DEAN PALLAT VAN REETS

[carl]

found this great rite up

 

 

Our Van Reet Biography

The year was 1990 and a friend of mine from England was telling me about a young fancier winning 140 first in the last three years.  His name was Dean Pallatt.  What made Dean so interesting is that he was a good flyer maybe fourth best in the Leicestershire federation before he introduced the Staf Van Reet pigeons.

 

Dean Pallatt had a top-notch family of Grondalaers and Boers pigeons when he bought the very first young from Staf Van Reet.  Breeding from the young Van Reets Dean realized he had something very special.  The young Van Reets had an abundance of character and a very unique look of intelligence.  Dean wondered that maybe the Van Reets pigeons were as good as many of the fanciers throughout Belgium, Holland, Germany and the United Kingdom had claimed.  Dean had heard the rumors about the “Fastest pigeons in the world” but had not yet raced the Van Reets.  Could this group of 1988 young birds bred a few generations from the champions beat an already existing family of Grondalaers and Boers?

 

Dean started the training and the Van Reets he bred even on short training tosses would break the flock and arrive home as a group ahead of the Grondalaers and Boers.  Dean was looking at the young bird season with so much anticipation.

 

The young bird season of 1988 had begun.  The young Van Reets not only flew to the top but they won 18 first prizes and 1st. Champion with a record point total in the Leicestershire federation.  Dean had only changed his pigeons not his methods.  Needless to say the old families of Boers and Grondalaers were eliminated.

 

The following year was 1989, and the Van Reets would be tested during the old bird season racing on widowhood.  Not only did the yearling Van Reets dominate but also on many occasions he would get his entire entry on a drop ahead of the federation against thousands of pigeons.  Anyone who has ever raced in a large federation or combine realizes that topping the federation with more than one pigeon is nearly impossible.  Imagine having your entire entry on the drop to top the federation.  The same pigeons that cleaned up all the awards as young birds continued the winning ways as old birds.

 

At this point Dean had to make a decision.  He wanted to own the entire family of Van Reets.  Dean knew they would make him famous.  Dean negotiated and bought every pigeon from Van Reets except the 1989 young bird team.  Dean Pallatt now owned the top sprint family of pigeons in the world.  Many other studs offer Van Reet pigeons many generations from the originals.  In the 1990’s Van Reet himself began crossing in other families of pigeons with the young Dean left behind in 1989.

 

Dean proceeded to race the 1989 young birds again breaking his own record point total for the federation and won 33 first prizes, topping the federation many times.

 

In 1990 the world famous breeders and winners would be housed and bred from at Dean Pallatt’s.  Dean was so thrilled about the up coming old bird season, until tragedy struck.  The complete team of two-year-old widowers were stolen.  Dean vowed the yearling would hold up the winning ways and they sure did.  The yearlings won 1st. Champion of the federation again breaking the record for points.  The yearlings topped the federation many times taking up to 9 of the first 10 positions.  The totals for 1990 were 39 first prizes, 6 first federations and 2nd Midland Championships along with winning a car on a tough rainy day.

 

The following year, 1991, Dean had his greatest racing season again breaking all the records, winning 56 first prizes and many first federations. Unfortunately this would be the beginning of the end racing.  He was voted out of all clubs and wished he had only clocked a few pigeons instead of topping the federation with his entire team.

 

The results were so devastation that clubs folded and boundaries were changes to keep Dean from competing.  Dean moved to a new location and set up his breeding and racing dream lofts.  Plenty of space including many individual pens for the champions.  No crosses are made.  Dean breeds daughter from one champion to the champion.  No crosses have been or will be made.

 

In 1996 after partitioning the federation for several years Dean again was allowed to race young birds.  The rule was he could only take federation honors and could only clock one pigeon.  The first week was a federation win by 12 minutes.  The second race back Dean won by 20.  The federation wanted to claim unattainable speed and throw out Dean’s pigeon.  The third week Dean clocked all his pigeons on the first drop and had 18 pigeons fourteen minutes ahead of the next bird in the federation.  The one bird counted but everyone knew he was getting the team out front of the federation.  This was Dean’s last season racing to date.

