A DOG MAN’S BIBLE

10/17/2023

James (Jim) Hardy McKenzie

One of the greatest pitman of his time, born in Michigan City, Miss. in 1904 and reared in Jackson, Tenn., he was a brakeman on the GM&O Railroad for 43 years.
His dogs were from the Kennedy's Little Joe line owned by H.Q. Kennedy (Ken), result of the combination between Harry Clark and Henry Colligan bloodlines, both down from John P. Colby's stock, more specifically dogs that trace back to Colby's Galtie "The Irish dog" strain, Little Joe spent some time in Earl Tudor's yard too, but was sold to Ken who was known as an extraordinary trainer, he also was the editor of Pit Dogs Magazine and an interesting fact to mention is that he loved Black & Tan dogs, he used to claim that they traced back to some of the old time dogs.
Ken, O.M. Hunt (both from Atlanta, Ga.) and Peter Barker were good friends and associates of Jim McKenzie.
Mr. Barker took care of Jim's stock when he got older and was entrusted to him the sad mission to inform friends and fanciers of the breed at the time about Jim's passing.

Jim had great respect for Harry Clark with whom he acquired some of his dogs and studied to keep them as close as possible to the original traits bred by Mr. Clark.

"The apple of my eye", this is how Jim used to refer to his dog McKenzie's Bozo, it all started when Jim shipped McKenzie's Sissy to O.M. Hunt in December 28, 1951, it was him who bred her to Kennedy's Little Joe, Sissy was later sent to Red Howell on June 9, 1952, this breeding produced Komosinki's Tony, who a couple years later was in**ed back to his dam producing Gill's Apache, who was then bred to Gill's Man (a pure Neblett bitch) producing McKenzie's Bozo.

Neblett's Little Biddy (littermate sister to Gill's Nan) was sent to Harry Clark by Bob Neblett and also end-up in Jim McKenzie's yard.
The great breeder Robert (Bob) Lee Neblett once said the best dogman he knew was by far Joe Corvino but he referred to Jim McKenzie as one of the dogmens who stood out in his mind, which demonstrates notable recognition of Jim's achievements.

One of the people who benefited most from the work done by Jim was his friend Leo Kinard, who won many times with the dogs sent to him.

In a letter to Your Friend and Mine Magazine in August 1956, Jim talks a little about his dog "Red Girl" and sends a funny message to Art E. Limbeck (a breeder known at the time for representing the Old Family Red Nose strain),
"Oh, I forgot to tell Art Limbeck, she was a red nose and red toe-nails too, but still old Colby and Semme's blood. Well, excuse me, folks, I just had to put that in."

In the same article, we can understand a little bit of his way of thinking and how fond he was of the Colby dogs,
"I always like to see my own dogs bred, if possible, and never just take a pedigree for facts until I see a dog in action, and if you have raised and fought a certain bloodline enough, you can see things in a dog fighting that will make you feel like it shows the old blood you have raised before and this little Joe conviced me that I was back with the old Colby blood that I had foolishly thrown away years ago, and as long as I can cross it with the blood I have out of the Sissy dog, that is the dam of some Roofner has this will be what I will end my days with.
I still have the Tanner blood to cross back to this, but is also goes back to the old Colby blood."

Jim died at the age of 64 years old on October 14th, 1968, just two months after his retirement.

Written by Neylor Zaurisio Souza (19th Legacy's owner)

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10/12/2023

10/11/2023

Historical
From Bloodlines Magazine
July/Aug 1981

10/11/2023

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10/07/2023

10/07/2023

TUDOR'S DIBO & TRAHAN'S RASCAL

Because of the importance of both Dibo and Rascal in todays bloodlines, I've chosen to tell their story collectively.

The two famous dogs, Tudor's Dibo (pronounced DIE-BO) and Trahan's Rascal shared the same sire, Hubbard's Bounce, also called Corvino's Bouncer. Bounce, as he is more frequently recognized, was out of Hubbard's Lena and sired by Hubbard's Gimp. Bounce's grand-parents were comprised of three Corvino dogs: Gimp, Goldie, and Shorty.

