![]() Indeed, Father Gentiel was a topper in the middle distance. Gaby caught the pigeon bug from the family home when he was very young. ![]() Was not necessary… because the performance pressure that the Vandenabeele pigeons applied to their opponents was so superior, so dominant… that within the shortest space of time every self-respecting pigeon reporter was visiting Gaby to write about the heroic deeds of his pigeons, to get to know or discover the man and the method hiding behind this overwhelming performance curve! Top successes have never known any secrets for the Vandenabeele family… although these were usually celebrated in intimate circles… because the number of times that Gaby himself rang or wrote to the pigeon media to tell of his exploits or make them public knowledge, is more or less non-existent. We first came into contact with the ‘lion of Dentergem’ in 1984… the ‘coming man’ at the time… the man that was racing towards national top, first in the ‘grand middle distance’… later also in the long distance. ![]()
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