Lot: #01

Ring No. BE 17 3082131

Colour: Blue Chequer

Sex: Cock

Known by Tommy as the “31” Cock, and purchased with his nest sister “32”, both of these pigeons have bred birds to be entered into this years upcoming Kings Cup from France which were all trained lightly as YB, but not raced. In their Yearling year they raced 4 channel races (Talbenny x 2, Bude & Penzance). Tommy intends giving them a single inland race this year, followed by a Bude race before preparing them for the ultimate test. He is expecting to clock these 4 birds, assuming they make the race in the first place.

This bird is inbred to “Ringlose” through his Sire “The 861” who is from a pairing of a son of Ringlose to a daughter of the half-sister of Ringlose.

The Dam is also inbred to Ringlose, from a pairing of a Grandson of Ringlose when paired to a Daughter of Ringlose.

A super inbred “Ringlose” bird for the stockloft – the young of which are still in Tommy’s race team.

“Ringlose” NL 94-2227959 was the undisputed number one stock breeder for Günter Prange for quite some time, and he was obtained from Cornelis & Gerard Koopman. He is a son of Beatrix-Doffer paired to Sultana (from Eric x Wonderduifje 056). The 959 is the sire, grandfather and great-grandfather of quite a number of world class pigeons. He combined particularly well with the Bellens hen 736. The 02098-97-330, a son of this pair, won no less than eight prizes during his racing career, before developing into a renowned breeder here in Meppen. In 2001 the 330 won 10 prizes and an impressive 968,01 ace points of a total of 1000.

Another son of the 959 is the so called Ringlose, which is now quite a legendary pigeon, having bred so many outstanding breeding and racing birds. His dam is in fact a descendant of the old Delbar bloodline of Günter Prange. A son of Ringlose, the 02098-99-802, became 1st Ace Cock of Germany in 2001. A daughter of Ringlose, the 02098-99-704, bred racing bird 05991-01-1011, winner of a title of 1st Ace Cock of Germany in 2011 for the renowned German loft of Bernhard Beumer & Theo Sandbothe.

Another son of Ringlose was very close to winning this very title yet again in 2003, this time in Günter Prange’s own loft in Meppen. He has ring number 02098-01-1009 and he comes from a pairing of Ringlose with NL 94-2783577 (from Ons Louis x Zuster Eric) of Cornelis & Gerard Koopman. The 1009 finished in 2nd place in the German Ace Cock championship with a 598.43 on a maximum of 600 points. This shows that the descendants of Ringlose have been quite successful indeed. To this day, and we are almost 2018 now, the Ringlose pigeon breed has shown its potential across all disciplines.