domingo, 23 de junho de 2013
sábado, 22 de junho de 2013
FINKLE WINKLE'S CH. DOLLY
Before I'll tell you the life story of this game little 30 lbs p.w. female, I'll tell you about her ability to produce winning longwinded hard scratching game dogs which should made any dogman proud.
When bred to F.W.K.'s 1xw ''Dutch'' (Maloney's Ch.Bert x Hall's Hot Load) she produced the 1x winner in 2.04 Milkman's ''Spike'', defeated KKK's ''Champ'' on a hot Florida summer night, proving to be deadgame by running his courtesy to collapse dead in the others corner after a brutal battle. He was one game brother. Milkman's ''Mad Max'' who was never matched but sold and vanished out of sight and a game sister, Junk Yard's ''Pinky'' who was stolen, and 3 other males were culled at F.W.K.'s yard.
When bred to Cobra's 4 x winner Ch.''Speedy'' (St.B.'s1xw Rooster x Cobra's Messa) she produced F.W.K.'s ''Joop'' a deepgame winner of two contests. He had a game sister, Care Taker's ''Suki'', who just like ''Joop'' died on a young age due bloodcancer, two b###hes were placed by Cobra for brood, one male he culled, and another male was culled at the yard of the Iron Captain.
When bred to Roberto & F.W.K.'s Ch.''Ginger'' (Bros'Ch.Handsome x Bros'Neutron) she produced 2xw 1xl Underdog's ''Fred'', who's showing in his last and winning match he's deadgame to boot, and F.W.K.'sCh.''Dollyson'' who lost his 1st in a game effort to Tex Mex' Ch.''Bimbo'' and went on to defeat 3 opponents the hard way later on in his career. His littermates and brothers ''Ajax'', ''Ginger JR'', and another male, who his name slipped my mind, are still alive on various yards, their only sister ''Red Jacky'' died during a roll due heart faillure.
Glad to know that she's been bred two more times and that there are youngsters on the campain trail and old ''Dolly'' pups on the ground at here. So far about her offspring, here the complete story how I obtained, raised and campained this little pitdog.
The ''ROSITA'' vs ''DOLLY'' match. A classic battle.
An ol' aunt of mine gave me a phonecall about 11 years ago and she was telling me that her son had a little pitbull pup who was too much to handle, and if I was maybe interested to have the pup. At this moment I was loaded with dogs and didn't have the space for even a little mouse, but to help my nephew out, I decided to go and look at the pup, maybe it was a wellbred one and could be farmed out. When I was entering in my familie's house a Cocker Spaniel was jumping on me and out of the living room came a very little, thin buckskin pitbull b###h running to the Cocker and grabs him by the ear. My nephew's wife was shouting to the b###h to stop, with no avail. I was laughing all the time and released the poor Cocker. I said to my nephew ''hell, she is a nice pup man !''. His reply was that she was driving him crazy and if it is normal for a dog to have this behaviour. I told him that he doesn't have a average street mutt but a dog who was probably bred for combat purposes. He didn't like it at all and was almost begging me to take the four month old b###h with me home. I asked him if he had any papers on the dog and his wife handed me some ADBA papers which showed that this little firecracker was sired by Champion ''Ben'' (a 4x winner) out of ''Red Danger'' (a 1xw in 2.04), dogs I had knowledge of. I was really suprised to find such a wellbred pup at this place and left of course the house with the b###h, but not before I had released the pup again to grab the Cocker one more time.They were pissed and I was walking to my car all the way smiling, because I had a little firecracker on my leash.
Arrived at home my wife and daughter liked the pup imediality, since she was really sweet toward people, specially children but I had still the problem that I haven't enough room to place the pup and was calling a friend of mine to farm the pup out. When I was on the phone a friend of mine was entering into my house with a big 55 lbs chocolate colored pitbull who really pulled his leash hard.''Hell,what's that ?!?'', he was running in the streets, looking for some trouble I guess, my friend says. I recognised this big dog as the dog which was owned by some fellas who were doing a lot of terror in the streets and treating people with their pitbulls, the kind of a--holes that gave our breed such a bad reputation in our home town. I was still on the phone and told my friend that I had also got a big, bad male with no breeding, maybe you want to have him too ? He said.''yes bring in the dogs'', which I did.
