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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
Eighty-four year old Alan Thede is a highly successful old-school Adelaide pigeon breeder and flyer. He lived through the Golden years of pigeon racing when the South and Australian Pigeon Association had almost 400 members, competing against some of the biggest names in the sport including Vin Blanden, Allen Goodger, John Pryor and Bill Walford…
Veteran South Australian pigeon breeder and racer Alvon Richardson passed away on March the eleventh, 2018, at the age of 92. Alvon’s father Keith, and Brother Harold were both successful pigeon men, and Alvon bred a hen that was sold to legendary flyer John Pryor at the Sires Produce Sale. It went on to become…
