Top performances Belgium 18/05/2013 - 19/05/2013

The traditional opener of the Belgian national racing season from Bourges takes place on Saturday 25 May. As always, we will do everything to inform you and to keep you up to date about the Belgian national races.

In the last few weeks it became clear that the Leo Heremans auction was about to be something special. The auction was the talk of the town among many pigeon fanciers but no one would have guessed that the auction raised 4.346,500 euro (that is 174 million Belgian Francs!). We give you a chronological overview of this memorable auction. Below the article you can find a list of the most expensive pigeons in this auction.

A superb victory, the second of the season, won by what we can already call a champion pigeon! Indeed, Benny from Olivier Carlier won its third victory of its young career in the interprovincial race from Pithiviers!

These are the top performances from The Netherlands in the weekend of 18/05/2013 and 19/05/2013.

PIPA has welcomed three new colleagues in the past few weeks and we would like to introduce them to you.

On the 17th of May 2013 at the age of 61 André Verbesselt passed away.

Four hundred and forty seven members entered 4,203 birds for the British International Championship race from Falaise, the first race of the season following the cancelation of the earlier race from Carentan due to bad weather. The provisional result is as follows.

These are the top performances from Belgium in the weekend of 11/05/2013 and 12/05/2013.

These are the top performances from The Netherlands in the weekend of 11/05/2013 and 12/05/2013.

The star from Drachterscompagnie had told earlier that he was not yet ready for the new season. Strangely enough he was not really motivated to start the new season but it was his eight-year-old son Aant Arien who convinced his father to join the competition after all.

Leo Heremans presents us a few of the greatest racing pigeons in his lofts in Vorselaar in 13 short movies. In the second series Leo talks about Nieuwe Olympiade, Power, Roeper Pair, Safier, Favourite Pair (Favoriet Paar), Nieuwe Rossi and Eenoogske.

Leo Heremans presents us a few of the greatest racing pigeons in his lofts in Vorselaar in 13 short movies. In the first seven movies he talks about Bolt, Brother Bolt, Parents Bolt, Gilbert, Olympic Sperwer, Parents Olympic Sperwer and Dubbel Aske.

In this short video sprint icon Leo Heremans guides us around his lofts in Vorselaar and she shows us some of the pigeons that are housed in these lofts.

On a weekly basis we receive many testimonials from all over the world that testify to PIPA’s quality pigeons that are put online for auction on our website. This week Daniel Poussart thanks PIPA for the good collaboration throughout the years.

The Fuzhou Racing Pigeon Club Support Auction successfully ended on March 24, 2013. The purpose of this charity auction was to raise funds in order to help the Fuzhou Racing Pigeon Club buy a new pigeon truck.