The chocolate ''stolen'' dog was rolled for 45 minutes, had shown no talent at all but was to our suprise looking game, but I decided to gave him to a farmer as a guard dog and probably he's still around. Anyway the little pup, which I decided to name ''Dolly'' was brought to my friend and picked up by me about one year later, when I heard that the owner of dogs such as Champion ''Harley'', Champion ''Speedy'' had obtained a b###h bred by Pat Patrick from St. B. Kennels and was standing open at 30 lbs.
My ''Dolly'' was rolled at the early age of ten months without my knowledge into a game Cotton's ''Bullet'' b###h,''Dolly'' killed her in seven minutes. I rolled her into my strong ''Mask'' b###h as soon as I had her back,''Dolly'' and ''Mask'' fought for 20 minutes, both determinded to wreck each other completely. I stopped the roll due to the fact that I was afraid of loosing them both.''Mask'' was matched later on against Peter Parker's 6xw Gr. Ch.''Rasta Girl'', who was going for her Championship into my dog. We lost this very hard one in 1:08, both dogs had really destroyed each other and I was not to save my dog. ''Rasta Girl'' had a hard time also, but finally recovered and won 3 more, one of these against Tattoo Ron's ''Nona'' in 24 minutes, also a dog of my kennels originaly.
I had defeated Cobra before when we were matching my ''Jail'' b###h into his ''Red'' b###h ,I won this one in one hour and fifty minutes, ''Jail'' was the dam of ''Mask'' and from the 1x winner ''Gary'' who had beaten Giant Kennel's ''Bolio'', a son of the famous St. B.'s ''Dylan''. We agreed with each other and a match was made, Scarface as referee. By the command let go the dogs meet each other hard in the center of the pit, ''Dolly'' riding the head, ''Rosita'' going for the chest. Both dogs can bite hard, but ''Dolly'' seems to have the better of it. At about 30 minutes both dogs going down, ''Rosita'' comes through and goes for the chest, a turn claimed on ''Dolly'', but even Ray Charles could see that there was in no way a turn made and also the referee says no turn. ''Rosita'' was building up a lead now, and both going on real fast and determinded, the crowd goes wild when both dogs going down again and swapping stifle holds. ''Rosita'' coming up first rooting real deep into ''Dolly''s chest, who is on the floor with a hold on the underjaw, unable to come up. ''Rosita'' is dragging ''Dolly'' through the pit, ''Dolly'' goes down fast now, she try hard to come up but she is not strong enough anymore. Out of frustration ''Dolly'' is crying out and one of the spectators, a well known dogman,shout out loud that my b###h is gonna die and that I am a scumbag or something like this. I watched my b###h struggling for life, still determinded to wreck the other dog and tell Cobra that he can scratch his dog to win if he like. Dogs were broke off and ''Dolly'' laying down, stretched out completely, I think the same nitwit shout out again, that the dog is dead, I'm quoting Earl Tudor says ''Hey ! you want to see a dead dog scratch ?!, ''Rosita makes a real fast scratch and won, ''Dolly'' soon as she was released cries for more and was giving one of these amazing, stumbling, deepgame, wide open courtesy scratches. The crowd was going wild, ''Rosita'' the winner in 1:10. Several fanciers told me afterwards that they had just saw the best match of their life .I was driving home with a badly wounded dog who had lost but who had satisfied me completely. I was bringing home the real McCoy, a damn little game bulldog which makes me proud to own.
''Rosita'' was sold to Bad Boys Kennels and won two more in short order, a real good fighting dog, who had showed to be a game one also in her first match.
BRYANT'S CH.BEN X O'NIELS'RED DANGER = F.W.K.'S DOLLY
GONZALES'NOREGRETS X PATRICK'S ROSE = COBRA'S (B.B.'S) CH.ROSITA
PS:About that stolen dog we had, I think snitches and dogthieves are the lowest kind of scum in the sport, and I don't have any compassion for this kind of people, but let me tell you all this, when some idiots are running in the street with our breed of dogs, don't hesitate to take these dogs away from them before somebody gets killed.
