{"id":495,"date":"2010-09-21T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T00:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2010-11-19T21:46:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:46:47","slug":"2010-impact-player-won-2nd-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Impact Player wins at Grand National Grouse Futurity and North American Woodcock Futurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-508\" title=\"ImpactPlayer\" src=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ImpactPlayer.jpg\" alt=\"ImpactPlayer\" width=\"301\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ImpactPlayer.jpg 301w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ImpactPlayer-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Impact Player<\/p>\n<p>Impact Player, son of Pennstar,\u00a0won \u00a02nd\u00a0at the 66th Grand National Grouse Futurity held at Milan, NH the last days of October, 2010.\u00a0 Earlier in the month, &#8220;Joe&#8221; was third at the North American Woodcock Futurity in\u00a0Nova Scotia.\u00a0 In Canada &#8220;Joe&#8221; was handled by professional Dave Hughes who is responsible for &#8220;Joe&#8217;s&#8221; early and quick development, particularly in handling wild birds.\u00a0 &#8220;Joe&#8221; was bred by Maine resident Joe Dahl (from whence he got\u00a0his name)\u00a0and he&#8217;s a\u00a0littermate\u00a0to the 1st\u00a0place winner of the Grouse Futurity.\u00a0 Pundits are still checking to see if littermates have ever placed 1-2 in the Grouse Futurity&#8217;s history.\u00a0\u00a0 In both stakes Joe handled wild birds with exceptional manners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0the Grouse Futurity, &#8220;Joe&#8221; was braced with his winning sister.\u00a0&#8221; Joe&#8221; took a minute to get used to the terrain and boggy\u00a0footing but he was soon in high gear and laying forward.\u00a0\u00a0Midway through the heat, he pointed ahead\u00a0with a straight, high tail.\u00a0 The grouse blew out as his handler and co-owner, Dick Brenneman, approached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impact Player Impact Player, son of Pennstar,\u00a0won \u00a02nd\u00a0at the 66th Grand National Grouse Futurity held at Milan, NH the last days of October, 2010.\u00a0 Earlier in the month, &#8220;Joe&#8221; was third at the North American Woodcock Futurity in\u00a0Nova Scotia.\u00a0 In Canada &#8220;Joe&#8221; was handled by professional Dave Hughes who is responsible for &#8220;Joe&#8217;s&#8221; early and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}