Peter, Nathalie and Gwen van de Merwe, Dordrecht…what challenges remain?

After the super results with the old pigeons they started off amazingly with the youngsters as well in Dordrecht. The past two weekends they had Lennik and Quièvrain on their program. 

31-7-21  Lennik   2,434 pigeons 

1-2-5-6-7-8-9-10-12-14-15-16-17-20-23-24-25-27-29-31-33-35-36-37-38-39-40-41-44-45

NL21-1196166 1th Lennik 2,434b
Direct child to ‘Don Bravour’ 1st Provincial Ace bird – 4th National Ace bird 
Child 2nd National Blois against 11,576b (1/596b) which is on her turn a daughter to super racer ‘Sabi’ with ao: 4 NPO La Souterraine 4,783b

NL21-1196121 2nd Lennik 2,434b

Grandchild ‘Don Bravour’ 1st Provincial Ace bird – 4th National Ace bird
Great-grandchild world famous racer and breeder ‘Kittel’ 1st National Ace bird KBDB 2013 from Dirk Van de Bulck

BE21-2130451 5th Lennik 2,434b

Direct Herbots pigeon which is being raced by the Van de Merwe family. Father is a 100% Hooymans pigeon and is a grandchild to ‘Harry’ Jan Hooymans. Mother is a 100% Marc De Cock pigeon and granddaughter to super breeder ‘801’ while her mother is a full sister to ‘Rockefeller’ who won the title of 1st National Ace bird KBDB 2018. 

BE21-2130487 6th Lennik 2,434b

This one is also a youngster direct from the breeding loft at the Herbots family which is being raced from the Dordrecht lofts. This one is a product out of ‘Supreme’ (Vanderstichele G) x ‘Diva’ (Karel Roden). ‘Supreme’ won 1st National Tulle against 6,206b and ‘Diva’ won 15th National Chateauroux and 94th National Argenton and is a granddaughter to ‘Athletic Runner’, super breeder at Niels Broeckx, Oud-Turnhout and full sister ‘Olympic 306’ke’ Olympiad bird Brussels 2017 Cat. C 

Quievrain 7-8-21  2,636 pigeons

2-3-4-7-10-17-18-22-23-24-25-28-30-31-33-34-44-48

NL21-1196241 2nd Quièvrain 2,636b

Direct child ‘Benz’ 1 NPO Pontoise 3,173b (2 National Sector 8,268b) and grandson ‘Shane’ 1 NPO Argenton 10,432b x ‘Bordeauxtje’ 1 National Bordeaux 4,479b
Mother is top racer ‘Fieneke’ with ao:
1 Quièvrain 1,400b (fastest against 5,028b)
5 Niergnies 3,393b
7 Ysselstein 1,297b
12 Pontoise 1,555b
18 NPO Pont 3,477b
27 NPO Pont 33,636b
And is a granddaughter to the worldfamous ‘Kittel’ 1st National Ace bird KBDB, Dirk van de Bulck

NL21-1196845 3rd Quièvrain 2,636b

Father is half-brother Alivierro’, winner to 1 NPO Ruffec 4,133b – 8 Provincial Perron 19,772b – 11 NPO Nanteuil 16,772b - … and half-brother ‘Adele’, winner to 2nd Ace bird WHZB 2015 – 3rd National Ace bird youngsters PIPA ranking 

Mother is ‘Fleur’, winner to 1 NPO Roye 20,199b a,d granddaughter ‘Zorro’ x ‘Jill’ 

With a footnote on this race that the fastest pigeon of the entire release in Quièvrain against 10,000 pigeons, the 1st against 4.239b namely NL21-4207651 raced by Seton en Zn out of Rotterdam is a child out of a couple on the breeding loft from Peter, so a direct Van de Merwe pigeon! And not just a pigeon like that, it is a : 

Grandchild ‘Alivierro’ x ‘Shira’ 
Grandchild ‘Don Bravour’ x ‘Elle’

And please have a good look at the pedigree to see what they all have set on paper, the pigeon that is being raced at Seton and Son really doesn’t have it from any strangers when being the fastest against 10,000 pigeons. 

Familie Van de Merwe, we can keep on repeating it…waw, waw and once again was ! A big congratulations, week after week you’re at the top of everything.