CPL Final Race Report: FIONA'S Fairytale Final Race Win For Chloe's Loft
Central Provincial Loft Race 6 Yearlings Final 596km, Chloe's Loft claimed the win, while SDK Lofts topped the Velocity News Fancier of the Race and Visagie Hokke topped the Follow Up Ranking. Bomb Squad takes Pigeon of the Week, Tsunami & Dr Piet van Wyk leads the Ace Ranking to round out the week.
Race 6 Yearlings Final
Race 6 Yearlings Final saw 668 pigeons basketed for Prince Albert Road on the 596km flight to Central Provincial Loft in Bloemfontein, with 208 fanciers competing.
Liberation brought clear skies and cool 11–13°C temperatures, with a light south-westerly wind of 10–15km/h giving the pigeons a helpful tailwind northeast. By the midpoint, temperatures reached 19–21°C under partly cloudy skies as the wind swung easterly at 15–20km/h, turning into a testing side-headwind. Temperatures peaked at 23–25°C on arrival, with a gusty easterly wind and thickening cloud cover as a cold front approached Bloemfontein.
Top 10 Arrivals
Chloe's Loft claimed the win at 1081.09 m/min with 'Fiona', leading Central Provincial Loft's Race 6 Yearlings Final home. Wimpie & James followed in 2nd with 'Chiquitita'. Bomb Squad claimed 3rd, with SDK Lofts close behind in 4th. Parsons, Jacques took 5th, with Malherbe, Valerie following in 6th. Team Oberholster came home in 7th with 'Cotton', with Ferreira Hokke in 8th. Burger & Gouws claimed 9th, and Tsunami & Dr Piet van Wyk completed the top 10 — the entire top 10 arriving within 14 minutes and 57 seconds of the winner.
Velocity News Fancier of the Race
In Central Provincial Loft's Race 6 Yearlings Final, 62 out of 208 competing fanciers qualified for this ranking by meeting the minimum requirement of basketing at least 4 pigeons.
Rankings are based on the percentage of a fancier's basketed pigeons placing within the top 5% of the race (the top 33 out of 668 total entries), with ties broken by the highest average velocity of those positions.
SDK LOFTS is named Velocity News Fancier of the Race, topping the ranking with 25.00% of their participating pigeons inside the Top 5%.
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The Follow Up Ranking
The Top 10% Follow Up Ranking measures fanciers with the highest percentage of their basketed birds finishing in the top 10% of the race, which means the leading 66 out of 668 pigeons. In Central Provincial Loft's Race 6 Yearlings Final, 62 of 208 participating fanciers qualified by basketing at least 4 pigeons. Ties are resolved using highest average velocity across their arrivals.
VISAGIE HOKKE led the Velocity News Follow Up ranking with 50.00% of their pigeons placing inside the top 10% arrivals.
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Pigeon of the Week
Velocity News introduced Pigeon of the Week to identify the best pigeons week by week. It is awarded to the pigeon with the smallest average margin behind the winner across two consecutive races.
Comparing Race 5 Yearlings against Race 6 Yearlings Final, BOMB SQUAD's ZA 2973 2025 earns Pigeon of the Week, averaging 2 minutes and 25.065 seconds behind the winner with a 4th-place finish at Race 5 and 3rd at Race 6. MALHERBE, VALERIE's WYNL 4519 2025 follows closely at 4 minutes and 20.495 seconds (7th at Race 5, 6th at Race 6), while FERREIRA HOKKE's BPFD 844 2025 completes the podium at 9 minutes and 3.980 seconds (1st at Race 5, 17th at Race 6).
Ace Pigeon Ranking Race 6
Tsunami & Dr Piet van Wyk claimed the top spot at 1318.100 m/min, leading Central Provincial Loft's Ace Pigeon Ranking. Shahzad Family Loft followed in 2nd with 'Roaring Lion'. SDK Lofts claimed 3rd, with Page, Gary close behind in 4th with 'Gabby'. Sincerity Hokke completed the top 5 with 'Elmé' — the entire top 5 separated by just 48.47 m/min in average speed.
Looking Ahead
Chloe's Loft's win with 'Fiona' sets the tone for Central Provincial Loft's Race 6 Yearlings Final, but the week's stats tell a wider story. SDK Lofts' Velocity News Fancier of the Race performance headlines the rankings, while Visagie Hokke tops the Follow Up Ranking and Bomb Squad claims Pigeon of the Week for the smallest average margin across Race 5 and Race 6. Tsunami & Dr Piet van Wyk lead the Ace Pigeon Ranking, pointing to strong form building through the season. Whether any of them can carry that into the Car Race remains to be seen.
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