No she's not a nutter but she is very, very driven and utterly fearless, she's definitely a Ferrari model working Cocker
The Timsgarry dogs are fantastic and Simon is great, Caoimhe is down there with him just now, he's going to start trialling her in the autumn, he thinks she has a lot of potential so he's been doing some intensive game work with her for me. I'm going down to collect her at the weekend so I'll see some of the other dogs again while I'm there.
Caoimhe's dam is red and her litter was blacks and reds. Both Barlow and Simpson throw reds/golds if the bitch also carries it so it must come via T.Kelly somewhere along the line. The livers are much more common though after the blacks. Do you have any photos of Ruby? I'd also be interested to see her full pedigree, Caoimhe's is already on the Pedigree Research board, I think it's on page 2.
In terms of the colours red is much darker than gold, you can see the difference in Caoimhe and Rodaidh here, she has her best serious face on in this photo -