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Charles Barbiere - Red Bank, NJ
Picture of Charlie , Paul Walsh, John Hoffman,
& John Glemser at the
Hoffman one
loft race 2011
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CHARLIE BARBIERE HOLDING 08 BSC 111 BLUE HEN "
MOTHERS DAY"
WINNER OF 1ST. CLUB AND 1ST. OVERALL CENTRAL JERSEY
COMBINE
AGAINST 2727 BIRDS, 194 LOFTS,MAY 10, 2009.
THIS RACE WAS WON ON THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY--- MOTHERS
DAY.
THE SIRE OF THIS HEN WON 1ST. PLACE AT 300 MILES
UTEN BAND RACE, DAM BRED FROM STOCK, HER 1/2 SISTER
WON IN 2007 BAYSHORE CLUB CHAMPION BIRD AND 1ST.
CLUB, 9TH. CJC COMBINE --3136 BIRDS. SIRE & DAM ARE
OF OUR VAN LOON FAMILY WE HAVE CULTIVATED SINCE
1986.
Sport Talk Article by - Tom
Smith
I have been friends with Charlie Barbiere for 35
years. When I organized international auctions in
America many years ago for fliers such as Emiel
Denys, G & M Vanhee, Leopold Coudou, Roger
Timmermans, Hans Eijerkamp, etc., I hired Charlie as
my auctioneer because I saw in him a young, emerging
talent. The first auction I hired him to handle was
for the "world champions" G & M Vanhee of Wervik,
Belgium. I gave Charlie copies of all the pedigrees
and told him to familiarize himself with them. By
auction time he knew every pedigree of every bird!
In fact he knew the Vanhee bloodlines better than me
and I was Vanhees agent having bred and flown his
birds successfully for years! He proved me right; he
had a profound talent. Over the ensuing years
Charlie Barbiere became America's premier
auctioneer. He even went to auctioneer college to
get officially certified, and then traveled all over
the country doing auctions.
Years ago Charlie was auctioneering an importation
of birds in New Jersey, from the late Michael
Johnston's CLWYD LOFTS of Wales (GB) when he took a
liking to a Van Loon cock and bought it himself. The
cock bred Charlie two yb winners the first year in
his loft! Charlie knew he was on to something. Two
years later at another of his CLWYD auctions, this
time in California, Charlie bought ADONIS' sire,
which became known as ADONIS and went on to become
the FOUNDATION COCK of his successful family of Van
Loons. Then at another CLWYD auction in New York he
bought its dam, which became known as "ANGEL." She
bred a winner in her first nest in America also, and
three out of her four youngsters that year won!,
when she was mated to ADONIS! They went on to breed
many winners and breeders of winner right up to
today, twenty years later! After a few years the
ADONIS Van Loons took over Charlie's loft. He
discarded all his other birds, every one of them! He
says the Louis Van Loon (B) family is the most
prepotent he has ever had in the fifty odd years he
has been in the sport.
Charlie's Van Loons are nice medium sized blues with
silky feather and muscular, strong bodies. Over the
years Charlie had tried many different families,
such as Sions (FR), Busschaerts (Palmer GB), Jan
Kuijzer Janssens (NL), Piet Valk Janssens (NL),
Huyskens-VanReils (B), always buying the best, but
the Van Loons outperformed them all.
A few years ago Charlie introduced a Janssen/VAN
LOON cross ( 1/2 BRO.to 6th. NAT. ACE ) from the
very successful Kees Bleeker of the Netherlands.
Kees and his father have a small loft of champion
Janssen/ VAN LOON (B) pigeons that have even won NL
National titles. Crossed on the Van Loons, they have
produced Charlie's top pigeons in 2007.He is
perusing birds from two Dutch "grote fond" lofts to
add to his loft. Charlie crosses the new
introductions on his best Van Loons and races the
youngsters. If none of the youngsters beat his
straight Van Loons, he gets rid of them. Charlie
says "I don't have time to waste&." He keeps only a
dozen pairs of breeders, and 20 - 30 old bird racers
over the winter. Every bird has to earn its perch or
it is out.
