Batenburg – van de Merwe

The name of Batenburg – van de Merwe and extreme long distance racing have been connected ever since Hugo Batenburg’s first interest in pigeon racing decades ago. Hugo owned (together with PEC) the most impressive marathon colony in the world, which he has sold almost completely recently for a record amount. His exclusive collection included many National & International Barcelona winners of recent years! Mitja and Stefan Kobal have bought children of JEF, NEW LAUREAAT, NEW REMY & THE SPECIAL ONE !

In the nice breeding sections at the loft of Kobal there are children from the best breeders of Hugo Batenburg. Mitja and his father own probably one of the best breeding sons of NEW LAUREAAT ever, who is already the father and grandfather to winners of big races …!

Jelle Jellema

Jelle Jellema is currently the best marathon fancier in the world. Within a few years time, he has won many top prizes on international level, especially on Barcelona! Thanks to his outstanding pigeons based on two very good breeding pairs: ZWART GOUD x 02 and FONDKOPPEL (BERGERAC DOFFER x BLAUWE DAME). Since 2014,  Jelle Jellema won the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place International from Barcelona (race distance of 1258km) with KLEINE JADE, SILKE, SILVIE and SAAR. But he had as well a super Barcelona hen with ROOS, winner of 3rd National Barcelona and EVI who won 10th National Barcelona and 9th National Perpignan in one season!
In the breedingloft of Mitja and Stefan there are children of Jelle’s best bloodlines including a direct daughter of top breeder BLAUWE BENNO which is also the half-sister of SAAR on her mother’s side.