COMBINATIE SMEETS & PENRIS
Limburg’s Best Marathonloft in recent years > Super results on BARCELONA !
Winners of the 1st & 2nd NATIONAL MARSEILLE 2023 !
“NIKA 91” is the Best EUROPEAN Ace Extreme long distance PiPa ranking 2023 !
“DE LETSTE” 3rd Best National Barcelona pigeon 2024 & 7th International Ace Barcelona 2022-2024 !
2nd NATIONAL Acepigeon BARCELONA 16-17-18
1st NATIONAL Serie III BARCELONA ’19
1st INTERNATIONAL Serie III BARCELONA ’19
27, 53, 80 NATIONAL BARCELONA 4.129 pigeons ’19 (3 pigeons basketted and all 3 within the 1st 80 NATIONAL BARCELONA!)
6, 74, 109, 122 NATIONAL BARCELONA 4.842 pigeons ’22
Combinatie Smeets & Penris basketted 3 pigeons for Barcelona in 2019 and win 27, 53, 80 National against 4.129 birds. They have the first 3 pigeons clocked in The Netherlands and win the prestigious 1st serie III National Barcelona 2019, but also the 1st serie III International Barcelona 2019 !!! No one in Europe did it better! Before that SPECTACULAR result on Barcelona they won the 4th National Marathon ZLU Champion in 2017, but Barcelona 2019 was the icing on the cake of this fantastic Marathon loft in Limburg and since than every marathon fancier in Europe knows who Smeets & Penris are.
The basic pigeons of Smeets & Penris are founded somewhere around the beginning of this century. Robin had a few pigeons as a teenager and Piet became more and more involved with the hobby of his son. Robin visited the famous brothers Piet & Andre Kuypers in 2004. And the Kuypers brothers found the youthful enthusiasm of the 16-year-old Limburger so heart-warming that Robin got 4 youngsters of the noblest origin as a gift! Two of these Kuypers pigeons are the current stock pigeons and the “Oude Kuypers van 2004” became the foundation breeder of their colony. An incredible top pigeon is that old Kuypers crack and he is the base of everything there in Urmond. From 2009 father & son started to clock early pigeons on the long distance races : a very nice result at Provincial Periqueux (morning release) gave a boost to focus on the marathon: 36, 84, 109 and 318 (only 4 pigeons basketted) against 3.620 Provincial pigeons on their marathon debut.
“De Oude Kuypers” is the father to Avatar, the 2nd National Golden Ace Barcelona pigeon 3 years. Avatar won the 51st National Barcelona in 2016, 115th National Barcelona in 2017 and 227th National Barcelona in 2018 and won the silver spot in the NATIONAL GOUDEN ASDUIF ranking and is now one of the topbreeders in the Smeets-Penris breedingloft!
His nest sister, the second Gebr. Kuypers pigeon from 2004 which has made a big mark on the Smeets & Penris colony, is the basis for the 2nd International Marseille 2018. This super flyer, Bennie Batman, won in 2016 and 2017 already the 272nd National Marseille and 263rd National Marseille and together with the 2nd National (also 2nd International) Marseille in ’18 he became the 6th National Ace Marseille 3 years.
Best results in 2024:
4x 1st prize NIC on the marathon flights!! Dax, Bergerac, Cahors en Bressols !
13 National Dax
19 National Marseille
Best results in 2023:
1, 2 National Marseille ZLU against 3,205 pigeons
Best European Ace Extreme long distance with “NIKA 91” (granddaughter “BENNY BATMAN” & “AVATAR” genes!)
15 National Agen ZLU against 5,449 pigeons
19 National Pau ZLU 3,934 pigeons
“NIKA 91” is, after super crack “TONY”, the new phenomenon of Smeets – Penris, 1st International Ace Pigeon 2023!!!
