Karmala Merino and Working Kelpie Studs: Dogs

Glide is a versatile dog working cattle (and previously deer) for his owner David Hart, ‘Oakwood’, Gympie, who describes him :

‘Glide has a clever natural common sense cast, a calm strong presence on stock and true heading ability. He can vary his work rate to easily lift stock, and then gently guide them.
Glide has an effective search in wild country and assists thoughtfully in the yards. Glide’s temperament is as good as they come – he is a real mate in the camp. He is breeding on well with both linebred and outcross bitches.’

Glide is proving himself a sire of useful, versatile dogs. David is very pleased with a son of Glide’s, Tracker The Chief, who has proved himself a good sire.

Riana Glide shows power without the need to bite.

Riana Glide at work in late 2009.

Riana Glide weaner breaking at Oakwood, June, 2011.

Glide with Tracker Sooki providing some back up.

A very good dog in the Riana mould; I saw his mother work as a young bitch and was most impressed. I bought Finch as a sire in December 2008 from Jason Wright. It’s not often a proven sire becomes available, and I consider myself very lucky to have him. He has a great nature and is extremely loyal.

Finch is proving a dominant sire, stamping his class on his pups from any bitch he has served.

Riana Finch(Riana LoteXRiana Spin) in 2009.

Riana Finch(Riana LohtiXRiana Spin). A class act.

Karmala Rook(Riana FinchXWoorivale Spice) on the banks of the Darling River.

Riana Finch, ready for action.

Three very nice pups by Finch from Whitehead's Bell the morning they first saw sheep. Their owner Chris Rickert has given them time to mature and they started calmly and with purpose. I particularly liked the bottom pup, Digger, who showed a lot of class and concentration.

Tracker is a very versatile red/tan dog with a calm, sensible nature who is owned by Arthur Crumblin. He has done a power of work for Arthur mustering the difficult Traprock country, and has also worked cattle and competed successfully in arena and utility trials.
Tracker’s sire is by Lowrey’s Boss, a g. g. grandson of Karrawarra Caesar and his dam is by a son of Riana Ace out of Koomalah’s Sally.

Glendon Wally X Whitehead's Tracker competing at Toowoomba Trials

Maverick is a very good dog by Karmala Spike working for Brad Cavanagh, who describes him below:

After the early death of Spike and the recent death of his good son K. Swags, I mated two young bitches to Maverick.

Lily(R.GlideXKarra.Gift) has whelped 6 pups, May 11, 4 bitches and 2 cream dogs.
Peggysue(R.DeltaXK.Glen) whelped 7 pups to Mav, May 28, 4 bitches and 3 dogs including 5 creamies.
These litters have very good IB%s, MavXLil 16.2%, MavXPeg 16.7% which I consider about spot on for maintaining type and working traits.

It’s interesting how many creams have popped up. Although there are no creams for many generations in these litters, Karrawarra had many creams in the foundation dogs and Riana had Karrawarra TammyII as a foundation bitch.

Brad Cavanagh with Karmala Win and her Maverick litter, May 2011, and Migaloo Maverick ready for work.

Karmala Spike, June 2007.

BARRU MERLIN
Sire: Barru Bing(Karrawarra RoyIVXKarrawarra MinnieII)
Dam: Buckaroo Maisie(Capree DoohanxKywarra Glean)

Merlin is an impressive dog with the runs on the board, his progeny have proven him a dominant sire over varied bitches. A strong dog on cattle and experienced in trials, Merlin also enjoys arena trials on three sheep and has done well in both.
Delta was mated to Merlin in 2010, a few pups had longer coats which also happened when she was mated to Akubra. A nice young dog from this litter, Karmala Dragon(Star) has been retained and is working for Tim Napadowski near Merriwa, and
Karmala Dodge has been used as a sire by Josh Behn.

Barru Merlin(Barru BingXBuckaroo Maisie) a proven sire and a consistent performer in Cattle and Arena Sheep Trials.

