The Truth About
Mason's Ch Hammer
This is going to be a huge article. Therefore, if you read it too fast, or "gloss over it," you will do nothing but cheat yourself.
Most people are under the impression that The Mason's Ch Hammer is sired by Patrick's Bull Boy Bob out Patrick's Blitz, but it is my firm conviction that Ch Hammer was sired by Smith & Williams' Reuben ROM.
Before I get into my theories, as well as into the facts that support them, I think it is important that you (the reader) take ~ 25 minutes of your time to listen to a recording of Pat Patrick that was made in the 1980s by Bobby Smith of AZ, Rueben's owner. Here is the Audio Tape of Pat Patrick admitting that he hung papers on Wichita's CH Blaze, falsely claiming the dog was off of "Four Bits" (Bolio) bred to Blitz, when in fact this Champion was sired by Reuben x Blitz:
Recorded Phone Call of Pat Patrick admitting on tape that he hung papers on Wichita's Ch Blaze
Now then, this tape involves the discussion of many illegal activities (dog fights, money laundering, etc.), but before anyone cries "snitch," you must keep in mind that this tape was recorded nearly 30 years ago, and so the Statute of Limitations on all of these matters has long since expired, which means no one is in jeopardy by the release of this information. That said, your understanding of the truth (namely that Pat Patrick is an admitted paper-hanger and liar CAUGHT ON TAPE) is foundational for your understanding of the truth behind Ch Hammer, whom I believe was also sired by Smith & Williams' Reuben ROM out of Blitz.
To begin with, this is the confirmed pedigree of Witchita's Ch Blaze as revealed in the tape recording above. Well, okay (you might be thinking), but what does the fact Ch Blaze was falsely-papered by Patrick have to do with the idea that Ch Hammer was also falsely-papered? That is a fair question! Well, folks, I am going to make a list of Unimpeachable FACTS that have led to the formation of my THEORY that Mason's Ch Hammer is likewise sired by Reuben x Blitz (not BBB x Blitz), which will be followed by a list of Supplemental Facts that further support my theory, and finally I will cap everything off by a list of Empirical Evidence and Expert Testimony.
Before I proceed, however, let me clarify that there is a difference between Clyde Mason (of Mason's Ch Hog fame) and THE Mason (owner of Ch Hammer), where "The Mason" was a handle used by Darren S. of California. In short, Clyde Mason is an actual person who had nothing to do with Ch Hammer, while Darren S. was a professional mason worker, hence his chosen handle of The Mason.
With this preamble out of the way, here are a multitude of UNIMPEACHABLE FACTS that surround the issue of "who is really the sire" of The Mason's Ch Hammer:
Unimpeachable Facts RE: Patrick Hanging Papers on Ch Blaze
- Bobby Smith called Pat Patrick on the phone, and (in possibly the greatest con job in the history of the game) Smith pretended to be a Middle Eastern customer ... fooling Pat Patrick into believing he was going to get $10,000 for a bitch (Blitz) ... and, by tempting Patrick with greed, got Pat Patrick to confess to everything below regarding the Reuben x Blitz breeding:;
- Pat Patrick admits on tape that he had Smith & Williams' Reuben ROM on his yard for a period of at least 1 year;
- Pat Patrick admits on tape that he rolled Reuben, that he watched Reuben stop his own Bolio match dogs on his yard, that he liked the dog, and that Patrick bred to Reuben based on what he saw;
- Pat Patrick admits on tape that in EVERY instance where he bred to Reuben, Patrick falsified the papers so as NOT to give Bobby Smith (or his dog Reuben) any credit for the results of these breedings;
- Pat Patrick admits on tape that he falsely-papered Wichita's Ch Blaze in particular as being off of "Four Bits" (which was a code name for the stolen Indian Bolio) when in reality Ch Blaze was sired by Reuben ROM;
- Bobby Smith sent a copy of this tape to Jack Kelly, who officially revoked Indian Bolio as the sire to Ch Blaze, and Kelly changed the Champion certificate to reflect Blaze's true sire as being Reuben ROM;
- Smith & Williams' Reuben ROM is a pure Hyde's Satch/Bloody Sunday-bred dog.
