{"id":1242,"date":"2015-11-03T05:52:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2015-11-04T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T20:18:12","slug":"straight-forward-named-runner-up-champion-at-the-70-dog-pa-grouse-ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Straight Forward named Runner-Up Champion at the 70 dog PA Grouse Ch."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DSC01557.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-462\" src=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DSC01557-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Straight Forward\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DSC01557-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DSC01557.JPG 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Straight Forward<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Straight Forward stood in the Championship circle for the fifth time as the announcement was made that she is the 2015 Runner-Up Champion at the prestigious Pennsylvania Grouse Championship.\u00a0 With 70 dogs competing for the crown, &#8220;Cracker&#8221; put forward her typical hard driving, snappy and far-reaching hunting effort.\u00a0 Relentless describes how she approaches the task of finding and pointing grouse.\u00a0 Again, &#8220;Cracker&#8221; showed her intelligence and savvy in handling a running bird.\u00a0 At 35 &#8220;Cracker&#8221; came into the area where her bracemate had just been released from an unproductive point.\u00a0 Just some fifty yards from that scene she pointed.\u00a0 Dave Hughes, her handler, flushed but no bird was put to flight.\u00a0 He tapped &#8220;Cracker&#8221; to &#8216;go on&#8217; and she raced another 75 yards and slammed onto point.\u00a0 This time the elusive running grouse was flushed.\u00a0 From here &#8220;Cracker&#8221; finished her hour with forward, in the pocket, application.\u00a0 Earlier in the fall, &#8220;Cracker&#8221; was also Runner-Up Champion at the New York Grouse Championship.\u00a0 In both cases the event&#8217;s Champion was Ch. Grouse Hill Belle, a fabulous pointer owned by John Cappocci and handled by John Stolgitis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straight Forward stood in the Championship circle for the fifth time as the announcement was made that she is the 2015 Runner-Up Champion at the prestigious Pennsylvania Grouse Championship.\u00a0 With 70 dogs competing for the crown, &#8220;Cracker&#8221; put forward her typical hard driving, snappy and far-reaching hunting effort.\u00a0 Relentless describes how she approaches the task&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-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","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=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}