Florida Open All-Age Championship

How the Florida Open All-Age Championship Was Different

November 30, 2022 | Florida Open All-Age Championship | Comments

1. No mud — ever, on Chinquapin Farm, even after heavy rain. No creeks, much less rivers. Three man-dug ponds, one at Big House, one on second morning hour course, one on second hour afternoon course. Soil: sand over lime rock, everywhere. Cover: wire grass, everywhere. No crop fields. No wooded areas that cannot be ridden through on horseback. Read more

43 Years of The Florida Open All-Age Championship

May 3, 2022 | Florida Open All-Age Championship | Comments

1979 CH: Builder’s Addition, PM (Builder’s Risk x Bearwallow Babe), Fred Rayl R-U: Triple Squeeze, PM (Endurance x Silver Springs), Bob Lamb 1980 CH: Blackbelt, PM (Flush’s Country Squire x Quailwood’s Sally), Freddie Epp R-U: Arcanum’s Hurricane, PM (White Knght’s Button x Arcanum’s West Wind), Charlie Cameron 1981 CH: Texas Squire’s Hank, PM (The Texas Squire x Fast Delivery Jane), John Rex Gates R-U: Annex, PM (Builder’s Addition x Highway Read more

Mr. Ted

April 29, 2022 | Florida Open All-Age Championship, Poetry, Ted Baker | Comments

I loved Ted Baker like all of us ‘Cause he loved us in spite of us He gave us a place that was ideal To run the Sunshine and the Florida for 60 years Read more

If You Want to Win at Chinquapin

April 12, 2022 | Florida Open All-Age Championship, Poetry | Comments

If you want to win at Chinquapin Bring a dog with nose and hunt One that hits the cover hard But floats across the sand Read more

What’s This?

March 15, 2022 | Florida Open All-Age Championship, Poetry | Comments

What’s This? You ask. Just the best hour field trial course In all Quaildom Read more

Chinquapin Immortals

January 24, 2022 | Florida Open All-Age Championship, Poetry | Comments

I reflect on Chinquapin After twenty-seven Florida Championships Reported there From 1995 through 2022 A piece of earth crafted From lime-rock and sand Covered in wire grass Jack oaks and sparse pines Sculpted uneven by The Master With an all-age bird dog in mind Its courses laid out in 1969 By Fred Arant nickname Goochy Since then it has served As a place to hunt quail And for a week Read more

T. Jack and Ted and the Florida Championship

January 14, 2022 | Florida Open All-Age Championship, T. Jack Robinson, Ted Baker | Comments

Many a friendship has been inspired by a mutual love of bird dogs. My favorite story of such a friendship is that of T. Jack Robinson and Edward L. “Ted” Baker. That friendship spawned many others, and led to the breeding and development of legendary All-Age and Shooting Dog Champions over six decades and a premier wild bird field-trial Championship celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Read more

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