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CHARLIE BARBIERE HOLDING 08 BSC 111 BLUE HEN " MOTHERS DAY"
WINNER OF 1ST. CLUB AND 1ST. OVERALL CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE
AGAINST 2727 BIRDS, 194 LOFTS,MAY 10, 2009.
THIS RACE WAS WON ON THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY--- MOTHERS DAY.
THE SIRE OF THIS HEN WON 1ST. PLACE AT 300 MILES UTEN BAND RACE, DAM BRED FROM STOCK, HER 1/2 SISTER WON IN 2007 BAYSHORE CLUB CHAMPION BIRD AND 1ST. CLUB, 9TH. CJC COMBINE --3136 BIRDS. SIRE & DAM ARE OF OUR VAN LOON FAMILY WE HAVE CULTIVATED SINCE 1986.
Sport Talk Article by - Tom Smith
I have been friends with Charlie Barbiere for 35 years. When I organized international auctions in America many years ago for fliers such as Emiel Denys, G & M Vanhee, Leopold Coudou, Roger Timmermans, Hans Eijerkamp, etc., I hired Charlie as my auctioneer because I saw in him a young, emerging talent. The first auction I hired him to handle was for the "world champions" G & M Vanhee of Wervik, Belgium. I gave Charlie copies of all the pedigrees and told him to familiarize himself with them. By auction time he knew every pedigree of every bird! In fact he knew the Vanhee bloodlines better than me and I was Vanhees agent having bred and flown his birds successfully for years! He proved me right; he had a profound talent. Over the ensuing years Charlie Barbiere became America's premier auctioneer. He even went to auctioneer college to get officially certified, and then traveled all over the country doing auctions.
Years ago Charlie was auctioneering an importation of birds in New Jersey, from the late Michael Johnston's CLWYD LOFTS of Wales (GB) when he took a liking to a Van Loon cock and bought it himself. The cock bred Charlie two yb winners the first year in his loft! Charlie knew he was on to something. Two years later at another of his CLWYD auctions, this time in California, Charlie bought ADONIS' sire, which became known as ADONIS and went on to become the FOUNDATION COCK of his successful family of Van Loons. Then at another CLWYD auction in New York he bought its dam, which became known as "ANGEL." She bred a winner in her first nest in America also, and three out of her four youngsters that year won!, when she was mated to ADONIS! They went on to breed many winners and breeders of winner right up to today, twenty years later! After a few years the ADONIS Van Loons took over Charlie's loft. He discarded all his other birds, every one of them! He says the Louis Van Loon (B) family is the most prepotent he has ever had in the fifty odd years he has been in the sport.
Charlie's Van Loons are nice medium sized blues with silky feather and muscular, strong bodies. Over the years Charlie had tried many different families, such as Sions (FR), Busschaerts (Palmer GB), Jan Kuijzer Janssens (NL), Piet Valk Janssens (NL), Huyskens-VanReils (B), always buying the best, but the Van Loons outperformed them all.
A few years ago Charlie introduced a Janssen/VAN LOON cross ( 1/2 BRO.to 6th. NAT. ACE ) from the very successful Kees Bleeker of the Netherlands. Kees and his father have a small loft of champion Janssen/ VAN LOON (B) pigeons that have even won NL National titles. Crossed on the Van Loons, they have produced Charlie's top pigeons in 2007.He is perusing birds from two Dutch "grote fond" lofts to add to his loft. Charlie crosses the new introductions on his best Van Loons and races the youngsters. If none of the youngsters beat his straight Van Loons, he gets rid of them. Charlie says "I don't have time to waste&." He keeps only a dozen pairs of breeders, and 20 - 30 old bird racers over the winter. Every bird has to earn its perch or it is out.
