Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: Pedigree Research
Hell all. I live in the US and am about to get a lab pup from UK lines. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get some information about the ancestors of my dogs. He has a lot of Drakeshead dogs in his pedigree. My understanding is that the Drakeshead kennels are fairly active in the working dog circles over there. I would be interested in finding out any information that I can, possibly including pictures of any of the ancestors.
The first is a French website with English translation, but is a little quirky and you can sometimes have to try the link a couple of times if it doesn't come through in English at first.
It is true that Drakeshead breed working lines labs over here. My Charlie is related to your dog, particularly via Haretor Mark of Drakeshead, as are a number of others on here. He was an important stud dog of his era and a Field Trials Champion, I do believe, as were some of his offspring. I understand that Drakeshead has produced quite a few of those, but I am willing to stand corrected on anything I have said.
Hi and Welcome to the Forum Yes Drakeshead is a very good working line My friends lab is a full Drakeshead dog. Clyde my Blk Lab is related through Pocklea Remus and Haretor Mark of Drakeshead
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Have you tried listing the information you are looking for on a Family Tree thread on here? It is very rare that you won't get someone come back with details of dogs etc
As someone else suggested Google is also quite often a good place to start
Once you start getting past five generations or so, it is a good idea to get some form of software to help you along - I use Breedmate (www.breedmate.com ) as recommended by JohnW, but I know there are others on the forum who use a range of software, all of which are just as good
Hi.Dylan is related through:
FT CH Aughacasla Sam of Drakeshead.
Ballyellery Adder
Killerisk Hero
Raybank Asp
Bellamont Orchid
Ciarogh Dubh
Seanbaile Sherry
and FT CH Haretor Mark of Drakeshead.
Thanks for all the great responses! That Labrador database is really interesting.
I notice that several dogs in the pedigree have the FTCH title which I assume if a Field Trial Champion. Is there a governing body over there that might have and archive of photos of past champions? Over here the American Field, AKC and Bird Dog Hall of Fame sometimes have things like that.
Thanks again for all your help, I think is really neat to hear from folks over there that have dogs that are related to mine, some fairly closely.
I don't know whether they can give you any photos though. I haven't tried it. You could contact them and see if they can point you in the right direction though.
And there is a "Contact" link at the bottom of his site. At a quick look at his site I see he has removed the IGL photos from his site to make room for later events, but he will I feel sure still have them.
As to Drakeshead, this is one of the very top working kennels of all time in this country, with a record 7 wins of the IGL Retriever Championship, plus many places!
Regards, John
Edited to say, looking at the pedigree of the dam of your dog, Breeze of Drakeshead won the Retriever Championship for a record 3 consecutive times, 1985/86/87.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject: Not sure if this helps
but I have some old photos of the Drakeshead dog Breeze, also a copy of the shooting times in which it gives the details of Breeze in his obituary (my bitch was from that line Dexter was her father she was also mixed with the other great (Willowyck Lynn Or Merlynn as he was known) going back to Favour, O what wonderful game finders they all were.
you can see Katy on our web page there are two black dogs together and Kate is with her Mum (katy is the smaller and fatter one )
www.wyntercreeklabradors.com
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