X-Pert History in VA......

There was very important breeding of X-Pert Black Jack II to X-Pert Satin Boots in 1977. It was inbreeding III-I on Satin Boots. The litter had a brindle colored boy, named Atila Of Suregrip. Well known dog White Devil's Killer SchH II was sired by Atila.  Now some of today's X-Pert staffs have strong influence of these dogs.

In 1978 John McCarthy bred his X-Pert Brindle Nellie's daughter, Nellie II to Ch.X-Pert Roman Grit. Ch.McCarthy's X-Pert Sai, McCarthy's X-Pert Little Mick, McCarthy's X-Pert Miggs were born there.

Victor Castanada bred Dixie Lilly Of Suregrip to Ch.X-Pert Cherokee in 1978 to produce Ch.Spikette Of Suregrip, who is in many of Barway's pedigrees now. 

Suregrip Valiant Boots was bred to X-Pert Brindle Rocky in Rhody's Amstaffs. Lynda Snably purchased Danao Tiny Dancer "Kayla" from that litter. Here are some words of Lynda about Kayla: "I know that at the time I bought Kayla they had Ch. Sooner's True Grit of Rhody (Buster) there with them. He was a beautiful black brindle dog with a great personality. It was his personality that convinced my husband and I to make the purchase. We were expecting my first child at the time and of course, wanted a dog that would be good with children. In all the years we had Amstaffs, and later Pitbulls, we were NEVER disappointed there!!! We moved to Virginia and I started showing her as an American Pitbull Terrier, believe it or not? She was triple registered AKC, ADBA and UKC. She won several firsts and took several group wins at the "Old Dominion Pitbull Club" that my husband and I helped start back in the 80's. Kayla was a great producer and one of the best dogs I ever had the pleasure of owning" Her littermate Ironman K.O. was shown only 2 times and took 2 majors.Here is their pedigree.

X-Pert Brindle Rocky	X-Pert Blue Boy	X-Pert Champer Boy II
		X-Pert Red Midge
	X-Pert Black Susie	George's Tacoma Mike
		Storklind's Kitty
Suregrip Valiant Boots	CH X-Pert Cherokee	X-Pert Brown's Northern Yuma
		X-Pert Black Nellie
	X-Pert Satin Boots	X-Pert Blue Boy
		X-Pert Black Susie

A Lil CORVINO History......

In the mid 1960 Dr.Roll got pure Corvino bitch from Pete Sparks, she was named Corvino's Sparkett. She was brindle bitch with white on the chest, she was sired by brindle&white Corvino's C-Line and out of white bitch Corvino's Smarty. 

Joe Corvino was one of the most famous dogmen in the breed history. Joe began his breeding program in the late 1920's, he started from dogs of Feeley, Tudor's, Shipley's lines and from Armitage x Tonn's cross. He bred numerous outstanding specimens, his gamedogs played very important role in the history. Such famous names as Corvino's Shorty, Corvino's Braddock, Corvino's Thunder, Corvino's Gimp, etc are well known to any dogman. 

By the way, Joe bred National Specilaty Winner of 1939, Westminster Winner of 1940 CH Sox Of Chicago (Corvino's Dick x Corvino's Darky), that was whelped on March 1, 1938. 

Joe's 14 times winner Corvino's Braddock sired CH Young Joe Braddock, who was used by Charles Doyle in his Tacoma line. Here is pedigree of Kitty Corvino, dam of Young Joe Braddock, Corvino's Iron Will and Corvino's Victory Bob.

Saliba's Micky	Cornwell's Steve	Tudor's Fighting Peter 3xW
		Tudor's Maggie
	Johnson's City Sally	Tudor's Jack II
		Stefan's Bessie
Saliba's Peggy	Saliba's Battler	Irvin's Memphis
		Mite's Black Queen
	Lottie B	Corrington's Badger
		Corrington's Tessie

Corvino's Braddock 14xW

Pete Sparks Owned X-PERT.....

There was very interesting breeding done by Fred Wild in 1957. He  bred his heavybred Pack-A-Wow bitch, Wild's Boots to Ch.X-Pert Brindle Biff. Wild's Boots was also known as Florida Fourposter. She was fawn-brindle bitch by Gazan and out of Dan's Rebel. Gazan was by Colby's Pat and out of Dan's Rebel. So, Wild's Boots was inbred II-I on Dan's Rebel. Rebel himself was inbred I-II on Ben's Dan. Ben's Dan was litterbrother to Black Satan (Ch.X-Pert Pack-A-Wow x Sandy's Topsy). I wrote about Black Satan bitch before, if you remember she was dam of Tudor's Nigger. So, here is Wild's Boots pedigree.

Copp's Gazan	Colby's Pat	Colby's Trim
		Colby's Becky
	Dan's Rebel	Ben's Dan
		Bobby Sox
Dan's Rebel	Ben's Dan	CH X-Pert Pack-A-Wow
		Sandy's Topsy
	Bobby Sox	Ben's Dan
		Ben's Sue

So, Fred Wild recieved very nice litter from breeding his Wild's Boots to Ch.X-Pert Brindle Biff. 2 pups from this litter went to friends of Wilfred Brandon and one female pup was sent to Cliff Ormsby as stud fee pup. Pete Sparks bought this pup from Cliff and named Sparks' Spotty. So, here is Spotty's pedigree.

