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John & Patrick Loos.
Rijsbergen
Rijsbergen
Wim van Rijk.
A weekend one will not quickly forget. Montauban with its night flyers, and Pau, a “yes or no, who is coming first” National, which went to the combination Loos - Rijsbergen.
It looked for quite a while that Van Tuyl was the winner, but because of a mistake with the second gummy ring (forgot to pull it through) John and Patrick (Loos - Rijsbergen) took gold.
The new season did not start too well for our 2006 “Keizer” champions with the Bordeaux and the St. Vincent, but they re-established themselves with the Montauban and the Pau.
Because of their indestructible confidence in their birds, John and Patrick did not panic and took it in their stride. They are pretty down to earth guys without any arrogance, who don’t take all the interest they receive too seriously. They are in it for the joy. True pigeon fanciers, who enjoy racing their birds for a hobby away from their busy lives working their rose nursery.
I don’t think I need to formally introduce them here any further, as Aad van Bergenhenegouwen has already done this in length in the ‘Champion’s Book’.
It looked for quite a while that Van Tuyl was the winner, but because of a mistake with the second gummy ring (forgot to pull it through) John and Patrick (Loos - Rijsbergen) took gold.
The new season did not start too well for our 2006 “Keizer” champions with the Bordeaux and the St. Vincent, but they re-established themselves with the Montauban and the Pau.
Because of their indestructible confidence in their birds, John and Patrick did not panic and took it in their stride. They are pretty down to earth guys without any arrogance, who don’t take all the interest they receive too seriously. They are in it for the joy. True pigeon fanciers, who enjoy racing their birds for a hobby away from their busy lives working their rose nursery.
I don’t think I need to formally introduce them here any further, as Aad van Bergenhenegouwen has already done this in length in the ‘Champion’s Book’.
“I knew he could do more” comments John, “he is a brother of the ’08’, a hen that came first twice on a row in the Bordeaux with teletekst (see articles of previous years). Also a sister and daughter of ‘08’ both got to teletext, so I knew that he had more in him. This time he has come through and shown us he is a champ. That is our trust in our birds; anyone else would have given up on him”. The ‘406’ of the ‘Pau’ was clocked at 5.21.33. He must have overtaken the back lines of Montauban where the other birds dragged him along, because his early morning arrival meant that he had been flying throughout the whole night.
The way John and Patrick play the game and the way they look after their birds have already been discussed a few times in other articles, and I am not going to over this again. However, I do feel that I need to emphasise once more John and Patrick’s simple approach to the game: they simply select and re-select their programme pigeons (short distance up to about 600km) until this awesome team comes up, unbelievable. No expensive purchase - every now and then they swap one or two with another local fancier - and no particular bloodlines or celebrity names. Just the holy belief in their birds and the confidence in their own simple selecting system have got them this far. It can be done … even in 2007.
Their loft houses about 60 pairs and about 80 young. The ceilings are completely open; the birds get a full bowl of ‘Mariman’ a day (yellow and red corn). At six O ‘clock in the morning every bird goes out for an hour (all of them) and in the late afternoon around six they go again. In the afternoon the young ones get their exercise. Medication: every now and then a yellow cure (thriomagnose) and the normal prescribed inoculations, that’s all. However, the schedule is very punctual and they scrape twice a day.
On behalf of the committee and the members of the distance club “De Glass City”:
The way John and Patrick play the game and the way they look after their birds have already been discussed a few times in other articles, and I am not going to over this again. However, I do feel that I need to emphasise once more John and Patrick’s simple approach to the game: they simply select and re-select their programme pigeons (short distance up to about 600km) until this awesome team comes up, unbelievable. No expensive purchase - every now and then they swap one or two with another local fancier - and no particular bloodlines or celebrity names. Just the holy belief in their birds and the confidence in their own simple selecting system have got them this far. It can be done … even in 2007.
Their loft houses about 60 pairs and about 80 young. The ceilings are completely open; the birds get a full bowl of ‘Mariman’ a day (yellow and red corn). At six O ‘clock in the morning every bird goes out for an hour (all of them) and in the late afternoon around six they go again. In the afternoon the young ones get their exercise. Medication: every now and then a yellow cure (thriomagnose) and the normal prescribed inoculations, that’s all. However, the schedule is very punctual and they scrape twice a day.
On behalf of the committee and the members of the distance club “De Glass City”:
John and Patrick our heartiest congratulations!
