{"id":1696,"date":"2018-03-26T09:57:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2018-03-26T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T19:04:22","slug":"straight-forward-wins-the-pa-grouse-trial-club-spring-all-age-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"Straight Forward wins the PA Grouse Trial Club spring All-Age stake."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Straight Forward celebrated her 9th birthday this month by winning 1st at the Pennsylvania Grouse Trial Club Open All-Age competition.\u00a0 “Cracker” has been an exceptional bird finder all of her life.\u00a0 It’s in her genes, it’s in her brain, it’s in her heart.\u00a0 In this event birds were very scarce.\u00a0 Some were flushed wild, but “Cracker” was the only dog who got grouse pointed and she did it twice.\u00a0 25 dogs competed.\u00a0 “Cracker’s” brace featured her consistent application and her consistent determination.\u00a0 She went to the places grouse live based on her 9 years of hunting for them in training and in competition.\u00a0 She has been in training with Dave Hughes all spring.\u00a0 Dave was scheduled to handle her, but with multiple derbies to run on other courses, it was decided that co-owner Dick Brenneman would handle her.\u00a0 When Dick had a last minute conflict with running our derby, Thor Kain was deputized to handle “Cracker”.\u00a0 \u00a0“Cracker” had spent the winter with Thor while Dick went to Texas with younger dogs.\u00a0 Thor did a great job in pointing out “Cracker” standing off to the side at 20 and then she was standing again at 35 ahead.\u00a0 On the first find, a single grouse got up ahead as Thor approached her stand.\u00a0 On the second, one grouse left and then another erupted from underneath Thor’s feet, “Cracker” steady as a rock throughout.\u00a0 She went on to finish swinging through the cover and searching ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Straight Forward celebrated her 9th birthday this month by winning 1st at the Pennsylvania Grouse Trial Club Open All-Age competition.\u00a0 “Cracker” has been an exceptional bird finder all of her life.\u00a0 It’s in her genes, it’s in her brain, it’s in her heart.\u00a0 In this event birds were very scarce.\u00a0 Some were flushed wild,…<\/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-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","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=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}