I purchased this cock from a great fancier and friend John Duffy of California !  A great veteran and human plus super pigeon man !  I purchased this cock for more than 4x the opening bid but am switching some direction and down sizing.  He is super strong in hand with strong vitals and amazing tools wings - vents - back  super breeding eye !!!!   As per John's own words below he has been very successful with this family entering and winning in the California classic olr !!

This is what i call my "PEA NUT FAMILY " they are a very good family of birds

i have made  alot of POINTs with them The cock to 1186 is from Mr Bob Duhra loft

from Alberta  Calgary and he is the man to beat in Canada hes a Janssen based bird just check out the pedigree for more info.

And the hen was given to me  by Mr Jim Edgeworth a very tough loft to beat at any distance She is Hofken based bird her father came from HAPPYCO LOFTS   and on the hens side there grand parents are from OHF Campbell Strange Hofkens family will send pedigree on request.....

Here in southern CA FVC , SFBATC, in the FVC the birds were handled by Mr Rusty Williams and most recently a brother to 1186 was 3 rd place in the FVC OB @ Fresno2013  race 178.597 miles and only out of first place by 5 seconds.band # is FVCF 235 BB hen, I sent her brother and sistersto the SFBATC and in 2010 they were 5 th and 7 th AVE  Speed  NOT a bad family of birds , and in 2014 her sister was 5 th place in the weed race 228 mile race and made me a few points as well. And i know this family throws out  FRILLS !!!!!!!!!! and in the 350  there were only 18 day birds and she was 17 very hard race. A