The successful OLR ambitions of Bas Weijers
20 Dec 2022
One Loft Races is the ideal formula for fanciers who, due to too little time to play with pigeons themselves, still have plenty of time to compete with international competition and thus keep the "competition beast" alive in them.
Like speed, speed pigeons demand and marathon, marathon pigeons, OLR pigeons are also a "species" apart. It is unique to see how certain breeding lines constantly recur in the pedigrees of OLR winners and/or ace pigeons.
Here we think of
"Wolverine" (original Norman - owned by Mike Ganus)
In several generations he gave winners on several OLR races
Most famous son of "Wolverine" is
GFL-438-2013 "Mike Has A Very Good One"
Winner of +100,000 US Dollar pool SA Million Dollar Race
2. prize Zandy Meyer Memorial Million Dollar Race 2014
27. prize Car Race Million Dollar Race - 4,092d.
30. prize Car Race Million Dollar Race - 4,065d.
53. prize final race Million Dollar Race 658km - 3,478d.
Also winner 14,-14,-19,-28,-47,-63. in Training flights.
Famous grandchild va "Wolverine" is
GFL-371-2017 "Red Monkey"
1st final winner Victoria Falls World Challenge Race 2018 & winner of 200,000 US Dollar prize money
Other famous descendants of "Wolverine" are:
"Hildabeast": Winner 2nd Prize, 2nd bird drop , Hoosier Classic 350 Mile Final Flight, '20, Winner of $175,000.00 USD
"Jaws 1": 2nd Place Victoria Falls Final flight Winner of $100,000.00 USD
"Pirate": 3rd Place, 2nd Ace Pigeon Crooked River Final Winner of $62,173.00 - 350 Miles 2020
"Thriller": 1st Place Southern Belle Final - 323 Miles - 2020 Winner $53,650. USD
"Thomas 6" (original Thomas Kornelius).
"Thomas 6", won 1st prize Golden Algarve Race 2018 (with 24 min lead - 8th ace pigeon out of 5,000 entrants . Winner of 120,000€
Bas had also noticed that the breeding references of these 2 famous OLR pigeons were dominant and therefore he invested heavily in these pigeons in order to also shine on the various One-Loft-Races
His strategy more than paid off because in 2022 Bas already shone with the following nice results
1st prize FINAL RACE OLR Sofia with 'BALKAN REX', 983 pigeons
5th prize Hotspot Race Derby Arona 2022
12th Ace Pigeon Algarve Great Derby 2022
13th prize FINAL RACE Derby Arona 2022
13th Prize S-FINAL RACE OLR Sofia 2022
32nd-66th-86th Prize S-FINAL RACE Algarve Great Derby 2022, 2,349 pigeons
64th Prize s-FINAL RACE Golden Algarve 2022, 4,276 pigeons
93rd-120th Prize FINAL RACE Algarve Great Derby 2022, 2,063 pigeons
ESPECIALLY FOR INTERNET SALES PIGEON BIDS BAS SELECTED A GROUP OF YOUNG OLR PIGEONS FROM ALL HIS FAMOUS BREEDING LINES