Answers to the Trivia Questions

Copyright by Stephen H. ’Steeple’ Bell

1)  Pointer or Setter? On first glance one might want to answer that a pointer is more likely to win because there have been more pointer winners, right? But when you also consider that there have been three times more pointer contestants than setter contestants, the actual answer is:
 
                             # of contestants           # of winners*         percentage
            Pointers            1184                             84                    7.09%
            Setters              276                              22                    7.97%
            (*the winners of more than one year were counted only one time)

This advantage for the setters becomes still more apparent when you factor the number of appearances, since many dogs run more than a single year:
 
                            # of appearances           # of winners*          percentage
            Pointers            3022                             96                    3.18%
            Setters              496                               26                    5.24%
            (*the multiple wins are counted here)
 
2) Male or Female? Pointers and Setters combined, with the same (*) considerations as above, the answer is:
                             # of contestants             # of winners          percentage
            Males               1119                             79                    7.06%
            Females            341                               27                    7.92%
 
                             # of appearances           # of winners            percentage
            Males               2749                             89                    3.24%
            Females            769                               33                    4.29%
 
To combine questions 1 and 2, we get the following stats:
            For the number of contestants:
            Breed/sex           # of contestants              # of winners             percentage
            Pointer male                 899                               61                    6.79%
            Pointer female               285                               23                    8.07%
            Setter male                   220                               18                    8.18%
            Setter female                 56                                4                     7.14%
            Totals                           1460                             106                   7.26%
 
            For the number of appearances:
            Breed/sex            # of appearances            # of winners           percentage
            Pointer male                 2348                             68                    2.90%
            Pointer female               674                              28                    4.15%
            Setter male                   401                              21                    5.24%
            Setter female                   95                               5                     5.26%
            Totals                           3518                             122                   3.47%
 
3)  Rookie or veteran? There have been 33 rookie year winners and 106 individual winners (not counting multiples, which would always be a veteran year even if the dog had been a rookie winner), so at first glance that is the winners are rookies only 31% of the time. To break this down by appearances:
                            # of appearances           # of winners           percentage
            Rookie             1460                             33                    2.26%
            Veteran            2058                             89                    4.32%
 

Here is a list of the dogs who won in their rookie year:

Year     Dog's Name                                          Breed/sex
 
1896     Count Gladstone IV                               Setter/Male
1899     Joe Cumming                                        Setter/Male
1900     Lady's Count Gladstone                         Setter/Male
1907     Prince Whitestone                                 Setter/Male
1908     Count Whitestone II                              Setter/Male
1909     Manitoba Rap                                       Pointer/Male
1910     Monora                                                Setter/Female
1911     Eugene M                                             Setter/Male
1912     Commissioner                                       Setter/Male
1917     Mary Montrose                                     Pointer/Female
1921     Ferris Jake                                            Pointer/Male
1922     Becky Broom Hill                                 Pointer/Female
1933     Rapid Transit                                        Pointer/Male
1939     Sport's Peerless Pride                             Setter/Male
1941     Ariel                                                     Pointer/Male
1946     Mississippi Zev                                     Setter/Male
1948     Peter Rinski                                          Pointer/Male
1958     The Arkansas Ranger                            Pointer/Male
1971     Wrapup                                                Pointer/Female
1975     Volcanic Express                                  Pointer/Female
1976     Miller's White Cloud                             Pointer/Male
1977     Allure                                                   Pointer/Female
1982     Heritage's Premonition                          Pointer/Male
1983     El Sauz Doll                                         Pointer/Female
1985     Flatwood Hank                                     Pointer/Male
1988     Navajo Dude                                         Pointer/Male
1999     Whippoorwill Wild Card                       Pointer/Male
2001     Law's High Noon                                  Pointer/Male
2003     Texas Trailrider                                     Pointer/Male
2006     Shell Creek Coin                                   Pointer/Male
2011     Touch's Whiteout                                  Pointer/Male
2016     Whippoorwill Justified                          Pointer/Male
2017     Lester's Sunny Hill Jo                            Pointer/Male    

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