Ben Cartwright of "Ponderosa" fame is the 70 plus Troy Powell, of Benjamin, TX. Troy ran around the Charolais and Limousin barns a few times before inventing the Fullblood Black Boer Goat. When Shelby and I went to pick up our four Red starter does I failed to bring my urban cowboy Yankee decoder ring. Even though I had faithfully watched every episode of 'Hop Sing' and 'Hoss' and listened to their dialog I misheard several key phrases in Troy's Black Boer Goat story.

Troy was comparing his goats to the popularity of black limousins while I thought white limo's were favored unless you were on your way to the cemetery. And I didn't immediately understand how Troy produced black goats through Lion breeding. But when he got to the part about the Moslems sacrificing goats, as a new home sales counselor in a subdivision sandwiched between two Mosques,

The legend has the Texan cattle breeder placing $15,000 bets on five embryos imported from Australia. One of the bryo's turns out to be a chocolate colored buck Troy names," Major League". East of the Mississippi we would have at least got back our $15K for the brown goat. A New Yorker would have sued for the whole $60,000 plus damages. Troy as the quintissential gambling man spends another $30,000 in Oklahoma to acquire the only other brown embryo import which he calls, "Hershey Chocolate".