Thread: Crossing show lines

Yeah, any pointer ever bred, even three legged ones will be considered "hard going" in comparison to the average Lab for instance... stay with me... unfair comparison I know... pointers are a hard running breed this includes the slowest to the fastest... as a breed compared to other breeds... To ascertain if you have a hard going dog of your chosen breed at some point it is imperative to run them against and with another dog of known quantity to know if it really is going as hard as you think, finding as fast as you think, etc. This was one of Leon's golden rules. He used the analogy that every racehorse looks fast galloping on it's own... all of these horses look fast galloping on their own... all of them are a class above the norm... one of them is possibly the greatest thoroughbred of modern day history, but you only know it because the others are there. If the all galloped individually they would all look like extremely fast horses.... one is supremely faster than the others... but only by comparison.