My brain does not work like it once did, and for the life of me I can't remember if HC bred to Dusty or Lanier's/Triplett's Rex Boy.

The female was down from some Snooty/Pool Hall Red stuff. So, there is always a story. He lined up a weekend trip once for a show and a visit with Katie Marlowe, to Georgia for the Snooty/Pool Hall Red females. The cost of the dogs were minimal, even for the time. Gas was relatively cheap as well. But what cost was the phone bill lining up being at the show and making the two stops along the way. When you pay $300 or so dollars for dogs and then to make that happen get a $300 phone bill someone has to pay. In today's world we can pick up a phone and call over everywhere as many times and for as long as we like for the same flat rate phone bill. Back then you paid long distance rates to call into the next county. Sort of flashed back.

I will have to ask whether the 'litter of black dogs' as they were always referred to were off Dusty or Rex Boy. There were six or 7 in the litter and they all went to the show and all won matches.

Years later HC said the Dusty II was the beginning to the end of the Red Boy dogs as stand alone type dogs, if it had not already happened. The statement had nothing to with Dusty II himself, just the fact by then, hindsight was quite revealing. By the time he said that Red Boy dogs were the most popular bulldogs on the planet. They were somewhat easy to obtain and very easy to sell.

The rule of thumb was the easier are they are to find and obtain the more likely the dog would be a flop. The smaller, less know guys who didn't breed a lot of dogs and sold even less was the place to shop if you were looking for a Red Boy dog who had a good chance of being a bulldog. The Whitley dogs, the older Cottingham dogs, the older Medlin's Outlaw dogs, etc. These dogs were links to the original Red Boy family, mostly because they had to earn their spot based on their actions not their lineage. The actual preservation was being done on a much lesser level/lesser known yet more effective.

The mass producers sent the family into a downward spiral.

EWO