![]() These chickens were called the Waddle Irish. Pragnoff, of Louisville, Ky and Waddle imported from Vinegar Hill, Ireland, some game chickens. ![]() Tom O'Neal was associated with Waddle, who controlled most of the gambling houses in Louisville at the time and Sid Taylor furnished a great many cocks to O'Neal and Wadle. Taylor infused into his chickens, but with them he succeeded in winning the respect of Tom O'Neal, a great Dom breeder and cocker of Louisville in the main fights he competed in. No one knows the proportion of this blood Mr. Taylor put a blue cock that came from Shy. In 1869 George Cadwallader, a horse jockey and a race horse trainer, sold a horse for $15,000, and was also provided six black imported Irish hens as added payment. The first cross that Sid Taylor made with the Shy chickens was in the early seventies.
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