Reeds een gans sportseizoen 2010 draait hun kolonie op een ‘uitzonderlijk hoog’ toerental… zelden een kolonie gezien die dergelijk ‘meesterschap’ kon etaleren… die week na week zulk een serie aan ‘kettinguitslagen’ op papier wist te plaatsen… die zo zijn ‘wil’, zijn ‘dominantie’ aan de concurrentie kon opleggen… als deze van de broers Freddy en Jacques Vandenheede in 2010!

Tony Robbins talks about constant and never-ending improvement, and I believe that's a very valid concept that has kept certain key players at the very top and continues to do so. If you are not improving then you are inevitably falling behind.

Last weekend the international classic Perpignan was raced. On Saturday morning at 06h40 the pigeons left the baskets in which they had made the long journey.

Not many people would have failed to notice that there are some new kids on the block in the province of Antwerp, that are getting themselves noticed by the super performances of their wonderful racing pigeons.

Batenburg-Van de Merwe did it, once again a super year in 2010, 16 times in natioanl top 100 ~

Un nom qui est synonyme de succès, de continuité, de régularité dans le microcosme du sport colombophile. Et je pourrais employer énormément d’autres adjectifs…

Letzte Altflüge der Saison ! Vorläufige Egebnisse der Deutschen Meisterschaften!

A small fancier with Gyselbrecht bloodline can stand tall and won Tulle Nat. Yearling 8246p 1e.

Wilfried Bruyneel from Oudenaarde wins 1st international Perpignan 2010 with his super pigeon ‘BE07-4104426'. A well-deserved winner we see when we look at the honours list of the winning cock.

Internet brought an information revolution, under this rapid transfer of information the good pigeons are no longer lonely. The strain “Chipo” of Benny Steveninck is driven by internet and became popular in just two years present, there is a dove hard to find!

The super season of Verreckt-Arien has been crowned now with the National victory on Tulle old birds and at the same time fastest birds against more than 15.000 old birds and yearlings together. This national victory is the 11th (!!) Provincial victory of the season 2010! Last year Pascal Arien & Agy Verreckt succeeded in winning no less than 9 provincial victories, back then it was said that such season was impossible to equalise!

The third national winner of the weekend from Bourges was to be found, in what we in pigeon terms describe as… the shortest distance… at a stone’s throw from the French-Belgian border.

A number of years ago one of the most successful racing pigeon breeding operations in the entire USA was owned and operated by one Campbell Strange. The name of the farm, known worldwide, was “Oak Haven Farms”. Campbell was well known to key European players.

The race from Narbonne was the penultimate international classic of the racing season. With 13.531 pigeons at the start (just over 900 less than the previous season)… including 6.362 Belgian pigeons… the organisers had a nice number of pigeons in the basket for this top classic.