June Auction

Our fourth auction will be held in June Register Here: Registration Page You Must be registered to BID in our auctions WHEN AUCTION IS IN PROGRESS … CLICK ON LOT NUMBERS TO SEE AUCTION FOR EACH BIRD Lot 1 Goodger Black Pied Cockbird – SA 22 ??? Details of breeding and race performances on both…

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May Auction

Our Third 2025 Auction will be in May It will be a chance to buy some top birds from top flyers. Register Here: Registration Page You Must be registered to LOGIN and BID in auctions LOGIN CLICK ON LOT NUMBERS TO SEE AUCTION FOR EACH BIRD Lot 1 Van Loon Black Hen – SA 22…

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August Auction

Our Fourth 2025 Auction will be in August It will be a chance to buy some top birds from top flyers. Register Here: Registration Page You Must be registered to LOGIN and BID in auctions LOGIN CLICK ON LOT NUMBERS TO SEE AUCTION FOR EACH BIRD Lot 1 Van Loon Black Hen – SA 22…

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2025 Auctions

Exciting new era … Under New Management! It’s a New Year and we are entering and exciting a new era with a new management team More Auctions, High Quality Birds, and the Opportunity for flyers to add new blood to their stock lofts and flying teams www.auctionpigeons.com will be conducting a number of Prominent Flyer…

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July Auction

Our Third 2025 Auction will be in July It will be a chance to buy some top birds from top flyers. Register Here: Registration Page You Must be registered to LOGIN and BID in auctions LOGIN CLICK ON LOT NUMBERS TO SEE AUCTION FOR EACH BIRD Lot 1 Van Loon Black Hen – SA 22…

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John Pryor

The Late John Pryor was an Australian long distance pigeon racing icon … and his sudden death during a pigeon convention and expo in Sydney in December 1999 shocked the Australian Pigeon Racing Fraternity. Pryor was just 58 … and had dominated South Australian Pigeon racing for almost a decade He was the unofficial King…

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Keith Wickham

The Late Legendary Keith Wickham was one of the toughest competitors in the South Australian Homing Pigeon Association … he won the Overall Aggregate Points title 7 times …. and 19 Association races, plus numerous placings when the SAHPA was at its height – with over 400 flyers – in the middle of last century….

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Allen Goodger

Tribute to Allen Goodger-The Influence of the Elliott Hen” By Leon Lam Allen Goodger is a household name in Australian Pigeon racing. He got his first birds at 16 … and when he died in 1984 at just 52 years of age he was recognised as one of the best breeders and flyers in the…

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Yang and Gao

Most South Australian pigeon flyers go a lifetime without winning an SAHPA race … But Xuezhi (Rambo) Yang and Hongrui (Dennis) Gao did it in just five seasons in the sport. They had placed 4th (twice) 7 th 8 th in the SAHPA before , but winning the SAHPA has always been their dream. The…

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The Haidar Brothers

The Haidar Bros have established themselves as a formidible force in Victorian pigeon racing over the past two decades The Lebanese trio of Moussa, Ali and Ahmed Haidar began their pigeon journey in Thomastown in the late nineties when their father had fancy pigeons…. but that interest eventually morphed into racing pigeons – and in…

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Shawn Manuel

Southern Adelaide Suburbs flyer Shawn Manuel scored the biggest win of his pigeon racing career when he won the 2024 Vin Blanden Cobar Classic Manuel. who had previously won the 2014 Tatura to Adelaide Association race, defeated 2024 Overall Points Winner Jim Marafiote to win the Cobar Crown His four year old Blue Bar Hen…

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Phil Gorman

One of Australia’s most competitive and successful One Loft competitors, Phillip Gorman, is winding down his involvement in pigeon racing due to illhealth The West Australian businessman has rewritten the record books in One Loft Pigeon Races in three States, grabbing a big share of the prizemoney along the way (Phil Gorman with a different…

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Max Taylor

It is no surprise that retired veteran South Australian flyer Max Taylor was known as Mr Consistency in the SA Homing Pigeon Association. The 85-year-old has won many of the major races in the SAHPA, taken out the Association points in 2001, and has been placed in the top ten almost a dozen times. Max…

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Len & Rick Drew

Len and Rick Drew are one of Australia’s most dynamic father and son pigeon racing partnerships. The have now won the Blue Ribband Alice Springs to Adelaide race TWICE, and are ultra consistent performers in the South Australian Homing Pigeon Association having finshed 2nd in the Overall Aggregate Points in 2023, and 3rd in 2024…

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L & S Racing – Broken Hill

There have been a lot of successful partnerships in Australian Pigeon Racing … but Lance Pittaway and Stephen Lynott would be up there with the best of them They have become a dominant force in the Barrier and Broken Hill Pigeon Racing Club over the past seven years winning the Club’s Aggregate points three times…

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John Hofman – Ponderosa

The Ponderosa Australia Stud Story           (Reprinted ….Courtesy The Australian Racing Pigeon Journal) John Hofman was the man behind the first legal importation  of racing pigeons into Australia since the 1940’s …  so we asked him to tell his story……… (Picture – Courtesy John Desira) The story leading up to the…

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