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In no way I would think of downgrading the NZ spaniels, as I don't know them at all. In the past I tried to find more info on the Ballyblack spaniels, but there isn't much about them on the internet.
I do know the modern English white grass dogs and can fully understand these are very easy to train, but not easy to get them hunt if you don't have the amount of game seen in the UK. I do neither want to convince anybody to use the e-collar, but I know it's a usefull tool when properly used. I have , on paper , the method Joe Greatorex used on the O'Vara spaniels. He put them in the rabbit pen for hours or days (without he being there) . The moment they started to kill to much rabbits he stopped putting them in. I think you will agree that the moment you train this dog, he just doesn't stop chasing a rabbit when you blow the stop whistle for the first,second or third time.
When you read Erlandson's first book about his 17 Champions, you will see that a good few where non hunters that took time to get going. I don't like this type of dog. It's fine when you have plenty of game, but not if the dog only gets 1 find every hour in the hardest of cover.