Raets Brothers + Kenny (Vliermaal,BE): 1st National Ace Pigeon shorter middle distance old birds

On the door of many pigeon fanciers it still shines: the PIPA-calendar of 2017/2018 that was so popular at the most important shows in the world. PIPA now offers the opportunity to ensure a position on its successor: the PIPA-calendar 2019!

Almost 6.6 million euro and well over 8,000 euro on average for more than 800 pigeons - those are staggering numbers indeed. Here is a summary of the auction.

The often harsh weather conditions that we saw throughout the 2018 season felt like they were tailored for the fantastic Laureaat Barcelona bloodline of Carlo Gyselbrecht. These are the conditions in highly talented birds prevail. And it showed in the results: the team claimed several national top 100 prizes in the extreme long distance.

The Flanders Collection from Liedekerke, led by Bruno Van Den Brande and Yannick De Ridder, have clearly left their mark on the international competition in recent years. Fanciers from across the globe have visited their loft to obtain pigeons of some of Belgium's signature bloodlines.

Tuesday the 13th of November, 7 new auctions start at 17h: Vermeerbergen-Wilms-Mostmans (BE), Ivan Baetens (BE), Pieter Oberholster (UK), Jos Vercammen (BE), De Smeyter-Restiaen (BE), Roger Debusschere (BE) & November auction.

The Grizzly dynasty has grown to become one of Belgium's leading teams in the sprint competition in just four years' time, with the help of the two stock breeders 'Grizzly Wonder Breeder' and 'Blue Wonder Mother'. This team has won an impressive 36 first prizes with direct youngsters of this stock pair!

These are the final results of the PIPA ranking for best European hen in all international races with 3 prizes. This ranking includes the races from Pau, Agen, Barcelona, St.Vincent, Marseille, Narbonne and Perpignan, taking the international results available into account.

Everybody's still reminding the difficulties our pigeons had to face to fly Barcelona in 2018. Four months later, he still can't believe it: Ludovic Guirado is the big winner of the national race in France. It is now time to put this afficionados of the marathon races under the spotlights.

These are the final results of the PIPA ranking for best European hen in all international races with 2 prizes. This ranking includes the races from Pau, Agen, Barcelona, St.Vincent, Marseille, Narbonne and Perpignan, taking into account the international results available.

This ranking takes into account your best six results in all the races with a distance of over 60km that are part of the provincial competition. At least two results need to have been won in a race of more than 300km.

The record-breaking partnership of Gordon Brothers and Sons in Northern Ireland consists of Uncle John (who is now in his 80’s) and his two nephews Gary and Niall. Following the untimely death the lads father Benny it was obviously decided to keep the partnership name of Gordon Bros and Sons intact.

This ranking takes into account your 5 best results won in all races with a distance of between 60 and 299.999km that are part of the provincial racing competition. The pigeons in this ranking have to be born in 2017 or earlier. This ranking is based on all the prizes that were won in competitions that have been acknowledged by the province AFTER the union competition. They need to count at least for the national championship sprint.

Six different auctions closed on PIPA last Sunday, 4th of November. We briefly discuss each auction below.

Tuesday the 6th of November two new auctions start: Flanders Collection- Leo Heremans & Flanders Collection- Dirk van den Bulck

Mike Ganus has achieved success in one loft races around the world. In this article PIPA takes a look at his family of pigeons and what they have won over the past few years.