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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.

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.

Saturday the 18th of January, the public auction Blackpool will take place. Today at 17h the pigeons will be already visible on PIPA.

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.

The 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.

There is a new one loft race in 2020: the German Classic One Loft Race, located in Paderborn, Germany. The final race from Basel/Weil (460 km) will take place on the 5th of September 2020.

Veterinary surgeon Ruben Lanckriet wrote an in-dept and well-grounded report on a medical breakthrough regarding the rotavirus, and the vaccine that was recently registered.