Dear Mr. Smith,

In December 2006, when you purchased “Bont 509” to mate with “Zus Red Quinty”, I wrote that you are a Claessens fanatic. By now, after visiting your website and the thread you started at www.pigeons.biz about my total auction, I’m quite sure you are the greatest Claessens fanatic in the States!

Therefore I’m very happy that you could purchase another top hen for the Smith Family Loft. “Zus Maxx” is full sister to top racer “Maxx” who was National Ace Pigeon in 2004! She is a beautiful, healthy, well-build hen with splendid eyes. The specialty of her family is winning first prizes!

Let me tell an anecdote about this “Zus Maxx”. During my career I didn’t like to receive visitors. I wanted to focus on the pigeon sport itself, not on the commerce around! The people of PiPa contacted me several times but I did not go into their requests. But they are smart and forced a meeting.

After “Maxx” became National Ace I offered a bird for the WHZB auction (WHZB is the most famous Ace Pigeon competition in the Netherlands). The people of PiPa bought this bird and visited me on April 5th 2005. After a few pleasant hours I let them choose out of 4 full brothers/sisters of “Maxx”: two late brothers of 2004 and two young birds of 2005. They chose a late brother and purchased the other late one. A logical choice: they could directly use these two pigeons for breeding. The two young birds (at that moment only 28 days of age) stayed in Putte. One of these two youngsters is “Zus Maxx”…

The collaboration with PIPA, which began with this meeting, was very successful. I really hope that “Zus Maxx” will bring you a lot of happiness and success too!

Ludo Claessen