Tag: Pinewoods Bird Dog Club

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 […]

2026 John Abbott Youth Field Trial held on March 15th and hosted by the Pinewoods Bird Dog Club was again a great success. Like the Masters Youth Trial held the previous day, the first brace broke away at 8:00 am in order to get as many dogs run before the forecasted afternoon heat set in. The trial, run on the beautiful Pinion Point Plantation outside of Quitman, GA, drew 11 braces, with 14 different youth […]

Horseback stake (Dixie Trace Youth Handler Points Trial) and Single Course Walking stake (NBHA Youth Award) are for handlers 16 years old and younger. Judged on Gun Dog Standards. 20 minute braces. Walking stake begins 8:00 am. Judges: To be announced Horseback stake begins 10:00. Judges: Michael Coates, Monticello, FL and Houston Thomas, Monticello, FL Handlers are welcome to enter both Walking and Horseback stakes! Reporter: To be announced, Course Director: Jeff Arnold Entry fee: […]

• Supporting Youth Field Trials YFTA helps field trial clubs hosting youth events financially (cash donations, purchasing ribbons, trophies and other prizes; providing judges’ gifts, lunches and snacks; paying entry fees), through promotion (our Events and News pages, on location photography), as well as in our attendance helping, judging and reporting. This past season the following field trial clubs have received assistance from YFTA: • Newly established field trial club, Pinewoods Bird Dog Club in […]

Sunday, March 10, 2024 Old Meridian Plantation, Tallahassee, FL Once again this wonderful youth trial was blessed with perfect weather and another large gallery of enthusiastic supporters. Entrees included handlers who have run dogs here on Old Meridian Plantation (formerly Hales Place) since the trial’s inception in 2018 as well as several first time handlers. Youth field trials are really lighting up in north Florida and Southwest Georgia…due to the efforts of local field trial […]

Dixie Trace Field Trial Association’s newest member, Pinewoods Bird Dog Club, held their inaugural running of the Nancy Pearce Youth Field Trial on November 11, 2023 at the beautiful Pinewoods Plantation Jeff Arnold in Monticello, Florida.  7 dogs were entered to run with their youth handlers that Saturday morning. It was a bit unseasonably warm when we turned the first dogs loose, but birds were in abundance which made for an exciting morning for the […]