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| In Memory Doyle Elmer Atkins Nov. 17, 1927 - June 4, 2007 Mr. Elmer, as we all called him, passed away June 4, 2007 at his home in Jay, Florida. We will miss him dearly. He was a great friend and a great foxhunter. Doyle Elmer Atkins, age 77 of Jay was called home to be with the Lord on Monday June 4, 2007, at home following an extended illness. He was a lifelong resident of Santa Rosa County and a member of Jay First Baptist Church, Jay Chapter #208 Order of the Eastern Star, Jay Masonic Lodge #176, Blackwater Fox Hunters Association, Escambia River Fox Hunters Association, Santa Rosa Fox Hunters Association and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He retired from Gulf Power Company after 38 years receiving the Perfect Safety Record with the "0" accidents Service Safety Award. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather who was loved by family and many, many friends. If someone spoke of Elmer, they were either childhood friends from Munson or part of his large "hunting family." He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Mary Atkins and sister, Vonia Barnes. He is survived by his loving wife of 53 years, Anita Shell Atkins of Jay, FL; daughters, Cynthia (Steve) Simandira of Pensacola and Rebecca (Ronnie) Jernigan of Hickory, NC; son, John Doyle (Lynn) Atkins of Jay; grandchildren, Amista Golden, Laci Golden, Ryan Jernigan, Hannah Jernigan, David (Lauren) Pennell, Adam (Nikki) Pennell, J.D. Atkins and Sydney Atkins; great-grandchildren, Larry Keene and Tristan Pennell; brothers, Atharay (Virginia) Atkins, Monk (Edna Belle) Atkins, I.D. Atkins, Bernie (Dorothy) Atkins and Jerry (Joyce) Atkins; sisters, Ila Mae Coogle, Charlotte (Marlin) Bass and Marian Walker; brother-in-law, Tom Barnes; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. The family wants to extend a very special thank you to Diane, Sue, Cathy, Martha and Brenda. Funeral services will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 7, 2007, at Jay Funeral Home with Eastern Star Services beginning the service. Brother Earle Greene and Brother Will Rushings will be officiating funeral services. Burial will be at Cora Baptist Church Cemetery. A visitation will be held on Wednesday, June 6, 2007, from 6-8 p.m. at Jay Funeral Home. Active pallbearers are: John Paul Barnes, Larry Coogle, Jabo Jernigan, Joe Stuckey, Jerry Jones, Randy Prescott, Willie Bell and Julius Middleton. Honorary pallbearers will be Elmer's breakfast buddies at the "front table." |
The Hunter's Horn
July, 1976
Page Twenty-Six, Twenty-seven
The Origin and History of the American Foxhound
By Dr. Braxton B. Sawyer
Continued
A field trial was arranged in Loudon and Fauquier Counties in Northern Virginia--Smith being headquartered near Upperville, and Higginson
in Middleburg. The two packs were hunted separately on alternate weekdays during the first two weeks of November, 1905. Much excitement
was in the air! Sportsmen from all over the country converged to follow and cheer their favorites. When the mounted judges declared the
American pack the winner, Mr. Higginson was so distressed that he refused to attend the presentation ceremony at Welbourne, the home of the
venerable Col. Richard H. Dulany; Master of the Piedmont Pack which he had founded in 1840.
The effects of this "show down" field trial were tremendous! The "Masters of the Foxhound Association" was organized in 1907. This
Association issued Volume 1 of its English Foxhound Stud Book in 1909.
The American Kennel Club changed its policy of Foxhound registration in 1910. You were promised a stud book definition of the American
Foxhound at the beginning of this paper. The time has come for that here. In 1910, the American Kennel Club adopted a registration policy
which said that all Foxhounds registered by the American Kennel Club up to and including 1910 would be called "American Foxhounds."
Beginning January 1, 1911, the American Kennel Club began registering "English Foxhounds" and "American Foxhounds." Prior to that date,
their registrations had read, "Foxhounds."
The American fox hunters divide themselves largely into two different groups--the "Pack" hunters and the "Field Trial" Hunters. My good
friends Alexander Mackay-Smith, William Brainard, and others who furnish leadership for the "Pack" hunters in the sport of the American
Foxhound will please forgive me for dropping the "Pack" hounds and concentrating on the "Field" hounds. Hopefully, some printer will
publish the book I have in preparation, The Hound America Made, which will be a definitive book detailing every phase of American fox hunting
and the American Foxhound.
Three nation wide periodicals began publication, shortly after the big field trial of 1905, for the purpose of promoting the "Field Trial" type of
The American Foxhound, namely, "The Red Ranger," 1911; "The Chase," 1920; and "The Hunter's Horn," 1921. I have in my library every
copy of every issue of these periodicals, and I have read every page of each one and tabulated the results from year to year and decade to decade.
