Photos from the 2022 Florida Championship
Photos from the 2022 Florida Championship If you’re interested in purchasing any of these copyrighted photographs as prints or digital files, please email 
Photos from the 2022 Florida Championship If you’re interested in purchasing any of these copyrighted photographs as prints or digital files, please email
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…
I have always been most involved with the Major Circuit All-Age category of the bird dog sport. My thrill is the “aspirin tablet” on the horizon or the “dinger” after an eighteen-minute absence. That is…
The National, Florida, Continental, Quail Invitational and Manitoba Championships are all updated to 2019! Championship Timelines
Photos from the 2019 US Chicken Championship & Derby
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…
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…
Mansion on the Hill: Do All-Age trials and dogs still matter? Thanks to acclaimed outdoor writer and Editor-at-Large for Pointing Dog Journal, Tom Davis for writing this 2-part story at my suggestion 🙂 about All-Age…
A collection of photos taken during the last three days of the 2014 Florida Open All-Age Championship, the first day of the 2014 Continental Derby and of Dixie Plantation can be found here: Chris Mathan…
Thanks to Tom Word who encouraged me to come down to Florida. I got to see some wonderful performances on the stellar grounds of E. L.“Ted” Baker’s Chinquapin Farm. Happily Ted had the pleasure of…