Smithy?

[Black neck 15,902]

Anyone know where smithy were bred and who by

[eastcoast 4,118]

I'm sure that there are men still around who do know. Various accounts have appeared in print over the years and some of them contradictory. To lesser mortals like me I think Smithy has just become part of terrier folklore, a legend almost. Those that know do, those that don't maybe never will. A bit like who bred Parson John Russell's Trump? But I think maybe Smithy has had a greater (x 1 million) influence on the working terrier of today than the Parson's did.

[Black neck 15,902]

43 minutes ago, eastcoast said:

I'm sure that there are men still around who do know. Various accounts have appeared in print over the years and some of them contradictory. To lesser mortals like me I think Smithy has just become part of terrier folklore, a legend almost. Those that know do, those that don't maybe never will. A bit like who bred Parson John Russell's Trump? But I think maybe Smithy has had a greater (x 1 million) influence on the working terrier of today than the Parson's did.

I think your right I had a version and as a drunken young fella blurted it all out infront of experienced terrier blokes in the fecking beer tent 

I could of out dug all of them just to bury me fecking self ffs still embarrassed now

[ALLYMOORE 57]

 I remember Ken with Smithy he was a big lump of a dog, must be going on 40yrs ago now. When I first met him he had white dogs, he use to turn up at the shows with a load of pups in a pen and sell the lot before the day was done. I remember going to his old place, and he must have had100  pups for sale all split into pens. He showed us a dog called Nigger that he said was finished  by 18 month, think he went back to Smithy, not much good really. I think  I remember him saying Frank Staceys dogs were stolen, or sold behind his back and the men who had them new the truth,

[EDDIE B 3,166]

15 hours ago, Black neck said:

Anyone know where smithy were bred and who by

Yea, just read the last 29 pages on it. It's surely in there somewhere 

[Rat face 1,655]

I have heard on more than one occasion he was got from a dog pound 

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

He was bred by Colin Didriksen, come on it’s common knowledge.

[Redcloud 4]

18 hours ago, ALLYMOORE said:

 I think  I remember him saying Frank Staceys dogs were stolen, or sold behind his back and the men who had them new the truth,

 

[Redcloud 4]

I remember my uncle telling me the tale of F'S dogs going a missing,..did the guys that bouhgt/acquired them offer them back to the man after they realised they where nicked? 

[Redcloud 4]

6 minutes ago, baker boy said:

The dogs were sold to R.E without F.S's permission or knowledge, R.E offered the dogs back if the money he had paid out was returned

Fair play to him then..who sold them origanally CD? 

[Redcloud 4]

13 minutes ago, baker boy said:

CD obviously a dirty wrong one then!

 

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

If that’s true, I’m surprised CD dares show his face in the terrier world

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

Why does anyone have anything to do with the man then? I mean he regularly writes for EDRD and it’s editor must know this?

[Daniel cain 45,270]

naughty shit..........

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

9 minutes ago, baker boy said:

D.H 100% knows all about it

Bad craic that.