Carnival Loft One Loft Race

2 weeks ago

Carnival Lofts news race 6 winter 2024 series:
Race 6 Winter 2024 season. Boschrand farm (Gariep area 510km), for the last couple of seasons I race Boschrand farm near Gariep twice to give the pigeons the extra confidence before going to the final race being either Noupoort or Hanover.
The 2nd race from Boschrand are generally a better race due to the fact that the pigeon have been there and are more confident to quickly get their bearings and head home and that was the case on Wednesday.
The weather also played along as the wind was not from the east at all, this generally means trouble for young birds and over the years I have learnt that when you have east in the wind there is trouble and you in for a very tough race with bad returns. But let us get back to race 6 and the results.
The pigeons were liberated at 07h00 with a strong headwind at liberation which actually lasted for about 200km on route back before changing to a north westerly wind that is still a headwind but due to the fact that there is west in the wind the pigeons tend to ride the wind and returns are far better than when there is east in the wind.
Gut feel said we should get pigeons at about 14h00, at 13h55 two pigeons could be seen just to the east of the blue gum trees heading to the lofts, they were working hard and just lifted over the fences to make it to the lofts and drop down on the landing area and walked in to be clocked, 1st place a pigeon entered by Du Preez family (Wouter, Thinus & Derick from Nigel and as far as I know they actually leading the averages in their organization as well so definitely having a great season so far). The 2nd pigeon is from one of our strongest one loft competitors Willie Munnik who has had success in most olr’s he enters and one of the top performers here at Carnival Lofts for many years already. The next 5 pigeons basically arrived together but in 3rd place is currently our top performing loft for the winter 2024 season here at Carnival Lofts Andre & Juan.
The top 25 position were:
Ranking Fancier Prize Money Speed
1 Du Preez Family R5 000 1241.708
2 W Munnik Lofts R4 000 1241.410
3 Andre & Juan R3 000 1237.465
4 MJ Hartman R2 000 1237.321
5 Daan Roux R2 000 1235.173
6 Rudolf & Anton R2 000 1235.081
7 German Friends R2 000 1235.001
8 Pigeon Palace R2 000 1232.579
9 Marnes Nel R2 000 1232.207
10 Andre & Juan R2 000 1232.122
11 W Munnik Lofts R500 1226.922
12 Hot Rod Racing R500 1226.768
13 Roberto & Boesman R500 1226.734
14 Burt & Ben R500 1226.445
15 Eaglestone Lofts R500 1226.379
16 J & T Engelbrecht R500 1220.200
17 F1 Lofts R500 1220.195
18 J & T Engelbrecht R500 1220.033
19 German Friends R500 1209.251
20 Andre & Boesman R500 1209.195
21 Antonio Sampiao 1208.984
22 Ferdie Coetzer 1201.594
23 Team Neptune 1196.895
24 Andre Luwes 1192.248
25 Protea Hokke 1188.030
I am very pleased to see some new names that are new entrants also starting to perform and get up in the top results, well done to Roberto & Boesman for ending up 2 races in a row in 13th place but his race winning the Turf Pet Hyper hamper sponsored by Fareed whom I just want to thank for always giving the loft a discount on products and food etc that I purchase from them during the season I really do appreciate it Fareed and Muazz!!!
Leading the ace pigeon competition currently is Andre & Juan, followed in 2nd place by Marnes Nel in second place and M & Y Klingbiel in 3rd place, the top 20 ace pigeons going into the final are:
Race Release time Distance Release point
Race 1 28.06.2024 07:40:00 228 km Aldam
Race 2 04.07.2024 07:30:00 336 km Glen
Race 3 15.07.2024 07:30:00 345 km Bloemfontein
Race 4 23.07.2024 07:30:00 460 km Trompsburg
Race 5 08.08.2024 07:15:00 510 km Boschrand Farm
Race 6 21.08.2024 07:05:00 510 km Boschrand Farm
Ranking Fancier Pigeon Speed
1 Andre & Juan OERF 23 3893 1284.579
2 Marnes Nel WPU 24 5536 1214.207
3 M & Y Klingbiel OERF 23 5442 1186.589
4 V Jaarsveldt & Pienaar SLIM 23 4384 1186.066
5 Schalk Louw BENZ 23 4849 1185.991
6 Badenhorst Lofts NHL 23 1013 1182.639
7 Team Neptune MCDC 23 89 1174.107
8 Pigeon Power KUYS 23 33 1172.599
9 W Munnik Lofts W MUNNIK LOFTS 23 159 1166.614
10 Toppigeon/Beneke Lofts GPU 23 9110 1163.791
11 Striker Lofts ZULU 23 2227 1155.799
12 Andre & Juan OERF 23 3891 1150.663
13 MC Daniel HPV/D 24 848 1138.701
14 W Munnik Lofts W MUNNIK LOFTS 23 251 1129.590
15 Daan Roux TROS 23 1484 1127.594
16 Leswin Lofts HHC 23 1958 1125.324
17 Andre & Juan OERF 23 8026 1124.186
18 JJ Robbertse Hokke CYRL 23 9118 1123.735
19 Protea Hokke VNRF 23 639 1109.368
20 Len Knoetze Lofts OERF 23 8804 1100.434
Again some new names in the mix plus some old stalwarts. Well done to everyone on their performances so far for the winter 2024 season now we look forward to a great day of fun in the sun hopefully not that hot with a light headwind on 6 September 2024. The final race will be from Noupoort / Hanover about 620km back to the lofts.
The best pigeon on the day will be the winner as always and hopefully I will see most of you plus a number of new faces back for the next instalment of the Carnival Lofts winter series 2025. The entrance fees will again be R2000 per pigeon but from this season a 50% deposit of the R2000 must be paid on entry into the lofts (R1000 per pigeon the day the pigeons arrive at the lofts). However, the deposit rolls over to birds in the loft after the 150km training flight so you do not loose your deposit if a pigeon goes missing the R1000 gets transferred back onto your account as credit towards another pigeon in your team. As car race at a cost of R300 per pigeon on the day of entry will be added for 2025 but full rules and race program to follow shortly. Please also take note I will not accept more than about 1250 new pigeons for 2025, the loft with the new extra 26 meters we added can house 2500 pigeons easily but I do not want more than about 1250 new entries as we will have some old birds as well taking part in 2025.
Kind regards
Herman ... See MoreSee Less