All three of these journals started a Stud Book at that same time and are all still going strong and maintaining themselves They selected four
of the above mentioned strains of he American Foxhound as eligible for registration in their Stud Books. These four strains were the Walker,
the Trigg, the Goodman and the July.
I became a breeder of the American Foxhound when I was a fifteen year old boy. That was fifty years ago. During this intervening time, I have
tried to learn something about the American Foxhound and make a contribution to his betterment since I love him so. I formed 'Kentucky Lake
Kennels' in 1947 for the sole purpose of improving the individual quality of the American Foxhound.
During 1944, I spent a week with the late Sam L. Wooldridge of Lexington, Kentucky, talking with him day after day and far into the nights.
That experience cannot be evaluated. Later, in 1948, I did the same with the late W. C. Baldwin, Ottawa, Canada. These two visits were
arranged after I became convinced by research and personal observations that these two men had made great contributions to the improvement
of the American Foxhound.
Subsequently to the above mentioned visits, I had similar conferences with Alex Parrish, Shirley McClure, Herb Lamb, Robert Rodes, Dillard
Hill, L. B.Shouse, Roger Stone, Weaver Meggs, Woods Walker, T.C. Wells, D. D. Shaw, Mason Houghland, C. E. Burrage, Percy Flowers, John
Allen and others.
The American Foxhounds coming from the Wooldridge Kennels were known as the Walker hounds with the "Wooldridge Class." Those
coming from the Baldwin Kennels were known as the Walker hounds with the "Baldwin type."
My ambition was to take the best of the "Wooldridge Class" and the best of the "Baldwin Type" and produce American Foxhounds with
"Kentucky Lake Phenotype and Genotype." I spent two years doing very intensive research in these two families of hounds. I was seeking
genotype as well as phenotype, because I knew in breeding animals, it's not "what's up front" that counts, but its "what's behind."
Up until this time, I had practiced breeding the "best" to the "best" and hope for improvement. Sometimes this worked, but more often, it did
not. I, then, became convinced that it was time to practice some scientific breeding.
Having acquired a working knowledge of genetics myself, I had a conference with that great geneticist Dr. L. Butler, head of Ramsay Wright
Zoological Laboratories, University of Toronto. He explained to me some of his experiments with white rats. He started with two rats, brother
and sister, "line bred" them for 200 generations and made improvements in every phase of his experiments. I then learned that he had been
holding seminars for the dog breeders of Canada. Mr. Baldwin's Foxhounds were already registered in the Canadian Kennel Club Stud Books.
Their well-known reputation had been made in winnings in the Canadian Kennel Club Shows. In order to help advise the breeders of Canada,
Dr. Butler had collected genetic data on all the dogs of those who had attended those seminars, and Dr. Butler had a vast supply of informative
data on the genotype of Mr. Baldwin's hounds.
After careful scientific research, I selected a bitch named Beauty Ballot D., whelped 1946, by Sun Dial Bender ex Lou Ballot Huff, bred by W. L.
Huff, Lincoln, Illinois, to be my foundation bitch. Sun Dial Bender was strong in the "Baldwin type," and Lou Ballot Huff was strong in the
"Wooldridge class." This cross had been made three times and Beauty Ballot D. had whelped puppies prior to this; therefore, offering ample
opportunity for a study of the genotype of this family. I bred her to Winnstay Baldwin's Faultless, and in July, 1949, eight puppies were whelped
in Kentucky Lake Kennels from this cross. I shall return later with the results of this mating, but now, I must return to my chronology.
It is my honest opinion that three men and eleven American Foxhounds stand out above the others in contributing more to the present day
excellency of the American Foxhound. The following are my purple ribbon winners:
First, I select Harry Worcester Smith (1865-1945). He was the most colorful figure ever to appear on the American fox hunting stage. He was as
impetuous as Simon Peter--no one ever knew where he would break out next. He created a potential for the American Foxhound that meant so
much to so many others. His contribution was one of promotion and public relations, rather than breeding.
He led the Brunswick Foxhound Club to hold its first show in 1903. He led the National Fox Hunters Association to hold its first show in 1908,
and it was he who challenged A. Henry Higginson to that decisive field trial of 1905 where the pack of American Foxhounds which he had
bought, trained and hunted so dramatically whipped the English Foxhounds in this trial. He was responsible for the revising of the first
American Foxhound "Standard" which he felt included a tendency too much toward the English Foxhound. For example, the "cat foot" was
changed th read, "fox foot". It took the breeders in England fifty more years to learn this.
It was Harry Worcester Smith who organized the "Masters of Foxhounds Association of America." He then loaded his American Foxhounds,
his horses, his saddlery, his hunt servants and his "game roosters to crow" into a boat and headed for Ireland where he spent a year hunting his
American Foxhounds against the strongest packs of English Foxhounds.
