Results provided by Secretary/Treasurer, Jim Garard

We thank Rolling Fork Beagle Club for hosting the Midwestern and they had the club, grounds and kennels already for everyone.  We thank them for all their hard work and being great hosts for the Midwestern.

We opened with 13 13" Male Derbies under judges Travis Cain and Chuck Poczik and 20 13" Females under Dave Kerr and Tom Rombold.  We thank Chuck Poczik for filling in for Ed White who had to cancel due to his wife's knee replacement.  We closed with 9 15" Males under judges Chuck Poczik and Tom Rombold and 15 15" Females under Dave Kerr and Travis Cain for a total of 57 derbies.  We thank everyone who came and supported Midwestern and hope you had a good time.

We thank Deb Slaughter for doing breakfast, lunch and supper every night.  On Saturday night Debbie Slaughter, Lisa Sanders and Jessica Guendelach catered the Midwestern Banquet.  They had great entrees, appetizers, Veggie Table, Desserts, Money in the Bank Frozen Delights and Bevderages. The theme was "Welcome to Vegas" and everyone received a deck of cards, candy, and Debbie put together some great door prizes.  She did her usual above and beyond the call of duty in putting on the Midwestern Banquet.  We thank everyone who helped out and worked on the clean up.  We thank Dave Kerr for being the Master of Ceremonies and Jim Garard for doing the Invocation. Dave did a super job acknowledging and supporting all those involved with brace beagling from the officers, Purina, AKC, ABBA and all the individuals who support brace beagling.  If you weren't there, You definitely missed a good time, great horsedeovers, meal, great socialization and stories.  It was great having Wayne Parker with us.  We thank Randy McClellan from Brace Beagling Today for doing pictures of the trial and banquet.  We appreciate his support, donations and dedication.  We were sorry the ABBA Award Plaques couldn't be delivered at the Midwestern, but Raymond Brantner, Robert Connell, Jerry Elliott, Bob Coil, and John Johnson will have to decide where they would like to receive their plaques for Producing Dams, Producing Sire, Breeder Awards.

We thank everyone who brought and purchased items for the auction. We thank Sharon Nixon, Kim Williams, Vicki Marsh, Millie Williams, Larry Lufkin and Marty Parker for doing the auction.

13"Derby Male 2nd Series:

1st Brace-Triple R Hondo and Play Time Little Warrior

2nd Brace-Brushy Fork Machinist and Play Time Troublesome

3rd Brace-Sun-Dell Side Car and Turtle Creek Twin Eagle Jumanji

13"Female Derby 2nd Series:

1st Brace-Dix River Darla and Grass Lake Rebel

2nd Brace-Old Style Gabby and Dix River Cherry Delight

3rd Brace-Bee Lick Daisy Mae II and Sunrise Last Bell

15" Derby Male 2nd Series

1st Brace-Slate's Deacon and English Lake Blank Check

2nd Brace-Play Time Speedy Gonzalez and Close Line Sugar Ray

3rd Brace-B & W Joshua II and Dix River Sweet Lou

15" Derby Female 2nd Series

1st Brace-Old Style Penny and Grass Lake Country Girl

2nd Brace-Bee Lick Jade and Dix Rivder Lolita

3rd Brace-Halley's Country Girl and Shuler's Miss Daisy

We thank our marshals, Larry Lufkin, Shawn Redmon, Todd Zimmerman, and Jim Halley and Steve Redmon and Marty Parker were our tractor drivers.  We thank our brush beaters, path watchers and cart drivers for keeping the trial running smoothly.

We thank Purina for feeding the trial.

We thank Randy McClellan from Brace Beagling Today for covering the trial and banquet.

Congratulations to all the Winners and Placed hounds!  May everyone have a safe trip home.