Field Trial Recollections

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

Perfect Revenge, Almost

April 4, 2022 | Field Trials, National Championship, Short Stories | Comments

The opportunity for revenge came thirty years after the despicable act calling for revenge. Let us start with the despicable act. 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

2022 National Bird Dog Championship

February 24, 2022 | National Championship | Comments

Some questions for the management of the Ames Plantation: Read more

2022 National Bird Dog Championship

| National Championship | Comments

Twenty-three were entered Sixty-nine hours worth of hunting potential Eight finished fifteen did not Read more

Turning Her Loose

February 19, 2022 | National Championship, Poetry | Comments

You’re at Ames Finally You’ve been trying For years She won two Firsts of an hour To get here Let ‘em go Read more

The National — As Seen By A Handler

February 14, 2022 | National Championship, Poetry | Comments

Here we go Three hours down Please birds move Come out of the woods If you stay put Where you roosted In that stick stuff My dog won’t point you Read more

Luck

February 13, 2022 | National Championship, Short Stories | Comments

Billy Kane had qualified Wheelman in the last one-hour open all-age run before the National Championship entries closed. He had not expected to. The first qualifying win had come two seasons before, and he had not expected that one either. Won it when the best dog’s brace-mate failed to back and it went with the thief after the birds. But here he was approaching the Ames Plantation, never expecting to be here. But his usual bad luck returned. Read more