It has become a normal thing as One-day-distance, Top 10 National and Team Eijerkamp are going hand in hand now already 8 races in a row!

The latest One-day race from Chateaudun turned out to a real Eijerkamp happening in which the train didn‘t stop and at the end 3 pigeons ended up in the Top 10 National NPO. From the 88 pigeons entered 65 prize cards were won.

The final results for this great race;
Chateaudun National NPO 9.160 birds; 4-5-8-23-24-26-31 etc.
Chateaudun NPO North  3.675 birds; 4-5-7-17-18-20-24-44-45-49 etc.
Chateaudun Region 2    1.970 birds; 1-2-4-10-11-12-13-17-18-21-28-29-30 etc.

With a day’s delay, due to the unfavourable weather in the middle of France, the pigeons were given the green light on Sunday morning at 7h00, and the starting signal could be given for a nice race in first-class racing weather in more or less wind still conditions or a weak NW-wind. The distance Chateaudun – Brummen is 565 Km and the expectations would be between 14.30 – 15.00 hrs. The first reports from fanciers with shorter distances showed velocities 1200 m.p.m. for these birds which meant 14.48 at the Eijerkamp lofts. But at 14.41.41 hrs a yearling hen ‘Wieke’ was already clocked at Lotte Eijerkamp. Direct when she went inside the next two pigeons already arrived and who were clocked at 14.42 and 14.43. When reporting the pigeons in the club these were the first 3 reported pigeons and with velocities of 1222 – 1220 and 1219 m.p.m. it meant also 3 early birds in the National NPO race. All in all it was 3½  minutes before the next pigeons reported back to Greenfield Stud, but then there followed a bombardment of pigeons.

Henk Jurriens, admiring together with Hans and Evert-Jan Eijerkamp the first 3 arrivals from Chateaudun. In the middle loftmanager Gerard Boesveld who’s girls did the job today.

The winner of the 1^st prize in Region 2 and also 4^th National NPO winner is a yearling hen ‘Wieke’, named after the newborn of loftmanager Gerard Boesveld. The apple doesn’t fall far of the tree as she is daughter to ‘Santander’, a son of ‘Don Leo’, 4^th Nat. Ace pigeon of the Netherlands One-day distance 2004. After his great racing career ‘Don Leo’ turned out to be an exceptional breeder and his descendants, until 4^th generation, perform superbly. The mother to ‘Wieke’ is bred from the great Janssen lines from the ‘Troyes’.