"Gordon Setters"

Thanks for stopping by to see our Gordon Setters.  The dogs listed below showcase the Gordon Setters that have been, and currently are, a part of our lives.  Each individual dog listed will provide you with some more detailed information about that specific dog and our breeding program.  We raise our Gordon Setters in the country, with love and pride.  We hope that you enjoy visiting our dogs.  If you have any questions about them, please do not hesitate to contact us at:  davalt@brightok.net or gorsetr@gorsetr.com  We'll happily respond to your inquiry!!

From Spice, who started it all, and through our wonderful Storm and her generations, to Asti, our Canadian import and Blizzard, our UK import, and our jump back in time with Dude, we are pleased to have fallen in love with this breed of dog.  The Gordon Setter is a Scottish dog that was brought into the United States by Daniel Webster in 1842.  The dog was originally bred in the 1600s by the Fourth Duke of Gordon at the Gordon Castle in Scotland. This handsomely striking dog is an avid upland game bird dog and does well in performance events as well as in the show ring. We raise our dogs in the country, with love and pride.  We endeavor to produce a dog that exhibits traits that make him a Gordon Setter capable of spending time in a show ring, out in the field, or on your couch.





(Click on the call name of each dog for their information and photo)
 or
(Click on the Registered name of each dog for their Pedigree)

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Photo by Paul F. Gero.

"Spice"
CH. Kilernan's Spice o' My Life

(Am/Can/Mex Ch. MacAlder Best For Shojin x Ch. Greenglen's Glad Rags)

AKC Number: SE087019
Born:  March 9, 1984
Died:  July 23, 1994

Owner: Peggy and Greg DaValt

Spice was the one that started it all.  She is our foundation bitch.  Enroute to her championship she twice defeated the then #1 Gordon Setter.   As always, she was owner/handled.  Spice was the best!!  Spice has been honored by the Gordon Setter Club of America as the "logo" dog on t-shirts that say, "Grace Abounding:  Gordon Setter."  The photo to the left was used to make the image for the t-shirts.  In November of 2001 Spice was again honored as a Great of the Past by Hoflin Publishing Company in their 2001 Gordon Annual.  Oh sweet Spice!!  We miss you.

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"Storm"
MacAlder J'Amethyst Royale

(Am/Can/CH Bartay's Tobe Cont'd for Shojin x CH. MacAlder Autumn Bittersweet)

Born:  September 18, 1991
Died:  April 27,  2005

AKC Number:  SM912703/07
OFA Good
Breeders:  Thomas M. Olson and Deborah J. Olson
Owners:  Peggy and Greg DaValt

Storm was our resident brood bitch for many years.  She has produced several lovely children out of Amethyst's Bit o' Power, Ch. Glen Oaks' Firedance o' Amethyst and Ch. Glen Oak's Maltese Falcon, CD, MH.  She has pointed offspring, children with hunting title legs, obedience titled offspring and agility-titled offspring.  We looked to Storm back in the early 1990s to take us back to the future in the way in which her lines tapped back into the lines Spice hailed from.  A combination of the Shojin and MacAlder lines we love so much.

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Dude"
Ch. Shojin's Somewhere in Time

(Am/Can/Mex Ch. MacAlder Best For Shojin x 
Shojin's Sky Hawk)

AKC Number: SN676307/02
Born:  July 26, 1999
Died:  January 23, 2006

Breeders:  Peggy Cole, Barbara Meining, DVM and Dee Vayda
Owner:  Greg DaValt

Born of a frozen implant, Dude's father "Chipper" was also the father of our very first Gordon "Spice" way back in 1984.  Dude was our wonderful new addition to Amethyst in August of 2001. He brought back to us the "Old Gordon type and look" that we just loved.  Since then he has sired a number of litters, and is the father of our "Keno".  We miss him Terribly but his wonderful personality and temperament shines through in his offspring.

"Ember"
Amethyst's Firelight o' Life
(CH. Glen Oaks' Firedance o' Amethyst x MacAlder J'Amethyst Royale)

Born:  May 18, 1998  to
AKC Number:  SN556217/04
OFA Good

Breeders: Peggy and Greg DaValt and Roy and Margaret Travis
Owners:  Peggy and Greg DaValt

Ember is the daughter of our "Fire" and "Storm".
 Ember is also the mother of three Amethyst dogs,
 Ch. Amethyst's Jazzy Aidan, JH, CGC, TDI ,  Amethyst's Wager With the Wind,
 and Amethyst Wager o' Ember.

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"Keno"
Amethyst's Wager o' Ember
(Ch. Shojin's Somewhere in Time - "Dude" x 
Amethyst's Firelight o' Life -"Ember")
Born:  June 7, 2003  to
AKC Number:  SR10992001

Breeders: Greg and Peggy DaValt
Owners: Greg and Donna DaValt

Keno is the daughter of our Dude and Ember.
Very playful, lots and lots of energy
 and always happy. A real cutie!

Here are a few shots of Keno's first year

Harrison, AR  April 2004

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"Ice"
Trial by Fire o' Amethyst, CGC

(CH. Glen Oaks' Firedance o' Amethyst x MacAlder J' Amethyst Royale)
AKC Number:  SN459358/09
OFA Good (prelim)

Born:  June 22, 1997

Breeders:  Peggy and Greg DaValt and Roy and Margaret Travis
Owners:  Peggy and Greg DaValt

Ice is the mother of our "Kismet"
Ice is the daughter of our Fire x Storm.  She has earned her Canine Good Citizen title and is pointed toward her championship.  Her son out of Ch. Glen Oak's Maltese Falcon, CD, MH is pointed.  Ice is also the  mother of Amethyst's Fire of McKenna.

"Thunder"
CH. Amethyst's Music o' the Knight

(Amethyst's Black 'n' Basic Jazz x Amethyst's Sweet Lady Blaize)
Born:  September 1, 1992
Died:  April 14, 2006

AKC Number:  SN007020/04
OFA Excellent
Breeders:  Jason Bahr
Owners:  Peggy and Greg DaValt

Thunder is our double-Spice grandson out of our Amethyst's Black 'n' Basic Jazz x Amethyst's Sweet Lady Blaize.  Thunder finished his championship owner/handled.  He won 1st place in Am-bred at the North Country Gordon Setter Club Show in 1996.  He finished under Mr. Carl Liepmann, shown above. Thunder is presently enjoying his retirement down here in Oklahoma. His days consist of playing a little catch with the tennis ball, following a few of the girls around the yard, naps in the sun and naps in the shade (depending of course in the weather) and of course his favorite activity of all, dinner time.

Photo by Sue C. Baines Photography

This page last updated: Saturday, May 06, 2006