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08-05-2009, 07:22 AM
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In your opinion what is the best match you ever seen? Man that’s a tough question. The best match I ever had and saw was Bolero vs. Fife & Jean’s Bridgette. This was a battle royal and each dog was perfect to beat the other. They went back and forth until Bolero pulled out front at 40 minutes or so and Barney picked up a super game Bridgette. Bridgette was hand picked to beat Bolero and shut me up, it almost worked. I was worried and Bridgette sure was smart, but in this case brawn won out over brains that day. Bridgette made a very game courtesy and was a credit to all dogs that showed so well before her. Barney was an excellent conditioner and handler and I learned a lot from him over the years, he was very smart. But man that was such a good match, they went to pay me after I won and I offered to let them keep the bet if I could have their dog. No deal so I took the cash. Shortly afterwards I found a brother to Bridgette, his name was Angus. These dogs were ¾ Loposay’s Buster ¼ Carver Tiger Jack, Angus was every bit a bulldog like his sister and we bred a couple bitches to him and to his son over the years. There is some stuff out there today that is by a Bolero female bred to Red Angus a son of Angus that is being feed from New Orleans all the way to Mother Russia. So if my words don’t bring the impact of Bridgette and Bolero and the quality that Bridgette displayed, I hope my actions make it clear. As for the best match I had seen as a spectator, wow that’s really hard. The Boone’s Champion Lady Stone and Havana Boy’s Champion Blondie match was a great match, but Blondie did jump the square at the end downgrading that match. Gambler’s Grand Champion Virgil vs. Homegrown’s Big Al, that was a real slugfest and the loser showing as game as the winner. It was a true classic. Lanier & Fergy’s Grand Champion Bronson vs. Shockley & Garner’s Header, 3:09, no turns or out of holds, and Bronson completes a scratch to win at 3:11. Bronson won Best and Gamest in show that night, it was a 14 match show, I handled and conditioned Bronson. Double Grand Champion Tornado vs. Tant’s Black Cat was a great match and Black Cat certainly gave Tornado a run for her money. I had seen Black Cat win over Little’s Red and she blew through Red. When K.A. called out Black Cat I just knew that would be a war. But Tornado had her number like the other 9 bitches she beat, this one lasted 1:44. The Grand Champion Buck vs. Sandman match was epic but more for the drama of the show and the crowd, that was a wild night. Neither dog was overly impressive but many times two good fighters will kind of “cancel” each other out. There was a lot of turning and laying around, but in the end in 3 plus hours Grand Champion Buck made a hard and fast scratch to win, never hesitating and getting the job done. But honestly when you pose that question to me the first fight that comes to mind is Bridgette vs. Bolero, what a battle.
Who was the best dog you ever matched and why do you feel it was the best? I will have to break this up into two categories. Males. Females. Males, the best I ever matched was Denny & Dixie Line Connection’s Grand Champion Bo. He was the perfect dog; he was like dropping a chainsaw with feet that weighed 43 pounds into the square. I never seen him turn, change holds in self defense or look around. Taking him to the show was a sure bet and I never doubted him for a minute, now I always doubted myself and would get very nervous before a show, but Bo made things much easier. Bo won 5 including stopping Crenshaw’s Champion Brute in 56 minutes. Females, without question Champion Bolero, she was a straight up ace. I would hold off paying all bills for months before her shows and bet everything I could beg borrow or pawn on her. I came home from her match into Super Gnats Lil Bit on a Monday morning and my power had been shut off, I had it back on by 2pm as I paid the power bill on my way to deposit my winnings in the bank.
How did you decide what bloodlines to incorporate into your Fat Bill dogs (i.e. Stomper, Bolero, and Twoeyes)? I worked hard to keep my Bolero stuff as tight as you can get it. I never bred her back to her own children so you can’t get it tighter then 50%. The reason I did that was the Honeybunch blood during Bolero’s breeding years was and still is doing very well, Honeybunch was never bred back to her children, but later line bred. I figured those guys breeding that stuff are way smarter and experienced then me, must be something to maintaining a bloodline by not breeding it to tight. Also the guys breeding the Honeybunch stuff were using the dogs as was I using mine. I had more in common with their ideals and pursuits then the peddlers that had triple bred off some old brood bitch that everyone has forgot by now. I liked crossing it with Eli blood that didn’t have Stomper or Bolero in the ped so I could line breed the Eli blood with out inbreeding it to much. It seemed to work and as time went on I found myself back in the nest of the Eli Jr as I got many dogs from master breeders and dogmen par excellence J. C. & F. B. The straight bred Eli stuff from these men put with my old stuff seemed to work real nice, they were good dogs. From this type breeding came TVK’s Wicked (2xw 2xl sire to Ch El Negro ROM ), Champion Arangadanga (3xw including winning over HOE’s Ch Salina) , Champion Sooooevil (6xw 1xl quit to Ch Cochise in 1:01), Champion Huckleberry, Gr Ch Sweet Pea and Champion Tweaker just to name a few came from this combination. My advice to the reader was the same advice giving to me by my elders, “don’t chase after dead dogs and their bloodlines, and breed to what’s there today. No one knew Eli was going to be ELI, when he was bred to Spook, but the intuition of great Dogmen led us to where they speculated would be the place to be. You have to figure out what of your day will be the dog to breed to now. Not trying to breed to some dog that’s been dead 20 years.
