Edenburg Hotspot 3 444km, JPH & S Posthumus claimed the race win, while R & R & THONE topped the Follow Up Ranking and Willie Munnik topped the Velocity News Fancier of the Race. Willie Munnik also takes Pigeon of the Week to round out the week.

Edenburg 444km Hotspot 3

Edenburg HS 3 saw SAIPR Lofts Winter's Krugersdorp loft host a 444km race from Edenburg, with 488 pigeons basketed across 138 competing fanciers.

Birds left the liberation point at 07:30 into cold, clear skies, with temperatures around 4-6°C and light visibility-friendly conditions overhead. A light north-easterly breeze of 10-14km/h gave a slight assist off the angle of release. By the race's midpoint near Kroonstad, temperatures had lifted to 10-12°C under mostly clear skies, with a fresher 15-20km/h easterly requiring only minor course correction. Arrivals into Krugersdorp came under clear-to-fair skies with high cloud ceilings and no precipitation, in the day's peak warmth of 17-18°C, with a steady 14km/h breeze out of the east-north-east.

Top 10 Arrivals

JPH & S Posthumus claimed the win at 1265.92 m/min, leading SAIPR Lofts Winter's Edenburg HS 3 home. Kalahari Loots / KLD 2 followed in 2nd. Nico Muller claimed 3rd, with NINJA 3 close behind in 4th. Leohan Hokke 1 took 5th, with WEBSTER LOFTS following in 6th. PAINTER & ULLRICH came home in 7th, with Willie Munnik in 8th. SPARKS 1 claimed 9th, and Protea / McDermott 3 completed the top 10 — the entire top 10 arriving within 2 minutes 57 seconds of the winner.

Velocity News Fancier of the Race

In SAIPR Lofts Winter's Hotspot 3 Edenburg 444km 3, 113 out of 138 competing fanciers qualified for this ranking by meeting the minimum requirement of basketing at least 3 pigeons.

Rankings are based on the percentage of a fancier's basketed pigeons placing within the top 5% of the race (the top 24 out of 488 total entries), with ties broken by the highest average velocity of those positions.

Willie Munnik is named Velocity News Fancier of the Race, topping the ranking with 40.00% of their participating pigeons inside the Top 5%.

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Fancier of the Race

Edenburg HS 3 · SAIPR Lofts Winter · Liberation: Edenburg · 444 km · 31.07.2026

Ranking is based on Efficiency Rate: the percentage of each fancier's own basketed pigeons that finished inside the top 5% of the race — position 24 of the 488 pigeons basketed in this race. Fanciers with fewer than 3 pigeons basketed are excluded. Ties are broken by average velocity across that fancier's top 5% finishes.

Ranking	Team Name	Pigeons Participated	Positions	Efficiency Rate	Avg Speed
1	Willie Munnik 🇿🇦	5	8, 12	40.00%	1255.34 m/min
2	Amper Irish 🇿🇦	5	13, 15	40.00%	1254.97 m/min
3	NINJA 3 🇿🇦	3	4	33.33%	1265.23 m/min
4	SPARKS 1 🇿🇦	3	9	33.33%	1255.44 m/min
5	Samuel Lofts 1 🇿🇦	3	16	33.33%	1254.52 m/min
6	JAN HOOYMANS 2 🇳🇱	3	18	33.33%	1238.68 m/min
7	FRED BROUGH 🇿🇦	3	19	33.33%	1238.62 m/min
8	Jan Hooymans 🇳🇱	3	24	33.33%	1232.17 m/min
9	Kalahari Loots / KLD 2 🇿🇦	4	2	25.00%	1265.78 m/min
10	Nico Muller 🇿🇦	4	3	25.00%	1265.38 m/min

Velocity News Fancier of the Race — official ranking — velocitypigeonnews.com

The Follow Up Ranking

The 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 48 out of 488 pigeons. In SAIPR Lofts Winter's Edenburg HS 3, 113 of 138 participating fanciers qualified by basketing at least 3 pigeons. Ties are resolved using highest average velocity across their arrivals.

R & R & THONE led the Velocity News Follow Up ranking with 75.00% of their pigeons placing inside the top 10% arrivals.

