{"id":1319,"date":"2016-06-08T07:32:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2016-07-26T06:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T14:23:03","slug":"full-tilt-wins-the-seminatore-award-top-cover-dog-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"Straight Forward wins the Seminatore Award, top cover dog, AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Straight Forward, our 7 year old setter female, has been officially recognized as the top english setter all-age cover dog for 2015-2016.\u00a0 She achieved the same recognition in 2012-2013.\u00a0 “Cracker” is best known for her insatiable drive to find birds.\u00a0 She puts the throttle down at the breakaway and there’s no let up until time is called no matter the temperature, terrain or competition.\u00a0 “Cracker” is exciting to watch, snappy and flashy, and her unusually high intelligence and experience makes it possible for her to find birds consistently.<\/p>\n

Runner-Up Champion wins in the New York Grouse Championship and the Pennsylvania Grouse Championship last fall were key parts of her record this year.\u00a0 Both stakes had a large number of entries.\u00a0 Additionally, many will recall her near-miss challenge at the Grand National Grouse Championship last November where she was on track to win but the birds that she had pointed lifted ahead of the handler and out of earshot of the judges.\u00a0 Her kennelmate, our Ch. Full Blast, won the Grand but the title would have been “Cracker’s” had the birds been heard.\u00a0 In any case, she had an awesome fall and we’re again proud of her accomplishments.<\/p>\n

On top of her wins, “Cracker” found time to have her first litter of pups.\u00a0 She had two males and two females, sired by Grand National Grouse Champion Full Blast. \u00a0 The pups are quite young but we’re very excited as we see many of the qualities of their excellent parents in the offspring.\u00a0 Some say that the dam is the key to a great litter and if that’s true, these could be some great pups.<\/p>\n

We especially want to thank now Hall-of-Famer Dave Hughes for handling “Cracker” to her wins over the years.\u00a0 Dave’s skill and “Cracker’s” abilities have been a legacy combination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Straight Forward, our 7 year old setter female, has been officially recognized as the top english setter all-age cover dog for 2015-2016.\u00a0 She achieved the same recognition in 2012-2013.\u00a0 “Cracker” is best known for her insatiable drive to find birds.\u00a0 She puts the throttle down at the breakaway and there’s no let up until time…<\/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-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","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=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}