For 2008 Charlie has three breeding pigeons coming
from the outstanding British Stud known as ANGEL
BROS. (owner Morris Dann). They are bred directly
out of the Angel Bros' championship stock from Evert
van der Horst of Harderwijk, Netherlands, known as
the "Speed Devil of East Holland." One is out of van
der Horst's famous "Super Belg," 1st Asduif Snelheid
GOU (4300 lofts), 1st Duifkampioen Vitesse Region 1
(1200 lofts), 1st Duifkampioen Mid Fond Kring 4 (400
lofts), and 1st Asduif General PV De Eendracht!!!;
one out of "Goede Yearling," 1st National Ace Pigeon
Speed Races 2006; and one out of a sister of "Zoon
Orleans." The van der Horst story is an interesting
one: Evert is 64 years old and began racing with his
father in 1967. They bought top stock from the well
known Ad Schaerlaeckens (NL), Jaap van Santen,
Renkum, NL and the Elskamp partnership, Nunspeet,
NL, which founded his winning family. A
Schaerlaeckens became his Foundation Stock Cock.
Then in 2001 Evert caught a Belgian stray youngster,
reported it and the owner Guido Mertens of St,
Truiden told him to keep the bird and fly it, since
it must like the van der Horst loft more than its
own! What a stroke of luck that was&. Evert flew the
birds for several years and it became one of his
greatest racers, then a top breeder! He calls the
stray cock "Super Belg" because of his racing record
and the number of Ace awards he won (see above).
Among his prizes are: 1st 11,173 birds; 2nd 2,560
birds; 6th 11,837 birds;7th 7,571 birds; 10th 17,945
birds; 18th Houdeng 17,199 birds; 23rd 18,527 birds;
28th 11,319 birds; etc. The stray was so great that
Evert and his father went to the Mertens loft in
Belgium and bought several more birds. They became
the backbone of his strain along with the
Schaerlaeckens. Charlie plans on crossing a few of
them on his successful Van Loon family. Charlie flew
for a few years in the GHC, the Gulf Coast Homing
Pigeon Club, America's largest club with 200+ member
lofts, located in Spring Hill, Florida. But he had
to move back to New Jersey due to family matters. In
fact we lived across the street from each other, and
the day he left he presented me with his UTen 500
mile winning Van Loon hen "1216"! as a going away
present! What a guy. He is performing very well back
home in New Jersey, much better than he did in
Florida, which is a relief to him.
In 2006 his first yb series back in NJ he won 1st
Overall Average Speed Bayshore Club 10 races 100 -
300 miles; 11th Combine YB Average Speed (300
lofts); and 1st Champion Young Bird Bayshore Club
with IF06LCM1444!. The Champion YB's sire is an
imported Kees Bleeker Janssen (NL). The Champion's
dam was one of Charlie's Florida pigeons, winner of
2nd UTen "Little Belgium" Auction race 315 miles, a
granddaughter of ADONIS x ANGEL Charlie's #1 pair of
Van Loons.
Charlie's yb record, flying a small team of 50 ybs,
was outstanding: 100 mile - 5th Club 6th South
Section 74th Central Jersey Combine 188 lofts 2844
birds; 100 miles - 5th Club 9th S. Section 78th CJC
230 lofts 3642 birds; 150 miles - 2nd & 3rd Club 7th
S. Section 11th & 30th CJC 211 lofts 3255 birds; 200
miles - 11th s. Section CJC; 250 miles - 1st Club
1st S. Section 14th CJC 205 lofts 2647 birds; 250
miles - 6th Club 14th S. Section CJC; 300 miles -
3rd Club 10th S. Section 45th CJC 150 lofts 1855
birds; and 300 miles - 4th Club 8th S. Section 23rd
CJC 159 lofts 2058 birds. Not bad for his first year
back! Charlie says he can't understand how he can be
so much more successful in competition in New Jersey
than he did in Florida, when New Jersey has almost
double the number of lofts and birds, and covers a
much larger area &. . In 2007 old birds he started
the season off with several good positions
including: 4th club 23rd Combine 161 miles 163 lofts
2213 obs 1612 ypm; 94th Combine 212 miles 191 lofts
2763 birds 1669 ypm; 4th club 14th Combine 161 miles
175 lofts 2473 obs; 8th club 50th Combine 292 miles
170 lofts 2310 obs; etc. In this year's 2007 yb
series Charlie continues to excel: 1st race: 1st
Club 9th CJCombine 118 miles 199 lofts 3136 birds
1476 ypm; 2nd race: 2nd Club 20th, 38th, 39th, 45th
CJCombine 118 miles 223 lofts 3685 birds 1589 ypm;
3rd race: 1st, 3rd,4th,7th,8th Club
18th,40th,42nd,84th CJCombine 3013 birds; etc. What
a great beginning to the season!
