The Blois race has been changed to Gien and we have basketed 47 pigeons.
Again the golden Eijerkamp-Janssen van Loon blood provides another explosion of power on the tough long distance race with the fastest pigeon so far of the sections 7 8 and 9 (Semi National)!
Saturday, May 5th was a day Klaas Hoekstra would not soon forget. He won 1st, 2nd and 12th in section 11, from Sittard against 21,629 pigeons and these were also the 2 fastest pigeons in the Netherlands.
Dennis Veugelers, known worldwide after his super performance in the Pioneer Club in China in 2017. He was the winner of the final race (500 km) in the highest money race in the world.
| 6. | Soissons | 16,915 pigeons |
| 6. | Pithivers | 1,890 pigeons |
The pigeons were released in Soissons and we had basketed 106 pigeons. The weather was cloudy.
Gert-Jan Beute is a household name in the Dutch pigeon sport. The classifier who spends the entire winter selecting, pairing pigeons in the Netherlands and in other countries near and far away.
Today 4 new pigeons have been added to the webshop. All these pigeons meet the 7 Eijerkamp quality criteria and have undergone 3 heavy selections.
The short distance races are over and the ACE pigeon championships are divided. In Section 8 with about 2500 members, two pigeons were able to qualify for the first 20 against about 28,000 pigeons
| 1. | Chateauroux Parc. | 1,375 pigeons |
| 12. | Gien | 3,987 pigeons |
| 15. | Orleans | 3,223 pigeons |
| 20. | Bourges | 1,655 pigeons |
| 4. | Vervins | 1,404 pigeons |
| 24. | Niergnies | 1,892 pigeons |
Today the last Vitesse flight was held. Until now the pigeons were very good so we had a lot of confidence. It was warm today with an east wind that made it difficult for the pigeons.
Today the pigeons are released in Pithiviers (520km) for the first one day distance (>500km) race. For the yearlings this was the first time they flew a one day long distance flight.
Homma brothers 1st NPO Troyes against 5.793 pigeons. Winning pigeon is 75% Eijerkamp.
The winner is NL17-4288657 with father "Plato" a Janssen-van Loon and mother "De Gravin" of the De Ruijter Bros from Baarn. The "De Gravin" is a granddaughter of "Het Wonderkoppel" ("Barend J." and "Aniek") of Hans and Evert-Jan Eijerkamp.