e. very slightly square.
Eyes : Big and brown, sometimes circled with black. Intelligent expression.
Leathers : Broader than those of the Poitevin, set at eye level,
slightly curled, not too supple, preferably extending to the set-on of
the nose or within two fingers of it.

NECK : Long, rather strong and sometimes with a slight trace of
dewlap.

BODY :
Back : Sustained and solid.
Chest : Deep and well let down, at least as far down as the point of
the elbows. Ribs long and not too flat.
Belly : Very slightly tucked up.

TAIL : Quite long, carried high and with elegance.

LIMBS :

FOREQUARTERS : Well positioned, broad and straight.
Shoulders : Long and close to the chest.

HINDQUARTERS :
Hips : Well laid, in harmony with the FOREQUARTERS.
Thighs : Long, sufficiently muscled.
Hocks : Rather broad, low set, slightly bent.

FEET : Lean.

GAIT/MOVEMENT : Easy and light.

SKIN : Quite fine.

COAT

HAIR : Short and rather fine.

COLOUR : TriCOLOUR, with black mantle more or less spread out. Tan preferably bright or even copper-taned. Neither blackend tan on the cheeks and on the lips nor blue or tan fleckings on the legs and on the BODY are to be sought after. The grizzled « wolf COLOUR » is admitted.

SIZE : From 62 to 72 cm for the males and from 60 to 68 cm for the bitches.


FAULTS : Any departure from the foregoing points should be considered a fault and the seriousness, with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree.
Pink spots on the nose.
Under-or overshot mouth.
Light eyes.
Leathers too flat, too short or set too high.
Legs badly positioned or thin.
Hocks too straight.
Fat FEET.
Any apparent trace of English hound blood, especially in the HEAD. "Smoky" COLOURed HEADs which indicate cross-breeding with the White and Black Hound and all other COLOURs than those above mentioned.

ELIMINATING FAULTS :
Aggressive or overly shy.

Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities shall be disqualified.

N.B. : Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.

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