You simply cannot ignore the performances of ‘Rico’ and the ‘Whiteman’ family of pigeons by Vrancken – Berden, Excelsior breeding stud have been steadily growing a blended family of pigeons from Nat Ace KBDB Sprint champions and so when the opportunity arose recently on Herbots to acquire an inbred direct daughter of ‘Rico’ Les Carter made the decision that she was coming home to the UK and will be coupled with there main KBDB and sprint champion children.
BE 20-5031856 “Rico”
1 World’s best Ace bird FCI Short Distance ( old – year birds and youngsters together ) 2020
1 Nat Olympiad bird Olympic Hope Cat.F KBDB 2020
1 Nat Ace bird short distance youngsters KBDB 2020
1 Laon 2,924b
1 Laon 274b
2 Laon 4,451b
3 Chimay 3,654b
3 Chimay 239b
8 Dizy 4,982b
12 Vervins 5,077b
Excelsior breeding stud have acquired two pigeons from the auction on Herbots,
BE22-2130112 - Grizzle Rica
DNA CERTIFIED
Only Daughter in online auction
Special inbred “Olympic Rico” x his own sister
Father “BE 20-5031856” Olympic Rico
1 Olympiad bird Cat.F Romania 2022
1 World Best Pigeon FCI S.D.(old+yl+yb) 2020
1 Nat Olympiad bird Cat.F KBDB 2020
1 Nat Ace S.D. Young birds KBDB 2020
1 S.Prov Laon 2.924p 190km
1 Laon 274p 190km
2 S.Prov Laon 4.451p 190km
( beaten by 1 sec after loftmate )
3 S.Prov Chimay 3.654p 122km
3 Chimay 239p 122km
8 S.Prov Dizy 4.982p 172km
12 S.Prov Vervins 5.077p 160km
Mother “BE 21-5043380” Sister Olympic Rico
Full sister “BE 22-5082099” Miss White
1st Ace young birds 2022 ( 3 clubs )
4th Nat Ace Sprint young KBDB 2022
Full sister “Olympic Rico”
Daughter from “White Man” x “Toneke”
1 World Best Pigeon FCI S.D. Belgium 2019
3 Nat Ace Spint old birds KBDB 2019
12 Nat Ace Sprint year birds KBDB 2018
BE22-5082012 - Inbred Whiteman 012
Son best brother “White Man”
Father and grandfather from 5 top young birds in 2022
Inbreeding to “Olympic Rico” and “White Man”
Father “BE 18-6175669” Witte 69
Proven topracer
2 Chimay 4.714p – 2 Chimay 1.211p
3 Dizy 377p – 6 Dizy 817p
11 Dizy 1.627p – 12 Sourdun 1.348p
31 Prov Sourdun 3.713p
94 Prov Sens 5.269p
Proven top breeder
Father “White 044”
2 Mettet 431p – 20 S.Prov Dizy 3.635p
24 S.Prov.Chimay 4.132p
Grandfather “White Lady 058”
1 S.Prov Chimay 4.132p – 1 Laon 543p
4 S.Prov Mettet 2.320p
Grandfather “Chateauroux Boy”
7 Nat Chateauroux 17.081p
Grandfather “093/22” Super 93
1 Dizy 1.203p – 1 Chimay 822p
7 Chimay 668p
Grandfather “094/22” Blauwke 094
6 Chimay 668p – 19 S.Prov Dizy 3.635p
Brother “White Man” 8x 1st
Mother “BE 21-5112909” Sister Olympic Rico
Full sister “Olympic Rico"
1 Olympiad bird Cat.F Romania 2022
1 World Best Pigeon FCI S.D. ( old+yl+yb ) 2020
1 Nat Olympiad bird Cat.F KBDB 2020
1 Nat Ace Sprint Young birds KBDB 2020
Full sister “Miss White”
4th Nat Ace Sprint young KBDB 2022
children from these coupled breeders will be available in the coming 6th Auction season starting August 2023,
Extract from Herbots
Vrancken – Berden, Kuringen shines with super star “Rico”: World’s best FCI Ace bird Short Distance 2020
In the Limburg village Kuringen you can find the house of Eric Vrancken and his family. The past years the tandem Vrancken – Berden has been one of the highlights in the bigger competition of Middle Limburg. It started with the 3rd Olympiad bird youngsters in 2017, 2 years later super star ‘Wout’ was born who became 2nd Olympiad bird youngsters in Poznan 2019 and now in 2021 they really hit it of with ‘Rico’ who brought more than one ace bird title to Kuringen. In detail this means that ‘Rico’ in his super season won the 1st National Ace bird Short Distance KBDB 2020, then he also became 1st National Olympiad bird Olympic Hope Cat. F KBDB 2020 and World’s best Ace bird FCI Short Distance (old – year birds and youngsters all together). This last title isn’t only for Belgium but over all the countries that compete in this competition. This is how he is doing even better than his father who won this title for Belgium as well in 2019.
And now the circle is round as with 3,2,1, on the Olympiad competition during the past 3 years, but personally I think that the motivation from Eric and the super classful pigeons that are present are able to do so much more.
Results of the championships KBDB 2017-2020
1st World’s best Ace bird FCI Short Distance ( old – year birds and youngsters together) 2020
1st World’s best Ace bird FCI Short Distance Belgium with “White Man”
1st Nat Olympiad bird Olympic Hope Cat. F KBDB 2020
1st Nat Ace bird short distance youngsters KBDB 2020
1st Prov Ace bird middle distance youngsters KBDB 2020
2nd Olympiad bird youngsters 2019 Poznan
2nd Prov Ace bird short distance old KBDB 2019
3rd Olympiad bird youngsters 2017 Brussel
3rd Nat Ace bird short distance old KBDB 2019
4th Nat Ace bird middle distance youngsters KBDB 2020
12th Nat Ace bird short distance year birds KBDB 2018
BE 20-5031856 “Rico”
1 World’s best Ace bird FCI Short Distance ( old – year birds and youngsters together ) 2020
1 Nat Olympiad bird Olympic Hope Cat.F KBDB 2020
1 Nat Ace bird short distance youngsters KBDB 2020
1 Laon 2,924b
1 Laon 274b
2 Laon 4,451b
3 Chimay 3,654b
3 Chimay 239b
8 Dizy 4,982b
12 Vervins 5,077b
Continue to read more about Vrancken – Berden & ‘Rico’ here;
https://www.herbots.be/en/article/vrancken-berden-kuringen-shines-with-super#/