Vitali's Grouse Ringer Justify (T) earned second place in the Michigan Brittany Grouse Dog Association Open Derby stake on October 6, 2019. T's race in combination with a woodcock find settled him firmly into the second place spot. We love when our dogs place and getting it done on wild birds is icing on the cake.
T is from our breeding of our winning female, CH/RU Pine Straw Sweet Tea to CH/RU Erin's Hidden Shamrock. Some may wonder how a son of an AA champion mated to a Shooting Dog champion can result in a successful cover dog competitor. Well, if you look through T's pedigree you'll find prominent grouse dogs top and bottom. His maternal grand-dam is RUCH Pine Straw Katydid that took Runner-Up at the National Amateur Grouse Championship and her sire (T's great grand-sire) was GNGCH Chip's Uncle Buzzy who won the Grand National Grouse Championship. So he's got serious grouse dogs up close in his pedigree.
We appreciate Gary Vitali putting the work in to developing T as a bird dog. Congrats on a qualifying win Gary! And thanks for sending us the picture!
