Anyone field trial beagles or have experience?

[jimbo&rooster]

A buddy is getting into beagles and is talking about trials, and I read through the AKC rules and regs, but I didn't see anything about a gallery. Is it like coyote hound trials where you just sit outside the fence and watch? is there a horseback gallery? walking gallery?

Thanks
Jim

[Sharon]

There is a walking gallery in the CKC I know as I go. Can't see much but the walk/bawling is great.

AKC:
See page 21 re: walking gallery

http://images.akc.org/pdf/rulebooks/RF2404.pdf

[bawloffire]

It depends on the format, the club and even sometimes conditions/weather. What format is he interested in?

[jimbo&rooster]

Im not sure what venue he is looking at, but I know of about 5 AKC beagle trials within an hour drive of here, and I didn't really want to show up with my trial horses, and planning to ride the gallary. haha

Jim

[Sharon]

Riding is impossible in rabbit woodlots etc.

[S&J gsp]

I have ran in and judged beagle trials. The gallery is on foot and can follow the race as long as they stay behind the field marshal. The judges are in charge but the marshal is there to keep order in the field. The last thing you want as a judge or handler is for the gallery to stop on a rabbit track that the hounds were just running.

[bawloffire]

I would think in Indiana most of the AKC trials would be Midwest which are ran in the SPO format. That being said you would most likely be allowed on foot to observe the pack as long as you stay with the handlers at the direction of the Marshall(s). A lot of large pack trials you stay outside of the enclosure while the dogs are competing and only see the race when the dogs get close to the fence.