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

A LiL RUFFIAN Line History......

CH Gallant's "RUFF"

CH "The RUFFIAN"

Gallant line was built on Gallant Ruff, who was pure Ruffian dog, bred by William Whitaker. Whitaker was close to Clayton Harriman, founder of the Ruffian line. This line was built on dogs of mostly Tudor's Henry bloods. Here is CH The Ruffian pedigree. Interesting thing that Garm D dog and Bennet's Black Mary were from Tudor's King x Rumpus Beauty breeding. Dam of the X-Pert foundation dog X-Pert Torpedo, VanVliet's Great Labelle was from Tudor's King x Hart's Rumpus Bonnie. Now, Rumpus Beauty and Hart's Rumpus Bonnie were littersisters! So, it's one more fact to understand how closely related X-Pert and Ruffian lines are.

Klump's Deuce	Corrington's Spike	Corrington's Badger
		Rennick Patsy Lee
	Corrington's Dixie Lee	Garm II
		Corrington's Nifty
Klump's Dina	Garm D	Tudor's King
		Hart's Rumpus Beauty
	Dinah Lee	Paxton's Black Phantom
		Bennett's Black Mary

Ruffian bloodline was started from Ch.The Ruffian and Fred Schroeder bred bitch named Schroeder's Muggins, also known as Calamity Anne. Schroeder line was mostly Colby with some Smith's. And Colby's in Schroeder's pedigree were mostly old Gas House strain.