The YOUNG GUSTAAF is probably the most beautiful male we have ever bred at Lamberton Racing Pigeons.  He was bred from the excellent pigeons of Gustaaf Cuypers, Hakendover Belgium, who was deceased at the time we obtained his pigeons.  We imported his parents into the United States in 2006.  There is not much documentation on the Cuypers pigeons as Gustaaf Cuypers was not a record keeper.  However, Cuypers loved to play the middle distance in the southern Belgian Province of Brabant.  So it is very probable that his pigeons were very fast in order to compete in races with a shorter airline distance since his loft was located in southern Belgium nearer the race stations in France.  The YOUNG GUSTAAF bred two of our top hens in the 2010 Young Bird Race Series: AU 10 CENTENNIAL 81015 and AU 2010 CENTENNIAL 81016.  He also bred one of our two top hens in the 2011 Young Bird Race Series - an outstanding blue hen that played in seven of the eight races: AU 2011 LAMBERTON 31.