For 2008 Charlie has three breeding pigeons coming from the outstanding British Stud known as ANGEL BROS. (owner Morris Dann). They are bred directly out of the Angel Bros' championship stock from Evert van der Horst of Harderwijk, Netherlands, known as the "Speed Devil of East Holland." One is out of van der Horst's famous "Super Belg," 1st Asduif Snelheid GOU (4300 lofts), 1st Duifkampioen Vitesse Region 1 (1200 lofts), 1st Duifkampioen Mid Fond Kring 4 (400 lofts), and 1st Asduif General PV De Eendracht!!!; one out of "Goede Yearling," 1st National Ace Pigeon Speed Races 2006; and one out of a sister of "Zoon Orleans." The van der Horst story is an interesting one: Evert is 64 years old and began racing with his father in 1967. They bought top stock from the well known Ad Schaerlaeckens (NL), Jaap van Santen, Renkum, NL and the Elskamp partnership, Nunspeet, NL, which founded his winning family. A Schaerlaeckens became his Foundation Stock Cock. Then in 2001 Evert caught a Belgian stray youngster, reported it and the owner Guido Mertens of St, Truiden told him to keep the bird and fly it, since it must like the van der Horst loft more than its own! What a stroke of luck that was&. Evert flew the birds for several years and it became one of his greatest racers, then a top breeder! He calls the stray cock "Super Belg" because of his racing record and the number of Ace awards he won (see above). Among his prizes are: 1st 11,173 birds; 2nd 2,560 birds; 6th 11,837 birds;7th 7,571 birds; 10th 17,945 birds; 18th Houdeng 17,199 birds; 23rd 18,527 birds; 28th 11,319 birds; etc. The stray was so great that Evert and his father went to the Mertens loft in Belgium and bought several more birds. They became the backbone of his strain along with the Schaerlaeckens. Charlie plans on crossing a few of them on his successful Van Loon family. Charlie flew for a few years in the GHC, the Gulf Coast Homing Pigeon Club, America's largest club with 200+ member lofts, located in Spring Hill, Florida. But he had to move back to New Jersey due to family matters. In fact we lived across the street from each other, and the day he left he presented me with his UTen 500 mile winning Van Loon hen "1216"! as a going away present! What a guy. He is performing very well back home in New Jersey, much better than he did in Florida, which is a relief to him.
In 2006 his first yb series back in NJ he won 1st Overall Average Speed Bayshore Club 10 races 100 - 300 miles; 11th Combine YB Average Speed (300 lofts); and 1st Champion Young Bird Bayshore Club with IF06LCM1444!. The Champion YB's sire is an imported Kees Bleeker Janssen (NL). The Champion's dam was one of Charlie's Florida pigeons, winner of 2nd UTen "Little Belgium" Auction race 315 miles, a granddaughter of ADONIS x ANGEL Charlie's #1 pair of Van Loons.
Charlie's yb record, flying a small team of 50 ybs, was outstanding: 100 mile - 5th Club 6th South Section 74th Central Jersey Combine 188 lofts 2844 birds; 100 miles - 5th Club 9th S. Section 78th CJC 230 lofts 3642 birds; 150 miles - 2nd & 3rd Club 7th S. Section 11th & 30th CJC 211 lofts 3255 birds; 200 miles - 11th s. Section CJC; 250 miles - 1st Club 1st S. Section 14th CJC 205 lofts 2647 birds; 250 miles - 6th Club 14th S. Section CJC; 300 miles - 3rd Club 10th S. Section 45th CJC 150 lofts 1855 birds; and 300 miles - 4th Club 8th S. Section 23rd CJC 159 lofts 2058 birds. Not bad for his first year back! Charlie says he can't understand how he can be so much more successful in competition in New Jersey than he did in Florida, when New Jersey has almost double the number of lofts and birds, and covers a much larger area &. . In 2007 old birds he started the season off with several good positions including: 4th club 23rd Combine 161 miles 163 lofts 2213 obs 1612 ypm; 94th Combine 212 miles 191 lofts 2763 birds 1669 ypm; 4th club 14th Combine 161 miles 175 lofts 2473 obs; 8th club 50th Combine 292 miles 170 lofts 2310 obs; etc. In this year's 2007 yb series Charlie continues to excel: 1st race: 1st Club 9th CJCombine 118 miles 199 lofts 3136 birds 1476 ypm; 2nd race: 2nd Club 20th, 38th, 39th, 45th CJCombine 118 miles 223 lofts 3685 birds 1589 ypm; 3rd race: 1st, 3rd,4th,7th,8th Club 18th,40th,42nd,84th CJCombine 3013 birds; etc. What a great beginning to the season!
