Texas Fight by John Donaldson Texas Fight was whelped January 11, 1970 in a litter bred by J. C. Meek of Holdenville, Oklahoma. His sire, The Texas Squire, was the 1972 National Champion and 1971… 
My good friend Rick Furney once remarked that, at a field trial, there are three trials going on simultaneously — the one the handler sees, the one the judges see, and the one the gallery…
The 1963/64 field trial season was a watershed period in the history of the sport of bird dog field trials. This was the first season of competition for the Purina-sponsored Top Field Trial Bird Dog…
Beginning with the 2006 edition of the Florida Championship, the format for the trial was changed to a 40 minute qualifying series with a one-hour callback. The format was adopted to accommodate, within a one-week…
During the 2010 running of the National Championship at Grand Junction, a group of us gathered at T. Jack Robinson’s Soggy Bottom Plantation in Northeast Mississippi near Rienzi. We were there to prepare Chinquapin Andy,…
Thanks to esteemed judge of major all-age stakes, John Russell for sitting down with me at the Florida Open All-Age Championship and so beautifully articulating his definition of the all-age dog. John is an devotee…
