The Pointer has dominated the pointing breed field trials since then.

A pointing breed is a type of gundog typically used in finding game.

Pointing breeds are used on such birds, but must be well trained to know when the bird pointed has moved.

Starting from the first dog show in France in 1863, it was the most shown pointing breed.

The pointing breeds can be dated to England and Europe in about the 1650s.

It is one of several pointing breeds.

If the animal is one of a pointing breed, the hunter knows that when the bell stops tinkling the dog has found a bird.

Retrievers, spaniels, and pointing breeds are used to hunt pheasants.

The classes are retrievers, flushing spaniels, and pointing breeds.

Gundogs are traditionally divided into three classes: retrievers, flushing dogs, and pointing breeds.

Gun dogs and hunting dogs, such as the pointing breed, "makes/comes to a point" by standing rigid and facing the game.

Spaniels and pointing breeds are used most often, though retrievers are worked with considerable success when hunting pheasant in many areas.

They are a pointing breed that came from a cross between the German hunting poodle (pudel) and the English Pointer.

Pointing breeds come in all varieties of coats, from short-haired dogs, to wire-haired dogs, to silky-coated Setters.

NSTRA sanctioned field trials are open to all pointing breed dogs and are conducted under conditions closely resembling actual wild bird hunting.

Upland game bird is an American term which refers to those non-water fowl game birds hunted with pointing breeds, flushing spaniels, and retrievers.

Most continental European pointing breeds are classified as versatile gun dog breeds or sometimes HPR breeds (for hunt, point and retrieve).

The distinction is made because versatile breeds were developed to find and point game as all pointing breeds, but were also bred to perform other hunting tasks as well.

According to one source, the Pointer came to be in the 16th and 17th centuries, when pointing breeds, including the Spanish pointer, were brought from the European mainland to England.

The name refers to breeds of Retrievers, Setters, Flushing dogs and Spaniels, Water dogs, and Pointing breeds.

Although spaniels and some pointing breeds routinely retrieve game, and many retrievers are skilled in finding game, retrievers are distinguished in that non-slip retrieval is their primary function.

In the early 70's, Mr. Wegman was living in SoHo when he discovered the Weimaraner, a pointing breed dating to 19th-century Germany, that he found attractive for its "neutrality."

Split noses or double noses occur sometimes, though rarely, in many pointing breeds thought to have descended from the Portuguese Pointer and the Pachon Navarro, including the German Shorthaired Pointer.

The game season runs from September to March at private preserves like this one in Millbrook, about 85 miles from New York City, where game birds - those hunted with pointing breeds like a spaniel - are stocked.

In the Southern United States the term bird dog refers to dog breeds such as the pointer, English setter, Red setter, German shorthair pointer, Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever, Brittany, and other pointing breeds.