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Slim, track drifting is not complicated to understand but it is very functional. Say a hog is running or has fed in a zig zag pattern into the wind, rather than follow the track, the track drifting dog goes straight ahead into the wind, or say a hog is running across the wind for quite a while than he makes a loop and goes back the way he came from, when he gets directly up wind from the track drifting dog he goes straight to the hog rather than make the loop the track does. Some are much better at it than others, those that aren't good at it will often get thrown out of a race due to a wrong turn. Most Cur Dogs aren't track straddlers anyway but some cut across better than others.
The Garmins make this easy to see, if you have a dog that is "cutting across or drifting" and he is getting bayed ahead of the other dogs that is most likely what is happening, on the other hand "especially with open trailing dogs" if the dog is cutting across and not getting bayed ahead of the other dogs he is just plain slow and cheating or piggy backing to stay in the race.
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