Posted by John Marles 16th August 2009
OFF TO A GREAT START 3 x 1st COMBINE WINS IN THREE WEEKS
The 3rd Combine win for VALENTE & EVANS and FERREIRA & EVANS a Combine Win and a 3rd, 4th and 5th Combine last week.
Yesterday, I went up to Mike Valente’s loft to see the birds come from Mattawa and Point Au Baril. It was the hottest weekend so far this year with the humidity on the high side. Although, as I listened to the comments yesterday about the humidity I thought to myself this would have been a cool day in Florida for racing.
Valente & Evans won the Point Au Baril race and will be very close on the Mattawa results. Further down the road Ferreira & Evans won the Point Au Baril in the York Region club. Much further down the road Pat Kleyn racing mostly M & D Evans birds won both races in the North Wings bringing his total to four wins for the young birds.
Mike Kelm called to report that he was 1st and 2nd in his club yesterday with a pair of nestmates from CU-07-Sylvanlofts-745. 745 contains the lines of Eisenhower (Shadow), Jester x Carrie, Solitaire, Lady Bond, Rolls Royce and Carrie. Last week Mike was 4th with the same bird. It looks like he is off to a very good year in the Central Peel club.
Posted by John Marles 10th August 2009
Mike Valente told me that his Up North Combine winner from Burks Falls UNC-2763 is bred from GB-05-19241 x GB-05-19239. 19241 is a full brother to Rolls Royce being bred from National Fideel x Belle who are responsible for a number of birds to score in the top ten of National racing. Therefore UNC-2763 is very closely related to the pair of nestmates that were 1st and 2nd Combine from Point Au Baril the first week as they were bred from a son of Rolls Royce when Rolls Royce was bred to Cosmic Girl -linebred to the National Limoges winner Ronker. 19239 is bred from a Touch of Class (Jonge Ronker x daughter of Gaby 103) and the Queen of Diamonds. Touch of Class is the sire to Blue Ace who is the Dam of GB-05-19010 of the Perfect Pair. The Queen of Diamonds has FOUR National winners in her immediate pedigree. The Queen of Diamonds is bred from a direct daughter of the Ronker from Gaby who was the Ace Champ Fond (long distance) in 1994 and won 1st National Limoges 600 km in 1995 for Gaby with 8,883 birds competing. I find it very interesting to see how similar the pedigrees of these Combine winners are
Posted by John Marles 9th August 2009
Valente & Evans - 1st Club Burks Falls.
Ferreira & Evans - 1st Club Point Au Baril.
I went up to Joe Ferreira’s to watch the race on Saturday and the weather definitely cooperated this weekend. Both Combine races saw good returns on the day. Once again, I hear of many lofts throughout Southern Ontario where the losses and sickness are very high. Gord Whale mentioned that there were only 3 shippers in the Toronto Central club out of 11 possible shippers for the race.
Coincidence or Quality?
1st and 2nd Combine from Point Au Baril are actual nest mates racing to two different lofts
Both Mike and Joe won a race on the weekend and the birds on return look exceptionally well. Joe told me that last week’s winner from Point Au Baril for Mike was a nest mate to his bird that was 2nd Combine in the same race. Both of these birds are bred from GB-T-06-13009 x CU-07-Sylvanlofts-982. The sire of 13009 is Rolls Royce who scored in all 3 of his National races. 2nd NAT. NE SECT PICAUVILLE 1998 1,652 birds 2nd OPEN NAT. 4,154 B 32 NAT. NE SECT THORNESS 1998 2,900 birds 33rd OPEN NAT. 5,617 birds 9th NAT NE SECT LA FERTE BERNARD 1999 2,896 birds 50th OPEN NAT 7,017 birds. Rolls Royce is from National Fideel x Belle a pair that have bred many birds to be in the top 10 in National races. Nat. Fideel is a grandson of Rambo a National winner for Gaby. Belle is the granddaughter of Alibaba (Eric Limbourg) KBDB Ace Long Distance. The dam of 13009 is Cosmic Girl an Evans bird that M & D Evans purchased back. Cosmic Girl was raced by Gary Robson AND WON 1st NATIONAL IN THE UP NORTH COMBINE WITH 14,701 BIRDS. Inbred to the National winner Ronker on the dam side and on the sire side THE GREAT PAIR OF JOE JONES AND KIMBERLY. Rolls Royce is the sire of Joe Jones so he is on both sides of the pedigree.
The mate to 13009 is CU-07-Sylvanlofts-982 and she is bred from the Perfect pair GB-05-19010 x GB-05-19007. 19010 is bred from Shadow x Blue Ace. Blue Ace is a granddaughter of Shadow and she won a car and £15,000 in the Europa One Loft race. 19007 is bred from Rolls Royce x the Uno hen.
Gord Whale named the Perfect Pair. He felt that a son from this pair was perfect in every way. Joe raced two from this pair in 07 and both were in the top ten Of the Ace Champion birds in the Combine. Towards the end of the season, one got killed by a hawk and then I asked Joe if he wanted to move the other one before she met her demise. Very quickly she was off to Texas. Joe then told me to take the pair down to Florida. In 08 the Perfect Pair bred the Ace bird in the FSI club (38 actual racing members) and it was 2nd Ace in the Greater Tampa Bay Concourse only because I stopped racing him. I must admit that I put him in the stock loft before the young bird season was over. I just felt that with all the hawks buzzing in Florida he didn’t need to be a victim. This perfect pair are also the grandparents to Joe’s Combine winner from Burks Falls last week.
Posted by John Marles 7th August 2009
Top Result for the M & D. Evans bloodlines
Up North Pigeon Racing Combine from Point Au Baril, North America.
1 Valente & Evans Lof Borden RPC 09 CU SYLV 05....155 -2 11:53:18 0:00 1103.5554
2 Ferreira & Evans York Regio 09 CU SYLV 04....909 0 12:31:32 3:14 1079.1902
3 C. Rothgiesser Metro Homi 09 CU MET 07....216 2 12:48:59 5:41 1061.4758
4 C. Mitsiou York Regio 09 CU YRI 3015 20 184.014 1 12:23:42 5:59 1059.4223
5 Ferreira & Evans York Regio 09 CU SYLV 04....909 0 12:36:21 7:08 1051.2959
6 Ferreira & Evans York Regio 09 CU SYLV 04....909 0 12:36:29 7:14 1050.5443
7 Ferreira & Evans York Regio 09 CU UNC 2429 4 195.909 0 12:36:30 7:15 1050.4504
8 Ferreira & Evans York Regio 09 CU SYLV 04....909 0 12:36:32 7:17 1050.2627
9 Ferreira & Evans York Regio 09 CU UNC 2430 6 195.909 0 12:36:34 7:18 1050.0750
Valente & Evans scored first and second Combine in the first race. In the second Combine race Valente & Evans scored first. Ferreira & Evans ended up 17th and 19th in the first Combine race and an outstanding 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 30th, 36th and 40th in the second Combine race.
Posted by John Marles 2nd August 2009 |
I went up to Joe Ferreira's place to watch the first two races of the young bird season. The first two Combine races were from Burks Falls and Point Au Baril. The day looked very good at the finishing line with one exception and that was the very strong headwinds which did not help the long end lofts. Up at release the birds were held in the early morning due to fog. |