By Finkle Winkle
quarta-feira, 19 de junho de 2013
GR CH GARNER'S SPIKE (5XW) ROM
Spike came into this world through the co-operation of Atlas B. & Cecil M. & represented payment for the breeding of Snooty to M's Black Betty. By showing gameness & ability in his schooling days, he avoided ending up in the sand pile where A.B. sends dogs that don't make the grade.
At the age of 25 months, Spike met Spruill's Pete in his 1st contract match. Petie, of Boomerang & Cowboy breeding, took severe damage to the chest from the beginning. Even though he fought w/ tremendous heart, Petie was physically unable to make his 2nd scratch at 40 minutes.
Spike's 2nd match was against a buckskin 1/2 brother to CH. Jeep, owned by Harry H. This proved to be Spike's toughest fight, as the buckskin possessed an extremely fast mouth & lots of bite. After 45 minutes, the buckskin dog had the slight edge & Spike was missing a sizable portion of his upper lip. The gruelling pace of the fight began to tell on the buckskin, & Spike found his way to the chest. For the next 15 minutes, Spike put on a display of biting that left many-seasoned dogmen shaking their heads. At the hour mark, Harry's dog was unable to scratch & Spike became a two time winner.
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| REDDICK'S PEDRO |
Watson & Peeler brought their Spence dog from Tennessee for Spike's 3rd match. Spence, sired by Reddick's GR.CH. Pedro had earlier won in 2 hours, impressing everyone w/ his gameness. From the beginning, Spike outperformed Spence in every sense of the word. Spike was able to go to the chest & it was "Katy bar the door." Spence stood the line after 26 minutes. Incidentally, Spence later won another fight over Hargrove in almost 2 hours.
Fight number 4 pitted Spike against the boys from New Jersey & Pig, sired by CH. Head. Pig was a two-time winner from Jarrett. Spike's ability forced Pig to fight defensively from the beginning & Pig proved to be an excellent defensive dog for one hour & 10 minutes. Then, for the next 19 minutes, Spike literally took Pig apart w/ devastating bite & overpowering wresting ability. Though game to the end, Pig was picked up at 1:29.
For his final fight, Spike was placed in the hands of a top-flight dogman from Louisiana, -- T.C. A match was made w/ an Art bred dog from Texas that has reportedly won 2 impressive fights. The setting was Little Rock, Arkansas on a hot July day. Spike found the chest early & the conclusion was never in doubt. After 30 minutes of severe punishment, the Texas dog could take no more & took the count on his 3rd scratch.
Spike's fighting career allowed him to face dogs of various styles, in the hands of numerous respected dogmen from differing parts of the country. All challengers were faced & the final result is that GR. CH. Spike proved himself to be an extremely gifted physical specimen who would stay until the job was finished. He has earned the right to be recognized as the most successful son of the prepotent Wood's Snooty, ROM sire & a worthy descendant of his namesake, Tudor's Spike.
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segunda-feira, 17 de junho de 2013
CASTILLO'S TROLL ROM
Troll was born and raised on the yard of the famous breeder Ozzie Stevens. Ozzie bred his 2X winner Zera, daughter of Ch. Zero, to Red Rhode's 2X winner Amos, who was a son of Gr. Ch. Virgil ROM.
Troll was rolled once and looked very good, but unfortunately broke his hangers in his schooling. To make matters worse he had the bad habit of chewing on rocks and his chain, thus dulling all of his teeth making it improbable for him to be matched. He was bred to a few gyps on Ozzies' yard.
At around the age of 3, Troll was sold to Ron Castillo who kept him for a few more years until finally selling Troll to Pit Magic Kennels.
Troll sired Ch. Waldo out of O. Stevens' Butterfly (Carver blood), Ch. Tyrone, Ch. Ozzie, and Gr. Ch. Krueger out of O. Stevens'Ramona ROM.
GR CH ADAMS & CRUTCHFIELD'S ART (7XW) ROM
This dog was a very important part of Bulldog history. This dog came on the scene about the time when mediocrity in the dogs was coming to an end. Stinson and Glover, who originally owned and campaigned Art, were among some of the best dog men of that day and had as good a "Stable" of great dogs as there were around of that time.
Art was a product of B. Clayton who bred Eli, Jr. dog to his gyp Java. Out of this litter also came Double OO, Catfish, Patty, LittleJava, and Ch. Hurt, noted for their ability and mouth. In spite of his ability there were many around that were convinced that he couldn't be any count since he was cur bred. But his record of victories dispelled those beliefs.
