Cor de Heijde (Made, NL) excels and lets others excel in international extreme long distance races

This PIPA ranking shows us which are the best pigeons from Argenton with 3 prizes. The available national, zonal and provincial results of Argenton I, II & III 2018 & Argenton I & II 2019 were used for the calculation of ranking.

Ten auctions came to a close last Sunday, with an overall revenue of 487,000 euro for 113 pigeons, or more than 4,300 euro on average per bird.

Monday the 9th of December, these new auctions will start: Leo & Gerry Dockx (BE) , Jef & Wim Struyfs (BE), Mark Gilbert (UK), Jan Hooymans (NL), Adrien Mirabelle (BE), Rudy Van Reeth (BE), Hardy Krüger (DE), Tom Van Gaver (BE), Joël Verschoot (BE), Mike Ganus (US) & Ken Easley (US).

Olympic Solange & New Olympic Solange. The old and new superbreeder of G&S Verkerk are introduced by the masters themselves in this video...

This PIPA ranking shows us which are the best pigeons from Argenton with 2 prizes. The available national, zonal and provincial results of Argenton I, II & III 2018 & Argenton I & II 2019 were used for the calculation of ranking.

Anthony Maes was tremendously strong again in 2019, and he was able to claim another national title. His Den Bonte Crack was the leader of a team of excellent racing birds, and he became this year's 1st National Ace Pigeon KBDB in the long distance with quite a margin.

How to approach a new racing season when the previous one has been the most successful of your whole career? Well, simply with the ambition of doing better. That's what the Gaie brothers tried to do during the racing season 2019, which finally ended on a positive note.

For the past fourty years the loft of Dean Pallatt and his family of Staff Van Reet bloodlines has built a great reputation in the sprint-middle distance races in the UK. He regularly broke all records in the federation by achieving up to fifty first prizes in a season, before moving to a new house and setting up a breeding stud.

New Harry gained international fame just recently, thanks to a public auction in which he proved the most expensive young bird yet. But that is not the only thing that makes New Harry a famous bird. His excellent race results and his breeding potential have turned this New Harry into an iconic new bird in Jan's collection, following in Harry's footsteps.

Alwin Petrie had already demonstrated his enormous potential in the one day long distance, and he ended the season in style with some excellent results in the young birds' competition as well.

Hardy Krüger started with pigeon racing 30 years ago. First it was just a hobby, but when he became National Champion in 1992 (at the age of 16!) everything changed. Hardy also talks about his top pigeons: Carl Lewis & Black Power.

This father-son combination has grown to become a household name in the national long distance and extreme long distance competition. And they were able to add another series of titles to their extensive palmares in 2019.

After years of analyzing, Dean Pallat Sr. & Jr. got convinced about the super quality of Jellema pigeons. They've tried to build up a unique Jelle Jellema collection, incl. some unique pigeons such as full brother MG 430, last son Saffier, children Zwart Goud, Romee & Kleine Jade...

The Vermeerbergen-Wilms combination from Mol continues to claim top results with the young birds in races of up to 600 km. And they achieved something truly unique in modern-day pigeon racing: they claimed a 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th National from Chateauroux of 10,442 young birds.

Ten different auctions ended on Sunday 1st of December, in which 160 pigeons were sold for 372,125 euro, or an average of 2,325 euro/bird. We briefly discuss each auction below.