as for top honcho its a simple case of been in the right place at the time he came we had gone down the route ye are at now heavely inbred so he was an outcross here thats why he work also he got top class broods early on(the making of any stud dog)

the probley as i see it is too man breeders breed to sell instaed of breeding whats right for there brood any will tell you they have to to sell but i have found over time that if you breed right for your line they will sell we bit the bullet on that years ago and only breed what we hink suits our lines and never to the "hype sire"

for me any breeder must have a 3 -4 year plan and not be swede by the next big thing

over the last year i have breed to many unkown sires and still sold them all why??????

because people keep coming back because of what they bought before

for me anyway i think the brood is the most important thing not the sire

a good sire can add a little but a bad(or wrong for your lines) can take away alot
i think from my view people forget that an outcross you only do once every3-4 gen if you have say an irish bitch and go to an aussie dog then the daughter must be breed back to an irish dog not out to another aussie dog it opens your lines but keeps it strong in my view if you brred a half irish bitch to a half aussie dog you have f all a mongrel

thats why i think we and you have a lot of ungeniune chasers yes every now and again you get a freak and people flock to the sire as the new stud god

also people dont sit and look at there brood enough if she was a top class racer is that enough to breed her ???/ i dont think so

we pick our broods at birth so cant tell if they are open class or not at that stage but yet we keep producing the goods !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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