| Shamrock Acres Super Value (Chief) was born January 31, 1968 in a litter bred by Sally
McCarthy. Jim Heneghan recalls him being bought by a man in Medford, Oregon as a
puppy. Ed Minoggie saw him and bought him for Mrs. William Roth, she had other dogs in
training with Ed, as did J.J. Heneghan. In 1970, Mrs. Roth decide she wanted out of dogs.
Minoggie was asked to find buyers for her dogs and called Heneghan, telling him Chief
was for sale. Minoggie also told him Chief was the best dog on his truck.
Chief won his first Open in the Spring of 1971 at the Idaho trial and two weeks later he
won the Tacoma trial. Louise and Auggie Belmont were also at that trial and Auggie told
Jim Heneghan that Chief was the first pup out of Super Chief to finish his title. Chief ran
in six Nationals, was a Finalist in 1977 at the Wellden, North Carolina National and he
went 11 series of the famous 12 series Tallahassee National.
In 1978 his back legs were getting very weak and he was to lead a life of leisure at the
Minoggie kennel. A pit bull got loose and tore up Chief’s back end very badly to the point
where Ed had to have put down in the spring of 1979. Chief garnered 118 Open points,
Jim ran him in several trials but never had an opportunity to work him much since he was
with Minoggie in Portland and Jim in Alaska couldn’t train together very often. Working
Chief cold off the truck without getting them the opportunity to fine-tune their handling
did not work well, but Jim did get an Amateur win with him and a couple other places
giving him a total 6.5 Amateur points. |
