{"id":574,"date":"2010-11-15T07:17:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T15:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2010-11-19T21:45:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:45:43","slug":"quixstar-winning-pennstar-daughter-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Quixstar, Winning Pennstar Daughter, Passes."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-262\" title=\"Quixstar (Riggs)\" src=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Riggs3.jpg\" alt=\"Quixstar\" width=\"183\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Riggs3.jpg 183w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Riggs3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quixstar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Quixstar, dam of Straight Forward, passed away 11\/12\/10 from a kidney disease at the home of her owner, Jim Smythe of Lititz, PA.\u00a0 &#8220;Riggs&#8221; won a couple of Puppy Classics for us and then went to our friend, Jim, to live with the agreement that we would be able to breed her to sires we agreed upon and that we would get pups from her.\u00a0 Unfortunately we\u00a0 were only\u00a0able to breed Riggs once, but that was a very successful mating to Keystone&#8217;s Red Rage\u00a0that produced our current multiple puppy and derby winner Straight Forward.\u00a0 Straight\u00a0Forward \u00a0looks to have a bright future and we are grateful to have her to carry on\u00a0&#8220;Riggs'&#8221; \u00a0Pennstar\u00a0X \u00a0Barnburner bloodlines that have been so successful in the grouse woods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Riggs&#8221; really came on as a first year all-age and her performances on the prairies of North Dakota on wild pheasants, huns and sharptails will always live in my mind as a nothing-less-than-great display of far-flung hunting and keen staunch points on difficult birds.\u00a0 Time and\u00a0again, thanks to Garmin, we found her styled up in deep cover on pheasants.\u00a0 I recall one evening hunt where she pointed a large covey of huns from a distance that I&#8217;ve never seen a dog point previously.\u00a0 She had a great nose and loved to get them pointed.\u00a0 Her owner took her grouse and woodcock hunting in PA each fall and she was very efficient on these game birds.\u00a0 There were days when I felt we should be campaigning &#8220;Riggs&#8221; ourselves,\u00a0but the quality of\u00a0her new home and her usefulness as a dam outweighed that alternative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Jim gave &#8220;Riggs&#8221; the best of everything and she replied with the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quixstar, dam of Straight Forward, passed away 11\/12\/10 from a kidney disease at the home of her owner, Jim Smythe of Lititz, PA.\u00a0 &#8220;Riggs&#8221; won a couple of Puppy Classics for us and then went to our friend, Jim, to live with the agreement that we would be able to breed her to sires we&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-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}