Brace yourselves, pigeon fanciers, because what went down on Saturday June 13, 2026, on the flight line from Morlincourt Noyon is nothing short of pure racing history. The absolute winner blasted forward in a phenomenal display of power, but anyone who thinks that made it an easy race for the rest of the convoy is just looking at a snapshot. Only when we look at the depth of the results and see the speeds drop for the followers to just under 1600 meters per minute do we realize we absolutely cannot call this an easy flight! It became a razor-sharp, brutal selection where the rest of the pack hit a massive wall. The fact that Gerrie Heinen completely petrified the entire liberation field of Afdeling Oost is a formidable achievement against such a massive convoy of pigeons.

The final result is already written in the history books: a monumental, breathtaking first National and Provincial against no less than 15,083 competing titans. The competition was simply reduced to background actors in the great Gerrie Heinen show.

The Blue Band White Flight Sensation: A Fairy Tale From A Voucher

Behind every legendary victory lies a beautiful story, and the brand-new winner of Morlincourt is no exception. The winning pigeon, NL25-1100948, is a gorgeous blue band white flight cock with a very special golden edge. Gerrie actually received this crack through a voucher gifted by none other than Vincent de Harder. That is the true beauty of our sport: camaraderie and top-tier racing going hand in hand.

This flying miracle stems directly from Vincent’s renowned top line, sired by the illustrious You Make Dizy. She already showed what she was made of back in the day by claiming the first Grand Prix Dizy le Gros. These are the rare gems of the sport: mother and son both winning a first prize in a major competition! That is pure class that inevitably surfaces when the conditions demand character. Right after this titanic battle, Gerrie immediately dubbed the blue band white flight cock De Morlincourt, unless, of course, someone comes up with an even more beautiful name for this fresh legend.

The Sharp Selection on Morlincourt

You never win races against more than fifteen thousand pigeons by accident. The birds were liberated at 10.45 AM, and even though De Morlincourt immediately created a massive gap, the athletes in the main pack had to fight tooth and nail all the way through to hold their line. While many lofts saw their teams completely shattered because they could not keep up with the grueling pace, the Heinen Pigeons kept their wings tightly flexed.

The winning cock clocked at exactly 14.26.26 PM across a distance of 362.847 kilometers. This clocks in at an astronomical speed of no less than 1638.628 meters per minute! Heinen secures the full 1000.0 points with this performance. The runner-up of the race, the equally ironclad G. Wielens from Eibergen, stranded at 1624.380 m/min. That is a gigantic gap of over fourteen meters per minute to the number one spot. Heinen did not just win; he dealt a sledgehammer blow to the entire field.

The fact that the second pigeon of the Heinen Pigeons colony claimed the 71st provincial spot at 14.33.39 PM with a speed of 1586.909 meters per minute proves the real character of this race. Right at this speed, which ran up to nearly 1600 meters per minute, you clearly see how the race took its toll on the masses. Within his own loft in Aalten, there is already a speed difference of over 51 meters per minute between the first and second pigeon. At this level of competition, that is an eternity. In a truly easy race, the entire top one hundred drops onto the landing board within a matter of seconds. Here, the field was completely torn apart. Gerrie Heinen basketed only 14 pigeons and managed to clock no less than 10 of them hard in the prizes. A prize percentage of over 71 percent against such an overwhelming mass of pigeons is pure mastery and total dominance.

Gold on International Stages: The References

The fact that the breeding strategy in Aalten yields spectacular results far beyond national borders has long been an open secret in the international pigeon racing world. The racing lines of the Heinen Pigeons consistently prove their exceptional class on the most prestigious stages. The absolute flagship of this breeding superiority is the world-famous ace bird Bertus. Gerrie is the proud breeder of the best ace bird Bertus to date in the illustrious Algarve One Loft Race, one of the toughest and most competitive one-loft races in the world where only the strongest survivors rise to the top. Alongside this Portuguese masterpiece, glowing testimonials arrive weekly from other top lofts that have elevated their own performances to historic heights thanks to the introduction of these stellar genes.