ALLFLIGHT CARNIVAL CITY LOFT NEWS August 2009

Firstly all congratulations must go to “Sanoy” the little Blue Bar hen bred by Piet Coetzee from Nigel. Her performance sheet reads like no other pigeon before at Allflight Lofts Carnival City.

Let us look at her achievements!

1st Hot Spot – 21 seconds behind the winner

2nd Hot Spot – 3 minutes behind the winner

3rd Hot Spot – 7 minutes behind the winner

4th Hot Spot – 20 minutes behind the winner

5th Hot Spot – 15 minutes behind the winner

Final Race Colesberg – Winner.

Ace Pigeon – 5 x Hot Spots and Final Race

Ace Pigeon – All liberations further than 100km

1st Prize Raceview Motor Car Race winning a brand new Chery QQ3

There really is not much more to say about this little hen that is inbred to the great “50151” Sierens/Oscar pigeon of Andre Carelsen. Pigeons very closely related to her won nearly R400 000 for Piet Coetzee in the THU sales and ring races last year, so they are proven winners on distances between 600 and 700km.

In 2nd place was “JP” the pigeon from Dries Botha that dropped with the winner. Dries is from Lichtenburg where pigeon racing is a very serious sport and the fanciers are all fierce competitors. Dries Botha is not an unknown name in big one loft races as he bred “Nuclear Vision” the Knock–Out winner at Sun City in 2005. “Nuclear Vision” also flew 2nd in the South African club championship at Sun City that year and finished 37th on the final race winning more than R400 000 in prize money. And take guess sired “JP” the 2nd place winner this year at Carnival City, none other than “Nuclear Vision”. A full sister has flown 7 times in the top 5 at club level for Dries this year so far, another sister was 155th at Sun City earlier this year.

Third position goes to Jannie de Beer and Jacques Labuschange from Randburg Club. They are already famous as the winners of the R3000 race in 2008 here at Carnival City winning R120 000 in that race!

This is just to show that the top positions were won by fanciers who did their homework and bred pigeons specifically for the final race. To those fanciers who walk around saying that they were lucky because of this and that, please remember that on the day even though there was another 700 bred for the final race the prize winning pigeons had the form and the “luck” to break at the right spot to be crowned winners. The one thing that has been true and has been proven over and over and over again is that every winner and top pigeon in the lofts here at Carnival City was bred from pigeons that had winning blood in their genes on both sides. And that just goes to show that “Bloed Liegt Niet”!

Pat Noble won R15 000 for finishing 4th and special mention must be made of Franz Bieske who bred the pigeon Brenda that won R10 000 for taking 5th position. What makes him so special, you may ask? He is confined to a wheelchair but more importantly he only entered ONE pigeon.

The full results and payouts are available on the website, please have a look and if you did win some money and have not yet supplied us with your banking detail do so as soon as possible as we would like to finalize the payments.

Auctions:

There will be one auction to be held on Saturday 3 October 2009. We will publish the full list of pigeons up for auction on the website by Monday 24 August, please check if your pigeons are on the list and supply us with the pedigree so that we can include it in the sales catalogue that we are busy preparing. Should your pigeon not be on sale you as breeder have the right to purchase it back at R200 each until 4 September 2009. Please note that after this date we will donate the remaining birds to clubs that have expressed interest in hosting an auction to raise club funds and you as breeder will not get any percentage of the proceeds as you already had the opportunity to buy it back.

Congratulations to all the winners, now we start with the “2010 Summer Challenge”!!!

Herman

ALLFLIGHT CARNIVAL CITY LOFT

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