Top performances Belgium 20/04/2019 - 21/04/2019

Only a handful of fanciers are capable of winning a national championship prize KBDB on an annual basis, and Adrien Mirabelle is one of them. He developed into a national star in the middle distance at quite an early age.

One of the leading names at international level is without doubt Mike Ganus. Over the past ten years, Mike has made it his goal to excel in the most prestigious one loft races, including most notably the Million Dollar Race, Victoria Falls and the Golden Algarve Derby, which are very demanding competitions.

These are the top performances from The Netherlands in the weekend of 13/04/2019 and 14/04/2019.

These are the top performances from Belgium in the weekend of 13/04/2019 and 14/04/2019.

A total of 134 pigeons were sold across seven auctions this Sunday, raising 317,175 euro in total. This makes for an average of 2,367 euro/bird.

Monday the 15th of April, these new auctions start: Youri Deblanc (BE), Kurt & Raf Platteeuw (BE), Ben de Keijzer (NL), Rik Cools (BE), WD van Tuil (NL), April auction, Samuel Mbiza (SA), Eddy van der Pijl (NL), Olivier Carlier (BE), Mike Ganus (USA), Alfons Klaas (DE) & Marc de Cock (BE).

Get to know the invaluable collection of breeding birds of Hugo and Anita Batenburg-Van de Merwe (Klaaswaal, NL). They put together a fantastic collection of pigeons over the years, that have excelled in numerous international long distance classics.

After Norbert Ally's total sale in 2013 (minus the pigeons from 2012), he was able to make a fresh start with the help of the Schumi bloodline. The youngsters of this renowned breeder were transferred to the breeding loft right away, and that was a clever move: it was with the help of these youngsters that team Ally got back to its old self.

On Saturday 6 April PIPA organized a public auction in Kuweit for the first time. It was a wonderful project with a large turnout, not only from Kuwait, but also from Bahrain, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, pigeon enthusiasts came over especially for this auction.

These are the top performances from The Netherlands in the weekend of 06/04/2019 and 07/04/2019.

Grandmaster Jos Thoné from As in Belgian Limburg continues to be one of our sport's leading names both in Belgium and at international level. He has always been a trendsetter, and he has been a top level player every single season since his debut in 1991.

A total of 100 pigeons were sold last Sunday, raising 222,750 euro in total. This results in an average of 2,227 euro per bird.

These are the top performances from Belgium in the weekend of 06/04/2019 and 07/04/2019.

Ken Easley has become a prominent name regarding the most prestigious one loft races in the world. The Easley birds have booked numerous top positions in this worldwide competition and put their owners into the prize money rankings.

James Marson, a journalist from The Wall Street Journal, is writing about pigeon breeding and racing in Belgium. He is looking for experts on the sport's history in Belgium to help him understand the origins of the sport, how it became so popular here and what its place in Belgian culture is.