I questioned Charlie about his methods and he said
"As natural as possible. I use supplements and
medications, but much fewer medications than I used
when I flew in Florida. These Van Loons are
naturally healthy. They have to make it thru cold
winters and hot summers; only the strong and healthy
survive. And they all go back in bloodline to
ADONIS&.." Charlie removes his ob racing team from
their loft at the end of the ob season and lets the
ybs take over the whole loft. It gives the ybs more
room and air-space per bird, which in turn aids in
keeping them healthy and in form. The loft is 12
feet long by 8 feet deep and houses fifty ybs.
Charlie's other loft, for the breeders, is also 12
by 8.
By the end of the yb season in October 2007 he had
won 1st Overall Youngbird Average Speed, 1st
Champion Loft Young Birds, and 1st Champion Young
Bird Bayshore Club! That makes two years in a row he
topped the Bayshore Club championships, as he also
won them in 2006! In the big CJC Combine Charlie has
also made his mark in 2007 winning: 34th Combine
Champion OB on Points CJC; 33rd Combine OB Average
Speed Champion CJC; 56th Combine OB Points Champion
CJC; 31st & 96th Combine YB Champion on Points CJC
(Ace Pigeons); 9th South Section 14th Combine YB
Loft Points Champion; 1st South Section 11th Combine
YB Average Speed CJC with a 1270 ypm speed; the 2nd
place South Section winner having an 1132 ypm speed!
No speed races here! And finally Charlie's Van Loons
scored 11th Grand Champion Loft OBs & YBs Combined
CJC 2007! Not too bad for a small team guy!
Charlie has started off with a bang in the 2008 ob
series! In the Elizabeth Club (Guranteed Money) Race
mentioned above, Charlie was 2nd, 3rd, and 6th!,
beaten by the Luchesse Loft flying 4 mile short on
Staten Island, New York. It was a tough race with
rain off and on over the 300 miles. Charlie needed
one minute nineteen second to win. His speed was
1080 ypm, while Lucheesse's was 1084 ypm. Charlie
winners of 2nd and 6th are brothers, out of his old
Van Loon lines, of course!
IN 2009 OLD BIRDS CHARLIE won on MOTHERS DAY--MAY
10,2009--1ST. CLUB, 1ST.CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE-2727
BIRDS, 194 LOFTS,speed--1840.408 yards--14 yards
ahead of the 2 nd.place bird.
The following week -MAY 17,2009 on his birthday
CHARLIE won--1st. club, 7th. CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE
against-2603 birds,187 lofts at a speed of 1543
yards, 12 yards off the overall winner. 2009 YOUNG
BIRDS- results as follows-AUG.10-100 miles-WON
1ST.club, 9TH.& 38TH. CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE-1942
birds, 132 lofts. AUG.16 at 100 MILES won 2ND club,
2ND.& 57TH.CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE against 2755
birds,174 lofts,he lost 1st.overall CJC COMBINE by
12 seconds.All of these birds are of his VAN LOON
FAMILY that he has cultivated since 1986, they win
at all speeds from 100-500 miles,under all
conditions.SEPT.20 at 250 miles he won-1ST.and
8th.club,1st.and 36th. CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE
against 2328 birds,192 lofts at a speed of-1327.920
yards per minute against a south east wind,his loft
is in the south.The following are awards he won in
2009 young birds***WON Club Overall Average Speed-
(17)LOFTS.***WON Club Champion Bird,
***WON-1ST.CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE OVERALL AVERAGE
SPEED--1369.319 yards per minute. ****WON
1ST.CENTRAL JERSEY COMBINE SHORT AVERAGE
SPEED-1315.841. ***WON-6TH.CJC COMBINE CHAMPION
LOFT.**** WINNER IF-151-500 CHAMPION LOFT-2009 YOUNG
BIRDS, SEE 2010 SKY TALK FOR ARTICLE & AWARD. .For
further info.
See the JANUARY 1,2009 RACING PIGEON DIGEST--PAGE
31.
You can contact
CHARLIE BARBIERE @--732-530-7395.
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