May I put my oar in here. And before I start in on this list just a warning I do bite back so if you decide to take a dig you've been warned.
As a breeder with a few years under my belt, and as a person who has trained one or two dogs to obedience titles and as a past instructor and life member of an obedience club I do have a little experience. From what I can make out (and I'm not going to wade back through all the dross posted to find the pearls) The question was can Samoyed's be 100% on a recall. Well I'll have a bob each way here and say yes, give the correct training a Samoyed (any dog) will be 100% on a recall be it in a ring, training environment or just out walking. However if you ask should I assume that my dog will come back to me 100% then I'd say no. Never assume. That is why I ALWAYS stress to new puppy owners and people I'm instructing that unless you are in a fully fenced area or a safe off lead area don't let your dog off of the lead.
Also I'd say and I think Rob would agree that the other thing that should be taught with the recall is the drop on recall, it's all well and good to have a dog that will come back to you at a hundred miles an hour but you want to be able to stop the dog should you need to (suppose your dog is heading back to you and you see a trail bike intersecting your dog) the best and fastest way to stop a dog on the recall is to teach it to drop.
I suppose what I'm saying is you can't take one part of obedience and make sweeping statements. Obedience is an holistic pursuit, if you haven't laid the foundations i.e. healing, sit, drop, stand, etc then you're building on shaky foundations it's about you trusting your dog and your dog trusting you, as much as it's about anything. If you were to ask can you teach a Samoyed to be 100% on a recall without teaching it anything else ten I'd have to say no.
That's my couple of cents worth
