Thread: What do I do?

I'm trying to find a piece I have here written about the great John Nash of Moanruad fame, who Erlandson described as the arguably the greatest trainer of all. It describes the death of a great dog of his early on, (Possibly Int FTCH Queen of Glengar from memory?), and how it spurred him on in the quest to better it, a quest that spanned many decades and many different breeds. Obviously the legacy he left, outweighed the dog in questions legacy. Will dig it out and scan it

I know the feeling. I had 3 bitches in 10 years who where always there to win the trial. The type of bitch the other guys knew they were running for the second place. I've been first and second on more than one occasion. At this moment the young ones don't "have" it. Good dogs but nothing more. It's hard to accept, but I am looking for better ones. At a moment they will be there again. It's only by linebreeding that you get a line that produces good dogs on a regular basis. So I am breeding back to the ones that gave me the best. I linebreed on both "dam sides" and allow some outcross on the sires side.
A famous pointerbreeder in Italy says that there is a huge diffrence between breeding dogs and trial dogs. The breeding part is strongly linebred, the trialdogs are 1st generation outcrosses to this line.