Belgium's Up and Coming Star

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Rising star in Belgium shines in the early races. 

Fanciers may recall seeing Jelle De Boc together with Joost De Smeyter - Restiaen in Blackpool in January where a few of their class pigeons were up for sale with auctioneer Stuart Wilcox.  

I regard Joost as one of the best (if not the best) extreme distance fanciers in the whole of Belgium who has won numerous Nationals and International races including 1st Int Pau (9,052 birds)2015, 1st Int Barcelona(4,787) hens, 2nd Int (15,700) 2018;1st Int Narbonne (9158) 2018; 1st Nat St Vincent(3080) 2021 with almost 15 min lead etc 

To enable him to concentrate on these extreme distance events Joost who also keeps sprint and middle-distance pigeons breeds a round each year for Jelle to race in his own loft which is a few kilometres away. The rise to the top of the sport for the 33-year-old Jelle has been truly remarkable, so much so, that the Editor of De Duif magazine Jan Hermans chose him to come to Blackpool in January along with the Master distance flier Joost De Smeyter.  

Since Blackpool I have been in regular contact with Jelle and am currently preparing an article about his loft for publication in a future edition of “The Racing Pigeon Pictorial” which will undoubtedly raise a few eyebrows and make really interesting reading. Jelly aged 33 has already won 9 top ten Nationals positions with up to 25, 096 birds competing. Of course, Lena named after his beautiful daughter won 1st Nat (8,424) yearlings but was fastest of (13,718) pigeons.  

Beautiful weather existed in Belgium for the first 2 races of the season and Jelle really excelled winning 2 last weekend competing against very strong opposition. 

Jelle was very pleased to hear of success for other fanciers winning 1st prizes with his pigeons on the weekend of 12th April. Team Boddaert won 1st against 1,052 old birds and 1st against 884 yearlings. 
Vandeputte-Kubica won 1st against 523 yearlings. 
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