Chumac Kennels

We wrapped up a tough week at the 2026 HRC Fall Grand in St. Louis, MO. The Gateway Retriever Club, Grand Hunt Committee, all the workers and especially our Judges did an exceptional job testing our dogs in some tough conditions....mainly the heat!!

We started with 20 dogs and were fortunate to come out with 8 Grand passes....

Congrats to the following dogs and owners!!

9XGRHRCH SRSC Poppi MNH owned, trained, and handled by Mark Polkey got her 9th Grand Pass..Poppi just turned 7 and has many more Grands in her future..She has also had 2 litters with 1 more being planned.

7XGRHRCH Harley MNH, owned by Chuck Leblanc and handled by Chuck McCall got her 7th Grand Pass. As a 6 year old, Harley is in her prime with many more Grands in her future as well.

GRHRCH Y-Farms My Only Boy Auggie, MH, owned by Justin Bonaventure and handled by Chuck McCall got his 2nd Grand Pass and became Team Chumac's 74th Grand Champion. Auggie is a pup off of a former Team Chumac GRHRCH Wilson!!

GRHRCH Ranger, MH, owned by Laine Landry and handled by Mark Polkey got his 2nd Grand Pass and became Team Chumac's 75th Grand Champion!! Ranger is a pup off of NAFC Croc x SRSAC HRCH Bailey, MH QAA

GRHRCH Blue, MH, owned by Steve McCain and handled by Chuck McCall, got his 2nd Grand Pass and became Team Chumac's 76th Grand Champion. Blue is a pup off of 4xGRHRCH SRSC Chief, MNH another Team Chumac product.

HRCH Lucy, MH owned by Chad Diamond and handled by Chuck McCall got her 1st Grand Pass in her 1st attempt!! This 3 year old is a product of Gator Point Kemnels and has a very bright future!!

HRCH Shooter owned by John Contois and handled by Chuck McCall got his 1st Grand pass in his 1st attempt..This 2 year old is a product of the very successful NFC Mickey x 9XGRHRCH Poppi MH breeding..(This breeding may be repeated 1 more time!!)

HRCH Lizzie owned by Jack Slaid and handled by Chuck McCall got her 1st Grand Pass in her 1st attempt. Lizzie is another 2 year old...a product of Swenson Retrievers..Lizzie is FC-AFC Koufaxx x HRCH Karson, MH.

Congrats to all!!! And now we head west to the Master National!! See you in Oregon!!

Tomorrow...for the 58th consecutive time, we will run the toughest Hunt test....The HRC Grand...I never know when this might be my last....so I'm planning on enjoying every minute...There is nothing like the Grand and I have so many memories of great times with family and friends....

This year we bring 22 dogs to the Grand....

Our lineup is as follows..

HRCH Dazy MH (1 Grand Pass) owned by Todd Hanson and handled by Chuck McCall

HRCH Auggie MH(1 Grand Pass) owned by Justin Bonaventure and handled by Chuck McCall

HRCH Post MH owned by Danny Turner and handled by Chuck McCall

HRCH Journey MH (1 Grand Pass) owned by Josh Chambless and handled by Chuck McCall

HRCH Sable owned by David Brewerton and handled by Chuck McCall

HRCH Lizzie owned by Jack Slaid and handled by Chuck McCall

GRHRCH(8) Poppi MNH owned and handled by Mark Polkey

HRCH Trump owned by Daryl Pennington and handled by Chuck McCall

HRCH Kya MH owned by Spenser Polkey and handled by Mark Polkey

HRCH Blue MH(1 Grand Pass) owned by Steve McCain and handled by Chuck McCall

HRCH Ranger MH (1 Grand Pass) owned by Laine Landry and handled by Mark Polkey

HRCH Krewe MH (1 Grand Pass) owned by Parker Kilgore and handled by Chuck McCall

HRCH B***y MH (1 Grand Pass) owned by Allie Polkey and handled by Mark Polkey

GRHRCH(3) Gator MH owned and handled by David Lowrance

HRCH Shooter owned by John Contois and handled by Chuck McCall

HRCH Champ MH owned by Davin Billiot and handled by Mark Polkey

HRCH Allie MH (1 Grand Pass) owned and handled by David Lowrance

HRCH Lucy MH owned by Chad Diamond and handled by Chuck McCall

HRCH Chasse MH owned and handled by Mark Polkey

HRCH Finn owned by Scott Williams and handled by Chuck McCall

HRCH Babe MH (1 Grand Pass) owned by Blayne Kiff and handled by Chuck McCall

GRHRCH(6) Harley MNH owned by Chuck Leblanc and handled by Chuck McCall

The fun starts tomorrow....Good Luck to all.....Dog to the line!!!!

We had a sweating good time at Central Louisiana's Summer HRC test!!!

We passed 21/23 dogs and titled the following dogs..

HRCH Louie owned by Charlie Thornton

HRCH Tee owned by Chris Lee

HRCH Trump owned by Daryl Pennington

HRCH Chasse owned by Mark Polkey

HR Tebow owned by Bubby Lupo

HR Trout owned by Richard Zimmerman

Tebow and Trout both titled Saturday and moved up to Finished on Sunday and got their 1st Finished passes!!

Our next stop will be the HRC Fall Grand in St. Louis, MO!!

