Who is Hughes and Holcomb?

[CYJ]

Frank43, EWO gave you the right answer. The real question you have to ask yourself. Are you in the dog game to participate and breed dogs from your own winning dogs. Ones you have bred, that you have used. Are just to sell pups off their nice pedigrees. Tell buyers how much prey drive they have when chasing a ball or grabbing big ropes etc. hanging from trees. Shutz hound or show dog wins.

Grady Cummings was one of the tops for selling these dogs to anyone and everybody. He made his name off Boudreaux. He got various Boudreaux dogs and bitches from various dog men. He had about twenty brood pens and females along with about four or five stud dogs. He sold dogs around the world. I saw his so called four-time winner Dutch Boy many times. He never said Dutch Boy was a four-time winner. I started seeing that on the on lines pedigree site etc. Not questioning the dog's pedigree but saw no marks on the dog anywhere. Just a pretty white-headed brindle marked dog.

Only way a deep game no talent dog could win in today's real competition is to be big boned, long bodied, could be pulled tight and showed in July and August weather with high humidity where I live. K. Marlowe got some dogmen from the mountains to come to her back yard at that time of the year. She won due to knowing they were bringing barn stormers. Saw some of those dogs they were gasping for air before their show started. LOL

How do you think Don Mayfield whipped Bully Son. Got Bobby Hall to show Bully Son in that desert dry/dead heat of Texas. Bully Son had other factors against it as well before the show started. Tombstone weathered the early storm and won.

Said all this to say this. You are the manager of your dogs like a fight manager is of his team of Boxers. He knows what each fighter is capable of. The manager would know nothing of their boxing talents if he just let them play soccer or punt footballs and run up and down a basketball court. He would have to properly train them for their type of sport and to set up matches of comparable like competition. You are right back to the A, B, C, fighter. Yet sometimes in the dog game a B or C dog may be sacrificed to an A or B dog if the odds and money are in that managers favor. Just the nature of many men.

When it comes to very deep game dogs with no talent. One could consider a female for brood. Since the old timers believed that most of the gameness came from the female side. Bitch dog would still need to be big boned well put together and a calm dog. Cheers