THE RACING PIGEON 29 MARCH 2024
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Hugo & Wulfram Kipp.
KIPP & SON
THE GERMAN ‘MASTER MARATHON’ SPECIALISTS W ithout a shadow of doubt the German long distance specialists Kipp & Son must rate amongst the very best International Marathon enthusiasts not only in their home country or Europe but on worldwide stage also. This father and son team have won not only 11 National races and 1st International from Barcelona the ‘Mecca’ race for European long distance flyers but in 2011 the ‘icing was added to their rich cake’ of success with the title of PIPA 1st International Ace Pigeon with their fantastic racing cock ‘Golden Glory’.
Wulfram the senior member of the team speaks no English but his son Hugo who I have got to know well over the last few years is very fluent. In fact his English is so good that he doesn’t only speak the language perfectly but he also understands the meanings which is equally important I feel because often the interpretation can cause confusion and the full understanding gets lost. Hugo also possesses a wonderful sense of humour and is very, very laidback, in fact he is so laidback he is virtually horizontal. One small example is when I enquired about his father when I met Hugo at one of the shows. He said, “Mike my father is a worried man, he says that one of our breeders eggs has got broken and that he really wanted that baby (he always says this). I asked my father how many breeding couples do we have? When he answered, I told him if we lose an egg every day over the next couple of weeks we will still have more than enough birds for our new young bird team”. This I feel sums up Hugo to a ‘T’. He is so chilled I think at
times that he must have ice in his blood! Hugo takes this attitude into his beliefs on the subject of pigeon racing. Everything that the partnership does is based on good sound commonsense. They say that pigeon racing is best kept simple. Well Kipp & Son certainly subscribe to this train of thought. When thinking about the best way to approach this piece, I decided to take a ‘leaf out of the partners book’ and keep it simple. In this way I believe that it will be the most informative to the reader. I asked Hugo for his thoughts on breeding stock? His answers were as I have grown to expect and based on good old common sense. “First of all you must get
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