DIBODIBO
The Dibo line descended from the in**ed Lloyd's Pilot ( Pilot was bred at the "Red Lion Inn" in Birmingham, England and imported by Charles "Cockney Charlie" Lloyd, of Manhattan, New York City ) strain of Con Feeley of Chicago which was then selectively bred by Joe Corvino, also of Chicago and resulted in 2 key dogs, Corvino's Gimp ( Dibo's Great-Grandsire) and his litter brother Corvino's Shorty. Dibo also had some influence from the powerful strain of Frank Henry of Marietta, Ohio whose blood centered around his "Richmond" dog which was imported from Wolverhampton, England. This Richmond blood was blended with Lloyd's Pilot blood of W.T. Delihant and great aces such as Swineford's Ch King Paddy, Henry's Ch Black Brandy, Tudor's Gr Ch Black Jack and his much-feared son Peterson's Gr Ch Black Jack, Jr. resulted. Gr Ch Black Jack, Jr. was out of Cunningham's Nellie, a pure Henry bitch descended from Richmond. A daughter of Gr Ch Black Jack, Jr. was then bred to the imported Irish "Old Family" gamedog Bill Shipley's Red Jerry owned by Shipley of Texas who maintained a breeding partnership with Irishman Jim Corcoran. This breeding yielded the bitch Tudor's Goldie, a devastating pit dog which Joe Corvino bought from Earl Tudor and incorporated into his breeding program, which ultimately resulted in Dibo.

Dibo's dam was Ed Ritcheson's Bambi. Bambi, also known as Heinzl's Bambi, was sired by Ritcheson's Spike and she was out of Ritcheson's Spotty. A novice by the name of W. D. Smith acquired Bambi and made the breeding to Wiz Hubbard's Bounce. Smith eventually sold Dibo, as a pup, to a man named Jensen who only wanted a pet for his son. The young boy named his pet Dumbo, but tired of him and wished for a collie, as Lassie was popular at that time. Jensen then contacted Mr. Heinzl in regard to trading Dumbo for a collie pup. Howard Heinzl knew Bounce and Bambi were good individuals, but still had his doubts as one of Bounce's sisters were questionable, and Bambi was cold. The trade was made and Dumbo went home with Howard Heinzl and stayed, where he would follow Mr. Heinzl and stayed out of the reach of the other chained dogs on the yard for about two years.

Earl Tudor visited Heinzl's yard and took a liking to Dumbo. Mr. Heinzl offered Mr. Tudor any dog on his yard, trying to convince him to purchase a good dog. In spite of everything, Tudor took Dumbo home and changed his name to Dibo. Dibo was stolen shortyl after and was sold to a black restaurant owner, who named him Runt, Frank Ferris later changed all the incorrect papers. The pup wouldn't hit a lick until it was 2 1/2 years old, but when it did, it was an cae dog from that day forward! Floyd Boudreaux and William Burley owned a good brindle dog named Buzz on halves. They had to pull this pup off Buzz in :18 minutes as he wrecked Buzz in short order. Floyd matched him at 39 lbs. into a 40 lb. dog and won the contest in style and short order. He used his dad's Man dog 6 weeks later and matched into Gaboon Trahan and his highly regarded Country Boy dog, gave him a pound and beat him in :33 minutes. Tudor got Dibo back from the gentleman and by the age of four, Dibo had finally turned on and eventually became a three time winner at 44 lbs. His performance record is minute in comparison to his ability to produce.

He's sired:
Tudor's White Rock 4X winner Tudor's Spike 4X winner
Tudor's Jeff 3X winner Trahan's Blackie 3X winner
McCraw's Snowball Harrel's Topper 5X winner
Heinzl's Polly Ed Crenshaw's Buck
Edward's Sam Carver's Cracker
Start (Haye's) Cry Baby 4X winner Boudreaux' Blind Billy

and the list goes on.

Dibo had two litter mates that also made names for themselves: Heinzl's Arizona Pete and Langham's Lil.

RASCALRASCAL

Rascal was sent to Hanson by Corvino and later Rascal went to Pete Lormond, then to Clavelle and finally Rascal was traded to Floyd Boudreaux, where he and Gaboon Trahan collaborated on many of the breedings with Rascal. Boudreaux said Trahan never owned the dog and it should appear as Boudreaux' Rascal, like he is registered. Anyway, Floyd owned the dog and crossed him with Blind Billy.

