Written by Park Cities Quail
Park Cities Quail is proud to honor Mr. Delmar Smith as
the 2016 recipient of the T. Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award to
be presented on March 3, 2016, during their 10th Annual Dinner and
Auction at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas.
Delmar has devoted a lifetime to the sport of gun dogs and
bird dogs as a breeder, trainer and judge. As a conservationist he was
at the forefront of ecological and biological studies to create superior
environments for the propagation of gamebirds. Those areas have since
been developed into excellent field trial grounds throughout the mid-
and southwestern United States.
Delmar grew up on a ranch in Big Cabin, Oklahoma where he
spent his childhood riding horseback to and from school and working for
local dog trainers. By the time Delmar was 13, he had saved enough money
from cleaning dog pens to take a horse-training course. He applied the
techniques learned in that course to create “The Delmar Smith Method”.
It was this revolutionary way for training bird dogs that led him to
become one of America’s most respected trainers producing two books and
three videos.
Many of Delmar’s own students have become excellent
trainers and field trial competitors and attribute their success to his
tutelage. Outdoor writer Tom Davis said, while it’s likely that Delmar
Smith has trained more bird dogs than anyone, ever, what’s not even
remotely in dispute is that he’s trained more PEOPLE to train bird dogs
than anyone. And he’s trained them to do it humanely and intelligently.
His seminars are now instructed by his son, Rick Smith, and his nephew,
Ronnie Smith.
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