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The
Australian Silky is generally believed to have developed by
crossing the Yorkshire Terrier with the Australian Terrier in Sydney in the 1890s, but breed historians point out that
the Australian Terrier was itself still a developing breed
at the time of the Silky's emergence, and, since no early
records were kept (as is the case with so many dog breeds)
it is likely that other crosses occurred as well. There were
also breeding experiments with these crosses in the state of
Victoria; it is suggested that Australian and Silky Terriers
were first exhibited at the Melbourne Royal in 1872 as
"Broken-coated Terriers, Black and Tan", however,
the breed is not mentioned in The Dog of Australia, Walter
Beilby's 1987 book.
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