Why Worry Hounds’ Heythrop Rachel 2011 is Grand Champion of the 2016 Carolinas Hound Show.
Why Worry’s Heythrop Rachel 2011 was judged Grand Champion at the fortieth annual Carolinas Hound Show held at the Springdale Racecourse in Camden, South Carolina on May 7, 2016. It’s one thing for a visiting MFH to pick up a nice draft to bring back to the home kennels; it’s another thing entirely to know what to do with it. Here’s where George and Jeannie Thomas, MFHs, Why Worry Hounds (SC), showed their breeding acumen.
While visiting friends in England and judging a puppy show at the Heythrop kennels, George mentioned that he needed a bi*ch* to introduce new bloodlines into his breeding program. We have just the hound for you, he was told. So he brought home a nicely-bred entered bi*ch, Heythrop Rachel 2011.
Not that anything at Heythrop isn’t nicely-bred. After all, Captain Ronnie Wallace, arguably the outstanding hound breeder of the latter half of the twentieth century, spent his Golden Years as Master and huntsman there. Rachel’s pedigree has mostly Heythrop bloodlines, but she also goes back on her dam’s side to Duke of Beaufort’s Mostyn 1992, a highly regarded sire of superbly performing hounds in the field.
An inspired breeding of Heythrop Rachel to Blue Ridge Barnfield produced Why Worry Randolph, Un-Entered Champion of the Carolinas Hound Show.When George and Jeannie returned home with Rachel, they bred her to Blue Ridge Barnfield 2010. Barnfield’s dam Crocus 2006, went back through a strong Blue Ridge tail-female line, but in the top half of Crocus’s pedigree she goes back tail-male to Duke of Beaufort’s Mostyn 1992, as well. Hence, the offspring of this inspired breeding get a double dose, from both sire and dam, of Mostyn blood for good performance in the field. But there’s more. Barnfield’s sire, Duke of Beaufort’s Bailey 2003, was a Champion at Peterborough as was his sire’s dam, Duke of Beaufort’s Patience 1998. Performance and looks—just what every hound breeder is after.
As it turned out at Carolinas, excited as George and Jeannie are about Rachel’s Grand Championship, they are equally pleased that Randolph, an unentered doghound of the Rachel-Barnfield litter, was judged Unentered Foxhound Champion of Show as well. It will be well to watch that litter’s progress.
George loves everything about Rachel. “She’s a fantastic hound—just a joy to hunt,” he exclaims. “And she’s loaded with personality. She’s a real ham, a sweetheart, and would be happy as a lapdog!” I guess we know where Rachel will end up after her hunting career is over.
Exhibitors at the Carolinas Hound Show included Aiken Hounds (SC), Camden Hunt (SC), Deep Run Hunt (VA), Green Creek Hounds (NC), Keswick Hunt (VA), Lowcountry Hunt (SC), Moore County Hounds (NC), Red Mountain Foxhounds (NC), Sedgefield Hunt (NC), Tennessee Valley Hunt (TN), Whiskey Road Foxhounds (SC), and Why Worry Hounds (SC).
Show judges were Jim Farber, huntsman, Marlborough Hunt (MD) for Penn-Marydels; Dennis Foster, Executive Director, MFHA, for Performance Trial, UE Champion. Pack Classes, and Grand Championship; John Gray, huntsman, Hillsboro Hounds (TN) for Crossbred; Lilla Mason, MFH and huntsman, Iroquois Hunt (KY) for English; and George Thomas, MFH and huntsman, Why Worry Hounds for American. Leilani Gray, Hillsboro Hounds, and Andrea Herr, MFH, Radnor Hunt (PA) were Apprentice Judges.
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Posted June 28, 2016
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