CH X-Pert Brindle Biff	X-Pert Black Ace II	X-Pert Black Ace
		X-Pert Duchess
	CH X-Pert Gallant Betty	Buddy Of Elliot
		X-Pert Black Daisy
Wild's Boots	Copp's Gazan	Colby's Pat
		Dan's Rebel
	Dan's Rebel	Ben's Dan
		Bobby Sox

Alberta Ormsby......

"They're terriers. ..Character is that they act like terrier, act like a Staff." - Alberta Ormsby

 

 

Alberta said this about Biff: " He'd just lift his feet like a horse, you know? Like a show horse. And away we'd go. Come on Biff we're going now. He'd wake right out of a sound sleep and on the collar would go. I'd change his collar from a bench collar to a show collar and we'd hurry over to the ring....to win! I always thought I had the best dog in the ring. I went in with the intention of winning."

X-Pert History.......

Ch.X-Pert Brindle Biff was owned by Ormsby's. He was the first dog that Alberta handled at a dog show. He won many shows all over the country. Biff took the BOB at the National Speciality in Columbus, Ohio in 1949. X-Pert dogs took all placements there. Captain Will Judy wrote: "C. A. Ormsby....should be satisfied with these results for his X-Pert dogs took all 5 major placings - a record no other breeder has accomplished at a breed show in America, any breed." Biff had also Best Producer record as the sire of 14 AKC Champions: 

1	Int.Ch.Topsy's Ghost	8	Ch.X-Pert Gallant Lady
2	Int.Ch.X-Pert The Angel	9	Ch.X-Pert Black Betsy
3	Ch.X-Pert Greer's Princess	10	Ch.X-Pert Deep Onyx
4	Ch.X-Pert Gerente	11	Ch.X-Pert The Imp
5	Ch.Alcade De X-Pert	12	Ch.X-Pert Glamour Girl
6	Ch.X-Pert Betty's Boy	13	Ch.X-Pert Yankee Boy
7	Ch.X-Pert Erin Of Chesterbrook	14	Ch.X-Pert Nutch Of Jaynes Hill

Clifford Ormsby.......

 

" When a breeder does establish a good line, he will do well to keep his quality and not slip backwards. It is not easy as his best dogs get old and perhaps an outcross becomes necessary. Knowledge, advice, and criticism are always free as water but, as we see breeder after breeder fall by the wayside, one realizes determination and work are most important." - Clifford Ormsby

 

"It's important to keep the breed strong, and sound and healthy." - Clifford Ormsby

 

"You 've got to have an outcross now and then, too....Sometimes you think you're outcrossing and you're not outcrossing as much as you think." - Clifford Ormsby

 

" Well, I was always interested in animals and dogs from the time I was a little kid....I remember my first experience. I was going to spend my summer vacation with my aunt and uncle over on the Vandermark and they said, "Don't touch Buster, he bites." Well, hell, I had Buster under my thumb in nothing flat Nothing to it. They thought that I was remarkable, because others hadn't manipulated him the way I had, you know." - Clifford Ormsby  

 

" I wasn't limited by breeding too close when I bred, because what I was using was so much outcrossed. So, if you start in with stuff that is already close bred, that's when you're going to get in trouble." - Clifford Ormsby.

 

"Alberta was teaching Dr.Roll how to show.......and Colonel Schuhmann was watching the whole thing and he said," I'll tell you something Doc,"he says, "You got to get the X-Pert on 'em before you are going to win." - Clifford Ormsby 

 

"Now, Buck was a good looking pup and a good looking dog. You know, people come in and they say, I think that one there is the best one.That would be Buck." - Clifford Ormsby

 

Best American Staffordshire Terrier in the show. That Jim Rathbun, who called Mrs.Beers, he handled Tony to his championship and then he handled him to Best of Breed down in New York. He'd come over and he'd say,"I'll be over after him in about fifteen minutes. Come on Tony Balloney." Heh-heh-heh. He worked everything on Tony. He'd go out into that ring, in Madison Square Garden. He'd notice everything in that room. Everything was of interest to Tony. And right away, the judge looked at him. I said,"From the way he looked at him and from the way he was performing," I says, "Boy, he ought to win." And he did. When the judge wasn't looking, the handler went like this at me. ...He was quick on that. She never knew he'd made the motion. Oh, he was great! He was the best man. He charged me more money than the rest of 'em. What was that I tell 'ya? Twenty-five wasn't it? About five dollars more than anybody else. Except that, the trouble of it was, "if I don't charge the same, they're going to talk about me," handler says. He was good all right. Oh, he & Tony worked perfectly. He understood Tony and Tony understood him. And the judge was looking at the dog and looking at him and he says, "He's got it all right, she's got her eye on him." You can tell, you know. Once she turned her face and she couldn't see him, he went like this to me. It's a good advertisement, having a Staff like that, a winner at the Garden, you know." - Clifford Ormsby