Ben this Ben that.......

I'm gonna start by saying this is just my opinion as I usually do. Ben was bred to many females. That's the first reason he shows up in so many pedigrees. He was bred so much because of three things. One, he was a really good dog obviously. Nobody wants to breed to a lesser animal. Two, he was campained strongly much like Dash For Cash or other big name studs in the horse world. This usually means that whatever is being campained is sensationalized to some degree. People that aren't personally familiar with the animal will usually accept the extra dynamics for a multitude of different reasons. The third reason is that Ben produced. He was a dominate stud which means that his genetics usually superceded the genetics of the females he was bred to. Most studs are not dominate in that sense. He was the producing stud in the black mouth world for several years. This is the legacy that was created. Like anything else, when it dies, it gets better. Good dogs become great dogs, and the great ones become legendary. Everybody wants their own legend or at least a part of one. This what I see as being responsible for the "Ben" craze.