My 2009 results in Belgium
Raced in Union Antwerpen/ZAV against the world famous names. 'Prizes on top' means in the first 10%.
Noyon 12-4
' Entered: 4 Old birds, 3 prizes.
' Entered: 17 Yearlings, 15 prizes. 08-896 won 1st prize 3 minutes ahead. So 18 prizes from 21 birds.
Noyon 19-4
' Entered: 2 Old birds, 2 prizes on top.
' Entered: 16 yearlings, 11 prizes, 8 on top. 08-896 won 3rd (reg 1st again) 966 p. So 13 prizes from 18.
Noyon 26-4
' Entered: 4 Old birds, 3 prizes.
' Entered: 17 yearlings, 14 prizes. 08-896 won 17th (1,033 p). So 17 prizes from 21 birds
Etampes 2-05
' Entered: 4 Old birds, 3 prizes on top.
' Entered: 16 yearlings, 14 prizes, 11 prizes on top. (a 'disaster' 08-896 that was also super as a baby hit a wire during training and was deadly wounded). So 17 prizes from 20 birds.
Etampes 9-05
' Entered: 4 old birds, 4 prizes.
' Entered:16 yearlings, 16 prizes, 13 on top. So 20 birds in the race and 20 prizes !
Bourges 23-05
' Entered: 1 old bird, 1 prize.
' Entered: 3 yearlings, 2 prizes on top. So 3 prizes from 4 birds.
Ecouen 6-06
' Entered: 18 Young birds, 16 prizes to start with 3rd from 1.391 p.
Bourges 6-06.
' Entered: 1 bird only. It won 3rd prize (361 p).
Dourdan 13-06
' Entered: 15 yearlings, 9 prizes.
Dourdan 20-06
' Entered: 2 Old birds, 2 prizes on top (4 and 38 from 604 p).
' Entered: 15 yearlings, 12 prizes, 9 on top. So from 17 birds entered 14 prizes.
Dourdan 27-06
' Entered: 10 yearlings, 8 prizes, 6 on top to start with 3rd from 843 p (reg 1st).
Dourdan 04-07
' Entered: 15 young birds, 9 prizes.
Orleans 11-07
' Entered: 14 young birds, 9 prizes to start with 2nd from 1,751 p. All early birds were in the fore fly. I race the greatest distance (reg 1st).
Dourdan 18-07
' Entered: 4 yearlings, 4 prizes!
' Entered: 29 y birds, 15 prizes.
Marne 25-07
' Entered: 30 y birds, 20 prizes.
Dourdan 01-08
' Entered 30 y birds, 20 prizes to start with 3rd (2,644 p). Reg 1st
Argenton (578 kms) 08-08
' Entry 11 y birds, 8 prizes to start with 6, 7, 21. Very hard weather.
Dourdan 08-08
' Entered: 20 y birds, 14 prizes (3, 8, 26, 28, 34 and so on from 1,747 p).
Dourdan 15-08
' Entered: 15 y birds, 12 prizes, to start with 1st from 1,078 p (3 m ahead).
Dourdan 22-08
' Entered: 12 y birds, 9 prizes to start with 7, 14 and 16 from 806 p.
La Souterraine 22-08
' Entered: 9 birds, 7 prizes (616 kms).
Dourdan 29-08
' Entered: 12 birds, 11 prizes (!!) to start with 7, 8, 9 (546 p).
Gueret 05-09 (613 kms for y birds)
' Entered 8 y birds, 6 prizes, 5 on top to start with 1st. The 1st prize winner with old birds was beaten by no less than 15 minutes. Still it won 3rd National s. At the worst location (greatest distance while the wind switched to N W in the last 100 kms) this bird still won 10th NATIONAL ALL Belgium (14,400 p) while all other early birds were clocked East. It had a higher speed than the 1st National Old birds ALL Belgium from Thone.