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Chesaroyal.com Chesapeake Bay Retrievers Who We Are
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Brief Biography: Peggy and Chris Haecker have been married for 45 years. Before moving to Kennewick, WA, Peggy started the HELP (Handicapped Equestrian Learning Program) center in Austin, Texas. In our new home, Peggy embarked on a new social service career as Executive Director of a two-county substance abuse prevention agency, so she didn't have enough time to start another therapeutic equestrian center. But she soon found a new passion, the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, and started by showing Duchess. Chris joined her in the show ring after he saw how much fun she (and Duchess) were having.
In 2000 we decided to breed Duchess, which resulted in a single puppy. Despite early set-backs we persevered in becoming good Chessie breeders. Chris also took early retirement in late 2000, due to some arthritis-related problems that made travel difficult (he had been a true road warrior, traveling the world). As Chris's condition put more restrictions on his mobility we decided to start learning more about training service dogs, particularly assistance dogs.
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How we got involved with Chessies: In 1998 we were on a long holiday in England, staying in the South Downs area. After learning from various sources that a local man was training American Quarter Horses for reining competition we set off on a quest to find him. After following some interesting wild goose chases we finally found the Wye Oak Quarter Horse Farm. Walking to the courtyard gate we were loudly welcomed by a pack of dogs - they looked like labs but had beautiful curly coats. By accident, we had found Chrissie Mayhew (formerly Lady Christine Spencer-Smith), a long time Chesapeake Bay Retriever breeder and close friend of Karen Anderson, one of the foremost American breeders (Chestnut Hills). After learning more about the Chessie breed and playing with a litter of pups, we came home with Duke and Duchess, 10 week old British-born Chesapeake Bay Retriever puppies.
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Where we're at now: Using two well-bred bitches (Ariel and AnnieOakley) as our foundation, we have now established our own true Chesaroyal line. Ariel brought the Snowy River and Chestnut Hills bloodlines, including Chestnut Hill's Stone E's Tug, the most prolific champion-producing Chessie stud. Annie was bred from the Quail Run and Crackshot kennels in California, with lots of show and hunt titles in her lineage. She was bred in a hotel room in NYC while the sire and dam were waiting to go into the Westminster dog show!! Her father, Quail Run's Ozark MTN Daredvl, has won Best of Breed in many major shows, including the Westminster, and won Best in Show twice. We bred Annie twice; first to her grandfather, Quail Run's Bear Cub, a Master Hunter and one of the all time great Chessies. One of the puppies from this litter is Chesaroyal Lord Brushwaters (Duke), who we used as stud for our June 2009 litter. The second breeding used Redlion's Rage'N Brushwaters (Rage) as stud, adding the Redlion genes to the Chesaroyal pool. We kept Lacey and Lucky from this litter. Ariel was bred twice to Marnett's Grant My Wish, a versatile Chessie with 5 titles including show, hunt, obedience and performance. They produced a total of 20 beautiful puppies; SweetiePie was a get from the first litter. Three of Ariel's puppies have been shown and earned their AKC Championships. In 2009 we bred SweetiePie to Duke, merging our two lines into a pure Chesaroyal line. We've kept Mia and Ollie for future showing and breeding. |
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