Super 73 has 1/4 Meuleman blood?

ace in the hole said:

Crossing two or three good families together can produce excellent results!

Ace

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If you look at the 105 pedigrees which were on the Ludo auction, you were hard pressed to find a pigeon which was not 1/8, or 1/4, or even 1/2 of some other famous fancier's bird. Some of the contributors to the Claessen strain over time were DeKlak, Meuleman, the owner of Mr. Tours, Horemans, J. Smijers, Cruysweegs, Jan Hermans, E. Meyen, even a stray, which was later sold to Mike Ganus :http://ganusfamilyloft.com/goldenwitten2.htm and others. Yet at the end of the day, it was the breeder who paired the birds, which the offspring were said to be from.

I find it interesting (thanks for the pedigree link) that this pigeon was called the Van Loon Strain, when the breeder was Gijs Peters of Holland, using two crosses, which he had bred. A Van Loon X DeKlak, and a Van Loon x Karl Meuleman, and it's impossible to say from the information shown, what the actual backgrounds of any of those birds actually were, full crosses, 1/4 of this or that or what ? Since none of the above mentioned Masters started with wild feral rock doves.

Why doesn't Gijs Peters get the credit ? Why is this bird not a "Peters" ? At any rate, great pigeons will have other great pigeons in their background. And the question of what is, or is not part of an actual strain, might make a good topic of discussion. Regardless of what "strain" this "Super 73" might really be, the relatives contributed the genes.

Mostly in America I think, do fanciers really fret over what birds and strain is listed on a pedigree. In Europe, if the bird is a 1st Place National Ace, and looks and feels good in the hand, well that is what counts.