All these promotional activities, and more could be mentioned, gave American Foxhound and importance that led to his position of eminence
which he holds today.
Following Harry Worcester Smith and his activities, came magazines, Stud Books and organizations promoting the American Foxhound. To
state it briefly, it is my opinion that Harry Worcester Smith laid the eggs, others hatched them, raised the chickens and ate the dumplings. For
a more complete story on this man, see his unpublished autobiography in the National Sporting Library at Middleburg, Virginia.
The two other men who stand out just a little higher than the others in improving the individuality and quality of the America Foxhound over
the past fifty years are the later Sam L Wooldridge (1879-1945) of Lexington, Kentucky, and the late W.C. Baldwin (1877-1954) of Ottawa,
Canada. I realize there have been hundreds of good breeders and hundreds of good American Foxhounds, but these, to me are the most
outstanding.
The January, 1946, issue of the Chase Magazine is a memorial issue to Sam L. Wooldridge. I was asked to help compile a list of his winning
hounds through the years. This issue carries several pages of his winnings, all listed chronologically from year to year across the span of over
fifty years. No man has ever equaled that record.
W.C. Baldwin did his breeding in Canada. His foxhounds were all registered in the Canadian Kennel Club Stud Book, and were shown in the
Canadian Kennel Club Shows where they did a lion's share of the winnings. No foxhounds in the United States ever successfully challenged
the Wooldridge American Foxhounds until the invasion of the Baldwin Foxhounds around 1945.
Furthermore, it is my honest opinion, based purely on the records, that eleven American Foxhounds stand out during the past fifty years as
doing just a little more to improve their breed than any others:
1. Hub Dawson, whelped 1910, by Sport ex Fan Parrish, bred by Alex Parrish of Richmond, Kentucky, is the foundation sire I find in both the
Wooldridge and Baldwin American Foxhounds. Mr. W.C. Baldwin visited Mr. W.A. Bragdon and Dr. A.C. Heffinger and purchased Baldwin's
Diligent, sired by Hub Dawson. Also, he purchased Baldwin's Bragwin, a grandpup of Hub Dawson. Those who have read the story of how Mr.
Edward Laverack produced his stain of English Setters from Old Moll and Ponto, will find an exact parallel in what Mr. Baldwin did with
Bragwin and Diligent. One Geneticist took an eight-generation pedigree of Winnstay Baldwin's Faultless and concluded he had more of Hub
Dawson's genes that a son of Hub Dawson would have.
2. Big Stride, whelped 1916, by Cable ex Sprite, bred and owned by Sam L. Wooldridge of Lexington, Kentucky. Big Stride was out of a bitch
sired by Alex, a littermate to Hub Dawson. The other half of the pedigree breeds back to the same. Big Stride was Sam L. Wooldridge's
$1,000.00 for any person who could find an American Foxhound in the United States of the "Walker" variety that did not have Big Stride in his
pedigree. No one ever collected the $1,000.00.
To be continued.....
July, 1976
Page Twenty-Six, Twenty-seven
The Origin and History of the American Foxhound
By Dr. Braxton B. Sawyer
Continued
A field trial was arranged in Loudon and Fauquier Counties in Northern Virginia--Smith being headquartered near Upperville, and Higginson
in Middleburg. The two packs were hunted separately on alternate weekdays during the first two weeks of November, 1905. Much excitement
was in the air! Sportsmen from all over the country converged to follow and cheer their favorites. When the mounted judges declared the
American pack the winner, Mr. Higginson was so distressed that he refused to attend the presentation ceremony at Welbourne, the home of the
venerable Col. Richard H. Dulany; Master of the Piedmont Pack which he had founded in 1840.
The effects of this "show down" field trial were tremendous! The "Masters of the Foxhound Association" was organized in 1907. This
Association issued Volume 1 of its English Foxhound Stud Book in 1909.
The American Kennel Club changed its policy of Foxhound registration in 1910. You were promised a stud book definition of the American
Foxhound at the beginning of this paper. The time has come for that here. In 1910, the American Kennel Club adopted a registration policy
which said that all Foxhounds registered by the American Kennel Club up to and including 1910 would be called "American Foxhounds."
Beginning January 1, 1911, the American Kennel Club began registering "English Foxhounds" and "American Foxhounds." Prior to that date,
their registrations had read, "Foxhounds."
The American fox hunters divide themselves largely into two different groups--the "Pack" hunters and the "Field Trial" Hunters. My good
friends Alexander Mackay-Smith, William Brainard, and others who furnish leadership for the "Pack" hunters in the sport of the American
Foxhound will please forgive me for dropping the "Pack" hounds and concentrating on the "Field" hounds. Hopefully, some printer will
publish the book I have in preparation, The Hound America Made, which will be a definitive book detailing every phase of American fox hunting
and the American Foxhound.
