Twelve hours
Nine days
Three Champion titles
In the Quail Championship Invitational
1996, 1997, 1998
House’s Rain Cloud
A record never to be challenged
Consistency personified
Who did he beat?
The eleven top dogs
In each of three seasons
Four National Champions and five Hall of Famers
Who judged?
Hawthorn, West, Perry, Eaton, Waddell
Loftin, Rester (twice each)
Eaton and Rester named no Runner-Up in 97
Who sired the Champion?
Miller’s Silver Bullett of course
Twice Champion here (91 and 93)
Sire of three who won here six times — Cloud, Excell, True Spirit
Who handled?
Mike Matney who preferred to fish the Tennessee
For catfish professionally
Put out 2000 bottles a night then picked them up
Who scouted?
Joe Don House then Gary Lester
House also bred and owned him for the first
Then sold him to Mitchell and Nutt
Who did Cloud beat?
In 1996 Brush Country Specter, Shady Lady, Pleasant Run Dot,
Warhoot Rogue, Silver Ending, Rebel’s Replay, Whipporwill’s High Jack,
Lehar’s Perfect Tech, and Crude’s Velvet and Silverwood, Runner-Up
In 1997 Lehar’s Main Tech, South’s Cherokee Chief, Shell Creek Dan,
Rebel’s Replay, Barshoe Quickly, Shady Lady,
Bear Creek Bess, Silverwood, Arcanum at Dawn ,
Silver Ending and Season Finale, no Runner-Up
In 1998 Be Right Back, Shell Creek Dan, Frontline Spike
Silverwood, Freddie Fender, Silver Ending, Hendrix Magic Touch
Marques Gold Rush, Lester’s Silver Chief,
Bear Creek Bess and Miller’s White Diamond, Runner-Up
How did he hunt?
Big and forward throughout the twelve hours
Birdwork? Four finds in 96, three in 97,
And four in 98, all dug up at distance and wild
The judges all admired him
He won 37 career placements
Including six championships
And sired 74 winners with 387 placements including six championships
And why is he not in the Hall of Fame?
For a reason we all know
No one has mounted
A moneyed campaign