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He s'. was acting a bomb in pigeon sport. Gaby Vandenabeelde, the country's first absolute breeder of pigeons, announced earlier this year that he would stop. On the advice of the doctor. We knew that the auction of his champions would pay a lot. But not that it's happening like that. Sunday at 17h. the box office rose to more than 5.5 million euros, an all-time record. 376,000 euros were paid for a pigeon.
Gaby Vandenabeele (69) from Dentergem, a small village on the border between East Flanders and West Flanders, was forced to say goodbye to the pigeon sport. He is experiencing an allergic reaction of lung tissue by contact with "pigeon dust". And so, he gets rid of all his pigeons, including many champions. In recent days, some 815 award-winning animals have been auctioned online.
The auction ends on Monday afternoon. But Sunday at 5 pm the product was already 5,570,600 euros. "This is an all-time record, the previous one was in 2013, when Leo Heremans' pigeon colony brought in 4,346,500 euros," says Nikolaas Gyselbrecht of the Pipa pigeon auction site.
Absolute top of the auction was "New Bliksem." One Chinese totaled 376,000 euros on Saturday, an all-time record for an online auction.
Initially, the asking price rose to 186,000 euros But as soon as the auction started, the price rose rapidly. "New Lightning" is a top-top, and so are his descendants. He won, among others, the National, the Tour of Flanders for pigeons, so to speak.
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"It's with heart pain c & # Is safe. But my health prevails and the doctor told me that I did not really have the choice anymore. My lungs are badly affected and a few years ago, I also had a heart attack. My heart no longer works one hundred percent, "said Vandenabeele, who started the pigeon sport in 1976 and has been consistently winning prizes since 1981. In pigeon racing circles, he is rightly called Eddy Merckx of the pigeon sport.
Tour of Flanders
The cheapest pigeons were auctioned for a little thousand euros, so amateur pigeon lovers could also buy the descendants of the champions.
The new owner of "New Blinker" is the Chinese Xing Wei, aka Kaier.The Chinese pigeon collector has made his fortune with the distribution of real estate and wine and is passionate about pigeons and is in the process of build a pigeon museum in China and search all about pigeons and pigeon fanciers via Belgian relations
Xing Wei, new owner of 'New Blinker & # 39;
Photo: Pipa
"In his hometown, Tangshan has a dovecote with about 10,000 pigeons, his collection, worth three million euros, already has some flemish pigeons But now, he also has the absolute champion.
Even though Vandenabeele preferred to keep his bestseller in Belgium. "Then you would have heard about it from time to time. Now he is going to China and it is done. Pity. Because if you sit every day on your dovecote, you obviously have a connection with these animals. "
Dovecote ultra secure
The" New Lightning "will now be quarantined for three weeks, then by a specialist in China, where he must quarantine for several weeks before the rooster reaches Xing Wei's ultra-modern, ultra-secure dovecote
"Of course, these pigeons are insured against death by fire or theft, for example. But not against the disease. The buyer must take this risk, "says Gyselbrecht.
Many flies will no longer make the" New Lightning ". There should be a cat or bird of prey in the neighborhood." This too, but above all, a pigeon always comes back to the dovecote where he was raised. And I think she is unlikely to survive the trip to Dentergem, "he says.
And Vandenabeele, who will now ride more and take the time to leave his four grandchildren.
The auction ends Monday afternoon. But the record for the pigeon auction with the highest yield is already broken.
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