Just to clarify, I didn't write that excerpt, but it basically correlates to what I've heard and learnt.
Smasher,
I took the reading of breeding the lesser dog, to be a dog still doing his stuff, just not to the standard of the better dog...sometimes ace performers do not produce as good as themselves whereas average performers bred to produce, breed better progeny than themselves. This should be the goal when breeding...do I need to better nose, staying ability, working ability, size etc and try to improve a couple of things each time you breed....as me mammy always said, you can't ma