Pit Bull History

All this talk of the old rednose blood or the hemphill, Wilder blood etc, reminds me of an interesting story I heard from at least 3 different oldtimer friends. TexHogDogger will get a kick out of this. One of the main breeders of the old rednose blood (back in the day) was Bob Wallace from Little Rock Arkansas. The story goes was there was a fellow from Carolina that had bought dogs from Wallace over the years. He supposedly lived down the road from Howard Teal. He had to get rid of his dogs immediately for some reason, and Teal ended up with the dogs. All of a sudden, Bass Tramp Red Boy appeared on the seen. If you look at the pedigree of Redboy, he is out of Teal's Jeff and McCleod's Suzie Q Gal. Jeff is out of Sarge, etc. etc. When you actually look at the "alledged" pedigree of Redboy, he is heavy Colby Dime breeding. Most of the Colby dogs from that period were White w black patches or spots. If you look at the dogs in the old magazines that were out of the Teal stuff, they were black and white too. (Dog's like Coleman's Bobo and Coleman's Turkey, etc (all bred real close to the same as Redboy, but black and white)? Anyone who is familiar with bulldogs (or dogs in general) will know that it would be extremely odd for black and white dogs to be producing Red dogs with gold eyes and red toenails, etc. Anyway, I have had at least 3 different oldtimers tell me that Redboy blood was actually old Wallace, Hemphill, Wilder blood, and that is where the "stupid game" tendancies of the Redboy line comes from. Any oldtimer from the 50's, 60's era will tell you that Wallace was a gameness fanatic and would sacrifice most any other trait to preserve gameness. Now I must add, that all three of these men knew Bob Wallace very well and one of them actually was a protege of Bob Wallace and traveled to all the shows with Bob and spent many years very close to Bob. And to clarify something, I'm not knocking Redboy blood or the old Rednose dogs either one. I owned as many Redboy dogs as anybody and some were good and some were not. I probably had 20 or more dogs off Hunter Red, and we also had Kittens Ch. Britches when he died, and Haymaker is buried in my backyard. I just thought it was always a neat story, whether its true or not. Like Texhogdogger said, some people get real over enthused about a set of papers. When the reality of it is that their probably isn't a ADBA pedigree anywhere that is 100% accurate if you take it back far enough. My dog partner for 20 years (who knew personally all those guys Wallace, Hemphill, Tudor, Carver, Corvino, etc) told me the first time he saw the Redboy dogs being campaigned in the late 70's he said, "those Redboy dogs look identical to those dogs Wallace bred for 30 years."

Like I said, I don't know if the story is true, but its just an interesting story. It would be comical to see the look on the pedigree warriors' faces if it were true.

signed,

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