Westwind Farms Chessie Photo Gallery

Many thanks to Mario Beauregard of Nordais Kennels, the breeder of Dual CH and AFC Rudy, for providing many of the photos taken at the 1997, 2001, and 2005 ACC National Field Specialties, displayed below.  For more photos by Mario, you can visit his website at http://www.nordais.qc.ca/.

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American Chesapeake Club National Field Specialty 2009 Burnham, Maine
The breed's newest field titled females, "Rudy" daughters and littermates FC AFC Deepwater Colonial Sunfire and AFC Deepwater Ripley Believe it or aka "Loppy and Ripley"	1st place AFC Ripley (Rudy daughter) (photo Jane Pappler)
Qualifying Winners 1st Ed Murray and "Yogi" 2nd Wendy and Paladin (Rudy son) 3rd Mitch Patterson and "JJ's Rachel" 4th Jane Pappler and Redlion's Hit Doctor (photo by Jane Pappler)	Paladin and Wendy (photo Donna Kelliher)
Hannah and Wendy "waiting our turn" (photo Mario Beuregard)	Hannah (photo Mario Beauregard)
"Spirit of Westwind" (a Katie and Mistral pup) derby 2nd, with handler Mark Mosher. Spirit is owned by Marion Mosher. Spirit also has an all-breed derby win. (photo by Jane Pappler)	Derby winners

American Chesapeake Club National Field Specialty 2007 Stillwater, Oklahoma
Wendy was off with a shaky start with a head on collision with a deer in Kentucky.	Field trial grounds in Oklahoma with many gas and oil wells in the fields.
Wendy and Dr. Sam Long of the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School , at the trial grounds in Oklahoma, after taking samples for research on Degenerative Mylopathy and Exercise Induced Collapse. (Photo by Billy Smith)	Dr. Sam Long explaining the research to former ACC Presidents Wendy Shepard Chisholm V.M.D. and Melissa Schuman L.V.T. (Photo by Billy Smith)
Paladin, running his first derby, makes it to the last series. (Photo by Billy Smith)	Paladin takes 4th place in the puppy stakes. (Photo by Jane Pappler)
Hannah took 3rd place in the puppy stakes. (Action photo by Jane Pappler)
Hannah in Oklahoma	Shawnee earns a JAM in the puppy stakes.

Photos from the 2005 ACC Field Specialty

Dual CH AFC Sunday's Rufwater Canvasback MH with owner/handler Scott Martin.	AFC Hurricane Express Courier
DC AFC Gabler's Dilwyn Stacked Deck, 13 years old, returning with a shot pheasant flyer in a ceremoney honoring him at the Specialty.	Dual CH Decks with owner Bruce Mitchell and Hummer.
Dual CH Canvas, Tiger, Decks, and Blaze....	...and their owners, Scott Martin, Billy Smith, Bruce Mitchell, and Kurt Bertram.
Distagon's ATV of Nordais, "Hummer", Amateur 1st place with Bruce Mitchell.	Westwind Colonial Rimfire, "L.B.", a Decks/Mackenzie son, on his way to his field championship, owned by Mike Coutu.
CH Westwind Colonial Starfire, Open 1st, with proud owner Mike Coutu. Star is a littermate to CH Rudy's Georgia of Westwind.	Open Placements 1st CH Westwind Colonial Starfire MH with Mike Coutu 2nd CH Crossbar's Raggity Ann with Bruce Ahlers 3rd DC AFC Bertram's Blazing Firewater with Kurt Bertram 4th Hurricane Abbygale of Creekside with John Ackerman
Westwind Ms Katahdin with Wendy, Qualifying 1st	Bur Oak's Unique Trapper with Gary Kavan, Qualifying 4th.
CH Rudy's Georgia of Westwind**WDX, 2005 ACC National Field Specialty, Winslow, NJ. Georgia is a littermate to CH Westwind's Colonial Starfire, the OPEN winner at the 2005 ACC Natinal Field Specialty.	CH Rudy's Georgia of Westwind, winner of the field trial bitch class at the 2005 National Show Specialty.
Westwind Abernaki Chief	CH Silvercreek Murray Samuel MH, owned and trained by Mike Moscowitz, without the use of an electronic collar.
Steve Sherbondy with Westwind Primetime Deke, 9 months old, winner of the Junior Puppy stake. Deke is a CH Saco MH and CH Westwind Stitch in TIme JH puppy. (Photo by Jane Pappler)	Deke in action! (Photo by Jane Pappler)
2nd place in the Junior Puppy stake is 8 month old Westwind La Lola with her owner Wendy. Lola is out of Bur Oak's Unique Trapper*** and CH* Rudy's Georgia of Westwind**. (Photo by Jane Pappler)	10 week old Westwind Whispering Cove, "Larry", with proud owner Mike Moscowitz. Larry is a CH Silvercreek's Murray Samuel *** MH and CH Westwind Stitch in Time JH puppy. (Photo by Jane Pappler)
Photos from the 2001 ACC Field Specialty
A Pair of Dual Champions l-r, Decks and Rudy The only living Dual Champions of all retriever breeds	Rudy and two of his sons, Saco and Blaze
Cato, son of Rudy, with his Derby win awards	Wendy with Rudy and handler Mitch Patterson
Photos from the 1997 ACC Field Specialty
Three generations of Champions l-r, son Blaze, Papa Rudy, Grandpa Chase	Mackenzie (sister of Blaze) and Wendy field trialing