Art's first match was a win over Balke's dog in 1:20, for his second he won over Jobe's dog in :39. His third was against Burton & the Plumber's Jade. Here's the account for that match:
"My most memorable experience having to do with this world renown dog took place on a beautiful day in North central Texas when the combine rose to the challenge and brought him up to meet the Big Plumber's Jade dog. Jade was off of Hammonds' Zeke bred to Rasmusson's Ginger and one of the heaviest Dibo dogs of that day. He was thought by many a dog that couldn't be beat. He was a hard mouthed, offensive dog that would take a lot of good dogs out in short order. Jade had one flaw compounded by a medical problem that no one ever bothered to address. He never paced himself, mainly because he never had to but had a soft palet that would make it impossible to breathe if he had to go the long route. You got the picture, the Plumbers' were betting that this would be a short one so never worried about the oxygen problem.
The dogs hit and Jade buried up to his eyes in Art's chest and as he was getting ready to "Sit the Ivory" Art took him out. Jade kept driving and had set a fast, hard pace for dogs of this size, but when he would get into the shoulder instead of destroying it as was his specialty, was taken out. The first half of this fight was like a chess game with Art not doing much, just staying out of trouble and in charge at the same time. Close to the half hour mark, Jade had started to melt and was gasping for every breath at this point. Art still being relatively fresh went to work and it appeared Jade would most likely meet his maker, had not the Plumber's picked him up at the :37 minute mark. It was obvious that Jade wasn't going anywhere and the Plumbers showed good sportsmanship in their decision to concede. Everyone shook hands and went their separate ways."
For Ch. Art's fourth match, he went into Chicken Sam
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B. Clayton with Gr Ch Art |
Chicken Sam used his 2 time winner Gator into Ch. Art. Both dogs were worked for other matches and they fell through, so they matched each other.
At "pit your dog", Gator gets on Art's nose and walks him around the pit. Art, pushing for the shoulders. At about 8-10 minutes. Art gets the shoulders and shows that hard bite he is known to have.
The fight goes on with Art working the body and going into the stifle and Gator trying to hold Art out. 30 minutes and Gator has been bit to pieces and takes the count making Art a four time winner.
For his fifth, he was matched into B. Crutchfield and D. Adams and disposed of their representative in :20.
After losing one of their best dogs to Art Adams and Crutchfield purchased him from Stinson for the amount of $2500, which was a steal for a dog of his ability and record.
Now owned by Adams and Crutchfield Art was matched into Cumpers & Razmus who brought a white dog called Polar. Both dogs came in under 46lbs. Polar goes to the ear, Art to the chest and shoulder. :10 minutes Art goes to the stifle, then back to the shoulder, Polar on the ear. :23 minutes and Art has complete controll, now Polar showing weakness from shoulder and stifle. :35 minutes Polar helpless. 1 hour mark, Art releases his hold, Adams tries to call him into a turn but can't. 1:11 Art looks up, Adams calls a turn, a quick handle and Art makes a fast scratch. Cumper gives up the fight in 1:12.
He was matched into a B. Hall dog and was fouled out by the handler, on top. He was hooked into Holt's Jeremiah, unfortunately the contract was cancelled by Crutchfield. Of all of Art's matches only one dog ever scratched back to him.
Afterwards he was matched once more winning his seventh and offered at stud, at the age of three years old, the ads on him read "Art" "The dog with the Heart". Some time later this great 7xw was stolen just like his sire, Clayton's Eli Jr., as someone thought that the $300 stud fee being charged was too much.
He produced Gr. Ch. Mike, Ch. Strike, Ch. Luke, Ch.Bumper, Ch. Leila, Ch. Queenie and many other great dogs.
Art will long be remembered as a one of the greatest to ever look through a collar.
sábado, 15 de junho de 2013
HILLIARD'S DINAH
I would like to tell you about a dog that has not had much written about it, nor has the dog been given much credit, nor do I know this day whether the dog is dead or alive, even though I technically own the dog. I would lay this brood bitch up against any in the country or around the world today and I believe that she is as good as any, and as game as any. The brood bitch that I am talking about is known as MIMS’ DINAH. Her father was the great dog SNOOTY, and her dam was the great MIMS’ HANNAH PATCH. Before I get too far along let me back up and tell you how I came to respect the line of dogs that this dog represents.
