{"id":1410,"date":"2016-09-23T10:16:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2016-09-23T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:29:31","slug":"straight-forward-win-new-england-grouse-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"Straight Forward wins New England Open Grouse Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1413\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image1-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1413\" src=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image1-5-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"New England Open Grouse Championship\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image1-5-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image1-5.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>New England Open Grouse Championship<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Continuing on her hot start to the fall trial season, Straight Forward, our 7-year old female,\u00a0 was announced as the winner at the New England Open Grouse Championship, September 23, 2016.\u00a0 The Kilkenny Management Area of the White Mountain National Forest, NH,\u00a0 saw 53 pointers and setters vie for the title.\u00a0 Drawn in the first brace of the event on Monday, &#8220;Cracker&#8221; went out and put on a display of hard, forward,\u00a0 intelligent hunting which yielded two sharply executed stylish grouse finds.\u00a0 At the end of the hour everyone in the gallery knew they had seen a very special bird dog performance.\u00a0 Indeed the entire field, which featured many grouse notables with multiple finds, did not eclipse &#8220;Cracker&#8217;s&#8221; effort.\u00a0 Recall &#8220;Cracker&#8221; was RU Ch. at the NY Grouse Ch. two weeks earlier.\u00a0 She&#8217;s an exceptional bird dog and trainer\/handler Dave Hughes has brought out the best in her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing on her hot start to the fall trial season, Straight Forward, our 7-year old female,\u00a0 was announced as the winner at the New England Open Grouse Championship, September 23, 2016.\u00a0 The Kilkenny Management Area of the White Mountain National Forest, NH,\u00a0 saw 53 pointers and setters vie for the title.\u00a0 Drawn in the first&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-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","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=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}