Now that really is 'THE' question Bryan, the one i was hoping we'd get to...I have no idea but i'd love to find out..
I haven't heard of any cowan blood around for years, my old man really rated them as hard dogs and some of his best dogs came straight out of cowans yard, only problem was they would kill anything that moved I know AG brought some good Cowan blood with him when he came to hunt the Waterford foxhounds in the late 80's and MF carried on with that blood, but it's well diluted by now.
Bryan, i've just been googling John Cowan and a couple of old archived THL threds exist. John o