Like Dibo, Rascal wouldn't start as a young dog and as a matter of fact, he was also stolen, but because of the fact that he hadn't turned on, they turned him loose into the streets.

Boudreaux saw him in 1957 when he got out of the service and he fought against a big black dog that was out of Cannon's Black Shine and those dogs. At that, time they was all arrested, but in those days it was just a misdemeanor, there was really nothing against bulldogs. Rascal was owned by SP and Floyd traded one of Rascal's sons for him, a young dog called Rascal, Jr. This pup had only one testicle, but SP took him and later sold him.

It is believed that Rascal won approximately 6 matches at a weight of 57lbs. He was considered a game dog, who was a very rough ear dog.

He's sired:


Trahan's Peter (Country Boy) 3X winner Trahan's Little Rascal
Trahan's Marciano Trahan's Lou
Trahan's Boy, a game loser in 2:30 Elias' Pistol
Carver's Sherly Boudreaux' Rascal, Jr.
Trahan's Ruby, who produced Cotton's Bullet.
Cajen 2X winner, who lost in 2:12 to Komosinski's Rocky II
and many more.
To reinforce the importance of these two dogs in the history of today's American Pit Bull Terrier, it is very unlikely that you can trace the pedigree of any pit bull bred in the USA, and not find at least one of these two dogs in the pedigree. I believe the only strain of pit bulls that does not trace back to Dibo or Rascal would be the Colby bred dogs. But, they are being crossed with these strains to produce winners, I.E. Jeep / Red Boy, Red Boy / Jocko, and Red Boy / Bolio.

10/07/2023

Floyd and some of his dogs over the years

10/07/2023

Some of the old-timers and all-time greats

10/06/2023

The Dibo line descended from the in**ed Lloyd's Pilot ( Pilot was bred at the "Red Lion Inn" in Birmingham, England and imported by Charles "Cockney Charlie" Lloyd, of Manhattan, New York City ) strain of Con Feeley of Chicago which was then selectively bred by Joe Corvino, also of Chicago and resulted in 2 key dogs, Corvino's Gimp ( Dibo's Great-Grandsire) and his litter brother Corvino's Shorty. Dibo also had some influence from the powerful strain of Frank Henry of Marietta, Ohio whose blood centered around his "Richmond" dog which was imported from Wolverhampton, England. This Richmond blood was blended with Lloyd's Pilot blood of W.T. Delihant and great aces such as Swineford's Ch King Paddy, Henry's Ch Black Brandy, Tudor's Gr Ch Black Jack and his much-feared son Peterson's Gr Ch Black Jack, Jr. resulted. Gr Ch Black Jack, Jr. was out of Cunningham's Nellie, a pure Henry bitch descended from Richmond. A daughter of Gr Ch Black Jack, Jr. was then bred to the imported Irish "Old Family" gamedog Bill Shipley's Red Jerry owned by Shipley of Texas who maintained a breeding partnership with Irishman Jim Corcoran. This breeding yielded the bitch Tudor's Goldie, a devastating pit dog which Joe Corvino bought from Earl Tudor and incorporated into his breeding program, which ultimately resulted in Dibo.
Dibo's dam was Ed Ritcheson's Bambi. Bambi, also known as Heinzl's Bambi, was sired by Ritcheson's Spike and she was out of Ritcheson's Spotty. A novice by the name of W. D. Smith acquired Bambi and made the breeding to Wiz Hubbard's Bounce. Smith eventually sold Dibo, as a pup, to a man named Jensen who only wanted a pet for his son. The young boy named his pet Dumbo, but tired of him and wished for a collie, as Lassie was popular at that time. Jensen then contacted Mr. Heinzl in regard to trading Dumbo for a collie pup. Howard Heinzl knew Bounce and Bambi were good individuals, but still had his doubts as one of Bounce's sisters were questionable, and Bambi was cold. The trade was made and Dumbo went home with Howard Heinzl and stayed, where he would follow Mr. Heinzl and stayed out of the reach of the other chained dogs on the yard for about two years.
Earl Tudor visited Heinzl's yard and took a liking to Dumbo. Mr. Heinzl offered Mr. Tudor any dog on his yard, trying to convince him to purchase a good dog. In spite of everything, Tudor took Dumbo home and changed his name to Dibo. Dibo was stolen shortyl after and was sold to a black restaurant owner, who named him Runt, Frank Ferris later changed all the incorrect papers. The pup wouldn't hit a lick until it was 2 1/2 years old, but when it did, it was an cae dog from that day forward! Floyd Boudreaux and William Burley owned a good brindle dog named Buzz on halves. They had to pull this pup off Buzz in :18 minutes as he wrecked Buzz in short order. Floyd matched him at 39 lbs. into a 40 lb. dog and won the contest in style and short order. He used his dad's Man dog 6 weeks later and matched into Gaboon Trahan and his highly regarded Country Boy dog, gave him a pound and beat him in :33 minutes. Tudor got Dibo back from the gentleman and by the age of four, Dibo had finally turned on and eventually became a three time winner at 44 lbs. His performance record is minute in comparison to his ability to produce.

