This weekend the widely discussed tandem Verreckt-Ariën added another candle to the richly filled cake … with their wonder hen ‘Norma’ at the front, the sympathetic duo laid claim to1st and 2nd 2e semi-National Montluçon against 6.141 pigeons … and were also the two fastest against 13.745 pigeons.

On a summery tinted Monday evening in October there was a rendezvous planned on our calendar with 2 leading figures from our country in the ‘extreme middle distance’ and ‘light long distance’, the ‘taste makers’ of the 2010 sport season…