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Today was the grand final of the Who Dares Wins One Loft Race flown from Falaise a distance of 292 miles. Very pleased to report Mrs Ann Smith of Derbyshire flying as the Telly Tubbies wins 3rd place with their entry Tinky Winky collecting £8350 in prize money.  This bird was bred from a son of our PORTUGAL PAIR coupled with a hen bred by Mrs Smith from a son and daughter of DRUM. I am super pleased for them on this exciting performance. The Portugal Pair continues to produce top prize winners once again...One Of The Best Pairs [...]

Just had a very nice message from Chris Turner and Debbie Neale reporting their great prospect GOLDEN FLAME winner today of 34th Prize in the Algarve Golden Race Semi Final from Castelo Branco against 3941 birds. This bird also won 81st prize in the Portalegre race from 230km against 4738 birds.  It clearly likes the Algarve terrain. The breeding of GOLDEN FLAME is very much a case of 'Horses for Courses' as the sire is from a son of our inbred Thomas 6 cock that won the Algarve Golden Race final in 2018 and the dam is a daughter of [...]

Team Hermans Fox very pleased with our 13th prize in todays Algarve Golden Race Semi Final against almost 4000 birds with COMRADE YURI.   Today we had two races in the Algarve. First race was the Algarve Great Derby Race 3 from 200 km  with 1777 entries and we are very happy indeed with 2nd place ( 0.7 seconds from 1st) and 19th place.     Our first bird winning 1st UK , 2nd Overall was 'LONE STAR'  bred from 'TEXAS STAR" bred in combination with my buddy Andy Skwiat of Indiana , U.S.A and winner of 3rd Ace Pigeon [...]

Courtesy of The Duif Chronicles. It is almost the end of the 2023 season  but the form continues again for the Willem de Bruijn team this time from Melun. In Afdeling 5 Provincial South Holland they win 85 prizes from 158 entries with 13 positions in the top 100 including 8th,9th,10th,11th,15th and son o against 13,608 entries. First four arraival pedigrees attached and we can see a pattern emerging of the principle winning bloodlines. NL23-9324672 8th Provincial Melun 13,608 birds   NL23-9324848 9th Provincial Melun 13,608 birds   NL23-9324633 10th Provincial Melun 13,608 birds [...]

  This week Afdeling 5 South Holland were racing from Pontoise with 16,059 birds in competition. The 170 strong young bird team of Willem de Bruijn won 115 prizes so another good team performance winning 1st Samenspel Gouwe Ijssel against 1757 birds  plus 11th, 29th,66th,67th and so on against 16,059 birds. Pedigrees for the first four clocked are included with this report.   NL23-9314723 1st Samenspel Pontoise 1757 birds, 11th Provincial 16,059 birds.   NL23-9314666   29th Provincial  Pontoise 16,059 birds.   NL23-9314852  66th Provincial  Pontoise 16,059 birds.   NL23-9314730 67th Provincial  Pontoise 16,059 [...]