{"id":1217,"date":"2015-09-15T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2015-09-15T07:08:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:08:09","slug":"blast-zone-1st-in-the-derby-at-ny-grouse-ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Blast Zone, 1st in the Derby at NY Grouse Ch."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1202\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Strike-May-2015.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1202\" src=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Strike-May-2015-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Blast Zone\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Strike-May-2015-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Strike-May-2015.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Blast Zone<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blast Zone, our young derby sired by Ch. Full Blast ex Marty Stoker&#8217;s Hardcore, is off to a fast start in his derby career.\u00a0 With Thor Kain handling &#8220;Strike&#8221; won the open derby at the New York Grouse Championship with a determined hunt through the heavy cover in course #1 and paired this effort with a steady-to-wing and shot grouse find.\u00a0 Just weeks earlier &#8220;Strike&#8221; won 2nd at the Mohegan Wild Bird Trial in PA.\u00a0 In this event he had a strong hunting race under the whistle of Thor Kain and at 25 minutes he was found pointing in a creek bottom where he had a woodcock pinned.\u00a0 He was also perfectly steady-to-wing and shot on this find as well.\u00a0 In terms of finding, pointing and wanting to stand steady on wild birds &#8220;Strike&#8221; is perhaps the most remarkable dog we have ever worked with.\u00a0 Last winter in TX, while still a pup, &#8220;Strike&#8221; would get the wild quail pointed (something few pups can do regularly) and then stand steady while the bracemate pup(s) would mill around and knock the covey.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got high hopes for Blast Zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blast Zone, our young derby sired by Ch. Full Blast ex Marty Stoker&#8217;s Hardcore, is off to a fast start in his derby career.\u00a0 With Thor Kain handling &#8220;Strike&#8221; won the open derby at the New York Grouse Championship with a determined hunt through the heavy cover in course #1 and paired this effort with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}