10/06/2023

Crenshaw’s Ch Jeep R.O.M was born the August of 1976 at James Crenshaw’s courtyard, off spring of the famous Finley Ch Bo R.O.M and Crenshaw’s Ch Honeybunch R.O.M. This coupling was done only once by James Crenshaw and Maurice Carver, for reasons not known.
This cross produced four champions, the most famous of the four was Crenshaw’s Ch Jeep R.O.M but there was also Crenshaw’s Ch Missy that was fundamentally the producer of the Crenshaw yard. Crenshaw’s Ch Holly famous for her terrible bite and ability in the matches. Crenshaw’s Ch Charlie was said by some breeders of America to have been even better than Jeep.
Jeep was bred by James Crenshaw that sold him at 2 years of age to James Garrett his assistant. Jeep won four official fights against the best four American Pit bulls of America. His first match was against Pylant’s Ch Kato weighing 43 pounds and winning in 28 minutes. The second match was against Cooper’s We**ie also weighing in at 43 pounds with a victory in 58 minutes. The third match was against Stinson and Stepp’s Black Dog weighing 42 pounds, a victory in 2 hours and 5 minutes. For his fourth and last encounter in the pit Jeep was to face Ozzie Stevens Ch Homer.
Ch Homer, the most famous American Pitbull Terrier of that time, the very dog no breeder had had the courage to put their own dogs to confront in a match. James Garrett had this courage believing profoundly in Jeep’s incredible qualities and so it was, Jeep the better adversary of the two, won against Ozzie Stevens’ Ch Homer weighing in at 43 pounds, in 3 hours and 45 minutes.
The match between these two Titans made history. Even though Jeep was the winner, Ozzie Stevens Ch Homer is remembered by the great breeders as a deigned representative of the American Pitbull Terrier and the only one that could have put Crenshaw’s Ch Jeep R.O.M. to the test.
Making Jeep famous and establishing his formidable value as a fighter, James Garrett proceeded to use his best qualities, that being the capacity to reproduce; a staggering figure of mountings as Champion and Grand Champion was 360 times. He had a reputation for being unmatchable and received the most important awards in America. P.O.R (Producer Of Record), and R.O.M (Register Of Merit). Only later his record would be broken by the most famous of his offspring Garrett’s White’s Tab R.O.M that was coupled 640 times.
Some crosses noted in the American Pitbull Terrier World in which Jeep’s blood merged with other bloodlines, showed a great compatibility and gave birth to great examples such as Jeep-Red Boy/Jeep-Rascal/Jeep-Red Boy-Rascal/Jeep-Bolio.
Jeep’s offspring that made history are Garrett’s White’s Tab R.O.M, White’s Tabby Girl R.O.M, White’s Irene, Garrett’s Floyd R.O.M, Garrett’s CH Tramp R.O.M, Garrett’s Shorty, Garrett’s Rocky R.O.M, Garrett’s Jeep Junior R.O.M, Garrett’s Harley R.O.M, Garrett’s Bridgett R.O.M, Crenshaw’s Dolly R.O.M, Crenshaw’s Honeybear R.O.M, Indian Missy R.O.M, Indian Rocky R.O.M, Long’s Werdo R.O.M, and Mason’s Smile R.O.M.
Crenshaw’s Ch Jeep R.O.M was considered by many breeders as the supreme American Pitbull Terrier of the last 30 years, he established his final supremacy in dog fighting and in reproduction and no Pitbull since has matched this impact.

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