Now then, these are Unimpeachable Historical Facts, the tape of which is right here provided as proof, and these fact are likewise backed up in the annals of the original Sporting Dog Journal. There is no one, of any intelligence or knowledge, who can deny these facts. So, with these preliminary facts established, let us move onto some Supplemental Facts that tie the above facts to The Mason's and how his Ch Hammer came to be, and WHY this dog is (in all probability) yet another falsely-papered son of Reuben ROM, as opposed to Bull Boy Bob as his papers reflect:
The Supplemental Facts RE: The Mason and how Ch Hammer came to be
- Before The Mason bred Ch Hammer, he owned a full brother to the falsely-papered Ch Blaze above, named The Mason's Wolfman, who was also a falsely-papered Reuben x Blitz dog, and who lost 100% DG in one of The Mason's first contracted matches;
- The Mason felt Wolfman was the gamest dog he had ever seen in his life at that point;
- The Mason then bought Patrick's Blitz, the dam to Ch Blaze and his own now-dead Wolfman;
- The Mason then took Blitz to Pat Patrick's and (on paper) bred to Bull Boy Bob [but (as will be argued later) actually bred Blitz back to Reuben again to replace what he felt was the gamest dog he had ever owned in Wolfman];
- Both Bull Boy Bob and Reuben were "black dogs" ... but BBB was solid black ... whereas Reuben had a white blaze, which was BOTH a trademark of Reuben's ancestors as well as of his offspring;
- Wichita's Ch Blaze was named for his white blaze; Ch Hammer had a white blaze; Poncho had a white blaze; no other true BBB dog ever had (or threw) a white blaze;
- After The Mason made Champion with Hammer, he did not breed Hammer to his heavy Bolio/BBB bitches Speedy and Aurora, which would make much more "genetic sense"; instead The Mason took a plane and flew right over Pat Patrick's yard and BOUGHT 3 BITCHES DIRECTLY FROM RONNIE HYDE (including Hyde's Sadie), all of which were Eli/Carver bitches bred near-identical to Reuben.
Okay, so far I have set up my theory with 14 IRREFUTABLE FACTS (7 regarding Rueben being used/hidden by Patrick, and 7 regarding how/why The Mason would be interested in Reuben as well) in support of my theory that Ch Hammer is likewise really sired by Reuben. The rest of my case is going to supported by Empirical Evidence and Expert Testimony, and at the end of this presentation you can be the judge and form your own opinion.
Empirical Evidence
First of all, let us take a look at both Bull Boy Bob and Reuben ROM, and really come to terms with their physical characteristics.
Bull Boy Bob ROM vs. Reuben ROM
As anyone can see, BBB is a thin, racy, terrier-like animal (very fast-looking), whereas Reuben is a thicker, slower, more methodical-looking animal. And, as you can also see, BBB took after his sire Bolio in his own physical characteristics:
Indian Bolio & his son Bull Boy Bob
Again, both Indian Bolio and his son Bull Boy Bob are both thin, speedy terrier-like animals, and BBB dogs in particular produce thin, speedy, terrier-like animals such as my Bandana bitch (linebred BBB):
Vise-Grip's Bandana
Now then, since the dispute is whether The Mason's Ch Hammer is really off of BBB as papered ... or whether he is really off of Reuben ROM as speculated ... let us now compare the physical characteristics of Bull Boy Bob ROM to Ch Hammer ... as well as Reuben ROM to Ch Hammer:
Bull Boy Bob vs. Ch Hammer
vs.
Reuben & Ch Hammer
Now then ...
Does anyone think there is EVEN THE SLIGHTEST resemblance of BBB to Ch Hammer? (I sure don't!)
