Ironline dogs

Dam good info C2K!!! Thanks for the heads up,, ya learn something new every day...

 

Here's Ch. Strider's pedigree, the pic is Earl Tudor and D. Maloney with Ch. Strider.

 

Great stuff C2K and gringo Ilove all the info you guys provide.

 

That's Correct this pic is Ralph Greenwood in the box with Ch. Strider,





[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]" The above colored photo is the famous Strider dog. He won lots of fights and when Maloney got him he lost with him to the famous Cassius Clay dog. Don Maloney told me it was Strider's turn to go at about the two hour mark and he took the count.. He told me Cassius wouldn't go either but won because he didn't have to scratch. I took Maloney's statement with some doubt. I'd like to here comments from Divine on this match. I had a friend verify this the other day and had the magazine report at a friends house . Anyway Cassius won and Strider quit but Strider was one of them good dogs that was just fought to much and his fight face left him. You have to give both dogs credit they hurt each other and went a long ways down the road. Dogs do funny things when they go that long sometimes. A dog only has so much fight in him. Just like a battery in you car only has so many cranks. It varies from dog to dog. Just like one car battery will last 2 years and another 6 years. Don made a match with Strider and couldn't go so Charlie Adkisson and Myself took Strider to Arkansas and won with him not to long after this loss. He fought a fairly long fight scratched good for us. We handed Jerry Beene the money to hold and the opposition handed Beene the money to hold. When we were handed the winnings it was 100 dollars short. I'm not sure what happened or who got the 100 dollars "[/FONT][/FONT]
Story taken by R.F. website.

 

Agreed Coop this is what every post should be like on this site no bullshit threads like have been posted as of late

 

Ok back to the Ironline dogs, Hey I.M. if you don't mind can you tell us any stories on GrCh KoKo (Cocoa), was she your favorite Iron dog if not who was.

 

great info c2k......

 

Sad Don had to stoop to saying Cassius Clay wouldn't go when everyone there knew he would. He later went on and won again.
Contrary by today methods but back then it was considered unsportsmanlike to want to ask for a courtesy scratch. It was consider trying to show up the loser. Basically showing off. If they wanted to scratch, the rule would be the winning dog would have to scratch to win instead of scratch in turn.

How if depth are you wanting to know since I handled her?

Back years ago people often couldn't find dogs by gender.
So if both sides were willing, it was on. One time OTC, the "Hitman" came into town with some friends (this was before he was well known, before Noonie & D.C. era), well it only took a couple of minutes. First hit, one front wheel, next hit, the other front wheel then he was on his front grill.
Next hit took out the whole undercarriage inside out.......DOA
The are news reports out there for you to read of other wreaks.

 

BTW Ch. Strider's grand mother died in I.M..'s home town when Clarence Yates put her down. Ch. Strider father's half brother was owned by I.M.'s great uncle off Beanie and Burwell's Jebb. His name was Petie McCoy.

 

BTW the year of Your Friend and Mine was 1964, I left that out.:o

 

Oh one other thing, this is why Pat bred Cassius Clay to Scratch. Scratch's father, Bodzianowski's Flash 2xw, was a half brother to Cassius Clay. Kind of like niece to half uncle breeding. Which isn't really bringing in anything new with Duke because if I remember right on Scratch's bottom side was Corvino as well through Peaches and I believe Duke was in her pedigree. If not, it was a very close breeding to him.

 

Thanks I.M, this is the reason why I come to this message board, you can read all the books out there, but hearing it from the old timers horse's mouth is Priceless!!

I Hope you don't mind me posting some pics for all the Ironline dog fans out there, here you go Coop-dog.

Gr Ch Iron Taffy



Ch Iron Bob Cat

 

With Ironman, I.M. didn't like to be in front of the camera.
Both dogs were over 8 years old in the pictures.

Oh I see someone was taking pictures off the old website. lol

 

Ok sorry, Mods please delete those 2 pics, thanks.

 

agreed. i would love to just sit and listen to these guys talk for hours.

 

Thanks Sea Serpent appreciate it .

 

Sea Serpent,

Here's a story told by C2K before about Koko, here's the post of where he told the story good info about other Ironline dogs as well.

old family rednose registry?????? - Pit Bull Forums

 

Oh yea I read that before but thanks anyways QVO RIP, now this thread wouldn't be right without showing my favorite Ironline Dog, look at this Beauty!

GR CH Norrod's Iron Koko (Cocoa)

 

awesome pic, and even better thread. This is a great read, thanks to all the people posting these great stories and info.

 

ive seen that pic from somewhere