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I have the privilege  to announce a new section for the RHB web site. I’m  fortunate  to call as my friend one of beagling’s top studies of the AKC rules and guidelines. In Addition he may very well be the top study in our nation when it comes to the history of the beagle in the United States.  Ken Murray has agreed to write a Q and A column dealing with the two subjects. Please send me any questions for Ken to Answer.

Check out these two Star females fresh out of the Starting pen (the other video's are not mine)

Note: Recently added a Mules and Horses for Sale page and still have some Beagles for Sale. We will have additional puppies for sale around July 1st.

Scott's Daughter Ashlyn with some of Star's Pups

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	February 2004

Along about 1989-1990 I decided I wanted to start rabbit hunting. I was 17-18 eighteen years old and didn't know any rabbit hunters, but I knew I needed a good pair of beagles. I called the AKC and shortly received a small red book: "Beagle field trial rules and procedures."  I read that book many times over the next several days. Now along about that time, I found out about beagle clubs. It turns out there was a big one (Foothill's Beagle Club) within a few miles of my house. When I visited Foothill's, a gentleman told me about another beagle club just forming a few miles on the other side of my house. This club turned out to be Tokeena Beagle Club.

I found out Tokeena is a group of men who were interested in starting a club to hold AKC field trials. I visited the gang assembled around an old house at the prescribed meeting time. I found them all very friendly and welcoming. As luck would have it, they were getting ready to have there first fun trial the very next weekend. In the discussion, it came out that I knew the rules for a field trial (remember the little red book). Somehow, I got volunteered to judge the very first field trial I ever attended! I have to say, it worked out well, as all I had to go by was the AKC rule book and judging standard. The trial went just fine and the next week I got a call. It's someone from the Tuckasegee Beagle club in North Carolina. They wanted me to come up and judge a field trial at their club. Well the rest is, as they say, history. I've judged over a hundred lic trials over the years and the National Championships twice. It is a great feeling to see a young dog at a trial do really well, maybe even win, and then hear a few months later the dog finished or is nearly finished. I've had the opportunity to watch many beagles run a rabbit. I've seen some very famous hounds run and wish I had the opportunity to see more. Kinda makes me feel old to see a dog 3 or 4 generations back in a pedigree and know I judged that dog 10 or 12 years ago in a field trial. In the late 90's, I slowed down on judging and got more involved with competing and handling dogs at field trails. I've had the pleasure of competing as a handler and against some of the best. I'll not try to mention names, in fear that I'd leave some out. As best I can calculate, I've handled or handled to some of the wins on over a dozen 13" male Field Champions.