SFOLR Report: Jannie Lategan Strikes Gold In Thrilling Race 2
Race 2 448km from Prieska, Northern Cape, to Smith Fourie One Loft in Golden Valley, Eastern Cape. Jannie Lategan claimed the win, while Eddie Ferreira leads the Velocity News Fancier of the Race and Camelot Hokke leads the Follow Up Ranking. PH/H&F takes Pigeon of the Week honours too.
Race 2 Prieska 448km
Race 2 continued Smith Fourie One Loft's 2026 season with a 448km race from Prieska, Northern Cape, to the loft's home at Golden Valley in the Eastern Cape, 238 pigeons went to the baskets, entered by 34 fanciers.
Birds were liberated into a cold, crisp Prieska morning, with early frost over the Northern Cape interior clearing before release. Temperatures sat at 11-14°C under a gentle westerly cross-tailwind of 11-14km/h. By the Central Karoo midpoint, conditions had warmed to a mild 18-20°C, with light westerly to north-westerly tailwinds of 11-18km/h under mostly sunny skies and excellent visibility. The final leg toward Golden Valley turned pleasant, temperatures climbing to 21-23°C as the westerly breeze eased to light and variable, skies clearing to blue with only occasional scattered fair-weather cumulus, and no precipitation disrupting the birds' arrival.
Top 10 Arrivals
Jannie Lategan claimed the win at 1509.90 m/min, leading Smith Fourie One Loft's Race 2 home. Team Phillips followed in 2nd, with Eddie Ferreira close behind in 3rd. Team Oberholster took 4th with 'Kenny - 22', with Camelot Hokke following again in 5th. Jackie + Paul came home in 6th, with Gavin Rous in 7th. Jackie Pieterse followed in 8th, with Austin Powers claiming 9th, and Tollie Jordaan completed the top 10 — the entire top 10 arriving within 7 seconds of the winner!
Genetics Behind The Winner
Jannie Lategan topped the podium in Race 1 with a fantastic win! His winning pigeon ZA25-LATEGAN-118 is bred out of the Gaby Vandenabeele lines crossed with the famous Tomlock Lines.
A few years back, Jannie acquired a few youngbirds from Bernard Loots (Kalahari Loots), also a very successful fancier with many top achievements in One Loft races across South Africa. The sire to the race 1 winner for Jannie was among the kit of youngsters he acquired from Bernard and turned out to be a super racer himself, he is off the Gaby Vandenabeele lines. The dam to race 1 winner is a pure Tomlock hen!
Velocity News Fancier of the Race
In Smith Fourie One Loft's Race 2, 20 out of 34 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 11 out of 238 total entries), with ties broken by the highest average velocity of those positions.
EDDIE FERREIRA is named Velocity News Fancier of the Race, topping the ranking with 11.11% of their participating pigeons inside the Top 5%.
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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 23 out of 238 pigeons.
In Smith Fourie One Loft's Race 2, 20 of 34 participating fanciers qualified by basketing at least 4 pigeons. Ties are resolved using highest average velocity across their arrivals.
CAMELOT HOKKE led the Velocity News Follow Up ranking with 27.27% of their basketed 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 1 against Race 2, PH/H&F's ZA-2025-OP-6783 earns Pigeon of the Week, averaging 2 minutes and 54.695 seconds behind the winner with a 1st-place finish at Race 1 and 35th at Race 2. Tollie Jordaan's ZA-2025-OP-4142 follows closely at 3 minutes and 39.530 seconds (38th at Race 1, 10th at Race 2), while Camelot Hokke's ZA-2025-CAMELOT-138 completes the podium at 3 minutes and 40.215 seconds (40th at Race 1, 12th at Race 2).
Looking Ahead
Jannie Lategan's win at Race 2 sets the tone for Smith Fourie One Loft, while Camelot Hokke leaves the strongest mark on the week, topping the Follow Up Ranking. Eddie Ferreira's Velocity News Fancier of the Race performance stood out separately, leading the Top 5% ranking on its own. PH/H&F takes Pigeon of the Week honours for ZA-2025-OP-6783's consistency across Race 1 and Race 2. Whether Eddie Ferreira can carry that form into the next race remains to be seen.
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