However, it was shortly after this, that due to a succession of UK imports and their resulting progeny that the English bloodlines, in particular those of the "Hawkhill' dynasty, began to take hold.

Ch Clanach Argyle Tartan

During a holiday in the UK, in 1975, Stephanie Rickard of the Wongan prefix managed to buy a couple of springers from two of the top kennels  there.  Two of them, Ch Mompesson Midsummer Lad and Ch Monclare Sugar and Spice, were by the UK's number one dog All Breeds: Sh Ch Hawkhill Connaught.  Two other imports to Wongan followed shortly,  Eng  Sh Ch Mompesson Sleeping Partner and Ch & NZ Ch Hawkhill Crepello, who  were also closely related to him being niece and grandson respectively. 
These new bloodlines were just what was needed to blend in with the  Teal and Pintail breeding.  The most famous and successful of all the 

Ch Mompesson Midsummer Lad (Imp UK) Ch/Eng Sh Ch Mompesson Sleeping Partner (Imp UK)

Teal descendants,  grandson Ch Clanach Argyle Tartan, when mated to Sugar n Spice produced a fair proportion of the forty Champions that Tartan has sired.
Ch Wongan Clan Tartan (Merchant) and Ch Wongan Clan Dancer (Peters), products of this union were both speciality BIS winners, as were their parents.  Spice also produced a specialty BIS winner (Ch Wongan Intonator) when mated to her half brother Midsummer Lad.  'Intonator'  owned by Phil and Julie Porter, also won BIG at the Melbourne Royal in 1979 and was a successful sire.  His best known progeny would be Ch  Wongan Southn Silk, owned by Wayne Douglas,  a

Ch Monclare Sugar n Spice (Imp UK)

specialty BIS winner and a royal CC winner, Ch Wongan Pippit, a BOB at Melbourne winner for  Penita Kennels, and the litter sisters Ch/NZ Ch Wongan Inheiritance and Wongan Heiress. Inheiritance won CCs at both Melbourne and Sydney Royals and was a multi specialty CC winner too. Her Wongan daughters Khanival and Dynasty have followed on with great show records as well. Heiress proved to be a  successful brood bitch for Fairsky kennels and is behind many winners today. Crepello, who came to Wongan via New Zealand, was successful at Royals and Specialities and sired a number of winners.  One son, Ch  Springlea Argyle Sword, bred by the Warnes in Victoria, did well and was campaigned by Fairsky kennels who are still active and successful in the  breed almost twenty years later.

Ch/NZ CH Hawkhill Crepello (Imp UK)

   Several years later, the first import of May and John Peters -  Eng and Aus Ch Chasmar Penny Farthing of Moorcliff (a niece of Sugar n Spice), hit the show scene and accounted for three Speciality BIS in NSW.  Her son, Sims and Cousins Ch Drumhill Golden Guinea, has had  Speciality BIS wins as well as Royal BIG at Sydney and Brisbane and plenty  of wins in Queensland.  Later on, in 1984, Eng Ch and Aus Ch  Moorcliff Kalico joined Drumhill, and he was obviously of heavy Hawkhill breeding being by Crepello's litter brother Hawkhill Blakeney.  Kalico's son, Ch Fairsky Benson, has a BIG at Canberra Royal to his credit. Ch Drumhill Moonshiner, a Kalico grandson, has been very  successful for his breeders with a Specialty Runner Up BIS and All Breeds BIS awards

More can be read on the Connaught influence in the special page for Hawkhill One in a Million

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