Brazos Valley Mystic 2010 / Liz Callar photoBrazos Valley Mystic 2010 was judged Grand Champion of the Southwest Hound Show for the third consecutive year, matching his sire’s outstanding performance there. The show was held on April 20, 2013 at Greenwood Farms in Weatherford, Texas.
Mystic’s success is no stroke of luck; he’s the product of a royal breeding engineered by Brazos Valley MFH Sandy Dixon. She put her own sire—Brazos Valley Catfish 2006—to a Potomac-bred bitch that she entered in 2006—Brazos Valley Meadow.
Catfish won three consecutive Grand Championships at the Southwest Hound Show in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and Meadow brought her own credentials from Maryland. She was bred by Potomac huntsman Larry Pitts and is by Potomac Jefferson, Grand Champion of both the Virginia Foxhound Show and the Bryn Mawr Hound Show in 2007. Jefferson was knockout handsome.
Brazos Valley Meadow 2006 / Greg Germann photoMeadow was Grand Champion at the Central States Hound Show in 2011, and her son (Mystic’s littermate) Marley was Grand Champion at Central States the following year.
Dixon describes Mystic as somewhat of a clown—playful in kennels—while Marley is more reserved. But, she says, Mystic is all business in the field. He has his nose to the ground and when he speaks, Marley honors. Both hounds hunt up front, says Dixon.
All hounds at the Southwest Hound Show are shown in the same ring and were judged this year by Jake Carle, ex-MFH. Six hunts competed: Brazos Valley Hunt (TX), Grand Canyon Hounds (AZ), Harvard Fox Hounds (OK), Independence Foxhounds (TX), Moingona Hunt (IA), and North Hills Hunt (NE).
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Posted May 9, 2013
Brazos Valley Marley 2010 / Greg Germann photo