RACING PIGEON ARTICLE BY SILVIO MATTACHIONE

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Racing pigeons over Atlantic Sea / Brieftauben-Rennen / Duivensport:

Derby Arona: By Silvio Mattachione
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(En español aquí)

A number of years ago, I believe it was 2003 I became aware of the performance of a racing pigeon “Bayo Casablanca” .It was really quite a story and I wrote a long and detailed article outlining the circumstances of that performance.

For those interested the original article can be found at http://www.silvio-co.com/pigeons/bayo.htm and was entitled “Bayo Casablanca: World Record Over The Sea.” To say that I was fascinated would be an understatement. Prior to the "World Record "flight of "Bayo Casablanca" owned by Jose and Abel Ledesma of "Ledesma Loft," no bird had ever successfully flown this distance over the sea to be clocked at their home loft on the morning of the second day. It means that this incredible athlete flew at least 1000 kilometers over the ocean on the day of release!
So who is Jose Ledesma? Much to my surprise I found that Jose Ledesma is a Composer of music. He produces incredible music that combines his love and respect of the past and its popular island traditions the sounds of his country and his people fused to the anticipation of all that the future may promise. He has vision that he is able to express in music and in the forming of living art in the breeding of very beautiful yet incredibly rugged racing pigeons capable of incredible feats. Most people do not know that the world famous Dutch fancier Wout Smeulders (breeder of the Smeulders Janssens, the Kannon 23 X 1st etc) was also a Conductor and incredible lover of music. So do Composers and Conductors have an edge on just normal pigeon breeders? I do not know but I may have to investigate further. Jose is successful in many different fields of human endeavor. Beautiful music, beautiful design and beautiful racing pigeons what more could you wish to achieve?
Well it would seem that Ledesma is always looking for a challenge. Most men would never have considered attempting to organize a one loft race let alone bring it to International attention and of all places on an Island in the middle of the Atlantic. If anyone had ever run such a scheme by me I would certainly have accused the originator of such an incredible idea of being “a few notes short of a symphony!”Yet this is exactly what Jose Ledesma did! He successfully created the “Ultimate Challenge” he brought the “Ultimate One Loft Race” into existence regardless of all of the negative pontifications the “nay sayers”. There is no one loft race in the world that can lay claim to being the “Ultimate Challenge” that is not up until Ledesma created “DERBY ARONA”. “Derby Arona” has within a brief five years established itself as a “World Class” sporting event...(Read complete article on PIPA Click here)

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