 

The Van Reets have remarkable qualities that make the family somewhat unique.  They are close bred predominantly down from two brothers.  57 X 1st, “Daniel” and his full brother 26 X 1st, “Dikke Prins”.  The two cocks were mated to a couple spectacular sprint hens and then back to their nieces.  The Van Reets are inbred but win bred straight as well as being so pre-potent that they will win for generations.

 

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HAS

Anyone raced any of deans van reets or did anyone race against them when he destroyed the place,great article

[Guest]

Carl, great article, does Dean still have these birds or has he left the sport?

[carl]

Carl, great article, does Dean still have these birds or has he left the sport?

 

not sure but would love to know

[homebird]

great reading just the sort of stuff a new fancier can dream off .Bit unfair being banned becuse your to good.thats like geting stuffed at football and asking for your ball back. :'( :'( :-/

[FOXY]

Very good article you have copied here, it just proves the old saying "If you can't beat them, throw them out " a slight change to the saying , but it makes the point.

[timbarra]

very good article, i bought a pair direct from dean in 1991.. blue female and a son of goede vale. they did nothing for me. they were getting beaten by my family of meulemans and janssens , but i may have bought 2 duffers as they say.  but deans pigeons are fantastic . i would only go to Dean Pallet or Bert Hession if i wanted  Staf  van reet pigeons or Staf himself...

 

sprinters..... I think I have good ones !!

[Guest]

Ian Stafford has been a fantastic supplier of SVR, he should not be forgotten

[ransom50]

my mardon vanreets do the same we reg get big kits together indeed we had 24 drop from 122 mls taking the first 13 800+birds and where in a poor loft location the vanreets do what it says on the packet sprint they get out in front ;D ;D

[Guest]

Cannot recall the Leeds fancier [now left sport] who started our then to-be club champions up with SVRs. Won 15 x 1st in their 1st? season and later took 1st x 10 club positions ... obviously flying as a team as other posts describe but unlike other clubs and feds, spurred others on to try and beat them ... and did.  

[Guest j.bamling]

Cannot recall the Leeds fancier [now left sport] who started our then to-be club champions up with SVRs. Won 15 x 1st in their 1st? season and later took 1st x 10 club positions ... obviously flying as a team as other posts describe but unlike other clubs and feds, spurred others on to try and beat them ... and did.  

 

was it Jimmy Dickens ?

[chichichi]

THE RED DANIEL BIRDS ARE FROM PALLET...WE GOT ORIGINALS AND RED DANIEL LINES HERE,,,,THIS YEAR WON 20 FROM 25 RACES....EVEN WON A 400 MILE RACE WITH THEM.....SPRINT TO MIDDLE....ANY WIND, ANY WEATHER,,100% RELIABLE....TOP STUFF.....

[EAGLEOWL]

Cannot recall the Leeds fancier [now left sport] who started our then to-be club champions up with SVRs. Won 15 x 1st in their 1st? season and later took 1st x 10 club positions ... obviously flying as a team as other posts describe but unlike other clubs and feds, spurred others on to try and beat them ... and did.  

 

vic thompson

 

[Guest malonebros]

 

was it Jimmy Dickens ?

 

no jim, jimmy+susan dickens flys in leigh club bolton/manchester way.

[EAGLEOWL]

maybe it was vic thompson leeds

[schouwman71]

Ken davey from pontefract got vics birds ,he bred victor from them i think,topped the combine loads of times including sons aswell,not sure but i think vic has taken victor this year has ken stopped flying this year and is calling it a day now. :-/ anyway top class van reets,

[Guest paulrstokes]

Dean still has the birds and just runs a small stud now, you can usually find an advertisement in squills.