Tom’s Labor Day weekend with Jim Heckert near Choteau Montana. Read more
Montana 2019!
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Photos from the 2018 Florida Open All-Age Championship
Random photos taken on Ted Baker’s beautiful Chinquapin Farms, home grounds of the Florida Open All-Age Championship! Read more
2018 Florida Open All-Age Championship ~ Winners
CH: Lester’s Georgia Time, Robin Gates, handler, Tony Reynolds, scout. R-U: Chinquapin Legacy, Slade Sikes, handler, Ray Warren, scout. Congrats also to owners Baker Hubbard & Jim Clark and Ted Baker! Read more
2018 Florida Open All-Age Championship
Tom will be reporting the Florida Open All-Age Championship held on Ted Baker’s beautiful Chinquapin Farm near Lake City, Florida starting Sunday, January 7, 2018 to conclusion. Read more
Memories of the Invitational
Tomorrow begins the Quail Championship Invitational, the three-day contest for the twelve top all-age pointing dogs measured by their Purina points collected over the preceding twelve months. It’s unique format — races of an hour, an hour, then two hours, all judged as one performance — measures the consistency of contestants and reduces the luck of the draw. The trial celebrates the true all-age contender, a dog with range, drive, Read more
The People We Meet
What shapes our lives? To a remarkable degree, it’s people we meet, largely by coincidence, not by anyone’s plan. Reflect on that. Think back on the people who came into your life purely by coincidence, and how they changed your life, for better or worse. Which changed you most? I’ll tell you of one from my life, now seven decades long. I met him in the late 1980s, on a Read more
Welcome to Tom Word’s Website!
Welcome to my new website! Visit often for new short stories about the world of bird dogs and field trials and check out the Books page to learn more about my books and where they are available. Read more