The Chief is a young dog bred by David Hart by Riana Glide from his bitch Pud’s Sookie who was by Richard Puddicombe’s great old dog Pud’s Signature. This is how David described her shortly after she died:

Sookie wasn’t too much of anything other than straight common sense. On cattle she would cast to where she had to be with minimum effort, whether that was 50 meters on a flat or 3 kms through a gorge, but she would get there and control stock. Chief has a much nicer more classic “Riana” style cast and is not at all short.

Chief has nice walk up strength and is a calm dog. when he was only a year old I watched him get a huge lantana wrapped bull out of a creek bed and was most impressed. As he’s matured Chief has developed into a very clever dog with excellent stock sense. He’s breeding on well and has left good pups from Riana Delta Dawn, Capree Lara and Karrawarra Ruby.

Sean Barrett recently described The Chief as one of the best dogs he’s seen. Sean has helped David muster cattle on Oakwood and has seen him working in almost inaccessible country.

Tracker 'The Chief'(Riana GlideXPud's Sooki) has a win.

Litter brothers(Tracker the ChiefXKarrawarra Ruby Tuesday) aged 15 months, Tracker Gibbs(right) and Tracker Storm. While Gibbs is Mr Cool, using mininum energy to do the job, Storm is typical of the Karrwarra dogs, stylish and intense.

Gibbs and Storm working weaners. Outstanding young dogs, both very effective workers.

A nice dog with beautiful footwork and lateral movement. Has the natural distance off his stock that is typical of Riana bred dogs.

One of his daughters, Karmala Qing(Pride)XRiana QuillII, is with Stewart Oates at Menindee, pic. below. Another bitch from that litter, Karmala Quizz, is at Karrawarra and produced a nice litter to Paddy’s Shadow including Karra. Quince, now at Karmala.
Clyde is a dog who needs a lot of work, and he seems to have eventually found just that. He was sold by Adam Wheeler to Peter Whiteman who is now managing a large property at Quilpie. Clyde is impressing with his work in these wide open spaces, in fact the term used to describe him was ‘awesome’!

Clyde has proven a useful sire and has been used by Peter Austin(Kirkaldy), Pat Murphy(Karrawarra) and Bill Scott(Stockman’s). Peter has a nice cream dog by him from Karrwarra Nessie and Bill Scott is pleased with a nice blue dog by Clyde called Stockman’s Steel. No doubt he will also be used as a sire by the Whitemans.

Karmala Qing(Pride) out at Menindee. A strong bitch.

Karmala Clyde and his daughter out of Riana Quill, K. Qing(aka Pride).

Cap is a nice dog in the Riana tradition and has been used there in the stud. Bred from generations of tough workers that have needed to use their initiative to do the job, Cap is a classy, light running type.

Spice had a litter of 9 to Cap in 2004 which included Karmala Akubra and Karmala Spike.
This mating was repeated but there were only two surviving pups including Karmala Lyddy.

Shadow has been used extensively as a sire at Karrawarra and has left some very good bitches. Karrawarra Sybil III appears three times as a g. g. dam in his pedigree.
Pat Murphy says Shadow was a very reliable mustering dog and could be left on his own with stock; his dam was a big red/tan bitch by Riana Don who appeared on the Bourke’s Back Yard segment on the Working Kelpie which was re released last year.
Pat lost her on a droving trip, a big loss.
Shadow has retired to Karrawarra where he is living the life of Riley!
His influence at Karmala continues through Telford’s Tally, a grand daughter, and Karrawarra Quince, a daughter out of Karmala Quizz(Karmala ClydeXRiana QuillII).

Paddy's Shadow as a young dog in 2002.

Paddy's Shadow(Karrawarra BoogsXPaddy's Loo) in 2010.

‘Kuba’ is a beautiful Kelpie type with a great temperament. Has that extra bit of class that stamps him with sire potential, according to Arthur Hazlett of Riana. He has nice distance off his stock and is calm and willing to please. Spent some months at Milburn Creek in 2007 where he did some real work, helping muster difficult hill country.

Akubra has been used at Karrawarra and Karrwarra Coster has been retained. Coster has been used a sire at Karrawarra and has left some very promising progeny, Pat Murphy and Tony Parsons consider him an outstanding young dog and progeny have been exported.

