The Markovo Kennels Rescue Project: 1969 - 1975 Copyright © 2003 J. Jeffrey Bragg

 Seppala Strain at the Close of the Markovo Project, 1975

Nutok of Markovo 1974	Nura of Markovo 1973	Norka of Markovo 1974

AT THE CLOSE OF the dispersal sale, the situation once more seemed favourable for Seppalas. There was a substantial body of young stock representing the possibility of a number of possible continuation breedings. Gary Egelston was still breeding Seppalas in Missouri. There were other pure Seppalas still available, at Johanna Wilson's and other kennels, whose genes had not yet been integrated into the Markovo gene pool.

 

As it turned out, three parties who had already bought pups from me or expressed strong interest wanted -- or thought they wanted -- to carry on the pure Seppala breeding programme which I had begun and to have pure Seppala sleddog teams. Those three took the lion's share of the MARKOVO stock. They are listed below together with the dogs they bought; MARKOVO dogs that they already possessed at the time of the sale are listed in brackets {thus}:

Shango of Seppala 1974

Curt Stuckey, Lakewood CO

HAAKON OF MARKOVO (DITKO OF SEPPALA x DUSKA OF SEPPALA)
NUTOK OF MARKOVO (MIKIUK TUKTU TORNYAK x LYL OF SEPSEQUEL)
NERA OF MARKOVO (MIKIUK TUKTU TORNYAK x LYL OF SEPSEQUEL)
MINKA OF MARKOVO (VANKA OF SEPPALA x FROSTFIRE
ROBIN OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x HELEN OF MARKOVO)
DUTTO OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x HOLLY OF MARKOVO)
AKIA OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x NERA OF MARKOVO)
AMMORA OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x NERA OF MARKOVO)
FROSTFIRE ANISETTE (MALAMAK'S GLACIER x MALAMAK'S JAUNTY)
LYL OF SEPSEQUEL (MALAMAK'S EGO x EMBER OF SNOW MYTH)

Barbara S. Bailey, Ottawa, Ont.

HOLLY OF MARKOVO (DITKO OF SEPPALA x DUSKA OF SEPPALA)
NORKA OF MARKOVO (MIKIUK TUKTU TORNYAK x LYL OF SEPSEQUEL)
XAROS OF MARKOVO (NUTOK OF MARKOVO x HELEN OF MARKOVO)
ZEITA OF MARKOVO (HAAKON OF MARKOVO x NERA OF MARKOVO)
PATOU OF MONTE ALBAN (ROWAN'S KENT x WILLI-WAW'S XIU OF VIXEN)
{RAGA OF MARKOVO} (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x HELEN OF MARKOVO)
{ASARI OF MANAHTOK} (MIKIUK TUKTU TORNYAK x WILLI-WAW'S GALE OF C.)

Bruce Morrow, Parksville, BC

HELEN OF MARKOVO (DITKO OF SEPPALA x DUSKA OF SEPPALA)
ZAZA OF MARKOVO (HAAKON OF MARKOVO x NERA OF MARKOVO)
MOKKA OF MARKOVO (VANKA OF SEPPALA x FROSTFIRE ANISETTE)
DAVIK OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x HOLLY OF MARKOVO)
{SURGUT OF MARKOVO} (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x LYL OF SEPSEQUEL)

Four other parties bought pairs of young stock:

Sara Barrett, Hillsboro OR

ANUK OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x NERA OF MARKOVO)
WAWA OF MARKOVO (NORKA OF MARKOVO x HOLLY OF MARKOVO)
{XENDA OF MARKOVO} (NUTOK OF MARKOVO x HELEN OF MARKOVO)

George & Jackie Dinstel, Edmonton, AB

SHANGO OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x LYL OF SEPSEQUEL)
MIA OF MARKOVO (VANKA OF SEPPALA x FROSTFIRE ANISETTE)

David Ivanochko, Danbury, SK

DAVSON OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x HOLLY OF MARKOVO)
NURA OF MARKOVO (MIKIUK TUKTU TORNYAK x LYL OF SEPSEQUEL)

Tom & Rose Marie Weir, Meaford, Ont.

ZAKI OF MARKOVO (HAAKON OF MARKOVO x NERA OF MARKOVO)
ROSIE OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x HELEN OF MARKOVO)

Two excellent males, MARKO OF MARKOVO and his brother MARKOVO'S MARAQ, were sold individually, sadly to say, to parties with no interest in breeding the Seppala strain; of course there were other dogs sold one by one, both during the dispersal sale and previously:

Singles or pets:

L. Arnett, Estacada, OR E. Barker, Winnipeg, MB M. Bragg, Vicksburg, MS    A. Child, Smiths Falls, ON R. Petura, Viola, ID B. Piercy, Courtenay, BC W. Pietchak, Houghton Lake MI D. Proudfoot, Red Deer, AB L. Sherman, Newport, RI J. Stanek, Saskatoon, SK D. Willett, Calgary, AB

-- RUBY OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x HELEN OF MARKOVO) -- ANASTAZ OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x NERA OF MARKOVO) -- REBA OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x HELEN OF MARKOVO)     DINA OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x HOLLY OF MARKOVO) -- NOOYA OF MARKOVO (MIKIUK TUKTU TORNYAK x LYL OF SEPSEQUEL) -- AUNA OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x NERA OF MARKOVO) -- AUKKA OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x NERA OF MARKOVO) -- MARKO OF MARKOVO (VANKA OF SEPPALA x FROSTFIRE ANISETTE) -- MARKOVO'S MARAQ (VANKA OF SEPPALA x FROSTFIRE ANISETTE) -- ZORKA OF MARKOVO (HAAKON OF MARKOVO x NERA OF MARKOVO) -- DENISOV OF MARKOVO (SHANGO OF SEPPALA x HOLLY OF MARKOVO) -- XAIRE OF MARKOVO (NUTOK OF MARKOVO x HELEN OF MARKOVO)

  

The three kennel groups, Barb Bailey's Tagil Kennels, Bruce Morrow's Uelen Kennels, and Curt Stuckey's continuation of Markovo Kennels, ought to have been able to have forged independent bloodlines, each one in its own right, with the potential of trading stock among themselves and adding to the genetic base from the remaining Seppala stock from McFaul, Gagnon, and McDougall lineage at the kennels of Verner Zoschke, Johanna Wilson, and the other Québec kennels. Each one had a viable group of stock for breeding purposes, yet no one individual had all the best dogs. Had Bailey, Stuckey and Morrow carried out the intentions they each expressed to me, pure Seppala strain would be in great shape today, and we would have no confusion about Seppala identity, nor any part-Seppala problem.
     As luck would have it, each of the three Markovo successor kennels failed quite soon, each in its own individual way. The fate of the strain then fell into the hands of those who failed to understand, or else did not believe in, the principles that had guided the major Seppala breeders from 1930 through the mid-1960s, and that Markovo Kennels, too, had honoured. From the immediate post-Markovo period until the present, the guidelines laid down by Wheeler, Belford, Shearer and McFaul were largely ignored.

Davik of Markovo	Auna of Markovo	Dutto of Markovo

Nutok, Davik, Dutto, and Auna photos courtesy Elsie Chadwick, Siberian Husky Archives

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