Archive: Mazie Davis

The Canadian Prairies — The Reason

A seasoned trainer/handler of all-age dogs who has been most successful north and south of the Canadian border wrote the following to a younger fellow who had acquired a young dog that was proving to…

Tribute from the Prairies

The earliest this scribe knows of dog trainers coming to the rural Manitoba Municipality of Albert was 1933….Clyde Martin, Bert Black and Ivan Yopp. This is not to say there weren’t others who came earlier.…

Successful Field Trial Women: They Can Handle It

Several years ago, Field Trial Review, the newspaper published each February by MidSouth Horse Review for the National Championship, did a story about four women who participated in American Field/AFTCA sanctioned field trials. They were…

Interview with Mazie Davis on Scouting

Mazie and Rooster. Scouting for Colvin in the 2010 Manitoba Championship. Mazie Davis began scouting for her husband, Colvin in the early 1980s when he made his return to field trial competition. He had spent…

The Broomhill Trials ~ A Tribute to Giving

The first running of the Manitoba Championship was in 1902 with Senator P winning, handled and owned by J. W. Flynn. The Manitoba was held until 1941 with a total of 34 runnings during those…

A Tribute to Sherry Ray Ebert

Early in 1973, I attended my first field trial in a scouting capacity for my husband Colvin Davis who was, at the time, competing with shooting dogs. And I met Sherry there for the first…

The Promise

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding. NICHOLAS BLACK ELK, The Sacred Pipe The thrill that goes through you when you see him gliding across the prairies…