The maternal grandsire theory is rampant in horse breeding, (look it up in relation to Secretariat) but I'm wondering if some of the veteran dog breeders believe in it?

http://classic.akc.org/breeders/resp_breeding/Articles/maternalgrandsire.cfm

Study, and be patient, grasshopper.


http://breedingbetterdogs.com/pdfFiles/articles/bracketts_fomula.pdf

for the very interesting links.

Not a grasshopper but will admit I have a lot to learn after only doing this for 10 years. I have not heard my mentors speak of this. I have only heard about looking at the dam of the stud you are considering. So if the maternal grandsire theory is well known in dogs, I apologize for bringing up something that is common knowledge to all.

I have used this method several times and it has worked quite well for me. Of course the dog that you are line breeding on should be a top quality animal.