Freds Racing Pigeons
All about Freds Racing Pigeons
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All about Freds Racing Pigeons
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Who does not know Karel Meulemans? Karel Meulemans from the famous town Arendonk is a living legend in international pigeon racing. A strain of birds spread all over the world. Known over the world as Janssen with this difference that Karel has won many 1st prizes and championships by himself, beginning in the fifties and still winning races and big championships in 2007. Most pigeon fanciers think about the strain Meulemans as middle distance birds. This is not true anymore. Karel switched to
Read more ... Georges Busschaert one of the great pigeon breeders of all time his birds are winning races all over the world I visted this great mans loft just before he died
If you were asked which pigeon fancier had the greatest impact on the racing pigeon scene in Britain, who would it be? Well one very strong contender must be Georges Busschaert.
There cannot be a fancier in Britain that has never had a Busschaert pigeon in their loft. The strain seems timeless, even now there are many fanciers that
Frank & Ann Tasker
I don’t think that I would be exaggerating in the slightest if I was to state that there is not a pigeon fancier in the U.K. who hasn’t heard of the great Frank Tasker and his multi National winning family of super pigeons. The Tasker strain has been winning, not only for Frank, but for many other fanciers throughout the length and breadth of these islands for more than 30 years. Club, Federation, National and Combine races as well as Queens Cups have been won by those
Arendonk, a little village in the Belgium province of De Kempen, became famous for thousands of pigeon fanciers around the world. And perhaps the name Arendonk is still known by a few cyclist fans that remember the name of Rik van Steenbergen, a threetime world champion cyclist much admired by the Janssen Brothers.
But we all know the difference between being world famous because of cycling and being world famous because of pigeons! Very few pigeon fanciers will remember Rik van Steenbergen