Three nation wide periodicals began publication, shortly after the big field trial of 1905, for the purpose of promoting the "Field Trial" type of
The American Foxhound, namely, "The Red Ranger," 1911; "The Chase," 1920; and "The Hunter's Horn," 1921. I have in my library every
copy of every issue of these periodicals, and I have read every page of each one and tabulated the results from year to year and decade to decade.
All three of these journals started a Stud Book at that same time and are all still going strong and maintaining themselves They selected four
of the above mentioned strains of he American Foxhound as eligible for registration in their Stud Books. These four strains were the Walker,
the Trigg, the Goodman and the July.
I became a breeder of the American Foxhound when I was a fifteen year old boy. That was fifty years ago. During this intervening time, I have
tried to learn something about the American Foxhound and make a contribution to his betterment since I love him so. I formed 'Kentucky Lake
Kennels' in 1947 for the sole purpose of improving the individual quality of the American Foxhound.
During 1944, I spent a week with the late Sam L. Wooldridge of Lexington, Kentucky, talking with him day after day and far into the nights.
That experience cannot be evaluated. Later, in 1948, I did the same with the late W. C. Baldwin, Ottawa, Canada. These two visits were
arranged after I became convinced by research and personal observations that these two men had made great contributions to the improvement
of the American Foxhound.
Subsequently to the above mentioned visits, I had similar conferences with Alex Parrish, Shirley McClure, Herb Lamb, Robert Rodes, Dillard
Hill, L. B.Shouse, Roger Stone, Weaver Meggs, Woods Walker, T.C. Wells, D. D. Shaw, Mason Houghland, C. E. Burrage, Percy Flowers, John
Allen and others.
The American Foxhounds coming from the Wooldridge Kennels were known as the Walker hounds with the "Wooldridge Class." Those
coming from the Baldwin Kennels were known as the Walker hounds with the "Baldwin type."
My ambition was to take the best of the "Wooldridge Class" and the best of the "Baldwin Type" and produce American Foxhounds with
"Kentucky Lake Phenotype and Genotype." I spent two years doing very intensive research in these two families of hounds. I was seeking
genotype as well as phenotype, because I knew in breeding animals, it's not "what's up front" that counts, but its "what's behind."
Up until this time, I had practiced breeding the "best" to the "best" and hope for improvement. Sometimes this worked, but more often, it did
not. I, then, became convinced that it was time to practice some scientific breeding.
Having acquired a working knowledge of genetics myself, I had a conference with that great geneticist Dr. L. Butler, head of Ramsay Wright
Zoological Laboratories, University of Toronto. He explained to me some of his experiments with white rats. He started with two rats, brother
and sister, "line bred" them for 200 generations and made improvements in every phase of his experiments. I then learned that he had been
holding seminars for the dog breeders of Canada. Mr. Baldwin's Foxhounds were already registered in the Canadian Kennel Club Stud Books.
Their well-known reputation had been made in winnings in the Canadian Kennel Club Shows. In order to help advise the breeders of Canada,
Dr. Butler had collected genetic data on all the dogs of those who had attended those seminars, and Dr. Butler had a vast supply of informative
data on the genotype of Mr. Baldwin's hounds.
After careful scientific research, I selected a bitch named Beauty Ballot D., whelped 1946, by Sun Dial Bender ex Lou Ballot Huff, bred by W. L.
Huff, Lincoln, Illinois, to be my foundation bitch. Sun Dial Bender was strong in the "Baldwin type," and Lou Ballot Huff was strong in the
"Wooldridge class." This cross had been made three times and Beauty Ballot D. had whelped puppies prior to this; therefore, offering ample
opportunity for a study of the genotype of this family. I bred her to Winnstay Baldwin's Faultless, and in July, 1949, eight puppies were whelped
in Kentucky Lake Kennels from this cross. I shall return later with the results of this mating, but now, I must return to my chronology.
It is my honest opinion that three men and eleven American Foxhounds stand out above the others in contributing more to the present day
excellency of the American Foxhound. The following are my purple ribbon winners:
First, I select Harry Worcester Smith (1865-1945). He was the most colorful figure ever to appear on the American fox hunting stage. He was as
impetuous as Simon Peter--no one ever knew where he would break out next. He created a potential for the American Foxhound that meant so
much to so many others. His contribution was one of promotion and public relations, rather than breeding.
He led the Brunswick Foxhound Club to hold its first show in 1903. He led the National Fox Hunters Association to hold its first show in 1908,
and it was he who challenged A. Henry Higginson to that decisive field trial of 1905 where the pack of American Foxhounds which he had
bought, trained and hunted so dramatically whipped the English Foxhounds in this trial. He was responsible for the revising of the first
American Foxhound "Standard" which he felt included a tendency too much toward the English Foxhound. For example, the "cat foot" was
changed th read, "fox foot". It took the breeders in England fifty more years to learn this.
