Mark Hughes and Ruthie Murray standing by “The New Pavilion” addition , yesterday, Jan. 9th, , at Hughesview Kennels in Clearfield, PA.Dave and Ruthanne getting ready to go “On The Hill” to work our two derbies, June Bug and Kenny Kilkenny.A look at The top of Dave Hughes training area at his kennel. Hundreds and hundreds of acres of woods and fields. We ran June and Kenny off the Gator before we worked on birds.Dave Hughes is flushing a quail for Juniper 1/9/23 ; Lloyd is watching, looking useless!Grouse Futurity placement winner and Bill Kearns Open Derby Classic Winner Long Gone Juniper pointing her third quail yesterday morning on a workout in PA., June has not seen a quail since last April, just wild birds all summer and fall. Her two placement’s this fall ( the only two trials she ran in ) were both with grouse finds. We killed a lot of grouse over her points this past fall. Junes’ sire is Long Gone DeQuan.A couple of shots of our “Long Gone Kilkenny” or Kenny. Lloyd and Dave are discussing how The New England Patriots AND The Steelers were knocked out of the playoffs. Kenny is by 2x CU & RU CH Long Gone Porky ex RU Grouse CH Long Gone Juicy.Hall of Fame Trainer Dave Hughes in his office at the kennel at his ” Hughesview Kennels” The picture on the wall to the right of his head is Dave winning The New England Open Grouse Championship with 2x CH & 3 x RU CH Long Gone George almost a quarter of a century ago! Of course he was about 16 then………..
