A granddaughter of Pharoah and Femke, the Portugal Pair, through her sire GB23V72218, and of Basil and Maxine through her dam GB23V72280. Maxine also appears as Pharoah’s dam on the sire’s side. The supplied documents are the two parents’ pedigrees; a pedigree bearing GB26V77203 has not been verified.

LOT 12 — GB26V77203 — CHEQUER HEN

GRANDDAUGHTER OF PHAROAH × FEMKE AND BASIL × MAXINE — THE PORTUGAL PAIR AND BASIL’S 10 × 1ST CLUB PERFORMANCE!!

BASIL’S FLORA is a direct daughter of GB23V72218, a son of PHAROAH × FEMKE, paired to GB23V72280, a direct daughter of BASIL GB16V48650 × MAXINE BELG14-6059985. PHAROAH × FEMKE bred BLUE AND LONESOME, 1st Ace Pigeon Algarve Golden Race 2017 and car winner against 5,097 entries. BASIL’s racing and breeding performances add Club, Federation and Combine strength through the dam.

DIRECT FROM TWO SYNDICATE LOFTS PERFORMANCE FAMILIES — PORTUGAL PAIR / BASIL

GB26V77203 is bred directly from GB23V72218 — direct Portugal Pair × GB23V72280 — BASIL family.

SIRE: GB23V72218 — direct Portugal Pair.

DIRECT SON OF THE PORTUGAL PAIR — BROTHER TO INTERNATIONAL OLR PERFORMERS

Sire GB23V72218 is a direct son of PHAROAH × FEMKE, the Syndicate Lofts PORTUGAL PAIR.

Full brothers and sisters of sire GB23V72218 include BLUE AND LONESOME, SHOOT TO THRILL, STREET FIGHTING MAN, THE GUNSLINGER, WHOLE LOT OF ROSIE and LADY MADONNA.

Sire of GB23V72218: GB16V49019 “PHAROAH” — a son of JOHANNESBURG × MAXINE. DAM: BELG16-6128652 “FEMKE” — Rik Hermans, from GENOPTE LEEUW × PROPERE PRINCESS and closely related to National winner CHUCKY.

SIRE’S PARENTS — PHAROAH × FEMKE are parents of BLUE AND LONESOME: 1st Ace Pigeon Algarve Golden Race 2017; car winner against 5,097 entries; finishing 1½ hours ahead.

SHOOT TO THRILL: 1st UK against 203 birds and 12th International against 3,044 birds, SAMDPR Hot Spot Average 2017; 3rd UK against 260 birds and 50th International against 4,109 birds, SAMDPR Grand Averages 2017.

STREET FIGHTING MAN: 13th British Masters Hot Spot 1; 16th British Masters Final. THE GUNSLINGER: 70th Algarve Golden Race Final against 3,036 birds. WHOLE LOT OF ROSIE: 24th Hot Spot 2 against 3,253 birds; 212th Algarve Great Derby Final. LADY MADONNA: 2nd UK / 63rd International Golden Algarve Final 2022.

NEXT GENERATION — A direct son of the Portugal Pair owned by Ian Hunter bred 1st Moledo Yearling Championship Final 2022 against 2,607 birds. Their daughter DIAMOND LADY bred 1st Kaier One Loft Autumn Final 2023 against 6,444 birds. Their son GB19A42685 was also part of the breeding pair responsible for 1st Final and 1st Ace Pigeon Autumn Ace Challenge 2024.

FURTHER PARENTAL FAMILY — JOHANNESBURG bred winners of 1st Sens 447 birds and 1st Orleans 175 birds. MAXINE is dam of winners and breeders including PHAROAH. FEMKE is half-sister to CHUCKY: 4th Belgian National Ace Young Bird KBDB Midfond 2018; 8th National Bourges 17,944 birds; 1st National Issoudun 11,468 birds; 1st Overall 19,746 birds. GENOPTE LEEUW is sire of 1st Chateauroux 1,383 birds, 1st Reims 414 birds, 1st Chateauroux 309 birds and 1st Sezanne 159 birds. PROPERE PRINCESS is dam of CHUCKY.

DAM: GB23V72280 — DIRECT DAUGHTER OF BASIL × MAXINE.

Her sire is BASIL GB16V48650, from ARUNDEL GB12J6851 × BONNY GB14V39713. Her dam is MAXINE BELG14-6059985, also the dam of PHAROAH. BASIL’S FLORA is therefore a granddaughter of BASIL and MAXINE through this hen, with MAXINE appearing again one generation further back through PHAROAH on the sire’s side.

BASIL — 10 × 1ST CLUB — × ZOON OUDE ASDUIF 9 × 1ST / MAXINE OLR FAMILY

A SERIOUS PERFORMANCE-BRED SYNDICATE LOFTS HEN: BASIL’S 10 × 1ST CLUB / FEDERATION / COMBINE FAMILY ON ONE SIDE, WITH A 9 × 1ST JOHAN DONCKERS COCK AND THE BLUE AND LONESOME OLR FAMILY ON THE OTHER.

The sire side comes through “BASIL — THE RACING MACHINE”, bred by Syndicate Lofts and raced by Garry Inkley to win 10 × 1st Club. His performances include: 1st Club Exeter 169 birds, 1st Federation 2,545 birds, 1st Combine 3,355 birds; 1st Club Honiton 111 birds, 1st Federation 3,232 birds; 1st Club Honiton 162 birds, 1st Federation 2,545 birds; 1st Club Exeter 78 birds, 2nd Federation 1,529 birds, 2nd Combine 2,298 birds; 1st Club Blandford 186 birds, 3rd Federation 1,342 birds; 1st Club Minstead 117 birds, 3rd Federation 1,962 birds; 1st Club Blandford 191 birds, 4th Federation 3,360 birds; 2nd Club Honiton 147 birds, 2nd Federation 1,699 birds; 3rd Club Blandford 122 birds, 16th Federation 2,402 birds; 1st Club Honiton 107 birds; 1st Club Exeter 145 birds, 12th Combine 2,686 birds; 1st Club Blandford 154 birds; 41st Le Mans 1,928 birds; 27th Carentan 1,263 birds; and 136th NFC Coutances 3,752 birds.

BASIL also became a proven breeder: direct son GB22V51232 won 2nd Section, 2nd Open CSCFC Ramsdean and 1st Section, 16th Open BBC; nestmate GB22V51231 won 1st Club Asse Zellik 473 birds and was approximately 15th overall against just over 5,000 birds; pigeons bred from daughters of BASIL won 34th Open NFC Guernsey and 1st North West Section CSCFC Guernsey against 521 birds.

The dam of GB23V72280 is MAXINE BELG14-6059985, bred from ZOON OUDE ASDUIF × KLEINDOCHTER START. ZOON OUDE ASDUIF won 9 × 1st. MAXINE is dam of PHAROAH, the cock of the PORTUGAL PAIR and sire of BLUE AND LONESOME, 1st Ace Pigeon Algarve Golden Race 2017 and car winner against 5,097 entries.

Parental pedigrees supplied: Sire: GB23V72218 and Dam: GB23V72280. Both documents are also available in the additional-photo gallery. These are the parents’ pedigrees.