Wedding Bells Ring At Reading Blue Ribbon!

Reading, MI -
Saturday June 08, 2019

Congratulations to Earl Hochstetler for handling Teaquila's Wedding Bells to their big win at the 2019 PKC Blue Ribbon Pro Hunt in Reading, Michigan over the weekend. “Bella” is a 2015 Treeing Walker female owned and handled by Earl Hochstetler of LaGrange, Indiana.  If you have never been to Michigan for a coonhunt, you owe it to yourself to go.  The 21 casts this weekend scored on 137 raccoon, an average of six and a half ringtails per cast!  The annual Michigan Summer Madness is the end of next month, so that opportunity is here.  HUGE thanks go out to all the members at the Reading Club who organized this event, along with everyone who judged, guided, participated, or helped out in any other way. You all did an awesome job with this hunt!

Shown below, left to right, are the four finalists along with their placements in the final cast. The final cast judge was Steve Burkholder.  Panel Members were; Bud Hood, Randy Jones, and Jay Miller.  The Final Cast Guide wasTracy Thompson and the Play By Play man was Daniel Alva.  

Fourth place; $1,000 Winner
Gracie Express … Crosby/Doolin … Chad Doolin

Second place; $2,200 Winner
Mojo's Electric Rodeo … Morgan/Engle … Scott Engle

Third place; $1,500 Winner
Mojo After Dark … Morgan/Engle … Greg Maynard

First place; $4,500 Winner
Teaquila's Wedding Bells … Earl Hochstetler … Earl Hochstetler 

See Semi-Final match-ups and photos here: http://prohound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=180481