Blade van het Wantishof is indeed a great dog an so is his owner Herman Visser, I know Herman personally and he is a great guy. And I agree that a dog like Quirinus is in some workpedigrees (I even mentioned that in one of my posts) But IMO Neerlands stam is much more focused on show than work although that's fine by me. On the subject of the results of some of Han's dogs: a good handler is as important as the dog itself if you know what I mean. The difference is IMO again if you would let's say take a burgstatte litter or whatever pure workingline, close your eyes and take a pup from it, you're going to be able to work with the dog. On the other hand by crossing Blade in their lines I think they are doing a great job. Now don't get me wrong I'm not saying that Neerlands stam dogs are wrong not at all I've seen some very beautifull dogs from them and as you mentioned Quirinus was of big importance to the breed but that was some time ago.
