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New Flanders Club 2005

New Flanders Club 2005
The place to be : HOTEL BROEL in Kortrijk, one of the best hotels in the region.
From left to right : Nikolaas, Mr Frank Vandecasteele ( owner of the BROEL HOTEL and good friend of the Mitchell family ), Martyn, Bebe Chicheanu, Dinu Mihai... The two last ones were special guests from Romania taken by Nikolaas and invited by Martyn.
Two big friends : Frank and Martyn. Martyn Mitchell is Winner and breeder of: 1st Scottish National 2 x 1st Welsh National 5 x 1st English National in the last 5 years
View of table. Later on in this picture report there will be more detailed pictures of the people who were present. I hope I did not forget anyone.
Young Top racers ( well actually most of the club members are rather young ) : from left to right : Chris Debacker, Mark Vandaele, Piet Blancke, Chris Dobbelaere, Mrs Debacker and Patrick Gilles-Galle.
Same table...
Mr Dinu Mihai, Chris Hebberecht and Bebe Chicheanu.
Three friends : Dinu Mihai, Nikolaas and Bebe Chicheanu.
Mrs and Mr Sylvere Toye.
Silvere and Martyn, two close friends.
Mr Chris Hebberecht and Mrs Hebberecht from Evergem-Belgium.
Mr Chris Debacker and Mr Mark Vandaele.
Two guests from the Club, Mr Patrick Gilles - Galle, the famous keeper of the strain Sion. On the right side, a young fancier Mr. Grijspeert, his father won 1st international Barcelona in the seventies !
Mr Gino Clique and his wife. It is not really necessary to introduce Gino, his results are always super ! His best result is without any doubt winning 1st & 2nd National Bourges (Zone A) 14,535 birds !
Gino Clique, Silvere Toye and Chris Hebberecht.
Jacky Martens and his wife. He is not racing pigeons, but has a company that transports the pigeons.
Luc Van Hoecke and his wife. Luc Van Hoecke is the coming star in Belgium with extremely good results on the middle and long distance. He became 3rd general national champion KBDB 2004 !! To read more about him, go to this URL: http://www.pipay.be/artikelsnew/johnyc/vanhoecke/vanhoeckeeng.htm
Piet Blancke and Chris Dobbelaere.
Rik Cools and his wife. Rik and Piet used to race together under the name Cools - Blancke and had great succes stories together, since this year they will race seperately ! Last year in 2004 they won first national Bourges - hens ! To read more about this, please check this article : http://www.pipay.be/results/2004/bourges/coolsbourgeseng.htm
Mr Dirk Schreel and his wife. Mr Schreel was 5th General Champion of Belgium 2004 !
This is Mr Wilfried Vandemaele from Heule - Kortrijk and his wife. Wilfried is member of the board of the Flanders Club, he is semi - retired since a short time and can now spend a lot of time on pigeon racing. Last year he won a national BOURGES against almost 20.000 pigeons ! Again a super racer that is member of the FLANDERS Club. To read more about him : http://www.pipay.be/results/2004/bourges/vandemaele.htm
minna - 15/06/2009