Riana Delta Dawn has had a litter to Akubra with good results workwise, but unfortunately half the litter had longer coats. Breeding Kelpies from old bloodlines is full of surprises due to the collie origins.

Peggysue had her first litter of 7 dog pups to Kuba, lovely calm, sensible pups. Josh Behn now has pups by his purchase, K.Monte, and Simon Hartwich mated his K.Gem(Riana GlidexKarra.Gift) to K.Rebel from Peg’s litter. Two promising big pups came to grief from the same litter.
Simon’s Rebel looks and works SO like his dad Akubra, and Darkie(RebelxGem) is the image of grandma Gift at that age.

Karmala Akubra(Riana CapXWoorivale Spice) at 5 years.

Akubra in a series of photos taken for the Australian Sheep and Wool Show Comp. for the 'Best Working Dog/Dog Working Photo'. The top RH photo was the winner.

Karmala Rebel(AkubraxPeggysue), Karmala Gem(R.GlidexKarra Gift) and their nice pup Darkie.

Young Karrawarra Gift

Gibbs is a young dog bred by David Hart, and would be the most impressive young kelpie I have seen for some time. He is physically a near perfect type and has a lovely calm way of working his stock, doing only what is necessary with plenty of strength and brains. The photos below speak for themselves.
I am very excited about my litter by him from Riana DeltaD; on paper, at least, these pups should be spot on. She whelped on 10/8/11, 4 dogs and 2 bitches.

Stig is a very nice young dog belonging to Karl Hinshelwood. According to Karl he is a classy worker with nice distance and plenty of strength.
Stig’s dam is one of the last pups by old G. Felix, a well proven sire by Riana Ace. His sire Meson Punchy is a very good and versatile dog with interesting breeding.
Arthur Crumblin recently judged Stig in a farm trial at Jondaryn and has a high opinion of him. His litter from K.Finesse are impressing as they begin to work.
K.Abbey is in France and her new owner Maurice Puyessgur reports:
“Abbey works with a beautiful style, really a high quality puppy; she can stay a lot of time focused on the flock and will glance at me from time to time as though asking if she’s doing good. I’m really in love with Abbey!”

I am hoping to establish a second family based on these lines and using Tianne Hussey(Wooton EJ SamXGorham’s Gemma). K. Speed(StigxFinesse) has been retained and has started well for Matt Bignell.

Karmala Glen is one of the best young dogs I have bred to date. He has a beautiful temperament and is a lovely dog to have around, very loyal without being all over you. Glen can turn on enough power to shift anything, then drop back to calm control of his stock like his sire Riana Glide.
I was confident enough of his potential to mate him to a couple of bitches as insurance, before letting him go out for work. He has litters from Karmala Lyddy and Riana Delta Dawn born in April,09. Glen is at present down near Sydney with my friend Serafino Gallina who also has K.Lyddy. He plans on breeding some pups from them as the first litter was a success. Serafino has been pleased with the reaction he has had when local Kelpie owners see Glen and has received enquiries re services.

Karmala Peggy Sue(GlenXDelta) has been retained in the stud, the remainder of that litter are working well. Below is a pic of K.Lyndy(GlenXLyddy) who is owned by Lisha Bennett, they are at Longreach Ag. College where Lyndy and Lisha were recently filmed by a German TV crew!

Karmala Glen(Riana GlideXKarra. Gift) aged 1 year.

Glen, Feb.2009.

Karmala Lyndy and Lisha Bennett at Longreach Ag. College.

I was fortunate to get a litter from Spice by Clyde. He was 12 years old and has since been put down with a tumour.

Driftwood Clyde

Driftwood Clyde shortly before he died, and his son Karmala Clyde.

The Driftwood ClydeXWoorivale Spice litter from left: Karmala Clyde: Karmala Macallister,'Al', Outlaw Kelpies: Karmala Condamine, Kirkaldy Kelpies: Karmala Swan, Simon Leaning.

Karrawarra Rip III was the sire of Karrawarra Gift and litter brother to Karrawarra Sugar, dam of Woorivale Spice. He has had a lot of influence in the stud.

Karrawarra Rip III, sire of Karrawarra Gift IV