Thanks again for all the positive comments folks. Credit must go to the guy who bred him, anyone at the welsh game fair this year will have seen him with a couple of bitches from a previous litter, he won the rough coated pair class with them...thats how I found this pup, got talking to him and he mentioned he had a 3 week old litter at home, I'd just lost Gelert my 11 year old deer x through an ongoing illness and was on the lookout for this kind of cross, so the timing was perfect.
All my dogs have to have good stamina as I am also into hillwalking (in all kinds of weather) and regularly do