Your digression is always welcome, and always worth the read.

Although basically the same ingredients the Gainey dogs we saw back then were superior to the Burns dogs. At the show they were in super condition. Agreed if he were in the game longer his impact would have been much larger. I too heard the story of some top notch dogs being put down when he got out. It was said, "When he got out, he got out".

I saw three or four from Mr. Burns yard. They all quit. That does not mean they were all sub par but it sort of made it hard to run out and get one. The Jocko-Red Boy dogs did well for a number of people. Seen a few good ones down thru Waccammaw.

Nowadays it is hard to make a call as not many straight Jocko-Red Boy dogs around. They seem to be added as a crossed or something else crossed in.

Great series of posts.

EWO