SPRING CREEK ROCK
Dual Grand Champion
National Grand Nite Champion
National Grand Nite Champion
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SPRING CREEK ROCK and DUANE CLARK
Spring Creek Rock had a great impact on the Treeing Walker Breed. Not because of a lot of hype or full page color ads every month in the magazines. He had an impact for a number of reasons.
He had a good solid pedigree besides being a grandson of Finley River Chief.
He was a good looking hound that was colored up differently then a majority of the walker hounds of the day. His looks got people wanting to know more about him.
He was a good coon hound that could also compete in the big hunts of the day.
He was the National Grand Nite Champion 2 years in a row and the National Grand Nite Champion Treeing Walker 3 years in a row. Titles won at Autumn Oak. Then Duane Clark put Spring Creek Rock in the new Professional Organization PCA and their hunts. There again Spring Creek Rock proved he was a winner.
He reproduced top hounds of his day. Many of his sons and daughters were not only big winners they also proved to be good reproducers for the Treeing Walker Breed.
It was because of SPRING CREEK ROCK that people started talking about a Spring Creek Strain of hounds. BUT
There were other hounds from the Spring Creek Kennels of Duane Clark.
In this picture you will see
GRAND NITE CHAMPION SPRING CREEK SPARKIE
1966 ACHA WORLD CHAMPION GRAND NITE CHAMPION SPRING CREEK SMOKEY
DUAL CHAMPION SPRING CREEK C.B.
The trophies showed here was from a hunt held June 3, 1967 at Springdale, Arkansas. In this hunt Spring Creek Sparkie won the Grand Nite Champion Hunt. Spring Creek Smokey won the Nite Champion Hunt. Spring Creek C.B. won the Registered Hunt.
Duane Clark had the foresight to collect Spring Creek Rock semen before people even knew if it would ever be an acceptable practice. Duane Clark deserves and is owed better then what happened with HIS Rock semen.
Here is the part of the ad that caused Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Mr. Boone to write a letter to the editor of American Cooner Magazine!
