{"id":1633,"date":"2017-12-19T09:52:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T17:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2017-12-20T06:13:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T14:13:19","slug":"game-winner-sweeps-pa-fall-open-derby-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1633","title":{"rendered":"Game Winner Sweeps PA Fall Open Derby Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1630\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Finn-Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1630\" src=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Finn-Copy-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Finn-Copy-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Finn-Copy-768x876.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Finn-Copy-898x1024.jpg 898w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Finn-Copy.jpg 2014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><b><i>GAME WINNER<\/i><\/b><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Game Winner, our male sired by Full Blast ex Springtime Showgirl, was 1st in all the fall derby stakes in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 We cannot recall that any other dog has ever swept the first placements in all these stakes in the 100 year history of cover dogs run in the state.\u00a0 &#8220;Finn&#8221;\u00a0eclipsed the field at The Venango Grouse Trial Club, the Pennsylvania Grouse Trial Club and the Nittany Valley Grouse Trial Club Open Derbies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finn&#8221; also won the 75th Grouse Futurity in MI was a sharp, steady-to-wing and shot grouse find.\u00a0 In PA, the cover is more open, requiring a dog to reach for objectives and hustle from one covert to another.\u00a0 &#8220;Finn&#8221; has tremendous drive and speed.\u00a0 He&#8217;s also got the flash, snap, jump and crack that we have emphasized in choosing dogs to develop over the decades.\u00a0 This pays off when as one judge told us, &#8220;you can&#8217;t take your eyes off of him.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;He commands your attention.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s the reason we have underscored<em><strong> class\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in the Grand National Grouse standards that guide our program&#8211;&#8220;Finn&#8221; is a prime example.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finn&#8221; is headed to Texas in January for a month of quail hunting with Dick.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the wild bird exposure and training that he got early in the fall with Thor Kain and the Texas trip last year that has helped reveal the winning genetic qualities in &#8220;Finn&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Winner, our male sired by Full Blast ex Springtime Showgirl, was 1st in all the fall derby stakes in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 We cannot recall that any other dog has ever swept the first placements in all these stakes in the 100 year history of cover dogs run in the state.\u00a0 &#8220;Finn&#8221;\u00a0eclipsed the field at The&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-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","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=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}