February 2025

On his own loft, the most recent season was once again a great success. Moreover, over the past two years, numerous remarkable references can be noted.  The Margris pigeons have truly been the foundation of many recent achievements in the pigeon sport! Given the impressive number of references, we will return later to the 2024 performances of Alexandre Margris on his own loft. However, the overview of this multiple French National Champion’s 2024 results, often featuring remarkable series of top prizes, already speaks for itself as an introduction: Resultaten 2024 28/07/24 La Souterraine 3.719 old pigeons 9-16-18-22-23-52-61-76-103-108-109-110-121-140-170-202-231-261-294-… 24/37 28/07/24 La Souterraine 4.806 yearlings 3-4-6-18-42-53-65-125-140-331-… 18/25 25/05/24 La Souterraine 4.133 old pigeons 2-3-39-40-56-59-63-100-112-140-150-245-272-294-329-… 17/28 25/05/24 La Souterraine 1.782 yearlings 4-44-95-118-199-211-… 7/20 8/05/24 Châteaudun 1.715 old pigeons 4-7-15-18-22-26-27-30-31-35-39-47-48-53-56-57-75-79-104-106-123-150-152-… 29/39 8/05/24 Châteaudun 881 yearlings 1-2-8-10-12-18-24-26-43-44-45-51-55-56-… 20/30 20/05/24 Pontoise 682 p. 3-5-7-8-9-12-15-16-22-25-26-35-39-55-… 24/38 1/07/24 St Just/Eure 694 p. 2-3-4-6-7-11-12-14-15-17-25-37-41-49-… 16/24 1/07/24 St Just/Eure 1.188 p. 4-5-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-15-17-18-19-23-27-39-42-56-… 36/55 7/7/24 La Ferté ST Aubin 467 old pigeons 4-5-6-13-18-19-23-25-28-34-35-… 19/37 7/7/24 La Ferté ST Aubin 783 young pigeons 1-2-4-5-7-22-23-24-25-26-28-44-45-46-47-48-49-50-53-61-… soit 26/53 13/07/24 St Just/Eure 342 yearlings 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-25-… 16/21 13/07/24 St Just/Eure 1.445 young pigeons 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-11-12-13-14-15-57-60-61-96-109-… 25/41 21/07/24 Montoire 793 young pigeons 4-6-8-9-10-14-16-18-24-26-27-29-30-31-34-38-52-… 20/40 04/08/24 Châteaudun 387 old pigeons 1-2-3-4-6-7-8-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-… 17/19 4/08/24 Châteaudun 247 yearlings 1-6-7-9-17-18-19-23-24-… 15/18 4/08/24 Châteaudun 922 young pigeons 1-2-3-5-6-7-8-24-25-27-29-30-63-64-69-74-… 17/24

For years, Sakis continues to amaze the pigeon racing world with international successes, especially on the OLR, with descendants of his very strong strain of Ludo Claessens pigeons. Meeuwke 12, Supercracks Talent, Bonte Beauty, etc…. For many years, Sakis has been widely regarded as the treasurer of the Claessen pigeons. In addition to brilliant performances on his own loft and with other fanciers, his worldwide successes on the one-loft races in particular, are of a very high level. Every season again we see descendants of e.g. Meeuwke 12, Supercracks Talent, Bonte Beauty, White Talent, Super Yearling, Nationaal Meeuwke, etc…. back at the top of the international OLR.    Despite his busy job and a limited number of race- and breeding pigeons, Sakis also manages to perform excellently on his own loft every year. Last year, he raced a team of yearlings that had not been trained as youngsters. During the season, despite this handicap, they managed to achieve some great results, especially in the one-day long distance races. Below you can see some top pigeons of the last few years on their own loft with their best performances:    NL23-9306067: Athens (daughter of BE19-4207286 x National Meeuwke) Issoudun 579 km: 1st from 312 p. 7th Nat. SII 5,468 p. Bierges 3rd from 1,560 p. NL19-1658821: National Meeuwke (daughter NL10-1526397 G&S Verkerk x Blue Talent) Chateauroux 600 km: 1st National SII 7,962 p.  NL22-8449223: Super Marianne (daughter White Talent x Super Yearling) Issoudun 580 km: 1st of 179 p., 69th Nat. 27,085 p. Fontenay 447 km: 4th from 235 p., 60th Div. 5 6,906 p. Chateauroux 600 km: 10th from 315 p., 136th Nat. S2 6,030 p. NL19-1658696: Super Yearling (daughter of NL18-5166956 G&S Verkerk x Miss Thessaloniki Extra) Vierzon 549 km: 1st of 1,090 p. Fontenay 447 km: 4th from 1,791 p. Blois 523 km: 10th from 867 p. NL18-1092610: Super 10 (son NL16-1526397 G&S Verkerk x Blue Talent) Fontenay 447 km: 1st from 1,791 p. Nanteuil 331 km: 1st from 1,784 p. Duffel 86 km: 1st from 1,114 p.

PIPA received a lot of info about the last of 5 Marathon races in Saudi Arabia. This Saudi International Race – Kuwait – Bahrain was won by Mossab Al Dossary with his 5 year old pigeon KS21-0109126F. For Saudi-Arabian marathon fanciers, the big race released in Skaka was one of the great highlight of the season 2025! The Ministry of Sport – Saudi Committee for Racing Pigeons organises 5 long distance races, with an average distance of 950 km:  Starting Points and Routes: 1. Dammam → Hail, Sakaka, Arar 2. Almajma’ah → Al Qurayyat, Tubarjal 3. Halat Ammar → Jeddah, Unaizah 4. Al Qurayyat → Al Qassim, Hafar Albatin, Taif, Madina 5. Skaka → Riyadh, Dammam, Al Qatif, Al-Ahsa This last race had a total number of 8,494 pigeons in the race! This Saudi International Race – Kuwait – Bahrain (Long Distance) was one of the toughest challenges due to extreme weather conditions, with only two pigeons managing to arrive during the night!  Hussain Baban analysed this race and this are the main conclusions:  Initial Results Analysis:

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