Red Tails Historia
 

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.

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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

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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 !!.

 

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One of “Digger’s” famous Progeny groups

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

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

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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

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Lordlys Sweet Love

 

We have had some other breeds over the years:

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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.

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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

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”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

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They included:

RT Irish Admiral and his son RT Allo Allo

Winning the Brace Group

 

Dogs:

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   RT Indi                            RT Irish Admiral                RT Julian

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            RT Excallibur                          RT Not to Bad                       RT Viceroy

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                    RT Viseble Mirrage               RT King of Hearts

 

Bitches:

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         RT Donna                         RT Hot Sensation                       RT Katja

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    RT Marion                                   RT Mirielle                       RT My Melody

(3 sisters)

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RT Ofelia                       RT Natalie                          RT Rambling Rose

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RT True Love              RT Okki Dokki                  RT Pretty Girl

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                             RT Romance                             RT Night Queen

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     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

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

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

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One of our winning breeder groups

 

In the end of 1990 we imported 2 new dogs

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              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

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                                 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

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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.

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              mor: RT Future Star                       far: Coppers Prince of Thieves

 

4 st Q-bitches

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    RT Qing of Stars                                             RT Qrusidull

 

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      RT Qrusmyntha                                     RT Qosmos Super Nova

                                           

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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

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 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.

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Red Tails Rachel

 5 st dogs;

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

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             RT Diggers Boy                           RT The Invisible Man

 4 st bitches;

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

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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.

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RT Qosmos Super Nova                RT Givency

 

 

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RT Xellent Qaballero           RT Xon Qonnie                  RT Xtra Qara Mia

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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!

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 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.

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               ”Saga”                               ”Ida”      

 

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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...........

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