New auction: Mark Gilbert (UK)

Last weekend's pigeon auctions raised 329.075 euro, selling 239 pigeons in total. This leads to an average sale price of 1,376 euro/bird. We walk you through each individual auction.

Monday the 20th of January, these new auctions will start: Jeroen & Stijn Rans (BE), Verweij-De Haan (NL), Jan Hooymans (NL), Gebroeders Scheele (BE), Rudi De Saer (BE), Liliane Demely (BE), Klaas & Rik Van Dorp (NL), Jewels of the sky Hyper Exclusive & Carlo Gyselbrecht (BE).

On Saturday evening, according to annual tradition, the public auction of PIPA & Les Green (Northern Premier Auctions) took place during the exhibition in Blackpool. Every year a special group of young pigeons is sold there. Again this year it was a great success, it became the most successful auction ever in Blackpool, with a total of no less than 125,000 EURO (107,100 GBP), 4,650 EUR / pigeon (3,962 GBP), for 27 youngsters.

The name of Houfflijn will always be associated with superstar Geronimo. The Geronimo dynasty has turned the Houfflijn family into an internationally renowned name, with major successes in the long distance and extreme long distance. And the success story continued in 2019.

Dehon-Demonseau, the man who raced Best Kittel, gives a bit of background on himself and the family that achieved 3 X 1. National Ace KBDB Sprint in 5 years time.

Long distance fancier Bert Vanden Berghe has had another very successful pigeon racing season, with most notably a title of 3rd best pigeon from Agen 2018-2019 in the PIPA Ranking, as well as a title of 5th Prov. Ace Pigeon middle distance KBDB East Flanders 2019.

With 3 national victories booked in only 3 years of time, Kevin Saudoyez showed the world he was one of the new leading names from the Belgian national scene. At only 31 years, he decided to face a new challenge.

The in-house pigeon family that Martin developed over the years is mainly based around three stock breeders: Rainman, Levi and New Rainman. These were then crossbred to some of the best marathon bloodlines he could find in The Netherlands and Belgium, and this led to the creation of a breed that competes with the best of the best in international marathon races.

From January 27th till February 9th 2020, PIPA organizes the total auction of all birds of Shaun McDonough (UK). Here you can already check out the catalog.

Fanciers from around the region, and his colleagues from the Molse Fondvrienden club in particular, will all agree that Ludo Dams (69) from the St. Corneliusstraat in Larum (Geel, BE) has always been a top class player.

Martin Dhooge was close to an international breakthrough in 2016, as 2nd National Champion extreme long distance KBDB. And he saw a lifelong dream come true in 2019, claiming a 1st National Pau with Silent King, his favourite pigeon.

PIPA has appointed Saeed Ibbad as the new Sales agent for Pakistan. Saeed is a marine engineer working for Horizon Geoscience. The pigeon sports has been a hobby of his for 25 years.

We had just one single auction last Sunday, albeit a very special one: our 2019-2020 Jewels of the Sky. A total of 163 pigeons were sold in auction, and they raised 507,800 euro in total, with an average of 3,115 euro/bird.

PIPA is present during the final weekend of the Pattaya International Pigeon Race and will report on this page regularly about the race. Updates can also be found on our PIPA Facebook page.

The 2 brothers Vandenheede never sold their national winners or national acepigeons. With some examples they explain that they would never have had the success they have now, if they would have sold their best pigeons in the past.