I questioned Charlie about his methods and he said "As natural as possible. I use supplements and medications, but much fewer medications than I used when I flew in Florida. These Van Loons are naturally healthy. They have to make it thru cold winters and hot summers; only the strong and healthy survive. And they all go back in bloodline to ADONIS&.." Charlie removes his ob racing team from their loft at the end of the ob season and lets the ybs take over the whole loft. It gives the ybs more room and air-space per bird, which in turn aids in keeping them healthy and in form. The loft is 12 feet long by 8 feet deep and houses fifty ybs. Charlie's other loft, for the breeders, is also 12 by 8.
By the end of the yb season in October 2007 he had won 1st Overall Youngbird Average Speed, 1st Champion Loft Young Birds, and 1st Champion Young Bird Bayshore Club! That makes two years in a row he topped the Bayshore Club championships, as he also won them in 2006! In the big CJC Combine Charlie has also made his mark in 2007 winning: 34th Combine Champion OB on Points CJC; 33rd Combine OB Average Speed Champion CJC; 56th Combine OB Points Champion CJC; 31st & 96th Combine YB Champion on Points CJC (Ace Pigeons); 9th South Section 14th Combine YB Loft Points Champion; 1st South Section 11th Combine YB Average Speed CJC with a 1270 ypm speed; the 2nd place South Section winner having an 1132 ypm speed! No speed races here! And finally Charlie's Van Loons scored 11th Grand Champion Loft OBs & YBs Combined CJC 2007! Not too bad for a small team guy!
Charlie has started off with a bang in the 2008 ob series! In the Elizabeth Club (Guranteed Money) Race mentioned above, Charlie was 2nd, 3rd, and 6th!, beaten by the Luchesse Loft flying 4 mile short on Staten Island, New York. It was a tough race with rain off and on over the 300 miles. Charlie needed one minute nineteen second to win. His speed was 1080 ypm, while Lucheesse's was 1084 ypm. Charlie winners of 2nd and 6th are brothers, out of his old Van Loon lines, of course!
IN 2009 OLD BIRDS CHARLIE won on MOTHERS DAY--MAY 10,2009--1ST. CLUB, 1ST.CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE-2727 BIRDS, 194 LOFTS,speed--1840.408 yards--14 yards ahead of the 2 nd.place bird.
The following week -MAY 17,2009 on his birthday CHARLIE won--1st. club, 7th. CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE against-2603 birds,187 lofts at a speed of 1543 yards, 12 yards off the overall winner. 2009 YOUNG BIRDS- results as follows-AUG.10-100 miles-WON 1ST.club, 9TH.& 38TH. CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE-1942 birds, 132 lofts. AUG.16 at 100 MILES won 2ND club, 2ND.& 57TH.CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE against 2755 birds,174 lofts,he lost 1st.overall CJC COMBINE by 12 seconds.All of these birds are of his VAN LOON FAMILY that he has cultivated since 1986, they win at all speeds from 100-500 miles,under all conditions.SEPT.20 at 250 miles he won-1ST.and 8th.club,1st.and 36th. CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE against 2328 birds,192 lofts at a speed of-1327.920 yards per minute against a south east wind,his loft is in the south.The following are awards he won in 2009 young birds***WON Club Overall Average Speed- (17)LOFTS.***WON Club Champion Bird, ***WON-1ST.CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE OVERALL AVERAGE SPEED--1369.319 yards per minute. ****WON 1ST.CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE SHORT AVERAGE SPEED-1315.841. ***WON-6TH.CJC COMBINE CHAMPION LOFT.**** WINNER IF-151-500 CHAMPION LOFT-2009 YOUNG BIRDS, SEE 2010 SKY TALK FOR ARTICLE & AWARD. .For further info.
See the JANUARY 1,2009 RACING PIGEON DIGEST--PAGE 31.
You can contact
CHARLIE BARBIERE @--732-530-7395.
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