Seems like some here are stuck in the past. Sorry but studying quotes from old dogmen, looking at old pedigrees and reading old stories WILL NOT help you compete in todays game NOR will it bring your breeding program up to todays standards. Sure for the purpose of entertainment, by all means have at er' but if you want to be current, if you want your breeding program on par with todays best then look at the dogs of today and the camps behind them. Get out there and make connections, earn trust and set a new standard.
I can tell you for a fact that the most sucessful camps that I know of today could care less on having something bred tight on some long dead dog. Best dog I've seen of todays fastlane is a dog named Jr off of Gr Ch Eulogy to Ch Pepper. Like his father before him, the dog is a champ stopper and you better believe that his camp look for and have gone into the best, no soft spots there. Some might call him scatter bred, some might call him battle crossed, who cares, he's a killa' on the treadmill races and that's all that matters.
I'm not trying to knock anyone here for their interests and I would never claim to be an expert on the breeding aspect of the game, my personal interests lay elsewhere. What I will claim however is that if your interests lay in the breeding aspect and you want to produce dogs that are able to race in todays game against todays best camps the way to go about it is breed to the dog, not to the paper behind a dog.