It was Harry Worcester Smith who organized the "Masters of Foxhounds Association of America." He then loaded his American Foxhounds,
his horses, his saddlery, his hunt servants and his "game roosters to crow" into a boat and headed for Ireland where he spent a year hunting his
American Foxhounds against the strongest packs of English Foxhounds.
All these promotional activities, and more could be mentioned, gave American Foxhound and importance that led to his position of eminence
which he holds today.
Following Harry Worcester Smith and his activities, came magazines, Stud Books and organizations promoting the American Foxhound. To
state it briefly, it is my opinion that Harry Worcester Smith laid the eggs, others hatched them, raised the chickens and ate the dumplings. For
a more complete story on this man, see his unpublished autobiography in the National Sporting Library at Middleburg, Virginia.
The two other men who stand out just a little higher than the others in improving the individuality and quality of the America Foxhound over
the past fifty years are the later Sam L Wooldridge (1879-1945) of Lexington, Kentucky, and the late W.C. Baldwin (1877-1954) of Ottawa,
Canada. I realize there have been hundreds of good breeders and hundreds of good American Foxhounds, but these, to me are the most
outstanding.
The January, 1946, issue of the Chase Magazine is a memorial issue to Sam L. Wooldridge. I was asked to help compile a list of his winning
hounds through the years. This issue carries several pages of his winnings, all listed chronologically from year to year across the span of over
fifty years. No man has ever equaled that record.
W.C. Baldwin did his breeding in Canada. His foxhounds were all registered in the Canadian Kennel Club Stud Book, and were shown in the
Canadian Kennel Club Shows where they did a lion's share of the winnings. No foxhounds in the United States ever successfully challenged
the Wooldridge American Foxhounds until the invasion of the Baldwin Foxhounds around 1945.
Furthermore, it is my honest opinion, based purely on the records, that eleven American Foxhounds stand out during the past fifty years as
doing just a little more to improve their breed than any others:
1. Hub Dawson, whelped 1910, by Sport ex Fan Parrish, bred by Alex Parrish of Richmond, Kentucky, is the foundation sire I find in both the
Wooldridge and Baldwin American Foxhounds. Mr. W.C. Baldwin visited Mr. W.A. Bragdon and Dr. A.C. Heffinger and purchased Baldwin's
Diligent, sired by Hub Dawson. Also, he purchased Baldwin's Bragwin, a grandpup of Hub Dawson. Those who have read the story of how Mr.
Edward Laverack produced his stain of English Setters from Old Moll and Ponto, will find an exact parallel in what Mr. Baldwin did with
Bragwin and Diligent. One Geneticist took an eight-generation pedigree of Winnstay Baldwin's Faultless and concluded he had more of Hub
Dawson's genes that a son of Hub Dawson would have.
2. Big Stride, whelped 1916, by Cable ex Sprite, bred and owned by Sam L. Wooldridge of Lexington, Kentucky. Big Stride was out of a bitch
sired by Alex, a littermate to Hub Dawson. The other half of the pedigree breeds back to the same. Big Stride was Sam L. Wooldridge's
$1,000.00 for any person who could find an American Foxhound in the United States of the "Walker" variety that did not have Big Stride in his
pedigree. No one ever collected the $1,000.00.
To be continued.....
The Hunter's Horn
March, 1970
(click on picture to enlarge)
On the front cover of the March, 1970 Hunter's Horn is "The Cleghorns of Woodstock, Georgia".
On Page Ten it states "A fox hunting family from Georgia graces this month's front cover--the Bobby Cleghorns of Woodstock. Besides
Bobby and Mrs. Cleghorn (Sarah), are shown their children, left to right, David 9, Tom 2, Jeff 7 and Kim 11.
Part of his pack are shown in the picture, too, as follows, left to right, Jill (Sonny Boy Hester ex Vicki Roper); Tim (Big Tim Liquor ex Hi
Tenor Bell V.); Lady Bird (USO Ch Haw River Joe ex White Gal Meggs); Hoss (unknown); Knockahomer (Cleghorn's Rough ex Lady Bird
C.); Big Dandy (Big Daddy (Big Daddy C. ex Cleghorn's Jane) and Eve (Dock Branton II ex Bell Caudell).
The hounds shown in front are only part of the Cleghorn pack. Wicky (Cleghorn's Rough ex Little River Jill) and Candy (Red Man P. ex
River Jill) and Candy (Red Man P. ex Dixie Caudell) were out in the woods at the time and twenty-one pups are in the background: three by
Georgia Tim Liquor ex Lady Bird C., four by Brave's Lemon T. ex Cleghorn's Jane, five July pups by July FCh Morgan's Long ex Bell
Caudell and another July puppy by the same sire out of Lady Poole, then there are two by Lingburg ex Rosie Gail Poole, five by Big Daddy C.
ex Little River Jill and one by Gooch Arkansas Rambler ex Sadie Joe Bryant.
