{"id":1705,"date":"2018-03-31T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T22:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2018-04-02T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:39:10","slug":"super-storm-2nd-grand-national-puppy-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"Super Storm, 2nd Grand National Puppy Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1712\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fed2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1712\" src=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fed2-300x274.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fed2-300x274.png 300w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fed2.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Super Storm<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1710\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Grand-National-Puppy-Classic-2018.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1710\" src=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Grand-National-Puppy-Classic-2018-300x224.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Grand-National-Puppy-Classic-2018-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Grand-National-Puppy-Classic-2018.jpeg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Grand National Puppy Classic<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Super Storm, owned by Thor Kain and bred in our kennel, won 2nd place in the 71st Grand National Grouse Puppy Classic.\u00a0 &#8220;Fed&#8221; (originally named by Bob after his tennis idol Roger Federer) got right to business and he stayed right at it throughout his heat held March 31 at the Black Ash Club grounds, Guys Mills, PA.\u00a0 Staying forward, occasionally drifting out of sight then showing to the front, &#8220;Fed&#8221; flowed through the course from objective to objective&#8211;clearly hunting his way for the thirty minutes.\u00a0 He finished like he started.\u00a0 &#8220;Fed&#8221; showed his promise in trials last fall by winning the Nittany Valley Grouse Trial Open Puppy.\u00a0 However, it is in workouts on Thor&#8217;s training grounds where &#8220;Fed&#8221; really won over believers.\u00a0 He&#8217;s surely pointed more than 100 wild birds in his first year, standing nearly all until the flush.\u00a0 He has a remarkable knack for sticking woodcock and showing just enough respect for grouse to get them pointed without bumping them.\u00a0 He is magnificent on point.\u00a0 Planning goes into any winner of the Grand National Puppy Classic as their mating must be nominated into the Grouse Futurity for which fees are paid at the time of mating and after whelping.\u00a0 Planning even farther in advance occurred in &#8220;Fed&#8217;s&#8221; case as his sire is 5x wild bird Ch. Pennstar.\u00a0 We froze Pennstar&#8217;s semen and this is the first time that we have used it for ourselves.\u00a0 Precious as this semen is to us, we were quick to employ it in mating to our 9x Ch\/RU Ch. and 3x Seminatore Award winner Straight Forward.\u00a0 \u00a0While there were only 4 pups in the litter, we have kept two,\u00a0 &#8220;Fed&#8221; and his sister Deciding Point who won the 27 dog Nittany Valley Open Puppy a few weeks earlier.\u00a0 We are thrilled to get these two quality pups to hopefully carry on some of our most productive bloodlines and individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Storm, owned by Thor Kain and bred in our kennel, won 2nd place in the 71st Grand National Grouse Puppy Classic.\u00a0 &#8220;Fed&#8221; (originally named by Bob after his tennis idol Roger Federer) got right to business and he stayed right at it throughout his heat held March 31 at the Black Ash Club grounds,&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-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}