U.S. Amateur All Age Derby Invitational

09/13/2026

Ok Tasha and I talked this evening and we are gonna postpone the raffle drawing until Oct 1, sorry for the inconvenience but I will be leaving town to elk hunt with my son for two weeks and it's not fair for her to have to draw the daily number and then have to deal with getting ahold of folks to see what prize they want to claim before we can draw another number! So on Oct 1 at 7 pm est we will start the 9 day drawing Again we apologize This is the current board We thank each of you for the support

09/13/2026

Updated raffle board with available squares!! Only 32 left until we are sold out! Y’all have been amazing with the support! Last chance to get in on an amazing opportunity for some awesome prizes. Remember, 9 prizes will be drawn! Pretty good chance you’re gonna get drawn, especially with multiple squares! Let’s finish this with a full board!

09/10/2026

Last chance to support field trialing and win some great prizes at the same time!! It takes a lot to do what we do for amateur field trialing! I will post available squares this evening if you want to buy a chance to win! 9 great prizes one prize will be drawn daily until all claimed!!!

09/08/2026

I want to share a little bit of the "code of the west" with some of you that I'm sure just didn't know! Last week while I was chairing the trials in eastern Montana I heard several people ask my friend and landowner a couple questions that are very inappropriate out west. Although he would never say anything to anyone because he is a class act, I feel maybe I can educate a few people that mean no harm but instead just don't know, the two questions that should not be asked are 1: how many acres is this ranch? Even though it's public information it's something that shouldn't be asked of a landowner 2: how many cattle do you have? Again this is just like him asking you how much money do you have in the bank or in your portfolio So maybe by sharing this info we can avoid the awkwardness going forward!

09/04/2026

RU CH Southern Margarita Lane and handler Brian Peterson Unable to to produce birds and the gallery rode them up 75 yards away! Them huns will run!!!

09/03/2026

With all the ideas being throwed around to help move the sport forward and out of the box thinking I have been thinking about something for quite sometime that I believe could be a very fun format and also lucrative for the Amateur that owns his own dog, I think a Team Championship would be a blast, here's what I envision ;

We choose 6 trials that would be designated as team pts trials using 6 trials spread out geographically to ensure those trials get worthy participation because of limited team pts trials forcing teams to travel and support these trial thus improving entries

Form a 2 man/ 2 dog team with a team name. Each team pays say a $500 entry that goes to the payback for the Team Championship let's say top 6 teams qualify for the team championship (12 dogs) $5000 total purse plus added money

Team Championship is a 3 day event each day is its own trial and placements 1-3 given daily at the end of the 3 days points are tallied for the championship trial as well as year end points The purse is won and legal because you own your dog and can accept a purse

Team logo apparel and sponsorship could go along way moving forward could also have a derby team championship using same terms

The top ten teams would vote on nominated judges (3) therefore obody could complain about the judges picked for the event

Add a Calcutta before the championship on social media for added fun

Thoughts?

09/03/2026

09/02/2026

Sorry for the "bumpy" initial footage but this was a awesome find on a cover of Huns plus we rode up a covey on the way to the find !

09/02/2026

09/02/2026

Austen Turley and Affinity the eventual National Champion with her first find of the hour right at the 1st road crossing, Affinity went on to run a true prairie all age race with another find with a mixed covey of pheasants and Huns in the corner cover of a canola field