Bobby, who has both Julys and Walkers, all running hounds and no show stock, comes from a family of hunters. His father, R. J. Cleghorn of
Commerce, keeps a big pack and his brother Bill of Holly Springs also has several. Woodstock is in a hunting area. Some of Bobby's
hunting companions are Robert Dean, Charlie Robinson, R. L. Taylor, John Smith, Ed Wilson, J. W. Waller, Ed and Dewey Hollowy and H. D.
and Bobby Bryant, usually going one to three times a week. Their usual hunting ground is on pulpwood company owned land, so there are
few fences and paved roads. Bobby says there are deer on the outskirts of this land but so far they have not had any trouble with them.
Mr. Cleghorn is secretary of the North Georgia Association and usually gets around to the Georgia State, the BarGo and other hunts in the
area. He has been employed in the Personnel Department of General Motors at Doranville for the last eight years and with the company for
fifteen years.
March, 1970
(click on picture to enlarge)
On the front cover of the March, 1970 Hunter's Horn is "The Cleghorns of Woodstock, Georgia".
On Page Ten it states "A fox hunting family from Georgia graces this month's front cover--the Bobby Cleghorns of Woodstock. Besides
Bobby and Mrs. Cleghorn (Sarah), are shown their children, left to right, David 9, Tom 2, Jeff 7 and Kim 11.
Part of his pack are shown in the picture, too, as follows, left to right, Jill (Sonny Boy Hester ex Vicki Roper); Tim (Big Tim Liquor ex Hi
Tenor Bell V.); Lady Bird (USO Ch Haw River Joe ex White Gal Meggs); Hoss (unknown); Knockahomer (Cleghorn's Rough ex Lady Bird
C.); Big Dandy (Big Daddy (Big Daddy C. ex Cleghorn's Jane) and Eve (Dock Branton II ex Bell Caudell).
The hounds shown in front are only part of the Cleghorn pack. Wicky (Cleghorn's Rough ex Little River Jill) and Candy (Red Man P. ex
River Jill) and Candy (Red Man P. ex Dixie Caudell) were out in the woods at the time and twenty-one pups are in the background: three by
Georgia Tim Liquor ex Lady Bird C., four by Brave's Lemon T. ex Cleghorn's Jane, five July pups by July FCh Morgan's Long ex Bell
Caudell and another July puppy by the same sire out of Lady Poole, then there are two by Lingburg ex Rosie Gail Poole, five by Big Daddy C.
ex Little River Jill and one by Gooch Arkansas Rambler ex Sadie Joe Bryant.
Bobby, who has both Julys and Walkers, all running hounds and no show stock, comes from a family of hunters. His father, R. J. Cleghorn of
Commerce, keeps a big pack and his brother Bill of Holly Springs also has several. Woodstock is in a hunting area. Some of Bobby's
hunting companions are Robert Dean, Charlie Robinson, R. L. Taylor, John Smith, Ed Wilson, J. W. Waller, Ed and Dewey Hollowy and H. D.
and Bobby Bryant, usually going one to three times a week. Their usual hunting ground is on pulpwood company owned land, so there are
few fences and paved roads. Bobby says there are deer on the outskirts of this land but so far they have not had any trouble with them.
Mr. Cleghorn is secretary of the North Georgia Association and usually gets around to the Georgia State, the BarGo and other hunts in the
area. He has been employed in the Personnel Department of General Motors at Doranville for the last eight years and with the company for
fifteen years.
We can print your entry sheets with your kennel name and address on them, (up to four lines) or your association name. Write out your hounds names at home and take your sheet with you to the hunts. 150 double sheets $100.00 plus shipping 500 double sheets $185.00 plus shipping Call Karen or Rose 251-947-5540 or 251-942-1622 |
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SCORING HUNTING, TRAILING, SPEED & DRIVING
(continued from last issue)
TRAILING
The trailing class is an important class at any field trial. It is also a class that has been abused a lot in the past. Nothing is better than a
good trailing hound. As we said in the hunting class a fox must be found before you can trail it. Here we have many different types of
hounds.
First, the hound that will take a track a day old, nose the track inch by inch while tonguing it every inch of the way-so independent in his
own right that he will not let loose. In plain words, a piddler-a hound that could never get on the fox. We feel that in a case of this kind the
judge should ride off and leave the hound or we could say was interfering with the other hounds and recommend the hound be scratched.
Have only known this to be done in a very few instances, but is possible to do so.
