On the island of Tenerife, the Arona team is making steady progress on the pre-flights, extending the releases for the 2,129 pigeons that have successfully completed the previous training flights further north to the designated release location 15km away.

Under the supervision of Abel Ledesma, the pigeons - after they had some time to settle down after the arrival – a little earlier than announced to be taken away. Because of the unsafe, out west of the Neighboring Islands upcoming weather forecast for the next few hours was the biggest task for the team, the pigeons in the air and at home to have before it rained.

With the confirmation of release at 10.45 a.m. with the sky open and the Orientation of the pigeons at the place of release became the first pigeons of all expected.

After some time of observation around the loft, was the first small flock of pigeons visible to all and the 1st prize followed with a flight time of 25 minutes for the 1st international training 4 Hungary to Team Fenyvesi, Balazs & Norbert, with the pigeon 610 , whose Arrival was registered as 11.10.19.70.

The team w & S Sweet from England takes a close one shortly after second place – Arrival at 11.10.21.60 – followed by a 2nd pigeon from England named "Wind" by Andy Harker at 10/11/59/05.

The team van der Mass from Belgium finished with the arrival time 11.10.59.10 the 4th prize. For the 5th place we return with team Horvath and Taube to the victorious nation of Hungary returns, the dove named "Horesz 35" perishes 11.10.59 50 to the finish.

Team Belgium takes 6th place as the Derby Arona coordinators Jacky and Jelle Creemers record the arrival of "Carlito" at 10/11/59/85, followed by Team f.b.i., also from Belgium on 11.11.00.50 with the 7th prize.

Hendrik Wilpers from Germany lies with the pigeon "Arruga" on 11.11.00.95 in 8th place.

 The 9th place goes to 11.11.01.75 the pigeon "Sniper" to the local breeders of the Tenerife team Columbacanaria, before the Dutch team de Bruin with the pigeon "Akbar" and the 10th prize the Finalized top ten of the day at 11.11.02.05.

Start with the distance, which is now clearly increasing from flight to flight the pigeons, the lofts in smaller associations to fly This is good since they are now using their own ability to attack adapt the terrain of Tenerife and return home.

Since now a large number of pigeons arrive and the entry area with littered with pigeons, the clock had to work overtime to deliver a result since more than 1,700 pigeons within the first ten minutes after the winning pigeon arrived and for around 400 the arrival still had to be recorded. At this stage of training we will experience gaps in return as it is believed that the flocks of pigeons by the local ones Peregrine falcons may be blown far from their direct path.

As the afternoon passed, the clock indicated that the majority of those abandoned pigeons was certainly back in the loft. With further increasing number and admission about 20 pigeons were still missing at dusk, of which four more on arrived second day. The The return rate was therefore a satisfactory 2113 pigeons or 99.24%.

On December 28th and due to the constant work of the loft management and the luckily good Canarian weather Fortunately, the team basketed 2113 pigeons for the 20 km race for the last flight of the training programme can.

With the basketed pigeons heading north, he let go again responsible Abel after a Rest for the pigeons flock at 11.45 in an open blue Sky up, with a light north breeze and temperatures reaching a moderate 21 degrees increased.

With 13 spectators in the live stream and more witnesses of today's event in others social media we waited patiently for the first pigeon sightings while some estimated arrival times were in circulation.

With an arrival time of 12.17.36.80 and the honor of the first international prize on training flight 5 we go to the Netherlands. Last year's winner, the Syndicate Team Soepboer, flies up again and the pigeon Banshu gets one another top spot for them. The neighboring nation of Belgium takes 2nd place with the pigeon Wordnix at 12.17.39.15 from the loft Roger Mertens at 12.17.39.15, Team England are 3rd and 4th today with Team Glevum again taking their Top division presence documented with 1st UK. This with the Pigeon Jorje at 12.17.56.60. Fifth place goes at 12.18.47.00 with the Taube Vasco to the Daniel Hash team and 6th place to the Segers team & Coppens out with Corky at 12.18.47.10. The syndicate Rien van Oss from the Netherlands claimed the pigeon Oss 786 at 12.18.47.20 placed 7th. The Two Pauls team from England is taking part his pigeon Essex in the top ten for the third time, today at 12.19.04.50 and the 8th place. The team Adrian M. Stankov & Ion Jucan occupy at 9.12.18.25 9th international place for Team Italy. Team Luckyspil scores at 12.9.18.25 with Taube Matthias 10th place for Team Belgium.

Since the first pigeons were already fed and sat safely and the clock was ticking indicated around 1,800 returnees, it was clear that the pigeons would at some point during had been hit by birds of prey along the route, which had led to they were driven apart. When the live stream closed, there were still a little over 300 pigeons on the way. The majority of the pigeons came with 2,057 of the 2,113 happily unscathed. As the Night fell on the island, about eighty survived another night under the stars.

On day 2 and with another good prognosis for the Canaries we were happy from early morning the teams about some missing pigeons from yesterday, where the team Arthur Gasiorowski from Poland shortly after 07.20 with the pigeon "Biuty" as first served and started a steady return of the pigeons which increased to 2,067 by midday. With 2 extra Returnees on days 3 and 4 had a final rate of 97.9%.

After the five pre-races are over, that's what the Derby Arona race is differs from all other grandstand races as follows: you pay when you start only an initial registration fee of 220 euros. There will be up to the 5th pre-flight no additional payments due. i.e. if they are unlucky in the first few weeks at loft or early ones Training flights lose pigeons from your team, unlike you have other providers that require prepayment for each pigeon at registration, no money lost.

Activation by owners runs from December 28th to December 8th. January. After that, third-party activations are brought into play. In this case, outsiders will have the opportunity during the third-party period of 1st to 15th January to take ownership of inactivated pigeons.

During the first flights starts the King of Sprint rating, which is based on the first flight to the last of points collected is running. With Jorge Unglaube's Dutch team took over 9858 points with the Pigeon "Bandit 3" took the lead early on. In 2nd place we have community Red Devils Syndicate from Belgium with the pigeon "Lauranne" on 9808 and the 3rd pigeon is "Sky Diver" for Team Callejas Lofts from the USA on 9433.

With a short break, the team will continue to train the pigeons while Gladys the many emails, bank transfers and general administration and activation ready for restart on January 19, 2021, pushes. While all of this is happening, the team has also recently been in the able to release their unique hit list. This with individual Photos of all pigeons in the loft. This gives participants the opportunity to to see their pigeons for the first time since delivery weeks and months ago.

In the last few weeks we have had inquiries regarding the final flight week and preparing for the big race. The final flight week consists of the Live basketing at bat on Thursday morning, followed by the traditional Welcome evening on Friday evening and in preparation for the release on Saturday 27 March (weather permitting). The event then ends on Sunday evening with the gala evening, all of course in accordance with the Covid restrictions issued by the Spanish government.

DERBY ARONA TENERIFE ONE LOFT RACE 2020/21