Category: Announcements

YFTA presents a Horse Auction to be held at the Pinewoods Bird Dog Club meeting in October. Youth handlers are welcome to come to the meeting and bid on their favorite horses! Exact date and time to be announce. All proceeds will be donated to the Pinewoods Bird Dog Club, whose first youth trial, the Nancy Pearce Memorial YTF is held in November. The public is also welcome to bid on horses prior to the […]

• There is no official or national organization that sanctions and oversees youth field trials. Clubs hosting youth stakes or trials are not required to adhere to any particular set of rules. Regional organizations (i.e. Alabama Youth Field Trial Assoc.) have come up with rules that dictate how their youth trials are run based on years of experience. • Alabama clubs, largely due to the efforts of Darron Hendley have been hosting youth field trials […]

2025/26 Youth Field Trial Schedule of Events  • Aug 31: Youth Stake, Joseph A. Lordi Labor Day Memorial FT, English Setter Club of America, Medford, NJ (completed)  • Sept 14: Youth Stake, Jockey Hollow FTC Trial, Greenwood WMA, Lacey Township, NJ (completed)   • Sept 20: CT Youth Field Trial & Hunting Dog Org, Markover Kennels, Danielson, CT (completed)   • Oct 12: Youth Stake, Duplin County FTC Trial, Hunter’s Creek Farm, Faison, NC • […]

Good luck to all the youth handlers competing this fall and next spring!!! Thanks to all the clubs and members for their commitment to Youth Field Trials. Let the fun begin!!!

Thanks to Tierra Hadley for her generous financial contribution to YFTA from her sale of pointer decals! Tierra has agreed to be an Ambassador for youth field trials in AFTCA Region 8. She and her husband Scott and their daughter Kiowa will be moving from Colorado to Oklahoma this summer. Good luck to them in their new location. We thank them tremendously for their support of youth field trials!

Congrats to the newly established Pinewoods Bird Dog Club near Monticello, FL. The new club was voted on to become part of the Dixie Trace Field Trial Association at their annual meeting this month.  Jeffery Arnold, manager at Pinewoods — a big supporters of youth field trials — is planning to host 2 Dixie Trace FTA Points Youth Trials on Pinewoods Plantation, one this November and one March, 2024. Stay tuned for the details!

Thanks to our friend famed outdoor writer Tom Davis for his wonderful plug of YFTA in the May/June issue of Sporting Classics!!!

YFTA regrets to announce that an alternate date for the 1st Annual Round Pond Youth Classic could not be found. The needed club members to put on the event are not be available during February’s busy field trial schedule and the club does not want to conflict with other regional youth field trials in March.  Thanks to all the junior handlers who entered…everyone was excited about the great entry. The date for the 1st Annual […]

First and foremost, we would like to thank everyone who has supported YFTA over the past several years. Your engagement has helped increase awareness and build interest around youth field trials and their benefits, both to the kids involved and our field trial sport overall. Inspired by an insurgence of interest by pointing dog field trialers as well as youth trial enthusiasts, our momentum resulted in YFTA becoming a non-profit corporation. In November 2022, YFTA […]

Youth Field Trial Alliance presents two great Fundraising Raffles thanks to our new supporter, US Amateur All-Age Derby Invitational and our long-time supporter Patty’s Custom Leather and Canvas Both are fantastic opportunities…limited ticket sales so your odds are great! Raffle 1: “Roosting Covey” Exquisite limited edition giclée print by artist Leah Brigham donated by our newest supporter U.S. Amateur All Age Derby Invitational. Signed (unframed) print is 28” x 22”, number 12/100. Maximum number of tickets to […]