Another trailing hound you have is the hound that will work the cold track a while, then leave it, but come back to the same track, work it
both ways and still get nowhere. There is not a lack of interference from this type as he has left the track long enough for other hounds to
hunt on out of hearing. If this hound is scored at all it should be in the low bracket. The trailing hound that will tongue a cold track where
he smells it, has the judgment to scout on and try to find it better and does get better all the time is a hound that is progressing on track and
should be scored accordingly.
There is the trailing hound that will work a track hard and say nothing until it is about a running track. As a judge would not know, if the
hound was alone how cold the track might be, he could do nothing until the hound opened on trail. Being this type of trailing hound and
producing a running fox he would have no choice but to give the hound the top of thirty points in trailing. On the other hand, if there had
been several hounds working the track all along, tonguing it and they were there at the jump, they would be classed as better trailing
hounds than the hound that had only opened when the fox was about to run. A judge would then possibly recommend about twenty points for
the same hound in this group. This is, of course, left to the good judgment of the field judges. Again, as in the hunting class, the better ones
should be kept above the ordinary. We cannot see any group of 5 to 20 hounds all being equal in any category.
SPEED AND DRIVING
There is always much stress put on the Speed and Drive at Field Trials. In fact, the way the new rules were adopted, Speed and Driving is
the predominating class of the four field classes.
It is a known fact that every foxhunter wants a hound that can run on the front. It is also a known fact that the Speed and Driving hound is
the least observed hound at any field trail. The simple reason is that no judge can stay with a pack of hounds that are running hard for any
length of time. His only observation is the time he gets to the pack in full cry. It can be in crossing a road or merely crossing a stock path.
All he can do is note the hound that is 1,2,3,4, so on as he sees them. There is no way for a judge to tell how long a given hound has had the
track or how long he can hold it. This is the only automatic scoring class in the field. Any foxhunter that has hunted any length of time
knows how the front hounds can change position in yards or in seconds when driving a fox. But-all a field judge can do is make his report in
the judges’ room as he has noted the numbers and position. With the rules the way they are now it is even more particular that judges get to
the running hounds as no hound may have an endurance score unless he or she has scored in Speed and Driving.
Cannot help but bring in the different kind of speed hounds observed through the years. There are many hounds that can and will run a fox
with lots of steps and can hold the line with plenty of mouth. There are the speed hounds that can run a fox to death as long as the fox does
not make a turn or double. When this happens a lot of time some other hound must come up to straighten it out again. Then the speed
demon will again take over.
We have seen the speed hound that would and could beat the life out of a pack of hounds as long as he or she could hold the track, but let
some other hound or hounds come up and smother him and that was it. He would quit cold.
Possibly the first thing a field trial judge should try to do is to get where the running is. One certainty is that many hounds have been
scored on a running trial that was definitely not Speed and Driving. This does not always happen, but it does happen part of the time.
You will hear some field trial men that are good hunters say that for several years the Speed and Drive class has won more field trials. In
our checking of some 60 reports per year we have found that the Hunting and Trailing hound with the old rule of 1/3 of the 2 classes
combined for Endurance have been the predominating winners.
FAULTS
A bad faulty hound can cause a lot of confusion at any field trail. We know this is a touchy subject.
The rules are a little conflicting on the faults of a hound. In one place we have “any hound should be scratched for any fault unbecoming a
champion.”
If he is babbling to the extent of interfering with the chase he should be scratched. This we feel sure would meet the approval of all hunters
everywhere.
Then we say “a hound may give a few eager barks at a fence or stream.” This is not plain. We take it to mean so long as he does not
interfere with other hounds working it would be all right.
Then we say again “A hound may run 30 feet down wind from the track while tonguing it.”
We feel the faults of a hound should be left to the judgment of the field judges. That the judges should give any hound the benefit of the
doubt before he recommends a scratch. If a judge should make an error in scoring a hound that hound is still in the running. Should he
make an error in scratching a hound, that hound is definitely out of the running. We feel a judge should be sure before he recommends a
hound scratched. If there is some doubt, the hound should have the benefit of that doubt. When a judge is positive he should not hesitate to
recommend the hound be scratched for any faults unbecoming a champion. It is always better to be right than sorry.
(From August & September 1962 Chase)
(continued from last issue)
TRAILING
The trailing class is an important class at any field trial. It is also a class that has been abused a lot in the past. Nothing is better than a
good trailing hound. As we said in the hunting class a fox must be found before you can trail it. Here we have many different types of
hounds.
First, the hound that will take a track a day old, nose the track inch by inch while tonguing it every inch of the way-so independent in his
own right that he will not let loose. In plain words, a piddler-a hound that could never get on the fox. We feel that in a case of this kind the
judge should ride off and leave the hound or we could say was interfering with the other hounds and recommend the hound be scratched.
Have only known this to be done in a very few instances, but is possible to do so.
