Quote Originally Posted by dance all night rece
If you are constantly striving for improvement of a line and u go back to the dog that produced the ace, you are, in effect, standing still. You may get some good dogs, but you aren't advancing your breeding program.
So are you saying bred to the ace?
How are you so sure the ace will produce?

Say you have a female off the ace and she is missing a piece of the puzzle...
Do you go back to the ace? Or to the dog that produced the ace?