....To be continued....
In your opinion what is the best match you ever seen? Man that’s a tough question. The best match I ever had and saw was Bolero vs. Fife & Jean’s Bridgette. This was a battle royal and each dog was perfect to beat the other. They went back and forth until Bolero pulled out front at 40 minutes or so and Barney picked up a super game Bridgette. Bridgette was hand picked to beat Bolero and shut me up, it almost worked. I was worried and Bridgette sure was smart, but in this case brawn won out over brains that day. Bridgette made a very game courtesy and was a credit to all dogs that showed so well before her. Barney was an excellent conditioner and handler and I learned a lot from him over the years, he was very smart. But man that was such a good match, they went to pay me after I won and I offered to let them keep the bet if I could have their dog. No deal so I took the cash. Shortly afterwards I found a brother to Bridgette, his name was Angus. These dogs were ¾ Loposay’s Buster ¼ Carver Tiger Jack, Angus was every bit a bulldog like his sister and we bred a couple bitches to him and to his son over the years. There is some stuff out there today that is by a Bolero female bred to Red Angus a son of Angus that is being feed from New Orleans all the way to Mother Russia. So if my words don’t bring the impact of Bridgette and Bolero and the quality that Bridgette displayed, I hope my actions make it clear. As for the best match I had seen as a spectator, wow that’s really hard. The Boone’s Champion Lady Stone and Havana Boy’s Champion Blondie match was a great match, but Blondie did jump the square at the end downgrading that match. Gambler’s Grand Champion Virgil vs. Homegrown’s Big Al, that was a real slugfest and the loser showing as game as the winner. It was a true classic. Lanier & Fergy’s Grand Champion Bronson vs. Shockley & Garner’s Header, 3:09, no turns or out of holds, and Bronson completes a scratch to win at 3:11. Bronson won Best and Gamest in show that night, it was a 14 match show, I handled and conditioned Bronson. Double Grand Champion Tornado vs. Tant’s Black Cat was a great match and Black Cat certainly gave Tornado a run for her money. I had seen Black Cat win over Little’s Red and she blew through Red. When K.A. called out Black Cat I just knew that would be a war. But Tornado had her number like the other 9 bitches she beat, this one lasted 1:44. The Grand Champion Buck vs. Sandman match was epic but more for the drama of the show and the crowd, that was a wild night. Neither dog was overly impressive but many times two good fighters will kind of “cancel” each other out. There was a lot of turning and laying around, but in the end in 3 plus hours Grand Champion Buck made a hard and fast scratch to win, never hesitating and getting the job done. But honestly when you pose that question to me the first fight that comes to mind is Bridgette vs. Bolero, what a battle.
Who was the best dog you ever matched and why do you feel it was the best? I will have to break this up into two categories. Males. Females. Males, the best I ever matched was Denny & Dixie Line Connection’s Grand Champion Bo. He was the perfect dog; he was like dropping a chainsaw with feet that weighed 43 pounds into the square. I never seen him turn, change holds in self defense or look around. Taking him to the show was a sure bet and I never doubted him for a minute, now I always doubted myself and would get very nervous before a show, but Bo made things much easier. Bo won 5 including stopping Crenshaw’s Champion Brute in 56 minutes. Females, without question Champion Bolero, she was a straight up ace. I would hold off paying all bills for months before her shows and bet everything I could beg borrow or pawn on her. I came home from her match into Super Gnats Lil Bit on a Monday morning and my power had been shut off, I had it back on by 2pm as I paid the power bill on my way to deposit my winnings in the bank.
How did you decide what bloodlines to incorporate into your Fat Bill dogs (i.e. Stomper, Bolero, and Twoeyes)? I worked hard to keep my Bolero stuff as tight as you can get it. I never bred her back to her own children so you can’t get it tighter then 50%. The reason I did that was the Honeybunch blood during Bolero’s breeding years was and still is doing very well, Honeybunch was never bred back to her children, but later line bred. I figured those guys breeding that stuff are way smarter and experienced then me, must be something to maintaining a bloodline by not breeding it to tight. Also the guys breeding the Honeybunch stuff were using the dogs as was I using mine. I had more in common with their ideals and pursuits then the peddlers that had triple bred off some old brood bitch that everyone has forgot by now. I liked crossing it with Eli blood that didn’t have Stomper or Bolero in the ped so I could line breed the Eli blood with out inbreeding it to much. It seemed to work and as time went on I found myself back in the nest of the Eli Jr as I got many dogs from master breeders and dogmen par excellence J. C. & F. B. The straight bred Eli stuff from these men put with my old stuff seemed to work real nice, they were good dogs. From this type breeding came TVK’s Wicked (2xw 2xl sire to Ch El Negro ROM ), Champion Arangadanga (3xw including winning over HOE’s Ch Salina) , Champion Sooooevil (6xw 1xl quit to Ch Cochise in 1:01), Champion Huckleberry, Gr Ch Sweet Pea and Champion Tweaker just to name a few came from this combination. My advice to the reader was the same advice giving to me by my elders, “don’t chase after dead dogs and their bloodlines, and breed to what’s there today. No one knew Eli was going to be ELI, when he was bred to Spook, but the intuition of great Dogmen led us to where they speculated would be the place to be. You have to figure out what of your day will be the dog to breed to now. Not trying to breed to some dog that’s been dead 20 years.
....To be continued....