GFL-2021-63…The Inbred Romario Cock… Now breeding at Syndicate Lofts.

This handsome chap in the shots are The Inbred Romario Cock bred by Mike Ganus from Thomas 6 when paired to Queen his own mother.

Any regular readers of the News Items on our website or on our Facebook page will know just how important The Young Couple Bloodline is to our past, current and future breeding plans due to the sheer volume of top class performers they are responsible for over twenty years.

The Young Couple Bloodline crosses well with most middle and one day long distance blood and it was only after reading the fantastic twelve articles by Henk Siomonsz ‘Ace Four Forever’  and especially the additional thirteenth article detailing the offspring of the incredible Romario and his grandson Thomas 6 in particular  that convinced us we should breed back as best as we can to the original foundation breeders like Mattens and Sissi who is of course a daughter of Picanol of Gaby Vandenabeele  who in turn is a son of Kleinen the basic breeder.

Galileo the cock of The Young Couple was bred from Achilles a son of the same Picanol and Sapphire a daughter of Wittenbuik who is also a son of The Kleinen paired to Princessje a full sister to Sissi therefore bred from Picanol and Genaaide.

We normally would not have imagined inbreeding or line breeding with another Sissi, Picanol, Wittenbuik or Kleinen pigeon until we realized through the evidence of the  multiple truly top performers reported about in the Simonsz articles that some genes are robust enough to improve the winning DNA like the Mattens and Sissi blood, but most can not and only deteriorates the vigour and vitality to zero.

As our original direct children of The Young Couple were aging quickly three of four years ago we paired strategically to concentrate the genes from the very best into young offspring. We bred a lot and culled a lot only keeping the very best specimens and retained them for our future breeding plans.

We then set out with the help of Mike Ganus to find the correct individuals to introduce into this plan and with a strict specification. As Mike and I know the Sissi pigeons like the back of our hands after countless visits to handle the birds at Ad Schaerlaeckens over thirty years , we also know what the original supers looked like for example Creilman , Home Alone, Invincible, Ace Four Supertje and they were not too big but with supple muscles, excellent feathering and the dirty blue and pencil blue coloration with fiery eyes that distinguishes them.  And that’s what we needed to pair to the inbred Young Couple birds.

Mike came up with this young cock as a candidate to start with GFL-2021- 63 and in my view he suits the plan perfectly being all the things we are physically looking for and being a direct son of Thomas 6 paired back to Queen his own mother has a pedigree inbred to the super breeder Romario of  Hans-Jörg Hallmann with Mattens and Sissi appearing eight times going back generations and improving in quality with every new generation.

Then we needed to evaluate the offspring so we wasted no time in pairing him to several hens and the first nest is just about to be weaned. The dam of the first nest was a daughter of our top breeder Golan when he was coupled to Mata Hari, and the results are absolute class.

We include a photo of the nest pair with this report taken this morning.  So now we have a start of our longer term plan and we will now waste no time in pairing The Inbred Romario Cock to our best original hens like Bonny and Mata Hari who are both getting on a bit… and also young inbred daughters of Junior, Warlord, Golan, Renegade and so on.

We also fancy a trial pairing with Femke the hen of our Portugal Pair that bred our Ace Pigeon and Car Winner in the Algarve Golden Race and many others.  Imaging that , a son of ‘Thomas 6’ that won the Algarve Golden Race by 24 minutes clear paired to the mother of ‘Blue and Lonesome’ winner of 1st Ace Pigeon Overall in the Algarve Golden Race with a lead of over one and a half hours!! The best plan we have of breeding other Algarve Golden Race performers!!

We will retain everything we breed this season, especially with the old hens for our future breeding, but we hope to have a pair from this cock with one of the young inbred hens, probably later hatched in our Pigeon Chat or Blackpool auctions in the winter depending on quality of course..

 

Inbred Romario a son of THOMAS 6 with QUEEN his own dam!
Inbred to ROMARIO with MATTENS x SISSI  (Schaerlaeckens) featuring 8 times in his pedigree.
SUPER WINNING DNA!
Offspring ‘Romario’ won:
*1st Golden Algarve 2014
*1st Golden Algarve 2018
(Thomas Kornelius) €120,000
*1st Golden Algrave 2019
(Uwe Neubauer) €120.000
*1st Victoria Falls 2019
54 minutes ahead
(Rolf Berger) $225.000.00
*1st Crooked River Challenge
USA 350 mile final race 2020 (Andy Skwiat) $47.000
*1st Flying D 400 mile Final 2022 (Kelly Ward) $107,300
*1st Grand Averages Million
Dollar Race Sun City 2013
*1st Burghofrennen Derby 2019
*1st Nordseerennen 2017
€15,000
*1st Acebird DK Derby 2011
*1st Acebird Derby Ostseerennen 2014
*1st Super Cup Winner 2014
*1st Cape Town South Afrika 2020,
Training 16, 120 km
*2nd NPO Chalons 6,221 birds
*2nd NPO Issoudun 2695 birds
*2nd Victoria Falls 2020
(Reinhard Gebhardt) $100.000
*2nd Acebird Derby Ostseerennen 2013
*2nd Cape Town South Afrika 2020,
Training 15, 100 km
*3rd Pattaya Race Final 530 km 2022
(Ganus Family Loft) 4.033 birds $40.000
*4th Acebird Schleswig Holstein Derby 2013
*7th Cape Town South Afrika 2020,
Training 14, 100 km
*8th Victoria Falls 2020 (Jan Hooymans)
Also 1. Knock Out Winner $20,000
Also 9. Acebird
Also 4. Super Ace Competition …
Total winning $45,000.00
*8th Victoria Falls 2019
(Flying Pilgrims USA) $10.000
*7th Final Sun City 2011, $24.000
*7th Final Schleswig Holstein Derby 2014
*9th Champion KBDB All Belgium 2020,
(Stefan Steenbergen)
*12th Final Schleswig Holstein Derby 2013
*13th Final Derby Ostseerennen 2013
*17th Final DK Derby 2011
*20th Final Victoria Falls 2020
*27th Final Pattaya 2021,
530km, & 40 Acebird
*29th Golden Algarve Race 2020
(Simon Wolf)
*30th Teutoburgerrennen Derby 2018
*40th Final Preussen Derby 2017
*71st Final Teutoburgerwaldrennen Derby 2018