BRICOUX PAIR , VIA PHILIPPE MARTIN, BELGIUM.
I have the pleasure to announce the new arrivals to my stock loft from the top renowned Bricoux owner Philippe Martin of Belgium.
I met Philippe in Brussels between his busy schedule as a lecturer. We met at his favourite bar in the city. Unfortunately I was not able to view his fantastic collection of birds, which includes the Gurnay's, Bricoux, Commines,Duray, and in the future the last remaining Boeyken's, a breed which I had great success with when I first started to race at the distance races. I had a good chat with Philippe about many things, it was a learning event for me, and a great pleasure to meet the man most responsible for keeping these great older distance racing breeds alive, a credit to him, and to the pigeon racing world. I will be taking up Philippe's offer to visit him at his lofts at a time when he is less busy, especially with an view to pre-order a pair of the Boeyken's.
Also on this trip I managed to purchase a pair of the old (Red) Sion's breed, some other breeds such as : Batenburg VD Merwe, (Jan Polder, Desmet Mathijs, Maurice Casaert), Robert & Chris Dobbelare, Arden ( Eijerkamp- Muller ), & V. Wanroy.