Another trailing hound you have is the hound that will work the cold track a while, then leave it, but come back to the same track, work it
both ways and still get nowhere. There is not a lack of interference from this type as he has left the track long enough for other hounds to
hunt on out of hearing. If this hound is scored at all it should be in the low bracket. The trailing hound that will tongue a cold track where
he smells it, has the judgment to scout on and try to find it better and does get better all the time is a hound that is progressing on track and
should be scored accordingly.
There is the trailing hound that will work a track hard and say nothing until it is about a running track. As a judge would not know, if the
hound was alone how cold the track might be, he could do nothing until the hound opened on trail. Being this type of trailing hound and
producing a running fox he would have no choice but to give the hound the top of thirty points in trailing. On the other hand, if there had
been several hounds working the track all along, tonguing it and they were there at the jump, they would be classed as better trailing
hounds than the hound that had only opened when the fox was about to run. A judge would then possibly recommend about twenty points for
the same hound in this group. This is, of course, left to the good judgment of the field judges. Again, as in the hunting class, the better ones
should be kept above the ordinary. We cannot see any group of 5 to 20 hounds all being equal in any category.
SPEED AND DRIVING
There is always much stress put on the Speed and Drive at Field Trials. In fact, the way the new rules were adopted, Speed and Driving is
the predominating class of the four field classes.
It is a known fact that every foxhunter wants a hound that can run on the front. It is also a known fact that the Speed and Driving hound is
the least observed hound at any field trail. The simple reason is that no judge can stay with a pack of hounds that are running hard for any
length of time. His only observation is the time he gets to the pack in full cry. It can be in crossing a road or merely crossing a stock path.
All he can do is note the hound that is 1,2,3,4, so on as he sees them. There is no way for a judge to tell how long a given hound has had the
track or how long he can hold it. This is the only automatic scoring class in the field. Any foxhunter that has hunted any length of time
knows how the front hounds can change position in yards or in seconds when driving a fox. But-all a field judge can do is make his report in
the judges’ room as he has noted the numbers and position. With the rules the way they are now it is even more particular that judges get to
the running hounds as no hound may have an endurance score unless he or she has scored in Speed and Driving.
Cannot help but bring in the different kind of speed hounds observed through the years. There are many hounds that can and will run a fox
with lots of steps and can hold the line with plenty of mouth. There are the speed hounds that can run a fox to death as long as the fox does
not make a turn or double. When this happens a lot of time some other hound must come up to straighten it out again. Then the speed
demon will again take over.
We have seen the speed hound that would and could beat the life out of a pack of hounds as long as he or she could hold the track, but let
some other hound or hounds come up and smother him and that was it. He would quit cold.
Possibly the first thing a field trial judge should try to do is to get where the running is. One certainty is that many hounds have been
scored on a running trial that was definitely not Speed and Driving. This does not always happen, but it does happen part of the time.
You will hear some field trial men that are good hunters say that for several years the Speed and Drive class has won more field trials. In
our checking of some 60 reports per year we have found that the Hunting and Trailing hound with the old rule of 1/3 of the 2 classes
combined for Endurance have been the predominating winners.
FAULTS
A bad faulty hound can cause a lot of confusion at any field trail. We know this is a touchy subject.
The rules are a little conflicting on the faults of a hound. In one place we have “any hound should be scratched for any fault unbecoming a
champion.”
If he is babbling to the extent of interfering with the chase he should be scratched. This we feel sure would meet the approval of all hunters
everywhere.
Then we say “a hound may give a few eager barks at a fence or stream.” This is not plain. We take it to mean so long as he does not
interfere with other hounds working it would be all right.
Then we say again “A hound may run 30 feet down wind from the track while tonguing it.”
We feel the faults of a hound should be left to the judgment of the field judges. That the judges should give any hound the benefit of the
doubt before he recommends a scratch. If a judge should make an error in scoring a hound that hound is still in the running. Should he
make an error in scratching a hound, that hound is definitely out of the running. We feel a judge should be sure before he recommends a
hound scratched. If there is some doubt, the hound should have the benefit of that doubt. When a judge is positive he should not hesitate to
recommend the hound be scratched for any faults unbecoming a champion. It is always better to be right than sorry.
(From August & September 1962 Chase)
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Here are a few pictures we have taken at Holt Fox Pen!!
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These two don't look like they like each
other very well!!!!
We think this is a beaver.... what we DO NOT WANT
Beautiful... beautiful!!!!
Another Beautiful one!!!!!
He was hungry!!!!
My what big eyes you have!!!!!
Look at the size of this squirrel
Thank you for reading my newsletter!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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These two don't look like they like each
other very well!!!!
We think this is a beaver.... what we DO NOT WANT
Beautiful... beautiful!!!!
Another Beautiful one!!!!!
He was hungry!!!!
My what big eyes you have!!!!!
Look at the size of this squirrel
Thank you for reading my newsletter!!!!!!!!!!!!!