And can EVERYONE see the remarkable physical resemblance of Reuben to Ch Hammer? (I sure can!)
To me, it is pretty much a slam-dunk match of Reuben and his physical characteristics aligning perfectly with Ch Hammer and his physical characteristics. Now how about their most famous offspring? By far the most famous offspring of Reuben ROM was Ch Blaze (who was a white-blaze clone of Hammer) as well as Gr Ch Badger who was a clone of Poncho ... who was the most famous offspring of Ch Hammer!! In fact, let us take a look at the physical resemblance of Smith & Williams' Gr Ch Badger to my own Vise-Grip's Poncho:
Smith & Williams' Gr Ch Badger ROM
(the most famous son of Reuben ROM)
vs.
Vise-Grip's Poncho ROM
(the most famous son of Ch Hammer)
Again, it is another slam dunk IMO. The most famous son of Rueben ROM (Gr Ch Badger) is virtually an identical twin to the most famous son of Ch Hammer (Poncho). EMPIRICAL FACTS: That "buckskin/white blaze" look is the stamp of the Reuben dogs, it is the stamp of the Badger dogs, and it is the stamp of my Poncho dogs ... and yet it is FOUND NOWHERE in any (true) line of Bull Boy Bob dogs. Now then, let us consider some Expert Testimonials:
Expert TestimonyMoving forward, in addition to the Unimpeachable Facts concerning Patrick's use of Reuben ROM as a stud (and his recorded confession of concealing this fact), in addition to the Supplemental Facts of The Mason owning a DG brother to Ch Blaze (and then buying his mother from Pat, and bringing her back to him for a breeding) ... and then after the produced dog Ch Hammer becomes Champion The Mason buys three Ronnie-Hyde-bred bitches ALL OF WHICH were bred like Reuben ... and in addition to the fact that Reuben, Ch Hammer, Poncho, and Badger are ALL physically nearly-identical ... I offer the following Expert Testimony:
TFX:
My friend and long-time California resident (and 25+ year dogman) TFX, is an expert on the Bobby Smith line of dogs. He actually started out in the game as a kennel boy for Bobby Smith, so he knows his Reuben/Badger dogs like the back of his hand, and he was the one who first put the idea into my head that Ch Hammer was a Reuben dog, not a BBB dog. All he had to do is take one look at Poncho, when I sent him some photos of my dog, to know in his bones that Poncho took after this family. The foundation of his own family (Ch Costello) carries a decent amount of Reuben blood in it.
Northern Express:
My friend and long-time Dogman, Northern Express, is another expert on the Bobby Smith line of dogs, owning both multiple specimens of that line, as well as my own. He has made Champion with Smith-bred dogs such as Ch Juantez (whom he said was an indistinguishable clone of Poncho), as well as with my own Poncho dogs, such as Ch Red Bull and Ch Shiver. This more than 25-year dogman is also 100% convinced that Ch Hammer is a son of Reuben, not Bull Boy Bob.
The Milkman:
Longtime dogman and breeder of Bolio dogs, Randy Goodman, once called me (when he had Diamond Girl on his yard) to say, "This is the thickest-boned Bolio dog I have ever seen," and likewise corroborated his gut feeling that she was "different" from all of the other Bolio dogs he was used to.
Pat Patrick & Emily Dennis:
Patrick and Emily have hated me for years, ever since I got Poncho. After I saw what Poncho could do, and how superior he was to every other "Bolio" dog I had ever seen, I stopped breeding to the Patrick's dogs and started building my own bloodline around Poncho. Other than the fact Poncho out-produced every Patrick dog that has ever been born in the last 25 years, there is the additional fact that, because of their jealousy of Poncho, the Patricks (on their own website) used to say, "Poncho is not a 'real' Bolio dog." Now then, if Poncho's sire Ch Hammer was a true son of BBB, how could Poncho "not" be a Bolio dog ... UNLESS, in their bones, Pat Patrick and Emily KNEW Poncho's daddy, Ch Hammer, was really off of Reuben ROM? That is the only possible justification for calling Poncho's "Bolio blood" into question, is if the Patricks knew that Ch Hammer was really off of Reuben ROM.
