Category archives: breeders reports
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New film: Wal Zoontjens – 50 years of pigeon racing at the top level!
Immediately after Wal Zoontjens started completely independently in 1968 to play with pigeons in Riel (NL), he has always been one of the winners. As early as the 1930s, his father Jan Zoontjens was looking for better care methods. His guideline was the book ‘Food, Vitamins and…
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New film: Jos & Xavier Thoné – Win from the short to the long distance!
Everyone who has met Jos Thoné will agree with this description: an all-round player and a winner with a very strong feeling for pigeons. Ambitious, passionate about pigeon racing and often ahead of his time. In 2001 Jos was looking for a versatile all-round mix, adapted to his playing system…
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Verstraete Pigeons – Belgium…
National winner 2020 After many national successes that made the name Verstraete world famous decades ago, it was possible to achieve another national victory in 2020. Other prizes won: 6/777, 14/582, 107 / 5.136, 449 / 8.585 pigeons. Both grandparents were also 1st bankruptcy winners from Bordeaux and Gueret. The name Verstraete is still associated with the…
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Davy Tournelle – Two national victories in 2020…
Travel season 2020 “Here in Belgium we had a short but intense season. The season started a little later due to Covid-19, but that was true for all of us. From a sporting point of view, 2020 was probably one of our best years. Because of the later start of the season, we decided to take our adults and year old males and…
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SG Zorn-Reinert…
The year 2020 was again a very successful one for SG Zorn-Reinert. Particularly noteworthy are the achievements in the Reg.V. group or in the FG, which consists of five RVs with 134 active sports fans in the regional association 405. Also in the 2020 travel season, this loft community can be part of their breeding goals…
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Klaus Steinbrink – Always 100% - never less!
The 2020 travel season Klaus Steinbrink is basically satisfied with the year, the delayed start of travel due to the corona pandemic was of course a challenge from a sporting point of view. "I'm very satisfied. My pigeons have shown great performances again. A total of about 30 pigeons have won a double-digit prize. They also have six pigeons…
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New movie – GÜNTER PRANGE - a phenomenon without starry airs…
Günter Prange is an absolute figurehead in German pigeon racing. In the course of his career he has won everything there was to be won, from local to national level, moreover, he won no less than 7 times the Golden Dove Germany of De Duif magazine and presented himself up to 2019…
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SG Surinx-Pletsers – The ALLROUNDER…
Travel season 2020 “We are very happy. Because of Corona, our racing pigeons were darkened a little longer. Before, we did it until mid-May, and now it was blacked out until early June. This season the second race was a middle distance, and very soon after that came the difficult middle distance. This gave…
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New film: BAS & GERARD VERKERK – The heroes from Reeuwijk!
The sympathetic father-son group Gerard and Bas Verkerk is the personification of the American Dream ’in pigeon racing. Bas's vision and the meticulous execution with father Gerard led to outstanding performances in Alphen a / d Rijn and led to the inimitable results that she achieved on her grandiose loft…
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NEW FILM: Gerard Koopman – An icon in pigeon racing…
For decades to travel continuously at the top, can only a few. Gerad Koopman is one of those exceptions. When he started with the pigeon racing, he sat down very clear goals. He wanted to be an exceptional breeder, are the best of all. During his early years in Nieuw Amsterdam got him his parents…