We traveled to Greensburg, KY for the Mallard Run Kennels SRS event this past weekend. Phil Heye has an absolutely gorgeous property that he allowed us to run on....A big thanks to Jimmy Rodgers and his whole crew who worked through some very difficult weather conditions....heat, rain, more rain, and way more heat....Did I mention it was hot???

Our judges John Broucek and David Gnewikow along with our SRS Marshall Matt Emerson set up some of the most challenging tests I've seen at an SRS.

We were extremely fortunate to finish with 3 of the top 6 placements!!!

1st place...New SRSC Down Da Bayou Paint Da Corners, MH QA2 "Cutter"...Owned by Ron Anderson

3rd Place..New SRSC 8XGRHRCH Down Da Bayou's Designated Hitter, MNH..."Poppi"...Owned by Mark Polkey

4th Place...6XGRHRCH Seaside's Cruising the Coast, MNH.."Harley"....Owned by Chuck Leblanc...

This gave littermates Cutter and Poppi both thir SRSC titles!!!!!

Harley now has 34 points and still looking for that elusive win!!!

A huge thank you, as well, to my good friend Scott Arceneaux who traveled with me to Kentucky...Scott's dog Coach made the finals again but wasn't quite able to get into the top 6!!! His time is coming!!

A weekend to remember!!!!

We traveled to Belden, MS to Maple Ridge Kennels for their SRS event this week. A big thank you to Tyler Patterson for opening up his beautiful grounds for this event. Tyler and Eric Teson set up some challenging scenarios that tested our dogs to the limit. A thanks also to Matt Emerson who always keeps these events rolling!!

We were fortunate to make the finals with Krewe who is owned by Parker Kilgore of Baton Rouge. Krewe ran 3 really nice series before the enroute remote quint remote send blind Bubba gunner pick up one and then pick up the other 4 got the best of this 3 year old!! It was really a great test!! We managed to finish and pick up a 6th place ..

I'd also like to thank Hal Jennings Jr. for his hospitality this weekend...Nothing like being spoiled with great training and airing grounds, great food, and a beautiful place to stay. Thanks also to Dr. Daniel Boyd for his generosity..You have an absolutely beautiful place....Second to none!!!!!

Next week we head to Greensburg KY for Mallard Run SRS!!!

The 2026 HRC Spring Grand is in the books!! Huge thank you to Tracy Stubbs and the entire Grand Committee or another very well run Grand. We had great grounds, with challenging weather conditions and some super tough tests!! Kudos to the Judges for challenging tests to the Grand standard.

Mark and I took 21 dogs to this Grand and came away with the following passes:

GRHRCH(8) Poppi MNH owned and handled by Mark Polkey got her 8th pass as a 6 year old!!

GRHRCH(6) Harley MNH owned by Chuck Leblanc got her 6th Grand Pass.

GRHRCH Weezie, MH QA2 Owned by Hal Jennings got her 3rd Grand Pass.

GRHRCH Gator MH owned by David Lowrance got his 3rd Grand Pass.

GRHRCH Jewel, MH owned by Bob Nicholson got her 2nd Grand pass and became Team Chumac's 73rd Grand Champion!!

HRCH Journey, MH owned by Josh Chambless got his 1st Grand Pass.

HRCH Krewe, MH owned by Parker Kilgore got her 1st Grand pass.

HRCH Blue owned by Steve McCain got his 1st Grand pass.

HRCH B***y, MH owned and handled by Mark Polkey got her 1st Grand Pass as a 2 year old.

Congrats to all of our owners on a successful run at the Grand!!!!

A big shout-out to Feliciana Retriever Club and all their hard working members on a very well run D/Q this weekend.. Also thank you to the Anderson family for generously allowing the use of their beautiful farm...and finally the Qualifying judges Jeff Gruber and Andrew Prevost for setting up quality tests and finishing a 43 dog qualifying in 1 day!!!

Our training group was fortunate to get the Qualifying win for Mark Polkey's youngster Kya..Down Da Bayou's Wheredacrawfish Sing..

Kya never had a misstep all day....I was very honored to stand beside her. Enjoy that QAA Mark!!!!

Junior, owned by Chris Bourgeois had a very nice day and got the Reserve Jam..

Sable, owned by David Brewerton and a littermate to Kya got a Jam in her 1st Qual.

Babe, owned by Blayne Kiff got a Jam as well running a nice Qual.

Our training group was well represented with Scott Arceneaux and Tru getting a Jam in Tru's 1st Qual...and David G. Lowrance stepped from the hunt test to the field trial world and got a Jam in his 1st Qual with Alli.

And a huge Congrats as well to Stefanie Stoll and Fuller on a Derby Jam in her 1st competitive event..

And a special thank you to my good friend Ron Anderson, who along with Scott keep pushing me to make our dogs better!!!

This should produce some super nice pups for any game you want to play!!!

We started out the SRS season at Pontchartrain HRC's Inaugural event...Wow...beautiful grounds, great tests, fair judging, and extremely cold temps!!!!

We were fortunate to get a 2nd place finish for GRHRCHx5 Harley, MNH. This gives Harley 27 SRS points and just needs the win for her title.She now goes on maternity leave since she is bred and will be having pups in a few weeks...

Congrats Chuck Leblanc and Harley!!!

Also a huge congratulations to David Lowrance and Alli on her 4th place finish in the Am.