2024 Gold Cup race hosted by Carnival Lofts (South Africa) January 2024.
1st prize on the final guaranteed at no less than R500 000. Entry fee R10 000 per team of 5 pigeons, 2 entered and 3 reserve pigeons. Intake from 17 March 2023 until 18… Download PDF
2024 Summer Race hosted by Carnival Lofts (South Africa) December 2023 / January 2024
2024 Summer Race hosted by Carnival Lofts (South Africa) December 2023 / January 2024 Entry fee R10 000 per team of 5 pigeons, 2 entered and 3 reserve pigeons. Intake from 1 March 2023 until 1 August 2023, any pigeons not in the lofts on 1 August 2023 will go to the winter race in […]
Winter 2023 Entries Open Until 28 Feb 2023
Winter 2023 Entries Open Until 28 Feb 2023. Close to 600 pigeons received already. R400 per pigeon perch fee and after the 160km training flight activation fee is R1600 per remaining pigeon. 1st Place – R150 000 2nd Place – R75 000 3rd Place – R50 000 4th Place – R30 000 5th Place – […]
Race 1 Winter 2022 Series
Basket list for race 1 winter 2022 series (Liberation scheduled for 07h30 on Wednesday 20 July ’22 from River of Joy resort near Glen), can be viewed here: https://oneloftrace.live/?page=8&loft_id=14&flight_id=1658132839&season_id=14 Please note this will be start of the “Ace” pigeon competition as well as the first round of the knock-out competition. best of luck to every […]
Pre-bidding has gone live
Good morning auction 1 pre-bidding has gone live and you can now pre-bid on the pigeons till next week Thursday when the pre-bidding closes, please note this is pre-bidding only the amount the pigeon closes on Thursday evening will be the opening bid at the live auction to be hosted here at the lofts on […]
News – 26 January 2022
Good day the pigeons have been scanned and are ready for the final race on Friday 28 January 2022 from Springfontein (488km), this means a jump of very close to 230kms from the last hot spot to the final race. Early weather predictions are for a headwind of about 15kmh and for the first time […]
Allflight Gold Cup News – Hot spot 3 Winburg
Hot spot 3 Winburg With a week of planning and guessing about the weather we decided to drive down to Winburg on Friday late afternoon, Paul and Alfred booked in and were up at 04h30 so we could discuss the weather; we decided to wait till about 5am before we had a look at the […]
Hot Spot 1 – 10 January 2022
Allflight Gold Cup news – 10 January 2022 Hot spot 1 and two now behind us we are looking forward to hot spot 3 which will be a tough flight from 300km this weekend weather permitting. But let us stand up and applaud the winners of hot spot 2. After a week of guessing and […]
Gold Cup News 4 January 2022.
Gold Cup News 4 January 2022. First of all I want to wish everyone a happy and prosperous new year may all your dreams come true in the year of 2022! Back to the pigeons, I think currently the team is working well as unit and they do not seem to have any underlying illness […]
Tropical weather conditions in and around Gauteng
Good morning (20 December 2021) The tropical weather conditions in and around Gauteng and the Free State continue and with this unprecedented weather conditions in Gauteng the training and race preparations are falling behind daily, I cannot get much further than 60 to 70km’s as the weather changes very quickly. Today was another day with […]