Full Breeze
All Straight
Knob Mountain Mayhem
While their Mom, Straight Forward, was standing in the Championship circle at the New York Grouse Championship on September 10, 2016. Full Breeze, All Straight and Knob Mountain Mayhem, her 2016 offspring, were busy sweeping all the placements at their first field trial. The Freeland Kennel Club in northeastern PA has hosted bird dog field trials for more than 50 years. I recall going there in the 1960s. Today the grounds are absolutely beautiful and more well-groomed for trials than at any time in their history. The owners of these Full Blast ex Straight Forward pups entered them to get them experience with bracemates, horses and new grounds. Mike Spotts guided his male, Knob Mountain Mayhem, to third in the stake. “Jax” is a classy male who like all males will only get better as he matures. His style on point is outstanding. Thor Kain’s female was second. “Rocky” has extreme running class and she looked straight-tailed and intense pointing a quail she found along the way. Full Breeze, our female, handled by Bob Watts put on a spectacular show of strong, generally forward hunting. “Bree” literally blew through her twenty minutes on the ground and was not distracted in her quest by the horses, gallery or bracemate as her concentration was on bird finding wherever that might need to take her. She was snappy and smooth-gaited finishing ahead still pushing hard to the end. As the person in our partnership who starts pups, this was one of the most thrilling puppy performances I’ve been a part of over the past four decades.