Kevin Saudoyez (Tertre, BE), the 'target man' of the national middle distance races in Belgium!

The start of the new year means that the serious things are coming for us and our pigeons. Next month, the annual pigeon exhibition of Fugare will be held and also the unfamous event organized on saturday evening.

De IATP ranking (International All Times Pigeon) is a championship hosted by PIPA based around the first nominated pigeons in the six international extreme long distance races which all countries compete in: Pau, Barcelona, St.-Vincent, Marseille, Narbonne and Perpignan.

The Sangers pigeons were phenomenal in 2018, much to the despair of their opponents. Marcel was able to create a tough to beat pigeon breed, based around his famous Super Breeder bloodline, combined with the best of Van Den Bulck and Lambrechts. It was the key to some sensational results.

Six races, that was all the fantastic Breavehart Jr needed to convince Guy Van der Auwera of his great talents. This bird claimed several top results, including a semi-provincial victory from Ecouen, before being promptly transferred to the breeding loft.

Over the past few weeks PIPA received a word of thanks from several fanciers who auctioned their pigeons with us. This means a lot to us, since customer satisfaction is one of PIPA's main objectives. Sakis Minovgioudis expressed his gratitude as well; he was very pleased with the collaboration and the auction outcome.

Father and son Sjaak Van De Velde have been among the top players in the extreme long distance in The Netherlands for decades. They gained a reputation as a team that delivers fantastic results with limited means and a small team of pigeons.

Monday the 14th of January, these new auctions will start: Noé de Coster (BE), Derek Rooney (UK), Jos & Jan Loobuyck (BE), Kas & Karel Meijers (NL), January auction, Etienne Meirlaen (BE), Pieter Veenstra (NL), Rudi de Saer (BE), Verweij- De Haan (NL) & Jewels of the sky Hyper Exclusive

The year 2019 will start under the Olympic sign for Jean-Pierre Palm and his wife Yvette. Indeed, they will fly soon to attempt to the next Olympiad in Poznan thanks to one of the best pigeon who flew in Belgium over the last 2 years: 'Olympic Bourges'.

There was just one auction that closed last Sunday: the Jewels of the Sky. A total of 191 pigeons were sold, raising an impressive 551,250 euro in total.

The Scheele Brothers had a marvellous generation of young birds in 2017, and these continued to deliver as one year olds in the 2018 season. The pigeons from this renowned breed did not disappoint, they performed really well this year.

It’s been years that the combination Depasse-Lardenoye became one of the leading names of the international races in Europe and we took the habit to see their pigeons shining in one race in particular : Barcelona, the biggest marathon race in the world.

The great champion Jean-Marc Thibau Boons is selling his entire old birds' collection from 2016 and older in a fantastic auction. This is a group of proven modern-day breeders and talented racing birds, sold along with a selection of youngsters of his best pigeons.

The auction of Team Freddy De Jaeger starts on 21st of January. All old birds bred from 2011 to 2017 will be put up for auction, including Lloyd, the 1st International Barcelona of 2018 and the eye-catcher of this pigeon breed!

Customer satisfaction has been one of PIPA's main priorities over the years. We were of course very pleased with Stefaan Lambrechts's testimonial, which he sent in following the auction of his old birds from 2014 and older + a group of youngsters.

Sylvain Verhestraeten won a 1st National Chateauroux of 12,071 pigeons in 2013 with racing hen Channel Nr. 1. This national victory also led to the discovery of an invaluable new bloodline in Herentals, in the form of her sons Jaguar 004 and Pichanel.