Quote Originally Posted by projectx View Post
Hi crazyred , first off let me say im not asking that we give mayfield credit for the family that was bred down after the
intial crybaby x cotton breeding that produced ELI, but i do think that he should get the regonition for the breeding
and that he was correct all along that floyd had srewed him over on that litter of ELI'S , which when you think if floyd
handn't lied to mayfiled and told him all the pups had died , then mayfield would have taken the pups home with him and
and without ELI on floyds yard then neither floyd nor clemons could have bred to him and they wouldnt have been able to get the credit and fame for breeding up that ELI family of dogs if he had never been on floyds yard to start with would they.

SO its about time we gave mayfield at least the courtesy to say DON YOU WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG. which i think he deserves
just as i think the adba should change the blind billy ped to reflect his unknown heritage and ELI'S true heritage .

As for the maverick dog, i wont go into that now , but there is also some question marks as to that dog , and i will
go into that on another day , but i havent said anything about the maverick dog yet , so you were reading my mind
crazyred but i agree that we should try to see which way the wind is blowing thats for sure.
I can't wait until you are up to talking about that, but I think it has long been credited to those whether in secret or in mind that Mayfield was correct about Eli being off Cry Baby. Yes I agree had Don took the pups then all of the following probably wouldn't have happened and with that said Eli wouldn't even be famous so what credit what don be looking to take?

Remember he had Tombstone as well, Snake as well and Hank. Does he deserve the credit for those dogs that became famous? If he want's that credit he has to take the credit for the folks who constantly screamed and yelled at him for spending tens of thousands with him and got curs down from his line as well. That's the big difference, and I've had dogs from Floyd that weren't worth a cats piss. Yet still you don't hear people bashing him for the curs they got you hear people praising for the great one that they got from him. Most folks that bash Floyd for the curs don't even own Eli dogs or never got a dog from Floyd. Same as with Jack and most other good breeders. Folks that bash typically never owned dogs from that man but talk about the curs. A good friend of mines spent over 7k on dogs from Mayfield and his protege at the time Kershner and not one of those dogs made the grade. So you got to remember the bad comes along with the good my friend.

I think Mayfield needed to reconsider his approach when it came to getting credit, you got to remember you catch more flies with honey then you do with salt.

I think he didn't feel as appreciated in his time but the generation after him and still to this day hold his name with high regard. Look at his peers and most of them had their moment with fame, Floyd took off with his Eli fame, Bobby with Bullyson fame, PP with Tombstone x Bolio fame, Crenshaw with Honeybunch, Baker Davis with Boomerang, Maloney with Toot, VJ with Hank, Wood's, Hyde etc and Maurice as in conversation as Greatest Breeder ever, he feels a little slighted. All these men had their own dogs and folks won with their dogs and they took turns as being the top breeder here or there where Mayfield didn't take off here, overseas he did but not in his own backyard and I think that got to him a little bit.