{"id":1375,"date":"2016-09-18T09:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2016-09-18T11:36:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:36:32","slug":"straight-forward-named-runner-up-new-york-grouse-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"Straight Forward named Runner-Up, New York Grouse Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After 53 of the country’s best cover dogs were done competing, Straight Forward, our 7-year old setter female was again standing in the Championship Circle at the NY Grouse Championship.\u00a0 “Cracker” was handled by Hall-of-Famer Dave Hughes.\u00a0 The fine pointer, Grouse Hill Belle, owned by John Capocci and handled by John Stolgitis was named the Champion.\u00a0 The placements in 2016 mimic exactly the placements in this Championship in 2015.<\/p>\n

This is the third time that “Cracker” (the 2013 and 2016 Seminatore Award winner) has been named Runner-Up in this Championship.<\/p>\n

There were plenty of birds found by the competitors with some having three and four finds.\u00a0 “Cracker” had two finds in her hour which she combined with a beautiful first half hour of smooth, forward, swinging-to-the-front patterning.\u00a0 She’s always a serious, single-minded competitor who knows how to find birds and handle them.\u00a0 Conditions were tough.\u00a0 It was a hot day and there was little water on the course as “Cracker” went about her business.\u00a0 A brief lull in her application in the middle of her hour was a slight detraction.\u00a0 From there she picked up and had a find at 45 where it took Dave several minutes to locate her in the dense cover of the stream bottom and then several more minutes to get the grouse in the air.\u00a0 Meanwhile her bracemate had gone forward and after her find “Cracker” went ahead and joined the bracemate in hunting.\u00a0 Her bracemate had point called at 55 in a thick creek bottom cover.\u00a0 When “Cracker” went into this area, she pointed.\u00a0 The cover was so dense that you could not see a handler, much less a dog, at 15 feet.\u00a0 While at first it seemed “Cracker” was probably backing her bracemate, in fact “Cracker” could not see the other dog on point and when the grouse got up in front of “Cracker”, it was clear the two dogs shared a divided find as time was called.\u00a0 An exciting conclusion to the brace.<\/p>\n

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