LOT 17 — GB26V77240 — Dark HEN

MARK EVANS NATIONAL FAMILY — NATIONAL COCK / GOLDEN BLACK × BOB DE BATT / LADY LUCAS

GB26V77240 is bred directly from GB17Z095332 — NATIONAL COCK × GOLDEN BLACK × GB23D67257 — BOB DE BATT × LADY LUCAS.

SIRE: GB17Z095332 — NATIONAL COCK × GOLDEN BLACK.

GB17Z095332 — Dark Chequer bred by Mark Evans, direct from “NATIONAL COCK” × “GOLDEN BLACK”.

“NATIONAL COCK” GB13Z76864 won 14th National 9,678 birds and 24th National 3,936 birds. He is father to 1st Section 1,693 birds / 1st Open 5,330 birds; 2nd Section 525 birds / 10th Open 1,885 birds; and 3rd Section 1,269 birds / 16th Open 5,193 birds.

“GABY 701” GB07Z50701 won 11 × 1st prizes; ten of those 1sts were from over the English Channel at distances between 373 and 404 miles, winning 34 prizes in total. “DARK DIAMOND” GB08L36965 is mother and grandmother to 1st prize winners with five different mates, direct mother to 14th National 9,678 birds and 24th National 3,936 birds, and granddam to 1st Open 5,330 birds, 10th Open 1,885 birds and 16th Open 5,193 birds.

“GOLDEN BLACK” GB08L36989 is a super breeding hen at Myrtle Lofts, mother and grandmother to 1st prize winners at all levels including 1st Open BICC National Tours 2015 and 1st Open BICC National Guernsey 2016. Her sire is a direct son of “GOLDEN GABY”; that line records 1st National Orleans 12,875 birds; 2nd Arras 6,124 birds; 3rd Nijvel 3,553 birds; 6th Arras 14,674 birds; 14th Peronne 2,975 birds; 16th Reims 2,316 birds; 20th Nijvel 16,652 birds; 35th St Quentin 2,013 birds; and 40th Epernay 6,558 birds.

DAM: GB23D67257 — BOB DE BATT × LADY LUCAS.

DIRECT DAUGHTER OF LADY LUCAS — 1ST NFC NATIONAL — × BOB DE BATT, LAST DIRECT SON OF CHAMPION SHADOW

Dark chequer bred by Mark Evans from the world-famous M & D Evans Vandenabeele family.

Sire of GB23D67257: “BOB DE BATT” — the last direct son bred from “CHAMPION SHADOW”. Descendants of CHAMPION SHADOW are listed as winners of 1st National Alencon 6,823 birds, 1st National Messac 7,000 birds, 1st National Angers 5,977 birds, 1st National Eastbourne 7,312 birds, 1st National Lillers 10,601 birds, 1st National Vire 4,756 birds, 1st National Nantes 10,148 birds and 1st National Carentan 5,103 birds.

BOB DE BATT GB12C39777 became the No.1 breeder of the Mark Evans / Myrtle Lofts team and is sire and grandsire of more than 100 × 1st prize winners, including 4 × 1st National winners and 3 × 2nd National winners.

DIRECT CHILDREN OF BOB DE BATT include SHADOW’S IMAGE — 1st Section 1,453 birds / 1st Open National Tours 4,187 birds; LADY 100 — 1st Open BICC National Guernsey 1,317 birds and fastest from the total liberation of 3,954 birds; and NO REGRETS — 1st Open BICC National Le Mans 2,693 birds.

Further BOB DE BATT descendants include 1st BICC National Tours 2015; 1st BICC National Guernsey 2017; 1st BICC National Le Mans 2019; 2nd BICC National Le Mans 2019; 2nd BICC National Guernsey 2019; 2nd NFC National Fougeres 2020; 3rd BICC National Guernsey 2017; 4th BICC National Guernsey 2014; 5th BICC National Guernsey 2017; and 6th BICC National Guernsey 2018.

Dam of GB23D67257: “LADY LUCAS” — winner of 1st NFC National Guernsey 2015 and 2nd BICC National Guernsey 2015. She then proved herself at stock, breeding winners including 2nd Open National Fougeres from 9,594 birds and 1st Section / 2nd Open BICC National from 2,520 birds.

GB23D67257 is a direct daughter of BOB DE BATT × LADY LUCAS.

Sire GB17Z095332 NATIONAL BLACK bred ‘21, The Ace Hen’, leader of the RPRA OLR Ace standings after Hotspot 3 and 2nd after Hotspot 4 in 2019, with hotspot positions of 21st, 140th, 13th and 16th. He also sired 34th from 810 birds in the RPRA OLR 2018. These Ace placings are interim standings, not a final Ace placing.