1 Loft Race in Canary Islands

[J.Ledesma]

Dear Friends,

Welcome to Arona-TENERIFE One Loft Race (Canary Islands)

One of most difficult in the world.

I have a nice videos of each training. In this moment 701 pigeons arrived from last training over the sea. We put real-time list of trainings, individual photos of each pigeons, performance, etc.

Please, visit website at:

http://www.derbyarona.com/uk

 

EXTREME ONE-LOFT-RACE

"LIKE NO OTHER" Because in Tenerife-South only authentic Cracks fly over the sea!

 

Silvio Mattachione Say:

I believe that it would be safe to say, ( everyone would be in total agreement) that racing pigeons instinctively do not like to fly over bodies of open water. Pigeons will endure in most cases, hundreds of kilometers of additional flying time to go around a body of water as opposed to taking the risk of going over it.

 

So what is my sudden fascination with water, when most friends of mine know that I cannot swim a stroke? I am fascinated because it never fails to amaze me that the birds that we keep can have so much raw courage, so much power , so much strength , so much endurance, so much determination and such a love for home that nothing , not even a deadly ocean ( and would under all normal circumstances avoid) would ever keep them from trying to get to their homes. Yesterday I received an email that caught my attention , actually held me in awe as to what our pigeons are really capable of. I had never really contemplated whether or not racing pigeon fanciers existed in small remote island chains in the middle of the ocean.

 

Believe it or not , the coast of Africa, Morocco, the Sahara are not what I normally think of when I think of racing pigeons. Yet it seems that the Canary Islands ( officially a part of Spain) has a large , extremely dedicated and extremely courageous group of racing pigeon fanciers as well as racing pigeons! Though for the most part, we in America face the assaults of Mountains, forests, open prairies and deserts these relatively unknown and unheard of racing pigeon fanciers face the rigors of the open ocean every race day! The open ocean, not “Lake Simcoe and the narrows”, but

 

the ocean with its gale force winds and gigantic waves, with its deadly calm one minute, and 10 storey waves the next.

 

I think that it goes without saying that the loses, in racing over the sea are very , very great! Equally great would be the elation and satisfaction of getting birds home in race time given these conditions. In my estimation, taking the emphasis away from 1st and reorganizing your thinking to recognize the achievement of such a test is an extremely positive development that would ultimately lead to the improvement and advancement of the overall qualities of this unique strain of pigeons capable of endurance or long distance racing over the sea!

 

(From Silvio Mattachione article)