Greenwood's Miss Holladay

GREENWOOD'S MISS HOLLADAY
Ms. Holladay is concidered the cornerstone of the Greenwood bloodline and the foundation for many lines to follow.

Ms. Holladay herself was used specifically as a brood gyp as she was cold and wouldn't start. It was her ability to produce that seperated her from some of the other dogs in history.

She whelped only a few litters, that are as follow: when bred to Greenwood’s Oakie, she produced Kuemmerling’s Ch. Freddie (won four and lost two, one to Stepp’s Gr. Ch. Angus), O. Stevens’ Ch. Homer ROM (won four and lost dead game to Ch. Jeep), Greenwood’s Holladay Hannah (who produced Jessup’s three time winner Spitfire) and Greenwood’s Ch. Mountain Boy (four time winner). In her second litter, this one sired by Maloney’s Davis, she produced Greenwood’s Ch. Black Sabbath (won four and lost dead game to Smith & Walton’s Ch. Bad Billy ROM), Greenwood’s Ch. Cobra (she won three), and Greenwood’s Ch. Jay Dee (who sired Ch. Nino). She was also bred to Giroux’ Ch. Milou, this litter didn’t have the impact or notoriety of the previous breedings. To my knowledge, I’ve only come across one of those dogs ever being matched, her name was Penny and she was picked up in :31.

The following litter, second by Davis, produced several excellent bulldogs, most of which were never matched, but used as brood stock. Of these, there was Greenwood’s Martha White (she was the dam of the three time winner Giroux’ Ch. Booger ROM), Greenwood’s Scarlet (dam of Frank & Al’s Gr. Ch. Booker), and then there was Greenwood’s Delta (dam of Stiltner’s one time winner Laverne).

(Giroux' Ch.Booger ROM was mated twice to B&W's two time winner Carrie and produced B&W's Ch.Joker and B&W's Ch.Spice.Dennis'Oz 2xw/2xl, and a bunch of other winners which made their name in Europe during the early eighties).

These dogs distinguished themselves, not only by beating and competing against excellent competition and demonstrating that crawling back gameness that is so rarely found. But, had the ability to pass these traits on generation after generation.

Unfortunately, Ms. Holladay died in a kennel accident with a belly full of pups by Oakie. If all of the matches were reported and accepted, she would have a total of 6 ROM points, thus putting her 1 point behind Ch. Honeybunch as the best producing female in history.

There are many questions as to her pedigree, I've seen and heard from several "old time" dogmen who have Grider's Chatter as being a brother to Brown's Nigger, out of Eli, Jr. breed to Spook. Many say Chatter was Corvino dog, which accounted for the gameness in her progeny. What is known is that Ralph would not have bred her if he wasn't sure of her immediate ancestry. As picky as he was as to how he bred, I feel like he knew exactly how she was bred, but for whatever reasons, it remains "pure bred but unknown".