I have a 7yr Springador / Labradinger. I prefer the latter term. I can - and do - throw a ChuckIt ball across a field. If she does not see the ball bounce and

I have a 7yr Springador / Labradinger. I prefer the latter term. I can - and do - throw a ChuckIt ball across a field. If she does not see the ball bounce and rest she relies totally on scent. She will literally pass by a bright orange/blue ball which is sitting at rest on short green grass or a sprinkling of white snow. She will hunt that ball, nose to the ground until she finds it. Two days ago I threw the ball, I was on an adjacent path, into a field. Because of the sun I missed that it bounced oddly, out of the field and into a wide grass verge. Both she and I had no clue at all where the ball was. That's annoying when a ball costs around £5. I walked down the path and shrugged my shoulders to her. She knows that means "I have no idea where it is". She sniffed around the field, found (what I assume was the first bounce/scent), found the second, then ran out of the field, back to the path and found the ball deep in long grass. No errors, direct line. I may well be 'as capable' but those two words mean diddly (squat. Sorry!) "As capable" Are we not all born "as capable" of many things yet the nature/nuture kicks in?