"Champion Denman"was a great racing cock for Martin Graham of Ballymena & District in Northern Ireland. This cock won the club in 2018 from the NIPA Skibbereen OB Inland National plus 88th Open NIPA and a few weeks later 1st Open INFC Sennen Cove Yearling National 392/2543, 332 miles velo 1419. He would later be the sire of 'Den's lass' 1st Open Irish National Flying Club Penzance Yearling National 485/3070, 329 miles, velo 1398, 2023
Champion Denman contains the bloodlines of Soontjen and also Eagleson Busschaert, down the lines of 'Linda Ann' a winner of 2nd Open INFC Sennen Cove Yearling National in 1989 winning £2562 on a velocity of 997. 'Linda Ann' would later be the dam of 'Valda' 2nd Open INFC Penzance YB National in 1991 winning £1500 and a new car on velocity 1014.
Dam of the blue cock and the cheq wf cock is the 'Double Combine Winner' She topped the Mid Antrim Combine on two occasions and was Champion Old Bird Of The Year in the Combine 2016. She's dam and granddam of over 20 x 1st and also 'Emma' 1st Section B from Dale plus 20th, 69th & 130th Open NIPA Dale 2024 & 2025. The 'Double Combine Winner' was bred off a pair of birds from one of Ireland's top racers and breeders Paddy & William McManus of Ahoghill and contains old bloodlines of Hereman Ceuster, Van de Weyer, Luc Van Mechelen and Louis Thijs. Their old Louis Thijs pigeons and still turning out champions with 1st Open INFC Penzance YB National won in 2023.
Dam of the chequer cock and chequer pied hen is the '974 Hen' A Lambrecht hen from one of Ireland's top racers and breeders Danny Dixon of Dunloy in Northern Ireland. Danny's Lambrechts are responsible for hundreds of winners right up to Open level with his own 'Champion Heartbreaker' Lambrecht cock winning 1st & 2nd Open Nipa 28,000 birds.
The '974' hen is responsible for 26 x 1st and 50 individual prizewinners and also a Section B Champion Old Bird Of The Year in 2019
