| Tombstone was bred by the great breeder Don Maloney. Maloney sold Tombstone to Ron Petronelli as a young dog, who then sold or traded him to Don Mayfield, where he was raised. His sire was Maloney's Toot, who was a son of Tudor's Ch Spike out of Carver's Black Widow. Toot was a devastatingly hard biter who had produced dogs that passed that trait to their progeny. Another son of Toot who was a great producer of hard mouth dogs was Maloney's Davis, who sired Ch Our Gal Sunday, Ch Cobra and Ch Black Sabbath. Tombstone's dam, Speedy Alan Jena, was a scatterbred bitch containing dogs from Pete Sparks, Howard Heinzl, Joe Corvino and Earl Tudor breedings. Tombstone was matched one time and after that one victory he was retired to stud, after being available for a second match with no takers. This match was against Bobby Hall and a 2x winning son of Bullyson, named fittingly Bullyson Jr.. Ed Weaver was putting on a show and notified Bobby Hall that Don Mayfield had a 55 lb. male open, so Bobby Hall accepted the challenge. Ironically, Mr. Hall conditioned Bullyson Jr. at Mayfield's house, at the same time Don was conditioning Tombstone for this match. The match was one sided for the first hour with Tombstone on defense and Bullyson Jr. on offense with stifle holds. At the hour mark it appears about even, at 1:09 both dogs are down and at 1:14 an out of hold is called with Tombstone making a hard scratch. Bobby Hall concedes the match at 1:25 making Tombstone a winner in a game come from behind effort. Shortly after that match Pat Patrick paid a visit to Mayfield's in hopes of purchasing some good dogs, he was offered Tombstone. Pat purchased Tombstone, but left him there until he was matched again, which never happened. After the 14 months that he remained at Mayfield's in hopes of another match, Pat Patrick requested Mayfield to send him his dog. Upon arrival to Pat's yard, Tombstone was then bred to about 15 bitches. Due to the fact that he was a long legged, rangy looking and scatterbred dog, he wasn't in high demand as a stud. Of his few breedings, one to a daughter of Indian Bolio named Red Baby, he produced the champions Tonka, Crash, and Uptown's Snubby. He also produced Dozer, Ch. Reno, and Gr. Ch. Hope, to name a few of his progeny. Tombstone died a few years later from heart worms, as back then the cure was sometimes worse than the malady. |
| Maloney's/Petronelli's/Mayfield's "TOMBSTONE" ROM 1x |
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| Maloney's/Petronelli's/Mayfield's "TOMBSTONE" ROM 1x |
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