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Top 10% Follow Up Ranking

Edenburg HS 3 · SAIPR Lofts Winter · Liberation: Edenburg · 444 km · 31.07.2026

This ranking identifies which fanciers had the highest concentration of their basketed pigeons landing inside the top 10% of the race — position 48 of the 488 pigeons basketed in this race — relative to how many pigeons they had participating. This metric is the Follow Up Rate, a measure of how many pigeons a fancier brought home in succession relative to their total pigeons in the race. Fanciers with fewer than 3 pigeons basketed are excluded, and ties are broken by average velocity. This ranking does not decide Velocity News Fancier of the Race.

Ranking	Team Name	Pigeons Participated	Positions	Follow Up Rate	Avg Speed
1	R & R & THONE 🇿🇦	4	37, 41, 47	75.00%	1223.42 m/min
2	FRED BROUGH 🇿🇦	3	19, 44	66.67%	1230.05 m/min
3	PAINTER & ULLRICH 🇿🇦	4	7, 26	50.00%	1246.49 m/min
4	Willie Munnik 🇿🇦	5	8, 12	40.00%	1255.34 m/min
5	Amper Irish 🇿🇦	5	13, 15	40.00%	1254.97 m/min
6	NINJA 3 🇿🇦	3	4	33.33%	1265.23 m/min
7	SPARKS 1 🇿🇦	3	9	33.33%	1255.44 m/min
8	Samuel Lofts 1 🇿🇦	3	16	33.33%	1254.52 m/min
9	JAN HOOYMANS 2 🇳🇱	3	18	33.33%	1238.68 m/min
10	Jan Hooymans 🇳🇱	3	24	33.33%	1232.17 m/min

Velocity News Top 10% Follow Up Ranking — velocitypigeonnews.com

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 Glen HS 2 against Edenburg HS 3, WILLIE MUNNIK's ZA GPU 0732 2025 earns Pigeon of the Week, averaging 1 minute and 41.920 seconds behind the winner with a 4th-place finish at Glen HS 2 and 8th at Edenburg HS 3. JPH & S POSTHUMUS's 810 2025 follows closely at 2 minutes and 15.890 seconds (44th at Glen HS 2, 1st at Edenburg HS 3), while NINJA 3's ZA VPU 2705 2025 completes the podium at 2 minutes and 17.840 seconds (31st at Glen HS 2, 4th at Edenburg HS 3).

Pigeon of the Week · SAIPR Lofts Winter

Two Race Comparison · Glen HS 2 355km (24/07/2026) & Edenburg HS 3 444km (31/07/2026)

Ranking date: 10/08/2026

Ranking is based on Average Margin: the mean of a pigeon's time behind the race winner across two races. Smallest average margin ranks highest.

1 Willie Munnik South Africa

Avg 00:01:41.920

ZA GPU 0732 2025

Glen HS 2 355km · Pos 4 / 505

+00:00:29.510

1771.4630 m/min

Edenburg HS 3 444km · Pos 8 / 488

+00:02:54.330

1255.5176 m/min

2 JPH & S Posthumus South Africa

Avg 00:02:15.890

ZA 810 2025

Glen HS 2 355km · Pos 44 / 505

+00:04:31.780

1736.4749 m/min

Edenburg HS 3 444km · Pos 1 / 488

+00:00:00.000

1265.9184 m/min

3 NINJA 3 South Africa

Avg 00:02:17.840

ZA VPU 2705 2025

Glen HS 2 355km · Pos 31 / 505

+00:04:24.310

1737.5330 m/min

Edenburg HS 3 444km · Pos 4 / 488

+00:00:11.370

1265.2348 m/min

Velocity News Pigeon of the Week — velocitypigeonnews.com

JPH & S Posthumus's win at Edenburg HS 3 sets the tone for SAIPR Lofts Winter, while R & R & THONE leaves the strongest mark on the week, topping the Follow Up Ranking. Willie Munnik carries the week on two fronts — leading the Velocity News Fancier of the Race performance and taking Pigeon of the Week honours for ZA GPU 0732 2025's consistency across Glen HS 2 and Edenburg HS 3. Whether that momentum carries into the next race remains to be seen.