{"id":1522,"date":"2017-04-24T05:36:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2017-05-01T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:15:26","slug":"want-potential-think-full-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Want Potential? Think Full Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Full Blast<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Potential<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Having a young dog with the potential<\/strong> <\/em>to develop into a bird dog that can win at the top of the game.\u00a0 This is what most of us are seeking and it’s the reason we have “junior” stakes at field trials.\u00a0 Puppy and Derby stakes feature youngsters from a variety of matings and lineages.\u00a0 The placements in these stakes sort out which pup\/derbies have the desired traits to go on to win as all-age\/championships and which sires and dams are producing offspring with the potentia<\/strong><\/em>l to win in the best of company.<\/p>\n

Particularly the Grand National Grouse Club standards have been the goal of our breeding program and the dogs that we campaign.\u00a0 These standards emphasize hunting intelligence, bird finding, drive and desire, speed, running and pointing style and class.\u00a0 This is what we are aiming for.<\/p>\n

In the last weeks, again,\u00a0 youngsters sired by Grand National Grouse Champion Full Blast have been judged to have this sought after potential<\/strong><\/em> reflected in the Grand National Grouse Club standards.\u00a0 At the 2017 Grand National Grouse Puppy Classic, Full Blast sired Full Breeze, Asper Hill Pippi and Knob Mountain Mayhem were placed 1, 2, 3.\u00a0 Previously in the 2016 and 2015 Grand National Puppy Classics, Full Blast pups were 1st and 3rd and 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.\u00a0 Eight of the 12 pups placed at The Grand in the last three years were sired by Full Blast.\u00a0 No setter has ever come close to this record.<\/p>\n

And it doesn’t end there.\u00a0 In just the last couple weeks, other Full Blast offspring have scored in classic events throughout the various cover dog regions.\u00a0 Youngster, Game Winner, scored in the Jan Zabericki Puppy Classic. Diane Wheelock’s female, Angel’s Envy,\u00a0 won the Beaverton Derby Classic in a field of 26. Recall Danny Nein’s Parachenee Flight won the 2016 National Derby Classic and White Mountain Derby Classic last year.<\/p>\n

In 2015 Blast Off won the Grand National Grouse Futurity and this spring, 2017, his potential<\/strong><\/em> was realized as he entered the championship circle for his owner, Justin Evans, at the Ontario Grouse Championship.<\/p>\n

There are numerous good setter males available that have done well in competition.\u00a0 In deciding what dog to breed to, I have learned two lessons in 50 years of breeding setters.\u00a0 George Eckdahl taught me the first lesson.\u00a0 You are breeding to a dog<\/strong> for what he produces, not what he has accomplished<\/strong>.\u00a0 Yeah, Full Blast is the only setter in history to win both setter awards (Flanagan and Seminatore), the Purina Top Cover Dog Derby and Purina Top Cover Dog All-Age and the Grand National Grouse Championship.\u00a0 This gets him on your radar as a sire.\u00a0 But you’re obviously getting his progeny, not the sire.\u00a0 And Full Blast progeny have proven to have the potential we all seek–the ability to win at the top as described in The Grand National Standards.\u00a0 The second lesson I learned from trial and error and from observing which dogs succeed.\u00a0 That lesson is to go with the best, the proven, the winner.\u00a0<\/strong> Be this in selecting a trainer, a pup or a stud dog–go with the proven best.\u00a0 At this point, based on the record and keeping these two breeding principles in mind, Full Blast must be considered as a worthy stud dog who produces offspring with the potential<\/strong><\/em> you’ve been dreaming of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Potential.\u00a0 Having a young dog with the potential to develop into a bird dog that can win at the top of the game.\u00a0 This is what most of us are seeking and it’s the reason we have “junior” stakes at field trials.\u00a0 Puppy and Derby stakes feature youngsters from a variety of matings and lineages.\u00a0…<\/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-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","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=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}