MONTELIMAR NATIONAL

Participating birds: 8,493 old birds

1. Luc Deroeck - Manage (1031.70 m/m)
2. Henri Vankerckhove - Serskamp (1026.20 m/m)
3. Jozef Blockx - Veerle laakdal (1025.76 m/m)
4. Kaelen Broers - Kelmis (1024.64 m/m)
5. Boris Burnait - St Marie/Sermois (1023.59 m/m)

Montélimar is a new national race organized by the "Waalse Fondclub." There were only 8,493 old birds in the baskets. These are very low number, but it seems to be the obvious result of organizing a national race between two other national races, namely Brive and Cahors. We don't understand it. The numbers of pigeon fanciers and rings that have been sold are going down, and someone still organizes another national race?

Luc Deroeck is a well-known fancier in Belgium. Certainly in Wallonië--a region in the southern part of the country--he is the man to beat. In the 2003 season, he won 17 prizes in the first 100 national, and also in 2004 he scored very well. Take the Bourges result and against 7,690 pigeons you'll find the name Deroeck on places 6-11-24-29-38-47-55-58-88 (already nine from the 20 basketted pigeons).

The winning pigeon is called "Kiley" (9006081/01) and is a red cock. When we look at the pedigree of "Kiley" we only see names of Flemish fanciers. The father of "Kiley" is "6206087/97" and comes from Daems en zoon (Bevel). Mother is 3109942/99 and comes from Julien Vaneenoo (Wingene) and is a daughter of "Altig" (15th national Dax 4,170 birds).

Before winning the first national, "Kiley" won 20th Bourges 1,698 b. (478th national 16,495b.) - 23rd Toury 4,391 b. - 30th Toury 1,565 b. - 61st Limoges 4,755b. - 95th Chateauroux 8,538b. - 306th Argenton 4,047b. - 576th national Marseille 5,195b.

CAHORS NATIONAL

Participating birds: 7342 old birds

1. Ramlot-Flamant - Védrin (1141.86 m/m)
2. Paul en Dave Vets - Broechem (1138.47 m/m)
3. Andre en Patrick Desmet - Semmerzake (1136.93 m/m)
4. Vanderwielen Louis - Boortmeerbeek (1134.97 m/m)
5. Michel Denijs - Handzame (1130.97 m/m)

Again it is a top fancier who wins a national race. Jean-Paul Ramlot and son in law Jean-Francois Flamant were in 1999-2000-2001-2002 (or 4 times in a row) general champion of the province Namen. The winning bird is a blue cock, named after the world-famous soccer player Zinidine Zidane, or in other words "Zizou." "Zizou" (8016217/00) has as father "8012259/95" (strain Englebienne) and as mother "2431619/98" (strain Herbots). Our friends have 40 widowers,12 breeding couples and 80 youngsters. The base is 75% pigeons of Fauche Freres (Waret L'Eveque) but also Marc Roosens (Leernes), Englebienne (Forchies) and Gebroeders Herbots (Halle-Booienhoven).

The result of "Zizou" is not a "lucky-shot" because he already had the following racing results: 2nd Soissons 701b. - 4th Etampes 182b. - 9th Nanteuil 584b. - 16th Montauban 2,810b. - 16th Orleans 330b. - 21st Bourges 838b. - 150th Jarnac 116b. - 160th Jarnac 4,395b. etc.

Franck and Olivier
Duquesnoy








"Le Turbo"
(F00-320723)



















Gilbert Van Parijs
and Filip Norman




"Robinson"
(3140008/01)

Marcel Demulder
and the Bordeaux
National winner




"The Bordeaux"
3028305/98


























"Barcelona Rambo II"
NL 00-2427013

INTERNATIONAL PAU

Participating birds: 8,116 old birds (2,180 from Belgium, 1,131 from Germany, 42 from Luxembourg, 111 from England, 3,571 from the Netherlands and 1,081 from France)

1. Franck Duquesnoy - Outreau France(1371.35 m/m)
2. Filip and Norbert Norman - Westkapelle (1319.89 m/m)
3. Christiaan Dufour - St Martin Boulogne France (1300.30 m/m)
4. G en C Fruitier - Bercle/Mer France (1298.47 m/m)
5. Daniel Aerens - Drongen (1292.79 m/m)

Outreau is a small village situated at the nearest point between France and England. Franck and Olivier Duquesnoy are brothers, but we have the impression that Franck is the pigeon fancier. He approaches the pigeon sport as pure hobby but with a lot of pigeons. In total there are 70 widowers, 60 couples of two years, and 150 youngbirds who are fed every day. Pigeons may grow out and the serious work starts only when they are two years old. This "soft" system has the advantage that pigeons of seven and eight years old are still raced. The base are pigeons from Gorin and Cattrysse (through Joseph Charles), but those were crossed with birds from Andre Vermote (Oostende), Tronquoy, Déguillage, Peeters Thomas, Andre Vanbruaene, Hetru, Silver Toye, Jan Aarden, Vanderwegen, Herman Raymond and Jef De Ridder.

The international winner is called "Le Turbo" (F00-320723) who has already won the 31st international Dax 2003 - 77th Nimes 3,656b. - 222nd Limoges 1,7443b.- 721st Royan 7,884b.

Father of the "Turbo" is "65427/92" from Tronquoy Jules and is also father of the 4th and 11th national Barcelona. Mother of "le Turbo" is "512492/90" (strain Gorin X Catrysse).


