Pine Straw Katydid has been bred to Chip's Torquato. "Torque" is a grouse trial champion who is known to run big. These pups will have a lot of big name setters in their pedigree, but they will also have some good performers up close. Katie's sire, Chip's Uncle Buzzy, recently won his first championsip title at the Ontario Grouse Championship.
In deciding to which dog I should breed Katie, I did a lot of deliberating and a lot of asking advice of people that know a lot more than me. For this, Katie's first litter, I decided to go with Torque based not only on his championship wins, pedigree as it matched hers, and running style, but also based on his production of a fair amount of champions and winners. Charlie is a Torque son that my boys and I raised from a puppy. He has done pretty well with 4 wins in his derby season (1 first and 3 thirds). He was also easy to train and is a serious bird finder. Charlie is out of a repeat breeding of Torque with Keystones' Red Ryder. The first breeding produced champions Keystone's Red Rage and Peacedale Duke. Torque also sired CH Chip's Little Spark.
Katie is due any day, as 63 days from her first tie with Torque would be 5/19/2010. I will try to keep this blog up to date.
The puppy picture above is Chip's Charlie Brown as a puppy. This will give you an idea about what Torque's puppies can look like.
