The Labrador Retiever Club have for many years published an annual book of hip scores for the breed. These have proven an invaluable resource for those choosing a sire as they provide statistics showing mean hip scores for the tested progeny of sires. The book was originally compiled by Joan Macan and Muriel Winter, and you can read more of the history on the LRC web site. In 2007 we took on the task of compiling the mean score tables for the Labrador Retriever Club, and are now able to publish these here. In addition, from 2011 we are compiling similar tables for elbow scores. Elbow scoring is historically less common than hip scoring and so at present the data is not as statistically significant. Nevertheless it is interesting to see these data.

The more progeny that are tested the more reliable the mean hip scores are. For this reason hip scores are split into two groups. The first contains mean hip scores for tested progeny by sire where 20 or more progeny have been tested. This second contains scores where the sire has between 10 and 19 progeny tested. Sires with less than 10 progeny tested are not shown. For elbow scores sires with any progeny scored are shown. This may change as the elbow data becomes more statistically significant.

The following printable PDF files are available:

You can also view these tables directly in a form that allows sorting.

As Estimated Breeding Values become available these hip and elbow score tables may become less relevant, but for the time being we aim to update them every year. Our thanks to Gary Johnson of The Kennel Club for his help in providing the source data for these analyses.