Here's mine:
I hunt hare in Minnesota. I need a hound that can run in extreme conditions including months of cold and snow. I have been working on this line of dogs for a few years with lots of help from my wife and also Pete LaDue, my hunting buddy. One beagle that is behind most of my dogs is LaDue's Cider. He could run a hare on the worst snow conditions without getting sore feet or showing any signs of wear.
I kept a female from Cider and LaDue's Sandy (maybe the best rabbit dog I have ever seen) named Rose. Rose turned out to be the best I have owned to date. She is built for speed and could easily out run Cider but her feet were not quite as good as Cider's.
We raised several pups from Rose, the best to date is LaDue's John (Daniels Shy x River Bottom Rose). I think John is the closest thing I have seen to Cider is looks and conformation. He is also one of the best young dogs we have now for running on tough snow conditions. I don't have a good picture of John but here is a video of him in action.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8849&hl=en
I bred Rose back to John and kept the whole litter. To early to tell yet how they will turn out for hunting but here's a couple pictures of one of them, Flyer. He is still a pup and will fill out more as he gets older, but he has the conformation I am looking for in a rabbit dog.
Breeding for conformation alone is easy. The hard part is getting ability, voice, AND conformation all in one dog. Along with all of that I try to breed for dogs that are easy to break off deer (Rose never ran one and never had to be broke). John is close, he has very good conformation and ability (excellent line control and speed with plenty of nose), was very easy to break, but is lacking in voice as I'm sure you heard.
Breeding is a constant trade off. Even if by some miracle you got one with everything you hoped for, try keeping that going in the next generation! I breed dogs only for what I like. I'm not even going to try and please some judge that may have different opinions than me, that task seems almost impossible.
). What I have found is that dogs that are built like Rose can get through snow more easily than dogs built like Cider. My son calls that build "aerodynamic". Lots of days, the aerodynamic dogs can go over snow that the heavier dogs have to plow through. Even on bare ground, these dogs move more easily with less effort than the more bulky, heavy dogs. 
