*The ‘Blue Mike’ a son of Mona Lisa and father of our first bird this week…

Yesterday was the first program race of the new season. The birds had a very fast race from Quievrain a distance of around 174 km to Nieuwendijk with seconds separating the early birds…

Club 384 birds….4th,9th,12th,14th,18th etc

Altena & Raamsdonksveer 1229 birds…13th,38th,45th,51st etc

Union de Baronie 3569 birds…38th

Our first bird this week was Blue Hen NL15-1810849 scoring for the first time. Her father is ‘Blue Mike’ and was bred by Mike Ganus from his top hen Mona Lisa when paired to her own half brother Phantoms Legend a winner himself of 1st in the Vegas Race from 330 miles. ‘Blue Mike’ also bred ‘Deep Purple’ one of our South Africa Million Dollar Race entries last year that won 3rd UK & 16th International in the Hot Spot Averages against 2,299 birds.   Mother of NL15-1810849 is ‘Rocket Class’ a daughter of our super breeding couple Granger (Son Rocket 1st Dutch National Ace) x Mary Kate (daughter Casanova 1st Dutch National Ace with a daughter of Topo 1st Dutch National Ace).

Our second bird this week was  Checker hen NL12-1737183 a previous first prize winner as a young bird, yearling and two year old including 1st Combine 2.041 birds (24th NPO 8.621 birds) , 29th Combine Roye 3,398 birds and 42nd Combine Morlincourt 2.156 birds this season being bred from ‘Hurricane Run’ (Son Young Couple) x ‘Penny’ bred by P & J Roziers from ‘Little 500′ (Johan de Belser) father of ‘Perfect Light’ winner of *1st National Zone 13.049b and 2nd National Bourges 31.824b when he was paired to a daughter of ‘Shinji-San’ (Van Hove Utterhoeven)*1st Nat. Bourges 16.950b (1st Total Lib 40.902b) when he was paired to ‘Queen L’ *1st National La Souterraine 16.297b.

Our third bird this week was  GB14J04616 and was also our 3rd bird last week winning 4th Combine Asse Zelik against 1,506 birds and she is a daughter of Chico (Hannibal x Genie) paired to Astrid a direct daughter of the magnificent Favorite Couple from Leo Hermans. This hen scored 9th Combine as a yearling against 3901 birds from Feluy and the nest mate to this hen won 1st club,1st Fed and 4th Combine as a yearling from Asse Zelik against 3493 birds as well as scoring well as a youngster.

Uitslag P.V. TOT WEERZIENS te NIEUWENDIJK V14 vanuit Quievrain gelost op 09­04­16 om 10.15 Coordinaten: +5024410 / +0341470 Aantal deelnemers: 16 Aantal duiven in concours: 384 Plcyf Naam Ver Mee/Prs Ring Get Afstand Tijd Snelheid Punten ===== ==================== ==== ======= ========== === ======== ======== ======== ======

1 A. van Vugt 1979 34/10 4‐3430129V 7 174,081 11.59.28 1666,379 1000,0

2 A. van Vugt 1979 34/ 3‐3325564V 2 2 11.59.31 1665,581 989,6

3 P. Groenenberg 1979 27/14 4‐1168205 3 173,915 11.59.59 1656,599 979,2

4 Colijn & Fox 1979 40/15 5‐1810849V 34 174,692 12.00.35 1654,540 968,7

5 P. Groenenberg 1979 27/ 4‐1168206V 23 2 12.00.53 1642,518 958,3

6 Gebr. van Hemert 1979 35/11 4‐3429886 21 174,607 12.01.23 1641,297 947,9

7 P. Groenenberg 1979 27/ 4‐1168177 16 3 12.00.58 1641,226 937,5

8 Gebr. van Hemert 1979 35/ 1‐3033765 2 2 12.01.46 1635,404 927,1

9 Colijn & Fox 1979 40/ 2‐1737183V 5 2 12.02.13 1629,335 916,7

10 Gebr. van Hemert 1979 35/ 4‐3435282 9 3 12.02.15 1628,034 906,2

11 C. Versteeg 1979 27/11 3‐3325519V 6 174,093 12.02.07 1625,268 895,8

12 Colijn & Fox 1979 40/ 3‐0004616 7 3 12.02.35 1623,782 885,4

13 P. Groenenberg 1979 27/ 5‐1811523 11 4 12.02.10 1622,849 875,0

14 Colijn & Fox 1979 40/ 4‐3432650V 36 4 12.02.42 1622,023 864,6

15 Gebr. van Hemert 1979 35/ 3‐3325416 3 4 12.02.41 1621,483 854,2

16 Gebr. van Hemert 1979 35/ 5‐3522826 14 5 12.02.49 1619,477 843,7

17 Gebr. van Hemert 1979 35/ 5‐3522782V 26 6 12.02.53 1618,477 833,3

18 Colijn & Fox 1979 40/ 4‐3432662 13 5 12.03.04 1616,519 822,9

19 C. Versteeg 1979 27/ 3‐1352398 17 2 12.02.52 1613,968 812,5

20 C.J. de Joode 1979 30/11 2‐1736776 2 180,464 12.06.54 1612,727 802,1