Good post! Yep, OFRN dogs are smart as hell ... I just wish someone would have kept them game as hell too
My Red Angel (who I got back in 1989) stopped the brother of the dog that killed Truman (yep, she whipped a male and she spotted him weight to boot). She also stopped a double-bred daugher of Garner's Lever Red in :15 that was supposedly "game tested." Red Angel was a superb ear dog, who would also go to the throat and the kidneys.
I bred Red Angel to Truman and only got 1 good dog out of 10, Red Magic.
I bred her to Poncho and got 10 out of 10, an all-A-caliber litter. Over 16 wins came from that breeding.