The Eastern Derby was held on June 10-11, 2023 at Grassy Branch Fox Preserve.
It was ran under the Masters 5 Min GTP. 92 dogs were casted the first day.
Thank you to everyone for coming out to support this hunt and the pen! Thank you to all our judges who hustled those two days non stop! Thank you Joey Fowler for being the master of hounds! Thank you also to Joey Fowler and Preston Nowell for handling the bench show.

The results:

Took 1,234 points to win and 920 to get in the top 10.
1st: #3, Patterson's Natural, Front Row's Float / Coley's White Eyed Jinx. Patterson & Sons Kennels
2nd: #17, Town Creek's Cajun, T-Byrd's Ben / Coot's Runaway Cajun. Town Creek Kennels
3rd: #27, Scraping Hole's Twisted, Scraping Hole's Duke / Town Creek's Mouth. Scraping Hole Kennels (High dog day 2)
4th: #41, Patterson's Light, Front Row's Float / Coley's White Eyed Jinx. Patterson & Sons Kennels.
5th: #26, Knight's Luci, Ch. HOY Forty Creek Spot / Knight's Junebug. Full Send (Combination winner)
6th: #63, Duvall's Shelby, Redwood's Monsterboy / Carter's Lemon Drop. HBK Mafia (Classiest Hound)
7th: #14, Graham's Jolene, Graham's CD / Graham's Madea. Get-Atta-Sumtin Kennels
8th: #51, CT's Blackout, Albertson's JJ / Top Gun's Freestyle. Chasin' Tails Kennels
9th: #89, LHK's TikTok, Ch. Kennedy's Eightball / Coate's Pearl. Loco House Kennels
10th: #31, Forty Creek Brandy, Millard's Ringer Ray / Ray's Elvira C. Forty Creek Kennels

Best Mouth: #56, W.S. Brown Berry. Shady Lane Kennels