Christina Phillips

Christina Phillips

 6221 Woodland Ave

Modesto Ca. 95358

Phone 209-571-1374

Email:Waidmanset@aol.com

I was lucky growing up having always a trusted friend by my side while
growing up in Germany. In my case it was always a GSD.
As it goes so many times, girl meets boy - in my case a GI -, gets married and start a family, for us it was a GSD named Bandit. A few years later
a baby joint the pack.
John father fell ill and we scheduled a Christmas vacation to California, which I guess I’m still enjoying, we ended up staying.
It was a very hard, but right decision at the time, to leave our GSD back in Germany with family.
After starting a new life on the West Coast, including a new baby, we knew the only thing missing to complete the family was a dog.
We did not chose a GSD, to painful thinking we were replacing the one left behind. By accident I contacted an ad in the paper "Irish Setter pup" for sale.
I knew little about the breed and really unsure about getting one.
I’m sure it has happened before, 3 seconds after the 12 week old Red Head
entered the room, I was hooked, I was not going to leave without her. Her call name was Garbo and she was Vintage Farms Gavotte, trusted to me by
Lisa Schrank of Vintage Farms Irish Setters. The clan was joint by Thenderin Mark of Cloverleaf and later Thenderin Glamour Girl and of course some of their children. When Glamour Girl passed on, she was the last of the Red Heads, but she did enjoy a few years living with IRWS.
While having the Reds, I tried to learn as much as possible about the Irish Setter history and by doing so learned about the IRWS.
I could only imagine the beauty of such dogs, little did I know at the time
that some had actually survived and someone was breeding them.
I started to hear rumors about IRWS being bred and finally got to see a picture of one in a Setter magazine, this was back in the mid 80’s. Since the breed was so new to the USA, I felt waiting a few years to have better selection would be the right way to go.
Meeting my first IRWS was actually at a fun match that I judged. A friend from IS, Sharon Pikell, showed her new girl Patricia O’Kent.
Now I wanted one, but timing was not good, max amount of IS in the house.
Luck had it that a friend was also very much interested in an IRWS.
We learned that a repeat litter to Patricia O’Kent was on the ground and we acquired Loc Mor Inish O’Kent in 1995. Inish was bred to Redwing Mister Duffy, whelped a litter of 7 on 01-01-1998, first IRWS litter west of the Mississippi. I took home my foundation bitch LocMor Auld Lang Syne [Evie].
Evie became Int.Ch. ARBA Ch., winner of the 2000 IRWSA Nationals and was bred in 2001 to CAN Ch. Shannonlee White Wagtail and whelped 8 pups, 3 girls and 5 boys. From this litter we kept JHA Waidman’s Ailidh JH, BOS winner of the 2002 IRWSA Nationals, with her brother ARBA Ch. Waidman’s Ailin taking BOB.
Evie was bred the following year to Shannonlee Red Robin, whelped 9 pups, 5 girls, 4 boys. We kept another girl Waidman’s Blathin and in December of 2002 we imported JHA Taniswood Storm Raiser from the UK.
I am very much committed to breed pure IRWS, that are healthy, can work in the field, have correct conformation for the show ring, compete in obedience and agility,  personality and temperament to be a great family companion.
 

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