What dogman had the biggest impact on the game as a breeder?

[Officially Retired]

In terms of having dogs that people took and went their own way with having success creating their own line. Not the guy that sold the most puppies or made the most money.

Back about 1993, Ed Faron started running a pedigree program called CompUPed, that could do reverse-pedigree searches that would list the total # of champions down from Dog X, Y, Z, etc., spanning (I think) 7 generations. He used to sell this information.

At the time he did so, the dog with the greatest # of Champions down from it (7-generations-deep) was Boudreaux' Eli followed by Indian Bolio. There are, literally, thousands of winners down from these dogs. I know that Redboy is now the big thing, but without Bolio there are no Mayday dogs either, nor any Boyles' dogs (which have oodles of ROMs/Chs, etc.), my dogs, Buck dogs, Hollingsworth dogs, etc.

Who gets the credit for these dogs? Patrick? Carver? Boudreaux?

I would have to say, impact-wise, Tudor, and especially Carver, Boudreaux, Patrick, Chavis, and Tant would be the top-6. Many people could make a powerful argument for Colby and Crenshaw, too.

However, to narrow it down to one breeder would be almost impossible, but if I had to I'd have to say Maurice Carver was the most influential, foundation-dog-creating breeder ever.

Jack