FILIP NORMAN WINS NATIONAL PAU

The name Norman means something in the pigeon sport. Before there was grandfather Cyriel, then father Norbert, and now son Filip Norman who tries to put the name Norman as high as possible on the racing results. The Norman palmares makes more than an impression with 1st national Perigueux 1963 - 1st international Barcelona 1970 - 1st national Limoges 1971 - 1st national Limoges 1984 - 1st national Argenton 1991 and now 1st national Pau 2004. The national winner is "Robinson" (3140008/01), and in his pedigree we find three different national winners. Before his top result for Pau "Robinson" won 26th Blois 3,045b. - 366st national Brive 19,777b.


BORDEAUX NATIONAL

Participating birds: 7,537 old birds

1. Van Paemel-Demulder - Zuienkerke (1266.94 m/m)
2. Gaston and Danny Devooght - De Haan (1249.74 m/m)
3. Frans Waerniers - Knesselare (1238.91 m/m)
4. Germain Vandermaes - Brugge (1232.04 m/m)
5. Ludwig Vandecasteele - Oekene (1229.67 m/m)

The name Van Paemel-Demulder stands for Bianca Van Paemel and husband Marcel Demulder and the last one is the pigeon fancier. Marcel is a man who enjoys life, and his hobby is philosophizing about a lot of things. He is a man with special opinions. His parrot "Pico" has the same ideas and talks constantly. His second hobby is the pigeon sport. Nothing professional. His desk is an old wheelbarrow, and once a racing result is achieved it goes in the box of "old paper."

Marcel's basebirds are from Valère Vandenbossche and Marcel De Meyer (Tiegem). Later came birds from Gerard Latruwe (Ruddervoorde), Marc Pollin (Snellegem), Emiel Denijs (Tielt), Fernand Decraene (Harelbeke), Saelens-Vandemaele (Heule), Frans Van Wildemersch (Westkapelle) and Ludo Boogaerts (Berlaar).

The "Bordeaux" (3028305/98) is a very nice blue cock, who together with his three brothers, builds a nice team. Father is "3031548/95," a long-distance bird bought in the public auction of Jules Samijn (Bredene). In his pedigree we see twice the name Valère Vandenbossche. The mother of the "Bordeaux" was bought in the auction of Eric Vandenbossche (son of Valère). We would have liked to have more information, but nobody could influence Marcel to search for more results in his wheelbarrow!


BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL

Participating birds: 24,914 old birds
1. Vrösch-Meijers - Heerlen (NL) 1358.60 m/m
2. Adhemar Bylau - Mater (B) 1290.80 m/m
3. Marcel Uyttersprot - Mespelare (B) 1271.94 m/m
4. Karl Heinz Kanski - Eschweiler (Germany) 1247.63 m/m
5. Robert Ben - Calais (France) 1240.33 m/m

This is the week-end every pigeon fancier in the world looks at, the Barcelona International. This year there were 24,914 old birds basketted coming from France (1,938 birds), Luxembourg (101 birds), the Netherlands (7,871 birds), England (130 birds), Belgium (12,274 birds) and Germany (2,600 birds). To congratulate the international winner, we had to go to Heerlen (province Limburg - Holland) or the piece of Holland between Belgium and Germany. The combination Vrösch Hub and wife Mia Meijers has competed for almost 25 years as pigeon fanciers. They are always basketting for the very long-distance races, and we must say that they already made a lot of top results like 2nd national Dax 8,243b. - 3rd national Dax 16,046b. - 3rd national Dax 12,186b. - 4th national Barcelona 5,229b. - 6th national Bordeaux 5,172b. - 10th national Dax 13,308b. - 12th and 13th national Bergerac 22,510b. - 15th international Barcelona 20,129 b. - 15th national Bordeaux 4,878b. - 18th national Marseille 4,601b. - 21st national Barcelona 8,140b.

The international winner is called "Barcelona Rambo II" (NL 00-2427013). Before winning the first international, he also won the 112th national Bourges 6,989 birds and the 226th national Bordeaux 10,209 birds.
Hub stands with his "Golden Boy" in the hand when he tells his story. "As youngbird the "Barcelona Rambo II" went up to 320km, and I must say that he impressed me with some nice results. As a yearbird, he got the chance to grow up, breed a few times, and was only basketted for Bordeaux. As a two-year bird, he was only basketted for Marseille (due to the "chicken-disease" in Holland the racing season was shortened to a few races). This year he came home well from Bourges and Bordeaux and then made the result of his life from Barcelona.

For 15 years already, our friends believe in the products of Belgica-De Weerd. 14 days before basketting Barcelona, the pigeons received two days B.S. (anti-tricho), one day W.N. (against ornithosis), and then one day Belagsol.

The father of "Rambo Barcelona II" is "De Fons" (NL98-1685809) and comes from the loft Van Ophuizen-Marell (Landgraaf). The "Fons" is a son from "Rambo Barcelona" (NL94-2719115) who won 97th national Barcelona 7,567 (2001) - 159th national Barcelona 8,713 (2002) - 173rd national Barcelona 7,047 b. (1997) - 394th national Barcelona 6,292 b. (1998) - 550th national Barcelona 8,140 b. (1999). Mother of the "Fons" is "NL95-2467393" or a half-sister of "Rambo Barcelona."

Mother of "Rambo Barcelona II" is "NL93-1508730." She is a daughter of "NL89-1951728." This cock is a brother of "Barca" of Sierens-van Den Broucke through Thei Degens (Heerlerheide). The "728/89" is father of "Catalaantje" (27th international Barcelona 28,095b. - 40th national Dax), "Super 03" (27th national Barcelona 7,767b. - 56th national Marseille 4,601b.) "T Bordeautje" (17th Bordeaux 5,614b.). Mother of "730/93" is "NL90-1241279," a direct Gebr. Kuypers pigeon through John Steijns (Doenrade).

Johan Heylen
with "Pieter"





"The Pieter"
6299039/02