Alan Barnfield, De Oude Vale Long Distance Dynasty

A Fancier of our sport and a gentleman greatly missed, Alan Barnfield whom I and other fanciers locally considered to have owned a raced possibly the best long distance pigeon in the south of England in the mid 90s and early 2000s. No other pigeon to my knowledge or fancier did what these two did together on the toughest racing days...Channel flying made to look easy. Alan was famous for having a pigeon simply known as the Mealy a 1994 bred athlete, it won 9 x 1st prizes from France and 10 x 1st in total. The Mealy won 4 x 1st prize from Bergerac also 1st Poiters, 2 x 1st Rennes, 2 x 1st from Nantes and 1st Weymouth, this is just 1st prizes, as the Mealy won many top prizes in total including 2nd, 10th, 10th, 7th, 16th, 8th, 16th, Federation with huge birdage. also 2nd, 8th, 10th, 19th, 21st Combine against thousands... 

The Mealy (OUDE VALE) was a pure Germain Imbrecht bred from two direct Imbrecht pigeons from the master himself. 

I have never before or since Known of any British pigeon to race until the age of 9 in any competition, conditioned and motivated to do such a thorough job, which was down soley to Alans knowledge and connnection with such an amazing champion. 

The Mealy (OUDE VALE) was retired at 9 years of age in 2003 when he hit a wire around home during exercise in preperation for the National....incredible isn't it that at 9 years of age he was being considered to be sent to his first National competition.

A bloodline which has been maintained and kept for the future, Alan with his generous nature agreed to use The Mealy in a breeding co-operation with myself back in late 2003 for one year only, 20 years ago, and from that mating I was blessed with Kadetje 996, a Mealy hen which was daughter of the Mealy on the sire side and on the dam side Van Den Bosch/Van Loon/Janssen, and subsiquently later generations have won club, federation and Classic honours. 

The Champion Mealy passed away in my loft as when he became infertile Alan gifted him to me to live out his days at my stud, he died in 2012 at the grand age of 18...

Now on the lofts here at Timbarra we have kept the Alan Barnfield bloodline going today, we own a Great Great Grandson (Vossen Rode Kadet) of the Original Mealy (Oude Vale) 28 years after Alan first bred his famous Champion. 

(VRK) Vossen Rode Kadet  GB21 Bred by Mr & Mrs Barham. Sire Pure JVDB through lines of the Benjamin, through Timbarra Lofts. Dam is a result of Just A Kid (Soontjens) bloodlines of Lee Barham, in combination with the Mealy (Germain Imbrecht) of Alan Barnfield, Timbarra JVDB and Janssen/Van Loon of Planet bros. The grandsire of VRK has bred pigeons to prize highly in club, Federation and Classic racing from France. 

Miss Dolle 964 NL15.1878964. (Bred by Machiel Buijk) sire Zoon Favoriet NL04.2209955 son of the great Favoriet Dolle x De 500 Dolle NL94.1651500. Dam 0f 964 is Lady Dolle NL11.1872455 from Schone Inteelt NL05.1554315 x Lichte Kweekster NL05.1554217. Miss Dolle 964 is inbred to the great Dolle NL67.2052951 of Jan Aarden. 

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