The History of the Kennel Red Ta

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The History of the Kennel Red Tails

The kennel began in 1971 when Tommy and his ex wife Elenore bought their first Irish Setter.

His name was Profils Buffalo and his breeder was Ann-Margret Johansson of kennel Profils, from Rimbo, Sweden.

Buffalo was a big and beautiful dog who loved to play in the sea. He was very happy in the water and loved to dive to pick up big sticks and stones.

The thoughts that Red Tails should stand as no 1 at the Swedish kennel clubs list of all breeders did not exist.

Some photos from the 1970’s

Tommy’s first litter was born in 1976. After that came the B and C litters, included in the C-litter was a lovely bitch called Cinderella which was to become the top winning bitch for many years

Cinderella

Now was the time to select a kennel name. It requires a lot of work to satisfy the requirements of the Swedish Kennel Club before you are granted a kennel name. However everything was eventually successful and Kennel Red Tails was born.

In 1977 a dog was born in England, his name was Sowerhill Sailor of Wendover. We bought him and brought him over to Sweden at the age of 19 months. “Digger” as we called him, was the reason that our kennel became very famous and successful. When used with quality bitches, “Digger” gave us many good litters containing successful winning dogs.

In all “Digger” won 73 progeny classes with Prize of Honour. 52 Best in Show placings in the main ring at Swedish Kennel Club shows. 29 of them were First prizes and the rest from Second to the Fourth place, with no reserves !!.

One of “Digger’s” famous Progeny groups

“Digger” and Tommy were invited to the Grand Hotel in Stockholm for a big event.

During 1980’s and 1990’s we imported several dogs with important blood lines

Corriecas Alexander BonBons Irish Gabriel

2 bitches from kennel Sowerhill in England, Sowerhill Shona and Sowerhill Show Off and 1 bitch from kennel Lordly in Belgium, Lordlys Sweet Love

Lordlys Sweet Love

We have had some other breeds over the years:

Borzoi; Coolhag Chrustie Son efter Chrustie

One was a little man whose name was Kit. Kit was the Welch Springer Spaniel boy who always thought that he was the boss.

We were also the first kennel in Sweden to import a Red & White Irish Setter. We imported from kennel Coolfin in England, whose owner was Mary Knox. In this kennel we found the best of Red & Whites and really liked the type of them. We bred a few litters of Red & Whites but after a couple of years we decided that our hearts were really with our red friends

”Bridie” Coolfin Opal Dreamer

1991 was the big year for Kennel Red Tails. This was the year that we became the Best Breeder of All Breeds on the Swedish Kennel Club competion. It was a very great honour for us to win this prize.

We attended a lot of shows during 1990. We showed in many breeders groups with different teams of dogs and bitches. We had so many good dogs that we could always select 5 dogs to compete in the group

They included:

RT Irish Admiral and his son RT Allo Allo

Winning the Brace Group

Dogs:

RT Indi RT Irish Admiral RT Julian

RT Excallibur RT Not to Bad RT Viceroy

RT Viseble Mirrage RT King of Hearts

Bitches:

RT Donna RT Hot Sensation RT Katja

RT Marion RT Mirielle RT My Melody

(3 sisters)

RT Ofelia RT Natalie RT Rambling Rose

RT True Love RT Okki Dokki RT Pretty Girl

RT Romance RT Night Queen

BOS RT Mr Magoo Judge: Jill Coke BIS RT My Melody

In 1991 we were Best Breeder of all Breeds, no other breeder of Irish Setters has won this award to this day . Winning this award was absolutely wonderful and that moment was something that words cannot describe. It was such a tremendous day for the kennel Red Tails

In the main ring at Swedish Kennel Club Dog Show in December 1991

Celebrations at the Grand Hotel at Easter 1992, what a feeling !!!

One of our winning breeder groups

In the end of 1990 we imported 2 new dogs

Amhurst Ballybrouge Paddie of Seamrog The Tsar

We had one litter born in 1998 which contained a wonderful boy. It was our “Laddie”, RT Absolute Irish Lad. There were many lovely puppies in this litter, RT Amastro was one of them, who became a very close and dear friend to us. Owned and loved by his own family

Far: RT Excallubur Mor: Big Bangs Lucky Star

Laddie has been our loverboy during all these years. He is always the most happy of all the dogs.There is a lot of to tell about him, but most of the people see this so words are not necessary

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”Laddie” the one and only

RT Amastro

2002 was the year in which our Q litter was born. This again was a very promising litter, containing very good dogs and bitches which have been so successful in the show ring.

mor: RT Future Star far: Coppers Prince of Thieves

4 st Q-bitches

RT Qing of Stars RT Qrusidull

RT Qrusmyntha RT Qosmos Super Nova

RT Queen of The Future

One bitch in particular who has been a very good advertisement for our kennel is RT Woodoo Witch. She is now competing succesfully as a beautiful Veteran, she is loved and owned by Annika Gunnarsson

2002 was the year in which we used Diggers semen and were finally succesful. We originally did not have any high hopes or dreams because his semen by this time was only 40% viable !. But we did try and were rewarded with a litter of puppies. Mother to the litter was RT Rachel, producing 9 healthy big puppies. We were so pleased and happy with them.

Red Tails Rachel

5 st dogs;

RT Seven Seas of Rhye RT You Dont Fool Me RT A Kind of Magic

RT Diggers Boy RT The Invisible Man

4 st bitches;

RT Somebody To Love RT Killer Queen RT I Want it All

RT Sheer Heart Attack Mio

Year 2004

The years go so quickly and we had some litters during the past years. We want to tell you also about RT Qosmos Super Nova together with RT Givenchy. This combination was very, very good.

RT Qosmos Super Nova RT Givency

RT Xellent Qaballero RT Xon Qonnie RT Xtra Qara Mia

RT Xanta Claire

We have exported dogs around the world. However we only export the best so we can be proud of them when they are being shown. Many of these dogs have been winning well and many have titles to their names around the world.

Here are some photos of the, now name no one is forgotten!

Year 2007

We had a litter sired by Eel Gardens Limited Edition from RT Xtra Qivenchy. A lovely new litter which we are looking forward to seeing being shown in the future.

”Saga” ”Ida”

RT King Of Hearts

An expression of kidness, elegance and beauty

Special THANK´S to Peter Armstrong wich has help us with the English language.

To be continued...........

Anne Nihlen Eisgård