Westwind Farm Family Photos
Grandpa Rudy	Daughter Georgia and Papa Rudy
Cato Puppy Picture	Wendy and Rudy with his awards
Rudy with more of his hardware	Wendy and Rudy at work
Matilda's cover shot for AKC Hunting Test Herald	Grandpa Rudy with new puppy Stitches
Wendy with Katie and Abe in the fall of 2003	Left to right: Katie, Abe, Mackenzie, Rudy, Georgia Fall 2003
	Nov 2007: Hunting season in Maine (Paladin, Mackenzie, Abe, Lola, Katie and Hannah)

Abe and Katie at work and play
Wendy, Abe, and Katie at home on Westwind Farm	Wendy and Abe
Katie on splashdown	Abe and Katie on take-off. Katie is in the lead.

Abe and Georgia puppies

"Rudette" She is 10 weeks old and lives in Texas. She is just returning from a swim.	"Dempsey" At 12 weeks she is already looking for a bird down when she hears gun fire. Here she is after retrieving her first duck. She belongs to the owners of a hunting preserve in New Hampshire.
"Dempsey"	Dempsey waiting for ducks.
Dempsey, long distance water jump champion
"Abbie" Bayriver's Westwind Abbie retrieving a pigeon at 2-3 months.	"Abbie" Bayriver's Westwind Abbie at 4 months playing in the leaves.
Abe and Abby puppies
Maggie's first hunt! She's an Abe/Abby puppy.	Heidi with her first Junior Hunter leg and her owner/handler Patrick.
	8 week old "Buffle", an Abby/Abe pup in her new home on Chesapeake Bay.
Westwind's Adel with her new family in the Ukraine, retrieving pigeons at 9 weeks old.
Westwind's Adel recently won her Show Champion in the Ukraine at one year old.
Abe and Dory
"Gunner" is a 90 pound hard going, stylish field dog who loves to work.
Gunner, with trainer Lois Munro. He won the Qualifying at Palmetto in March 2009.	"Chief", a Gunner and Lola pup, at 10 weeks old

Gunner and Lola
"Maggie" at 9 months old. She is owned by Dr. Randy Davis in Alabama.	"Chief", at 6 months old, owned by Scott Besade in Connecticut.

Lola and Mistral puppies
JJ retrieving a bumper in Belgium	JJ at 6 months
JJ at 11 months	JJ winning Best of Breed in Luxembourg
JJ's first hunting season in Belgium
Kali at 7 months on Long Island	Poacher at his new home on Long Island
Poacher at 8 weeks old	Poacher
Poacher and friend	Poacher 2008
Poacher's first hunting season on Long Island	He retrieved over 1000 birds this season
Maggie Maggie's favorite passtimes are retrieving and swimming in the ocean

Katie and Mistral puppies
Pups at 7 weeks
Pups at 7 weeks

	Scout is getting ready to run hunt tests and derby this spring.
	"Spirit of Westwind" with handler Mark Mosher. Spirit has an all-breed derby win and is owned by Marion Mosher.
	"Spirit of Westwind" is 2009 High Point Chesapeake derby dog in the country with 8 derby points.

More Pups from Westwind Farms
Westwind Yankee of Batzi's, call name, "Jeni", owned by Carita Sulkava of Finland. Jeni is an energetic bitch with a lot of drive. She is a littermate to "Deke" (1st place in the puppy stakes at the 2005 National Field Specialty), out of CH Saco *** MH and CH Westwind Stitch in Time JH.
Jeni retrieves all rabbits and birds and is training for field trials.		"Rizzo" a Saco and Stitches daughter, surfing in California

"Belle", on her first goose hunt in Canada this year at one year old. She is out of Abby and CH Silvercreek Murray MH ***.

All in the Family
Dual CH AFC Bertram's Blazing Firewater MH and Kurt at the 2004 South Jersey trial (Picture by Billy Smith)	Another champion Rudy son Dual CH AFC Bertram's Blazing Firewater MH
Mike Coutu & L.B. - Westwind's Colonial Rimfire*** Son of Mackenzie & 2002 High Point Derby Dog	Mike with Lop (AFC Deepwater Colonial Sunfire), another Rudy daughter, after they qualified to run the 2004 National Amateur in Batavia, NY
	Mike Coutu accomplished the rare feat of titling two litter sisters in 2009. AFC Deepwater Ripley Believe It Or Not and FC AFC Deepwater Colonial Sunfire. They were bred by Dale and Maggie Langhorne out of their Clipper's Stillwater Molly MH** and Wendy Shepard Chisholm's Dual Ch AFC Westwind's Rudy of Nordais.

Fall 2007
Two Rudy sons hunting their first season at 6 and 7 months old (Rudy/Belle and Rudy/Meg) in October 2007.