Join us for our SECOND race meet! Lots of fun and friends, dogs and competition. Join us in beautiful East TN on the banks of the TN river. Take a vacation and visit the Smokies during peak season!
– Remember your dog(s) need CWA numbers in order to run at our Race Meets – Click here to REGISTER YOUR DOG w/ CWA
– CWA also has a list of all CWA meets across the U.S. as well as, results, Current Top 10 running and conformation, and your
dogs
current grade…follow this link to the CWA home page – The Contential Whippet Alliance
CWA has an on-line publication called LINE & LURE. Lots of articles, race results and Ads! BTW they are very inexpensive ads!
This meet will be dedicated to the memory of Ellen Feldheim.
We will have an annual spirit award in her honor
The Spirit award will be done through a drawing. We thought this would be better than a winners award so everyone had a chance to receive it. Let’s be honest there are those of us that will never have a meet winner.
Ellen was a huge part of getting SMART started and she’s going to be very very missed by all of us. Our meets will never be the same without her so the best we can do is honor her memory.
Please join us on November 11 & 12. We have great conformation judges for the match and great prizes. Of course best of all, the fun and comradery.
Box training available on Friday afternoon before the meet or contact one of us about possibly this coming weekend for practice at the Brown’s farm. We will try to accommodate everyone.
Upcoming meet November 11th and 12th at Beal Park.
Conformation judges:
Saturday:
Warren Quinn
Sunday
Chris Durance Watkins
My passion for dogs began in 1983, when I was only 12 years. My first breed was Afghan Hounds and Greyhounds. While lure coursing one day I fell in love with whippets. My first whippet was Ch. Shaman Sherry on Ice, CGC, LCM. Sherry won BOB at an AWC supported (Midwest Specialty) entry defeating over 200 whippets. She went on that day to win the Group defeating the top hounds in the county at one of the largest shows in the country, at the time. She went on to place in the Top 10 in both show and lure coursing. From there I was HOOKED . . . for my sixteenth birthday, Dr. James R. Gray of Elysian whippets gave me a silly red brindle puppy, named Perry. NSBIS & Multi SBIS Ch. Elysian A-Few Perrier, LCM, CGC, ROMX. Perry became one of the top Specialty winning whippets of his time. Then I was honored to be given Thelma, 2x NSBIS, 4x SBIS Ch Whippletrees Icy Affire, FCh, JC, ROM. She broke the record for the top number of AWC regional specialty wins (which has since been broken) and became the first whippet to win back-to-back National SBIS, the first being from the classes. From our foundation dogs Cherche’ produced the 1988 Futurity Winner, Ch. Cherche’ Touch Me, FCh., SBIS & National BOS Ch. Innenduo’s Peaches and Cream, Fch and 2x SBIS, NBOS Ch. Cherche’s Wizard of the Wind (the first 2x SBIS winning black whippet), and AWC Supported (Southern Specialty ) winning Ch. Cherche’ The Memory Remains, JC , SBIS Ch. Hycks Hollow Heart n Soul, Top 20 and Peoples choice winner GCH Cherche’ Bearfoot Hooker, her son AWC Futurity and SBIS GCH Cherche’ Walk on the Wildside and her, daughter AWC National WB, and SBIS DC Cherche’ Arborlea Something’s Afoot, MC.
In October 2006, I married my soul mate, David Watkins, who enjoys the dogs as much as I and enjoys hanging out with us crazy dog people. In 2010, a group of us created Georgia Rag Racing. Another straight racing group who share the same passion as SMART. Thank you for allowing me to judge your CWA match.
These three are dog friendly non sketchy hotels.
Our host hotel is the LaQuinta in Alcoa. Please tell them you are with SMART Whippet Racing. Negotiated rate is $79, no pet fees
LaQuinta Alcoa 4 miles from Beal Park
Quality Inn Alcoa 5 miles from Beal Park
Red Roof Inn Papermill Rd 15miles from Beal Park
Directions to Beal Park:
From I-40 to Alcoa Hwy: (Best if coming from the the north or east such as KY/ NC)
Turn right onto TN-333 S/Topside Rd
Destination will be on the left
From I-40 (Best if coming from the south such as Chattanooga)
Take exit 376 to merge onto I-140 E toward Maryville
9.7 mi
Take exit 9 for TN-333/Topside Rd
0.3 mi
Turn right onto TN-333 S/Topside Rd
Destination will be on the left