HISTORY OF THE SAINT
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| 1961 Prairieaire St. Bernards began their existence when founder, Winifred Martin, acquired some exceptional breeding stock to establish the foundation. It was the "chance of a lifetime" when she became the owner of BASKO VON SALMEGG, a pure Swiss import with a remarkable pedigree who was 32 inches at the shoulder and averaged 175 pounds. He was shown to Champion title and as his fame spread and his offspring complimented his own status, a new chapter was written in St. Bernard history. In 1968, he was named the nation's Top Stud Dog. In total, he sired 13 champions which makes him the greatest import since World War II, to the present. A kennel can only be as good as its bitches and Prairieaire owned Ch. HILLTOPS HONEY BABY ZWINGO, the daughter of Ch. HARVEY's ZWINGO BARRI V BANZ (Sanctuary Woods / import breeding), a multi-Best In Show Winner and sire of 15 champions. Honey was heavy import breeding from the most noted of Europe's great St. Bernards. Her greatest son, Ch. PRAIRIEAIRE ROX V ZWINGO BASKO (a Basko son) became the sire of 15 champions (plus 15 more were pointed) as well as the Nation's Top Stud Dog in 1969 and runner-up in 1970. Ch. Honey Baby herself was named the Nation's Top Brood Bitch in 1965, having produced 5 champions. Basko, Honey, and Rox each produced offspring that won an All-Breed Best in Show. Prairieaire became a unique bloodline with this foundation. It was then enhanced through the years with more import blood related to Basko, which line breeding brought to a high degree of strength and merit. By keeping the bloodline pure as possible with intelligent selections in mating, all the desirable traits of Basko and Honey were preserved. This is evident some 45 years later in the present day stock. Offspring show remarkable consistency with strong emphasis on heavy bone, good height, excellent correct head type, compact wide balanced bodies, heavy muscling necessary to maintain soundness of limb, resulting in correctness of movement, plus wonderful temperaments and intelligence, topped with the trademark of the line, namely glorious deep rich red coloring and clean white. 1992, upon Winifred's retirement , the line continued under the direction of Tim DeAtley who produced some powerful champions and sound stock to further the Prairieaire line and its degree of purity. They seeing, as did Winifred, the power of the bloodline in relation to other bloodlines when the Prairieaire traits prove to dominate when clients owning other bloodlines breed into the Prairieaire line. Credit must be acknowledged to Bob Stewart ,Baronhorn Kennels, located in Illinois. 2005, the DeAtley's turned the job of caretaker of the line to me , Denis Smith. This is not new since I have been affiliated and involved with Prairieaire and Winnie Martin since 1980, but the kennel behind that contact was Patrich's 1968 F litter . The Prairieaire kennel will continue the same goals and the end results of line breeding. Winnie and Tim continue to be involved in many of the decisions. All the kennel papers from Prairieaire, Chartwell Saints founded in 1958 by Ruth Ellen Lightner Marshall (a sister kennel of Prairieaire) and Steppinwoof founded in 1969 by Denis Smith (also a sister kennel to Prairieaire) are all now one. It takes 8 generations to "set the type" in a bloodline and Prairieaire pedigrees can show 12 or more generations back to the foundation stock. There is visible evidence of the very traits that made the foundation stock so outstanding, as seen in the champions and future champions of present day Prairieaire. |
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| Basko and Honey Baby 1960's the foundation........all litters can be traced back to this mating that started the Prairieiaire red and white trademark. |
| A Top Ten Saint Bernard all breed points four years in a row in the United States 2001 - 2004 (Born 9/17/1997 - Died 1/10/2007) |
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| Below left : 2004 CH. Prairieaire Heir of ExcellenceCGC aka "Reno" owned by Tim DeAtley. Below right: Prairieaire Trend of Excellence (pointed) owned by Tim DeAtley and Denis Smith both bred by Valerie Crane |
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