“NIKA 91” is related to both super breeders “AVATAR” & “BENNY BATMAN”. “NIKA 91” was the best pigeon in Europe in 2023 on the international flights and flew no fewer than 3x TOP 15 National on the International long distance flights …
Best results in 2022:
1st Provinciaal, 6 Nationaal, 16 International BARCELONA with a grandson of “Benny Batman”
6, 74, 109, 122, etc Nationaal BARCELONA
1st International fastest yearling on MARSEILLE with a granddaughter of “Avatar”
16, 17, 35, etc National MARSEILLE – 16th National is granddaughter of “Avatar”, 17th National is a son of “Lucky 38“, 35th National is a daughter of “Tru Ruzel”
1 NIC AGEN ZLU yearlings – 4th Provincial AGEN ZLU with a grandson of “Tru Ruzel”
1 WZL BERGERAC against 439 pigeons
8th Acepigeon OLR “Avirings Derby Sloveniè”
Best results in 2021:
1st National Grandmaster on Agen (yearlings) ZLU with a clean sweap 10/10 in the “Spoor der Kampioenen”
3rd General Grandmaster ZLU of The Netherlands in the “Spoor der Kampioenen”
6th Best Barcelona loft of The Netherlands – 1st nominated pigeon 2017-2021
1 NPO, 2 National Bordeaux 8.228
4 National Agen ZLU 6.896 (= 28th International against 18.056 pigeons)
10, 45, 225, 243, 267, 332, 748, 1071, 1251, 1401 National Agen (yearlings) ZLU 6.804 – 100% score and winner of the National Grandmaster title !
45, 160, 724, 759, 839, etc (10/10) International Agen 17.759
18 National Marseille ZLU 4.310 (clocked 4:58 am)
24, 58, 65 NPO Limoges
90 National Pau ZLU 4.614
113, 407, 618, 653, 654, 763, 815, etc National Narbonne ZLU (clocked 21:33, 22:24, 23:14 and 04:42, etc) 8.118
Best results in 2020:
1 Ace marathon section 4 Limburg Province
1 Provincial Ace marathon ZLU Limburg
4 National Grootmeester Agen ZLU “Spoor der Kampioenen”
5th International Ace Yearlings
12 National Ace ZLU with “Gregorius”
44 International Ace Barcelona with “38 Meisje” (= sister “Avatar”)
National Agen (yearlings) ZLU was the first Marathon race at the new address of Robin Smeets in Stein. He basketted 38 yearlings and 14 pigeons arrived in the evening of the liberation day :
63, 269, 272, 273, 285, 292, 300, 343, 345, 354, 456, 560, 569, 615 against 5.483
Piet basketted 8 pigeons on the old address in Urmond : National Agen (old) ZLU 10, 113, 358, 382, 1055 (5/8)
Best results in 2019:
1 NPO/Provincial Agen NPO Limburg (1 hour lead !!)
1 Serie III National Barcelona
1 Serie III International Barcelona Cureghem Centre (extreme low coefficient of 2,26%)
Winners of the International Bony Cup Barcelona
2, 4, 9 Champions League Bony Cup Barcelona
10 National Ace Marseille 2016-2020
11 National ZLU Marathon Champion 8 nom.
References:
1st National Bergerac 28.500 pigeons ’24 – Gebr. Driessen
1st National KBDB Agen zone C ’24 – Tony & Steve Stoffels
1st NPO Tarbes ’24 – Huub Moors
7th National Agen ’24
8th National Agen ’24 – Hok Lei Martens
2nd National Narbonne in France with a grandchild of “Barca Dilan” & “Tru Ruzel” – Yannick Ungerer
Pieter Goeree – the national Barcelona winner 2022 – clocked 4 direct Smeets-Penris pigeons on Barcelona ’22 (all 4 pigeons are just 2 year old !)
19 Nationaal Agen ZLU (grandchild “Benny Batman”)
6 Balcanic OLR Final, 1st Dutch pigeon, extremely hard race with only 19 birds arriving on the release day (grandchild “Avatar”)
41 Nat Agen ZLU (grandchild “Avatar”)
Note: the sexe of the pigeons is considered correct by Robin Smeets, but is not 100% guaranteed.
For more information please contact ROBIN SMEETS.
Tel: (+31) (0) 646701144
E-mail: duufke11@hotmail.com or familiesmeets10@hotmail.com