Carnival Loft One Loft Race

4 months ago

Good afternoon here from Carnival Lofts winter 2024 team, we have now done 5 x 20km training flights successfully. The pigeons were liberated in 4 groups daily and they successfully completed these training flights I am sure as is the case with every fancier that we had some losses. I am going into town now to pick up the two 12 field antennas that was repaired for me and will have them fitted back in the lofts later today or latest tomorrow. This means we can start clocking the pigeons and we will then have the latest stocktake lists up by Friday this week.



The published training flights will start next week and from then we will publish 2 x trainings a week. Our activation race is planned for 14 June 2024 from 150km. Race 1 from Winburg is scheduled to take place on 26 June 2024. Please note at the end of the day the published program on the rules is just a reference and if needs be can and will be adjusted.



The pigeons are in good health and if we can keep them in this condition which we will try our best we should be in for a very competitive season again. Best of luck to all the participants for your own race season, to the other one lofts across the country may you have good returns and few losses and to the participants all the best may you all have an enjoyable season ahead. ... See MoreSee Less

Carnival Loft One Loft Race

4 months ago

Carnival Lofts news 6 May 2024
We are on the road, yes you read that correctly we had our first training flight from about 6km today and the team responded well.
James and Carlos have been circling them around the lofts for the last three weeks and more than 80% of the team can easily do the 40mins forced flying in the morning. The usual tree huggers are still around but as said and as you all know some of them just are not made for racing and will unfortunately not last to the end of the season.
We have done our best and have given them all a fair chance to make it to race 1 at least, I did see a few sore eyes this morning which is also nothing new and Dr. Piet van Zyl from Break-away will be mixing something special to treat the pigeons and to make sure they are back to 100% health before we do the 30km trainers later this month.
We started basketing at 07h05 this morning and was finished basketing the team at 08h35 then drove 10 minutes and opened them so they could fly a full 5 minutes home ! Most of them did circle for another 30mins or so and some did the hour plus as usual.
I will start fitting the ets rings and we will do approximately 200 pigeons a day from Wednesday this week so if all goes well the whole team will have their ets rings fitted within the next week and a half and from then we can publish results twice a week as usual.
Thanks for the patience in this matter but by now you know I generally wait till after the 100km training flight to fit ets rings, however with the new profile on Benzing olr website for the winter series we will be able to do this a lot earlier in future.
I was at the SANPO show on Saturday and had a few very interesting chats to some fanciers about the pigeon sport, when I get a chance I will do a bit of a report on that as well. We have completed the “new” section of lofts that can house a good 600 pigeons and I am thinking about what to do there with the new loft, it will be a winter series but details to follow laaaaater as I will still think as to what new competition we will host out of that section, maybe I just make it a combined fancier race loft and just race young birds from that section in an organization, who knows.
The first Summer Gold Cup pigeons are in the yellow lofts and was outside in the frames today as Carlos is starting to do his work with them. The summer intake ends 30 August 2024 for the interested fanciers.
Best of luck to all the other olr’s who are all currently busy with the pigeons as well as to every individual fancier who are busy preparing his race team!

Regards and good luck
Herman van Rensburg
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