136-17 is an excellent blue hen that is balanced and soft feather.  Her parents were coupled under a unique set of circumstances.  We gave a pair of super Antoine Jacops pigeons to our very good friend Dominic Rappucci who bred a youngster that won the AIC race in 2015.  Consequently, we tried to duplicate Dominic’s race winner by coupling a full brother to the father and a half-sister to the mother of Dominic’s pair of breeders and produced 136-17.Due to the moult, we did not feel comfortable racing136in the 2017 young bird race series.  So we are now offering her for sale.  Her parents come from the very best homing pigeons of Antoine Jacops.  136’s father is bred from a half-brother half-sister pair: both children of the WHITE DIAMOND.  We purchased the WHITE DIAMOND from Antoine’s breeding loft.  He is an excellent proven breeder and son of the 1992 1^st Provincial Long Distance Ace in the Antwerp Union Belgium, the DIAMOND ACE.  The WHITE DIAMOND has bred fabulous pigeons in both Belgium and Tulsa, Oklahoma USA.  136’s mother is a granddaughter of the SUPER ACE, a two time 1^st Provincial Middle Distance Ace in the Antwerp Union Belgium.  Both of the two 1^st Ace pigeons, DIAMOND ACE and SUPER ACE, are full brothers.  Consequently, 136-17 is line-bred to the best of Jacops racing lofts and should make an excellent breeder like her parents and grandparents.Let us add that 136-17’s pedigree also contains two outcrosses used by Antoine over the years.  One is a Meuleman malefrom Willy Van Berendonk who purchased a son of Karel Meulemans GOLDEN COUPLE.  The second is a daughter of Gaby Vandenabeele’s 1^st Provincial Ace, the PICANOL.  One of the reasons that Antoine Jacops pigeons have remained at the top of the race sheet in Belgium for fifty years is the excellent quality of the outcrosses he brings into his own family of pigeons.  One of the last outcrosses Antoine crossed into his family of pigeons was a full sister to the 1996 1^st National Middle Distance Ace in Belgium, the KANNIBAAL.  We purchased four children of this super hen that have been breeding for us for the past 16 years.  We believe that 136 is also an excellent hen.