yet when we take a closer look at the stock building of many top lofts by our northern neighbours, the same names crop up time and again. Naming names would be too risky… just because there would be the chance of forgetting a few important ones. Many of these reports or books published… were indirectly the cause of other fanciers going to obtain reinforcements by these ‘top fanciers’… as a result of which the ‘dominant characteristics’ of their pigeons started forming the basis to top successes in the pigeon sport, also in other lofts.

Call it on our part ‘dominant breeding pigeons’ (cock or hen)… or a ‘dominant breeding couple’ that lie (lies) at the basis of years of top successes in the pigeon sport! In the history books or in various reports about prominent lofts reference is easily made to a superior ‘pigeon pedigree’… although on closer inspection the entire happenings revolve around that one specific ‘top couple’, or around 1 or a few superior stock pigeons… and their direct family. Specific pedigrees… although we prefer to speak of ‘specific stock pigeons’… always turn up in pedigrees of ‘new crack pigeons’ in a later generation.