At some time back around 1980 or so a fellow by the name of Max Coats was able to get HANNAH PATCH away from Carl Mims. I have been told that Max traded Carl a car for the dog, but I have never asked Carl about this part of the story. Anyway, this dog was a tremendous brood bitch, especially when bred to the great SNOOTY dog. That breeding had been made twice and produced some incredible dogs. But, that is a whole different story which we won’t get into here. I went by Max’s house one day and here was this incredibly vicious black and white dog just foaming at the mouth, and running frantically back and forth on this cable run just trying to get loose. There was no doubt in my mind that if that dog got off the chain that it would do everything in it’s power to kill me. And I will say that over the years, that bulldog was the most vicious one that I have ever seen, or ever expect to see. Max told the story that he had to feed the dog hamburger for over a week inside the air kennel before he could calm her down enough to get her outside. This was after he tried to get a friend of hers to get her out. The “friend” came real close to losing his hand! Anyway, she was an incredible specimen, and I knew that if I ever got the chance I would love to have something off of her.
Well, as it turned out, Max ended up with one of those dogs off of the SNOOTY/HANNAH PATCH breeding. This was the dog known as KATIE. And, just like her mother she, too, was one of the most vicious dogs that I have ever seen. I put this dog on the cover of the first Gamedog Digest that I put out, and she was a beautiful specimen of a dog. You can read about her in Pit Bull Anthology or in some of the books that Dick Stratton put out. She was a truly game, classy bitch. And, she had this thing for guys. The fact was she was jealous like a woman. She could tolerate men around Max, but don’t let a woman come by. It is hard believe but it is true. Well, I also had visited with Carl and he at that time had another of the litter, a dog he called HALF PINT. Carl always said that anyone was welcome to have HALF PINT. All they had to do was get her off the chain. Well, no one ever took him up on this proposition and he bred some good ones off of her. By now you are saying, “what does this have to do with DINAH?” Well, I’m coming to that. About this same time I printed a rather lengtyh article about Bishop Hillard, giving Bishop credit for some thing that other people had taken credit for. You can read this story in Pit Bull Anthology Part Two. Well, Bishop called me up one night and told me that he greatly appreciated the article and that he would like to send me a dog to show his thanks. I about dropped my teeth when he told me that he had one of the dogs from the SNOOTY/HANNAH PATCH breeding that he wanted me to have and her name DINAH. I had heard Carl mention this dog and how good she was, and so I figured I would get the story straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. Bishop told me that the dog had been game tested shortly after they had gotten the dog from Carl. She scratched on three broken legs. You may say that this is an exaggeration, but if you know about any of the rest of the dogs from that breeding you know that they were all game –– and more than one did take their death. Well, he indicated that the dog had produced several multiple winners on the west coast, but they had not been given much press in the dog magazines. And, if I can jump ahead a bit, let me say that here within the last year or so you may have seen where a dog out of her made champion.
I am referring to Wild Bunch’s MR. PAIN. This dog is out of DINAH and sired by Hammond’s BUTTERFLY (PLUMBER’S ALLIGATOR/FLORY’S SUSAN RENÉE) and the breeder of course was The Godfather. The point I want to make is that this is just one of many dogs that did well for the fellows on the west coast.
Getting back to my story, I was tickled to death that Bishop wanted me to have this dog, but then reality set in and I could see HANNAH PATCH, KATIE and HALF PINT, all trying to eat me alive. I said, “Bishop, all those dogs are maneaters!” He said, “Not this one, I guarantee it.” Well, a few week went by and the day came for me to pick DINAH up. I arrived at the airport and there sat the air kennel. I eased up to the front of the kennel, and there was this dog that was the splitting image of KATIE, and I just couldn’t believe that she would be any less vicious. I got her home and rather gingerly I eased her out of the kennel and got the shock of my life. She was the most loving, affectionate dog that I have ever seen, and she never made the first move toward anyone as long as I had her here at my house.
