The Ravensett kennel was founded in the late 1970’s initially with a small successful kennel of Irish setters. However, it wasn’t long before English Setters joined the show team and the kennel went from strength to strength.
The foundation for the English Setters came from the top winning Upperwood kennel and this has proved to be an excellent base for the continued success of the Ravensett Affix.
To date the kennel has produced 7 homebred Show Champions as well as many more top winning stock with CCs and Reserve CCs to their credit.
This page is dedicated to Upperwood Lavender Blue at Ravensett (1989 to 2003), seen above at the age of 13.
'Dilly' had a long and happy life with us and we are indebted to her as she was the foundation of all our current show stock. She was top brood bitch in 1997 (James Wellbeloved/Our Dogs) and shown on this page are two of her winning progeny sired by Kenandra King of Romance, Sh Ch Ravensett Romance, 'Romance' and Sh Ch Ravensett Regalia, 'Susie'. She had a beautiful nature, which she has certainly passed on down the line. She is still very sorely missed by all.
Sharon awards Challenge Certificates in both English and Irish Setters as well as judging all other Gundogs at Open Show level. She has also judged in Finland, Sweden and Estonia.
SAD NEWS
It was with great sadness that we announced back in 2007 that our beautiful Sh Ch Ravensett Regalia, pictured at the bottom of the page, had died in her sleep at the grand old age of 14+ years. She was top ES Puppy in 1993 and won countless Championship Show Firsts in her very successful show career. Her photo is below, taken on the day she became a Sh Ch. She finished with 5CCs and 4RCCs and went on to have a lovely litter of pups that included Ravensett Astra and from which many of the current Ravensett's are descended. She lived in the house all of her life and was a great pet as well as a fantastic show dog. The settee is still not the same without her.
PAST WINNERS
Sh Ch Ravensett Romance is also pictured below. You'll see on the Home page that we recently had to have Romance put to sleep. As with her sister Susie, Romance had a long life and successful show career, living well into her 15th, year. As with others on this page many of the current Ravensett's are related to Romance in some way. In fact she is Great Great Great Grandma to the latest litter of Vogue's, pictured on one of the following pages.
Sh Ch Ravensett Romance 6CCs 1RCC
Sh Ch Ravensett Regalia 5CCs 4RCCs
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