Dean Pallatt (UK) “The New Marathon Venture”

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.

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.

Monday the second of December, these new auctions will start: Chris Hebberecht (BE), Cor De Heijde (NL), Gevaert-Lannoo (BE), Gino Clicque (BE), G&S Verkerk (NL), Sorin Florea (RO), Lubomir Kubacek (CZ), Yves Van De Poel (BE), Marc De Cock (BE), Jos Cools (BE), Anthony Maes (BE) & Derek Rooney (UK).

For the third year in a row PIPA commits to hosting an auction for a good cause. And this year's edition will be an XL sale, with 44 renowned fanciers from across the globe willing to donate a pigeon! We take a look at this year's good causes.

PIPA received a very nice testimonial of Les Green after his auction where he sold all his birds. He wants to thank the whole team for the help, advise and support he received.

In 2019, as in previous years, Jos & Lars Vercammen added several major achievements to their palmares. Incredibly enough, this team has been one of the top performers throughout the season, from day one until the very last week, in races of between 100 and 800 km+.

Peter Janssen introduces us to some of his absolute top racers such as Olympic Clyde 237, Olympic Bonnie 934 and Chanty 935.

This year Willeke won the 1. Internat for Ad Fortuin. Sint-Vincent against 10,623 pigeons. Willeke was bred by Hugo Batenburg and is now again in Klaaswaal on the breeding loft of Hugo.