During the time that I had her here at my house she only came in heat one time. I bred her to a double son of SNOOTY that I had and the breeding didn’t take. I won’t try to guess whose fault that was. Anyway, shortly after that time I had my rather infamous run-in with the powers that be and I had to get rid of all my dogs. Well, I could not sell this dog as she was a gift, and I wanted her where I could get my hands back on here so I farmed her out to a fellow that I had known for a long time who I thought would do me right. He goes under the handle of Acme Kennels. The deal was that no pups would be sold, and that they would all be put to the test, and that I was to get half of any litter that was bred. Well, he had a dog there by the name of HOBO. This dog was bred by Ralph Greenwood from a stud dog that he had and a brood bitch that Acme Kennel’s owned. Acme suggested that we go with that breeding and I agreed. When it came time to split the litter I didn’t have the facilities to keep my half (which by that time had shrunk to two pups) so I agreed to have them placed in the hands of some people who would do them right, and I was told that I would be kept totally up to date with how they did, and what they did. Well, I have never heard the first word on any of these dogs from Acme. I do know that the HOBO dog was stopped, and I see in the Sporting Dog Journal of Nov.-Dec. 1988, that ACME’S PSYCHO, a son of HOBO was defeated by JAY’s BISON. This may or may not be one of the pups from this litter. I have also been told that at least one other breeding was made with DINAH, but I have yet to hear the first word about the dog, even though I had been by Acme’s house on more than one occasion. This is really not the way I would have the story end. DINAH was born on 1 September 1979 and so I doubt that she will breed many more pups if she is even still alive, especially in that she was only coming into heat about once a year. The point I guess that I am trying to make is that here is a dog that produced many great dogs, perhaps even to the point of being a Register of Merit dam, but because of the lack of publicity, promotion, and bad luck she was never given the credit that she deserved. I am sorry that I never was able to breed her up to her potential while I had her, but I am thankful that I was able to own her for a time. And, more importantly, the way that I came by the dog is what I will always remember. Men have paid great sums of money for much lesser dogs, but I was given the dog as a sign of one man’s friendship. And, for this is why I will always remember MIMS’ DINAH.
American Pit bull Terrier Times, March-April 1989.
CH. HOLLINGSWORTH'S PINKY (4X)
Hollingsworth's Ch. pinky was born July 7th. 1989 the result of a second generation breeding by Mike & Dot Kelly. They had a deep game bitch named Ruby out of Jone's Ch. Smoker and Frank Rocca's Red Gal that they bred to Patrick's little Tater and they bred a bitch out of that breeding to Laminack's Trouble a son of Ch. Tonka that produced Ch. Tara and Ch. Flint to produce Pinky's litter. Pinky was sold or given to the late E. Hollingsworth as a pup. Ed Farron in turn purchased the pup(Pinky) from Mr. Hollingsworth along with several other dogs. Pinkys first roll came at about 18 months of age, a real rough hard biting bitch by the name of sugar Mae was used and Pinky was the down dog from start to finish @ :25 Pinky never made any bad moves and made a stumbling scratch. A couple months later a young Jeep/Nigerino bitch was put on her, and Pinky was used to start this bitch. When the bitch got onto Pinky's nose Pinky made a lot of bad signs, she even went as far as turning away from the young bitch. At this point most felt that Pinky was a cur. R. Davis really wanted Pinky and asked Ed repeatedly for her. Ed agreed to let Davis have the dog with the stipulation that if she did indeed turn out to be a game dog that they would get pups back from her in future litters. About 3 months later Pinky had been sold again and at this point it was still thought Pinky was a cur. Looking back Ed felt that Pinky had never turned on @ 18 months, and Pinky was not ruined permanently in her second roll and got another chance that most dogs never get. After all Pinky's littermate Manson had lost his first match in over an hour and won his second dead game. Far too many dogmen feel that at 18 months a dog should be ready to be tested and rolled hard, while it is not feasible to hold a dog beyond 18 months for most large dog yards. There have been many a great dog that did not turn on till later in life, and have gone on to become Champions and grand champions. Pinky was sold again to Hilltop Mike and it was Mike who set Pinky down for her game test on a very hard biting bitch and tried to stop her. With all he had heard about her in her second roll he was very concerned she was a cur she went :45 min. with this bitch and never made a bad sign. Mike then decided to match her @ 42 lbs. Pinky came in at 41 and won in :38 after an all out war, with both dogs dishing out lots of punishment. Pinky had won best in show over 4 matches that same day; some of the dogs of mention were the untouchables Ch. Butkus, McDaniels Feisty & Gaston's Pea. One report in the American Warrior wrote Hilltop Mikes Pinky vs. Newjacks "Leather" females @ 42, Pinky plows a field through leather and leather takes the count @ :38 another match reported was against the Untouchables Vixon vs. Hilltop Mikes Pinky females @41 Pinky a 1x winner Pinky does the barnstorming and Vixon takes the count @ :06 I believe Vixon was lost after that show. And Pinky was on her way to becoming a Champion. Pinky goes on to win another in :17 with a pit kill, she was sold again this time to T.R. he kept Pinky for a while and she was sold again to Killer Bee. At 5 years of age Killer Bee matched Pinky again and she wins in :31 with yet another pit kill. At 6 years of age she is matched again this one went 2:36 with no turn or out of holds and Pinky is picked up game and makes a stumbling scratch, this was by far Pinky's greatest test and with all odds against her she finishes with a game loss.
