Rock River Valley Racing Pigeon Club
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2011 Snowfest Auction Coming Soon!!!

LIVE AUCTION
Saturday, November 5th, 2011
Arnie’s Happy Spot, Deer Grove, Illinois

10 miles south of Rock Falls on Rte 40
Birds on display at 10:00 am Auction starts at 12:00 pm sharp!!

**Birds purchased by credit card during the Live Auction
will be charged a 3.5% transaction fee
**



INTERNET AUCTION
Prior to the SnowFest Live Auction birds will be posted on pigeonauctions.com

The winning online bidder will set the opening bid at the Live Auction.

WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND USING THE AUTO-BIDDER (proxy) 
as we will not call you during the live auction unless you contact us prior to the Live Auction date. The Online Auction Lots will close at
6:00 pm PDT
Thursday November 3rd 2011.

Remember the winning online bid from the Online Auction will set the opening bid at the Live Auction and utilizing the auto-bidder (proxy) ensures your ability to continue to have bids placed at the Live Auction.

Contact: Don Kelsey 815-441-4601 dkelseyhg@yahoo.com

2011 SnowFest Catalog

-Be our guest, evaluate and handle the birds, visit with our guest consigners, and make your selections of top breeding stock from some of the best quality racing pigeons in the sport at the live auction!!!

-RRV will have a block of rooms reserved at the Rock Falls Hotel & Conf Center in Rock Falls, Ill. for those traveling.
Call 815/626-5500 for reservations.

-Loft tours of local RRV lofts will be available on Friday, Nov 4th.
Meet at the Rock Falls Hotel at 1 p.m.

-Friday night social evening at 6 p.m. at the Wagon Wheel restaurant in Sterling with free appetizers!! A few select pigeons will be auctioned.

-Dennis Kuhn from Pigeon Supplies Plus of Minnesota will be on hand with all your supply and loft needs. Visit www.pigeonsuppliesplus.com and let him know ahead on volume orders. Save big on shipping!!!

-After the Saturday auction, a dinner at the Candlelight Inn in Rock Falls will be held. Another great opportunity to meet, visit, and talk pigeon sport.

-For a printed catalog, contact Don Kelsey below or ask any RRV member.

-We at RRV look forward to serving you at this year’s 2011 SnowFest with some of the best performance racing pigeons in the sport!!!

 

Special Guest Consigners......
America's Dream Loft
America’s Dream Loft – The ADL birds have won nearly every big money race in America, and were 1st in China last year. Three different times in the South Africa Million Dollar Race they were in the top 100 birds, finishing 22nd overall in 2010 against over 6,000 entries from 35 countries. Also in 2010 ADL won the 1st Country Challenge Race in South Africa. Direct sons and daughters will be in the sale off of 1st place National Champions including “Smokin Joe” “Blue Lady”, and “Campbell” representing the backbone of the Super 73 Americans. In what could be the highlight of the sale, “Campbell” himself will be sold with a 2011 daughter. Bloodlines of the renowned “Hekkenklak”, “Fireflight”, “Mr. Aristona”,
and “Super 73” Van Loons will also be available.


Buy “DREAM BUCKS”, Same as Cash --- these are certificates for cash to buy ADL birds sold by ADL this year at the 2011 SnowFest Auction and at the World of Wings auction site, www.pigeonauctions.com. These certificates are 100% refundable for the original purchase price if not used by 6/30/12.

Plan ahead for your new breeders --- buy "DREAM BUCKS" (CASH) at a discount price by going to World Of Wings auction site www.pigeonauctions.com

To buy your “DREAM BUCKS” just buy them at the auction starting 9/1/11. Certificates will be in $100.00 or $200.00 lots with a starting price of $1.00.

Birds available and to be sold this year will be our famous “Campbell”, 1st of America Long Distance Champion (still fertile and sold with a mate his 2011 daughter). We will be selling many other great pigeons from our world famous champions: Hekkenklaks, Fireflights, Mr. Aristona, Super 73 Americans and our now famous “Million Dollar South Africa Family”.

Our birds have won nearly every big money race in America, and were 1st in China last year. Three different times in the South Africa Million Dollar Race they were in the top 100 birds, finishing last year 22nd overall and this was against over 6,000 entries from 35 countries. The previous year ADL won 1st Country Challenge Race in the South Africa Million Dollar Race.

Many lofts claim many wins but always look for the number of birds they were competing against when claiming their 1st place wins. Our families have proven themselves for Campbell Strange (the original America owner), Ken Christopher, Bobby Gonzales and Brad Hoggan just to name a few.

Please remember “One Good Bird Is Worth A 100 Maybe's".

Jim Gabler

Alex Bieche
Home of 8, No. 1 Ace Pigeons of all America. In the auction will be full brothers/sisters to “Mr. Dependable” No. 1 2009 AU Ace pigeon all America, full brothers/sisters or children of “True Grit” No. 1 2007 AU Hen of all America, full sister of 8th overall in the South African race, direct children of their top breeder “Asduif” 1210, Ace pigeon 3 years in a row 02/03/04 (one year alone 3 different flyers recorded 6 Ace Digest pigeon awards), a few key Peter Van Osch imports and offspring, direct offspring plus one or two direct imports of Alfons Klaas and a few of Alex’s outstanding Schellens.
Gray Fox and Harms Loft
Chad Compton and Doug Harms have assembled the Peter Van Osch Janssens, a family that has proven to be outstanding from 100-500 miles. These birds were instrumental in the Harms Loft winning 2nd place Presidents Cup 11-20 loft category and 5th place Presidents Cup 31-40 loft category in 2008. They have won numerous 1st prizes with these Van Osch birds by crossing them with Cater Blues, Schellens, Suzie Devriendts, and Scottish Boni’s. In a short time Chad and Doug have produced 4 AU Elite Champions and several more AU Champions. Youngsters of these AU Elite and AU Champions are in this sale.

Frank McLaughlin
Frank returns to SnowFest with his famous Staf Van Reets (World’s #1 Stud of Old Line Van Reets), as well as his middle distance lines of Maurice Casaert, Jos and Jules Engels and Hebberecht pigeons. Highlighting this year’s sale, Frank will be introducing his all new Marcel Aelbrecht - DeRauw Sablon pigeons which have all of Europe in a frenzy. Many of the top flyers in Belgium and the Netherlands are now blending in the DeRauw Sablon bloodline and it is working extremely well, dominating from 250 to 500 miles with endless energy and endurance.

Quest Syndicate
Butch Shoop, Fred King, Don Barker, and Richard Cass make up this highly successful partnership. Quest has successfully competed in the South African Race, the Tenerife-Canary Island race, Europa race-England, North Sea-Sylt in Germany and many of the one loft races in the U.S. Bloodlines from Ganus, Vandenabeele, Nouwen-Paesen Cattrysse, Fabry, Wegges, and recent imports to the U.S. from the renowned Andre Drapa Loft as well as the Helmet Klaas & Son Loft, both dominating forces in Germany, will be represented in the SnowFest sale.
Contact: Mail and Phone Bids
Don Kelsey
3709 Grandview Rd.
Milledgeville, IL 61051
PH (815) 225-7399
E-mail
dkelseyhg@yahoo.com

Other Contacts:
Gary Whitebread (815) 244-1170
Phil Miatke (815) 632-8440
Doug Harms (815) 535-5205

The biggest and best auction in America for nearly 20 years!!!!

2011 SnowFest Catalog