Joost De Smeyter-Restiaen (Melden, BE) takes revenge with a 1st Int. Barcelona hens and 5 x top 25 national

France 3 maakte een knap filmpje van de lossing vanmorgen in Marseille.  

Two hundred and ninety members entered two thousand, four hundred and twenty-eight birds into the British International Championship Club race from Le Mans. They were liberated at 07.00CEST into no wind. The following is a report on the provisional result based on members' verifications.

Another well established name from the Belgian pigeon sport just added a brand new national victory to his name, this time with the race from Jarnac. Three years after La Souterraine, the partnership of Casaert-Sénéchal just booked the second national victory of their career.

Weather conditions during liberation: blue sky and sunny spells, light wind, variable wind, good visibility

These are the top performances from Belgium in the weekend of 14/07/2018 and 15/07/2018.

These are the top performances from The Netherlands in the weekend of 14/07/2018 and 15/07/2018.

9,383 pigeons will take part in this year's international race from Marseille.

Stef Bals is a young and highly talented pigeon fancier who surprised his colleagues repeatedly in the past. The race from Sens is the first major highlight in his pigeon racing career: he wins the first four prizes in Province Brabant 2000.

Only two days before the St. Vincent International I had the privilege of making a visit to the famous lofts of Mark Gilbert, with my good friend Mick Bunney, Life vice president of the BICC. One could describe it, as the complete pigeon day.

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Seventy-four members sent two hundred and forty-eight pigeons to the British International Championship Club race from Barcelona, in conjunction with the international. They were liberated at 09.00CEST. The following is a report on the provisional result based on members' verifications.

We go back in time to 1995 and the national race from Châteauroux, where team Vermeerbergen-Wilms caught pigeon fanciers across the globe in amazement, winning a 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th national of more than 10,000 pigeons!

A national first prize does not happen overnight but sometimes you can tell from the results in previous races that a pigeon loft is up to something special. In fact, many fanciers were not surprised to see the Gino Clicque pigeon breed take home a national victory in the yearlings' race from Châteauroux II.

The past few weeks have all been about the Red Devils playing a great World Cup in Russia, with such players as Hazard, De Bruyne, Lukaku and Courtois being among the world's most renowned players. And pigeon racing has its international stars as well, one of them would be "The Barcelona" of Erik Limbourg.

These are the top performances from The Netherlands in the weekend of 12/07/2018 and 12/07/2018.