We had heard that Killer Bee was in the market for some younger dogs and asked if we were interested in Pinky, needless to say we wanted her at any rate we worked out a deal for a 1x winning son of Stratton's Mozart (Bill) out of CBK's Olive Oyle Popeye has gone on to make his gr. ch. and to date has won 7 shows and made over 30,000.00 in his carrier. Pinky was in rough shape when we got her and we did all we could to get her back to health and bred her to Popeye's littermate Beekman (dead game); from that litter came Whitehead, a good brood bitch we have here and Jake, a winner himself. The second breeding we made was to Stark's Jasper (CBK'S), a double bred son of Patrick's Macho Jr. dog. While these pups are still young they are showing a lot of promise: one that comes to mind is CBK's "Jinx" and two others that have been rolled and have shown excellent results. We expect to see dogs matched off that breeding this year.After Pinky's breeding with Jasper her health began to decline rapidly. While she had a lot of problems with old injures, her greatest hurdle was yet to come: heart failure. At this point knowing Pinky could never be bred again we decided she would be just an old dog we would keep around through her later years, and a great conversation piece. Pinky was one of a kind, as I knew her, she was one of those once in a life time dogs that every dog man dreams of owning. Her temperament was un- surpassable and of the kind we would like to see in all pit dogs, her heart was as big as they come, her mouth was as hard as they get and her ability to get the job done was beyond what most of the so called fast lane dogs of today are. At the age of nine her health had declined to the point she was no longer enjoying life the way she always had and I felt it was in her best interest for me to make her final scratch, one of the hardest I have ever made. As she slumped in my arms the tears ran down my face although I had never campaigned her or saw her many victories, her life had flashed before my eyes. In the spring of 98 she was laid to rest in Chapel Hill, NC. Her sons and daughters live on at Cedarbrook kennels to follow their dams footsteps.
Ch. Pinky was center fold for the American Dog Breeders Ass. Summer of 98 vol. 22 issue 4. A poem was written beside her picture that reads:
"As we pay tribute to mothers day, its only fitting we do. Select a bitch that lights the way, she's Hollingsworth's Ch. Pinky, tried and true. The path she traveled far, "she's much to young" an old man said, surprise them all, become a star. The bloom of youth did never fade. A look, a sigh, she twirled around, A flirt a bark, "please see me". She even climbed a peach tree. A residential change took place, "perhaps they'll be much kinder. And put a smile back on my face, Like my video rewinder. Soon the luster of the show, remained, just a memory. The bloom was gone indeed, although, she felt was temporary. When born the date was eighty nine, "she's damn near pink, that red nosed bitch. She's full of spunk, and body fine, She'll be a Champ, without a hitch." She settled down, but still was young, her thoughts were on the future, On show time day she'd come unstrung, as empty crates passed by her. "What's up! ol' gal, you've had your fame, A mother soon you'll be, Reminds me of your mother game, You're like your grandma Ruby. She wasn't wrong, for dog men say, Its seeing is believing time. There'll always be that one more day, And Pinky she did shine, She's gone on now, a life well lived, Her sons did make her proud. She had it all that life could give, She always played the crowd."
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