The Goldmine in Zundert

Andre Smits is not a professional pigeon fancier.
Andre has his own construction company, so therefore he has to go to work every morning at 6 o’clock.

It is not possible for Andre to have a lot of pigeon – but he is a clever man and has specialised himself to be able to be at topfancier from 100 till 600 km with a very small team of pigeons!

The pigeons:
His own family was built from CRACK NL96-9681815 (Jos De Klak / Gebr Janssen via Harrie v/d Mierden and Nico Trommelen).
As a yearling CRACK became father to GOEDE JAARLING – he became 4. National Acepigeon WHZB!
GOEDE JAARLING then became father to:
– LIMOGES: 1. Limoges ZNB
– MARIANNEKE: 1., 2. and 5. against 10.000 pigeons!

CRACK was also father to MISTER TELETEKST 6. NPO Ruffec 6.494 p. – and there began the story that also gives fantastic results today!

MISTER TELETEKST was a super breeder – sire to 3 different teletext pigeons (Top 10 NPO) with 3 different hens:

• MR BOURGES 11-290: 4. NPO Bourges 7.179 p.
• BLAUWKE 10-329: 5. NPO Orleans 8.134 p.
• NEW HOPE 12-459: 9. NPO Ruffec 3.465 p. and sire to 1. Prov. Bourges 4.478 p.
• 11-291: 1/241 St. Quentin
• 11-303: 1/654 St. Quentin, 1/345 Morlincourt

The fullbrother to NEW HOPE is the actual superstar on the breeding loft of Andre Smits!
His name is MR T – and MR T is a world class breeder – also with different hens – he is sire i.e. to:

• FIREBALL NL-14-3431480: 1/2.454 p. Creil, 1/1.177 p. Issoudun, 2/2.303 p. Roye (1/468), 1/376 Gien (13/8.221), 28/16.675 p. Peronne etc.
• SISTER FIREBALL NL-15-3538618 – mother to 17-390 3 x 1. prizes!
• CHAMPION T NL-16-3629823: 3/5.187 NPO Argenton, 5/5.342 Quievrain etc.
• AMIGO: NL-16-3629853: 4 x 1. prizes and 10 National Acepigeon Middledistance WHZB 2017
• REVENGE NL-18-5194725: 1/7.198 Sermaises, 5/9.924 Sens etc. 27 prizes in 1:10 in region, 2 x General Ace in section
• MR ISSOUDUN NL-19-3922179: 2/7.628 NPO Issoudun (1/2.748)
• NL-20-2011508: 6/4.330 Peronne, 12/3.049 Bierges, 18/4.801 Quievrain etc.
• QUIEVRAIN T NL-21-2121149: 1/3.830 Quievrain (fastest against 6.184 pigeons!)

In 2014 Andre Smits introduced also the best from Leo Heremans (via Mario Verschueren)
And they were a success immediately.
In 2015 Andre won 1. National Acepigeon WHZB with his topbird SUPER MARIO (pure Leo Heremans)

And together with his own family these Leo Heremans lines make the perfect combination!

In addition Andre also had so very good pigeons from Embregts Theunis, Hoeven – from the GOLDEN CANONBALL lines.

Best results 2020:
6/7 Issoudun 536 km
Semi Provincial W & O: 1/1.015 p.
2. NPO 7.628 pigeons
With a son of MR T

11/7 Sermaises 393 km
1/7.198 pigeons (son MR T again!)
10/7.198 p.

18/7 Montlucon 587 km
W & O: 1/647 p.

18/7 Bierges 79 km
W & O: 2/1.981, 3/1.981, 6/1.981, 7/1.981, 8/1.981 p. etc.

25/7 Quievrain 134 km
W & O: 1/3.683, 3/3.683 p. etc.

15/8 La Souterraine 624 km
W & O: 2/357 p.

15/8 Morlincourt 239 km
W & O: 7/3.001, 9/3.001, 10/3.001, 13/3.001 etc.

5/9 Quievrain 134 km
W & O: 1/2.147, 3/2.147, 5/2.147, 9/2.147, 11/2.147, 12/2.147, 16/2.147 etc.

12/9 Peronne 208 km
W & O: 1/2.227, 2/2.227, 3/2.227, 4/2.227, 5/2.227, 6/2.227, 7/2.227, 9/2.227, 13/2.227, 14/2.227 etc.
NPO: 8/12.621, 9/12.621, 15/12.621, 16/12.621, 19/12.621, 21/12.621 etc.

Also 508/20 – again from MR T:
29/8 Bierges 6/1.132
5/9 Quievrain 16/2.147
12/9 Peronne 4/2.227 after 3 loftmates

In 2021 Andre Smits was once again 1. General Champion W & O (Semi-provincial Brabant Afd).

We send our congratulations to Andre Smits for fantastic results and pigeons.
And we are proud that we have got the chance to offer 19 super pigeons on auction from him!
As we said before – Andre Smits is only a small fancier with very little room for pigeons – therefore he can offer proven pigeons – in racing and breeding!