Link to an Additional Article by Paul McGagh, 2012

 

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DOB: 9/14/1991

Sex: Female

Sire: Swallow Law Snipe

Dam: Nancarrow Figurine

Breeder: Headley Millington

Owner: Art and Cheryl Person

Imported at the same time as Lucy in 1991, Brit at 7 weeks came to find her home in Natchez , Mississippi with Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Person. Trained by Paul, she was entered in the 1993 Colorado Puppy Stakes and came in third in a stake of three dogs! She was pregnant at the time with what would become three field trial champions. Notwithstanding this slow start, she would become the 4^th Field Trial Champion of the new millennium.

Brit was a very beautiful bitch with a liver and white harlequin face. She was medium height and weight and almost perfectly proportioned. A much lighter footed dog when questing for game, she displayed a very showy style that was attractive to the eye when hunted. She had a very good mouth and flush.

A memorable event was the third series of the 1996 Colorado Field Trial. Brit was very intent as she covered the ground and we had assumed the scenting was good. Running full bore across the field at dusk she banged head long into an upright arm of a downed tree that threw her back several feet, sounding like the thump of a ripe watermelon. We assumed she was injured, but she shook her head and then resumed quartering. She was not to win that day, but she displayed her big heart.

Brit was to have a total of two litters. Of those litters, we were to train a total of four dogs and entered them into field trials. The first litter produced NFC Freckles, FC Rocky and FC Ruby. The second litter produced FC Natchez.

There was idle talk that early Cockers must have been “cheap Champions.” Assuming this to include Brit, it is interesting to consider the results of her progeny. Of the twelve placements in the first three Cocker Nationals, Brit was either the Mother or the Grandmother of six of the placing dogs or 50% of the total placements awarded. In the 1998 National Championship, Freckles (first litter) placed 2^nd and Rocky (first litter) placed 4^th. In the second NCC held in 2000 (they were held every other year until 2002) Freckles came in 1^st and granddaughter Zoe came in 4^th. Also her grandson, Speck, was awarded the Gun’s Award. In the third National in 2002, she was the grandmother of Sydney who placed 2^nd and Zoe who took 4^th place.

In 2003, her son FC Rocky took the Gun’s Award in the Canadian Springer National Championship. In 2004 her grandson FC Hoover also took the Gun’s Award in the Canadian Springer National. They were the only Cockers running against over 80 Springer Spaniels. In 2005, her grandson Storm won the Canadian Springer National Championship, the first Cocker ever to win against a field comprised of 86 Springers and 2 Cockers.

In March 2006, her grandson FC/AFC Monty, age 9, became the first Cocker Amateur Champion winning the first two Amateur stakes ever held back to back.

While we can talk about her mark on subsequent generations, we must also state she could be quirky. She was not a doting mother and was happy to stop nursing pups and get on with life. Not one to ingratiate herself, she was aloof. S he was very easy to train and an easy dog to be around. She was not prone to bark or run off. In 1998 she retired to the front veranda porch of the Person’s home in Natchez, Mississippi.

She died quietly in 2003.

                                                          

Championed: March 10, 1995, Idaho

Breedings:  Bred 2 times to Maesydderwen Griffin

Mother of 4 Field Trial Champions:

NFC/FC Darag Caol Shraid Marshen (Freckles)

FC Griffin’s Pride Rocky (Rocky)

FC Ruby Rubster Warrener (Ruby)

FC Oak Alley Snowy Egret ( Natchez)

 

Grandmother to 8 Field Trial Champions:

FC Oak Alley Kestrel (Speck)

FC Raintree Off the Deepend (Splash)

FC Oak Alley Peregrine (Spot)

FC Raintree Warrener’s Zoe (Zoe)

FC/AFC Warrener’s Golden Plover (Monty)

FC/CFC Warrener’s Yellowhammer ( Sydney )

FC Oahe Sentinel (Hoover)

FC Shelmar’s Goin’ Jessie (Jessie)

 

Placements & Awards

Date	Placement	Location	Handler
10/13/1995	1st Place	Southern Michigan	Paul McGagh
9/23/1995	Certificate of Merit	RMSSA, CO	Paul McGagh
9/9/1995	1st Place	Northern Wisconsin Spaniel Club	Paul McGagh
9/4/1995	2nd Place	SCVECSC	Paul McGagh
3/10/1995	2nd Place	Snake River Springer Spaniel Club, Idaho	Paul McGagh
9/23/1994	4th Place	RMSSA, CO	Paul McGagh
9/5/1994	1st Place	ECSCA, WI	Paul McGagh
3/25/1994	3rd Place	EFTA, OH	Paul McGagh
10/15/1993	2nd Place	SMSSTC, MI	Paul McGagh