Kestrel was bred by our close friend Carol Vola, Copper Creek Vizslas, out of her Abbey bred to our Pfalcon. When I went down to the farm in NJ to see the litter and pick up the pup Carol had picked for me to take home to find a show home (Daisy), I saw the pups running all over the place and one puppy ran across my path and looked up at me, and I asked Carol "is that a bitch"? and it was her! this was one of the most beautiful puppies I had ever seen - or likely will ever see. She actually gave me goose bumps! The minute I saw her, I knew she had to be in our breeding program. Kestrel was not the easiest puppy to raise by any stretch! she definitely had an alpha personality, but she respected our authority and kept herself always in check, making her a delight to live with, a delight in the show ring, a consistent worker as a personal gun dog (nice natural honor), and a delight as a beautiful youthful veteran. She and Ptoppir (who was two days older) became best friends, and what a pretty pair they made! Kestrel gave our daughter, Danielle, a lot of success as her  junior's and occasional special's bitch. Danielle and Kestrel went BISS for two consecutive years at he Conestoga Vizsla Club Specialty when Danielle was ages 11 and 12 years. The second BISS was very bittersweet because Carol Vola who was present for and overjoyed at the first BISS win had died suddenly of an aneurysm at age 55 between those two shows. Kestrel herself almost died at age 5 in 2002 from a tick borne disease then called "equine ehrlichiosis". It was a slow process, but Kestrel's immune system was amazing, and she battled back to complete health. After a 3 year hiatus from breeding until we believed she was 100% well again, Kes easily whelped her last litter in January, 2006 from which we kept our Ptorrie. We feel very blessed to have shared our lives with Kes and for the wonderful offspring she has left behind.