References

Last weekend Johan de Lange from Oostkamp won 1st Pontoise vs 4.143 birds with a 50% Ebbenpigeon. Johan was a youngbird specialist but also races oldbirds since 2021. 

The well-known partnership Hendriks-Sanders from Nijmegen won 1st Maasmechelen 5,521 birds at the first official race on April 23rd. THey won with their NL19-1470526 'King Dinand'. 

Now most championships are know, we can proudly announce that two grandchildren of our famous NL16-1310994 'Linus' are in the top-10 national acepigeons youngbirds NPO. 

We got a nice reference from Ben and Michelle de Kramer from Lutjebroek. Their NL20-1390658 ‘Audrey’, a granddaughter to ‘Hannibal’ and ‘Indy’ and 50% Ebben, became 1st PROVINCIAL Ace Pigeon Super Short Distance and 10th Provincial Ace Overall this year. 

In a big part of the Netherlands the last races were kept in the weekend of 11 and 12 September. We won the 1st prize in our province from Morlincourt against 6.385 birds with our 'Paulina', but so did our friend and '2nd loft' Frans Strikker. 

On August 21st a race from Bierges was kept in Afdeling 8/ZW. Jaap Schut from Kootwijkerbroek won the 1st prize against 2,063 pigeons with a 50% Ebbenpigeon. 

Last weekend we had nice races with headwinds, as has been the case throughout the year, Frans' pigeons were in good shape. He entered 10 pigeons for this race and won 9 prize cards of which 5 x 1:100 and 8 x 1:10. 

Last weekend the first youngbird race with headwinds was kept in our section. It became a very tough race, only the best pigeons in the best shape were able to win this race.