SU 25 4591 Red Chequer “Red October” winner of 65^th Open Final Race Ballygawley 275 miles and 184^th HS1, 174^th HS2, 121^st HS3, 153^rd HS4 and 66^th Semi-Final for ‘Cherry Tree Lofts’

This was bred by Douglas Owen, who has been fortunate to be friendly with Nigel Langstaff and the late Ian Crammond. He obtained some Jan Aarden based pigeons from Ian and Nigel in 2004 and then some Vandenabeele’s from their stock birds in 2008. They come through the M & D Evans lines of Shadow, Carrie, Jester, Eisenhower etc. He also obtained a full brother to ‘Crackerjack’ that won 1^st Open L&SECC Bergerac for Ian and Nigel.

SIRE

SU 22 1887 Red Chequer, his grandfather is a Vandenabeele from the bloodlines of Crammond & Langstaff.

The grand dam to 4591 is SU 20-3264 a daughter of 2684, which was the Dumfries Open winner and is a Busschaert from G. Russell of Dumfries.

DAM

SU 17 S6230 a winner of 1^st club, 1^st Section Buckingham 238 miles; her bloodlines go back to the Crammond & Langstaff Vandenabeele and Kuyper brothers/Martha Van Geel.