CA Jack:
And then there is myself, the man who has worked with nothing but "Bolio" dogs and "Hammer" dogs for nearly 25 years also. From the moment I saw him, rolled him (and his sister), I know Poncho was totally different in class and quality from every other "Bolio"-type dog I had ever owned. The fact is, my two most important foundation dogs, Poncho and Coca Cola, were both allegedly out of two different sons of Bull Boy Bob owned by The Mason (Ch Hammer and Bolio Jr.). And, even though (at the time I made the breeding) I was initially unaware that Ch Hammer was falsely-papered, all through my ownership experience I have considered my Ch Hammer dogs to be totally different (in type and in traits) from my Bolio Jr. dogs. I have considered each to be an "outcross" to the other, even before I realized WHY this was so, namely that Hammer wasn't really off of BBB. And, of course, after I learned more about the history of these dogs, it all made perfect sense to me. But I can tell you that pure Hammer dogs are totally different from every other kind of "Bolio" or "BBB" dog on the planet ... they are simply gamer, tougher, and smarter ... while the true BBB dogs are faster and more intense ... and when COMBINED I get "The Whole Deal"
Well, that just about wraps-up my presentation here. At the end of the day, I think that this is Ch Hammer's True Pedigree, and thus I think that this is Poncho's True Pedigree. I have not "officially" changed these pedigrees on my database, because this is a theory of mine and not a fact. Even though I have presented a MOUNTAIN of facts in support of my theory, to this date both Pat Patrick and The Mason deny that Hammer is off of Reuben, so I will leave Hammer's (and Poncho's) pedigrees alone.
ConclusionHowever, one dog whose pedigree I HAVE officially changed here on this database is that of Patrick's Tessy, who was the littermate to Ch Blaze and Wolfman, and therefore is NOT off of Indian Bolio ("Four Bits"), and is absolutely really off of Reuben ROM. One guy came here and tried to "change her pedigree back to Bolio," but DO NOT do so because the truth of her breeding is absolutely reflected in the Reuben entry. The most notable dogs that Tessy's changed pedigree is going to reflect are Patrick's Blockhead and Patrick's Cheryl Tiegs, whose most notable offspring are Invicto and Rick Rude. (And, interestingly enough, the knowledgeable reader will also note that both Rick Rude and Invicto lines are likewise noted for having/throwing that trademark white blaze, which they both got from Reuben's daughter Tessy, the littermate to Ch Blaze).
Final NoteBefore I go, there is one other very important dog that is believed to be off of Smith & Williams' Reuben ROM, by those dogmen who are "in the know," and that is Thrift's Ch Bobby Jr. Ch Bobby Jr. was a rough-ass, cobby bulldog, with a body type totally unlike a true BBB/Bolio dog. Bobby was thick and durable like a Reuben-type bulldog, and if the suspicion of his pedigree is correct, and he is really off of Reuben, this would also help to explain the truth behind the pedigree and the mouth/performance of one of history's all-time-great bitches, Abraham's Gr Ch Queen of Hearts (8xW).
In closing, I hope you have enjoyed the history behind this article, which would make Reuben a 6-point ROM and Bull Boy Bob not an ROM at all. Please keep in mind that I have no axe to grind, as I love my BBB-bred Coca Cola dogs in the same fashion that I love my Reuben-bred Poncho/Ch Hammer dogs. But I have ALWAYS known they are NOT anything like each other in traits, and for close to 10 years now, I have also known they are not really anything like each other in pedigree ... and I hope that this extensive article helps you explain why
YIS,
~ CA Jack
PS: If you read this too fast, or "glossed over" it, you have done nothing but cheat yourself.
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