The basis was formed with pigeons of the following fanciers:

Kuijpers Brothers – Neer (The Netherlands):

First there are the famous indestructible Kuijpers-pigeons from the Kuijpers Brothers at Neer (The Netherlands). On the Kuijpers-loft Barcelona is the leading thread running through their results. Their last Barcelona-victory was some years ago, but the superb quality of the Kuijpers-pigeons is worldfamous. A granddaughter (the ‘117-stock hen’) comes from the famous ‘Gouden Stamkoppel’ (‘Golden Couple’) from Kuijpers and is an important part in the base of the Frenken successes. The ‘Gouden Stamkoppel’ is the foundation of the 1st ,  2nd and  3rd  national Barcelona. The Frenken Brothers based their famous ‘Turbo Line’ on these birds from the Kuijpers Brothers.

 Marcel Braakhuis – Heer (The Netherlands):

A second golden acquisition came from the man with the ‘Black Murderers’, Marcel Braakhuis from Heer near Maastricht. In the summer of 1981 they got two couples of eggs here. The four youngsters also brought a new success on the Weerter Lofts. Only two years later youngsters of the direct Braakhuis-birds were placed in the first 100 of the  national longdistance races, with the 27th  national Barcelona. The fanciers among us who know these ‘Black Murderers’, know that they have an extreme power of endurance. And this is a must for the strong Barcelona race. The ‘Black Murderers’ have their origin in the legendary ‘131’ of Jan de Weert from Steenbergen. After this purchase they didn’t stop with their search for  better pigeons.

Jan Theelen – Buggenum (The Netherlands):

Near Weert lives a very good longdistance fancier, named Jan Theelen. A man who is very good in finding good racepigeons. The Theelen-pigeons are birds with a little more speed in their wings. An interbreed from their own birds with the Theelens brought a lot of success. But not only on their own loft there was success. The Belgian fancier Pros Roosen – well known for his famous middle distance pigeons – won the famous title  ‘Primus Inter Paris Barcelona’ with a direct Frenken cock from the Theelen-line.

Jan –Straetemans  Thorn (The Netherlands):

The Frenken Brothers were also very succesful on breeding with pigeons of Jan Straetemans (Son 215)Straetemans*Saya.

Ton Vorselen - Thorn (The Netherlands):

for almost twenty years they added pigeons from this loft. The stock birds from Ton are also added from Jan Theelen and the Kuijpers Bros.

Their own stock:

Over twenty years the Frenken Brothers built their own stock. When they buy some birds, those birds must be youngsters from the ‘best of the best’ and no others. They bring only a few birds into their own stock. They will always be very careful to bring some new blood in their own bloodlines. One inconsiderate moment and you are lost.

Harry Frenken: ‘When we get pigeons from other very good racing lofts, we bring them into our own base piece by piece. And we honestly have to say that we got pigeons by some more famous fanciers. And these are fanciers who still are very successfull today.  But they didn’t bring the results we expected. Curiously on their lofts our own pigeons bring good results’.

The famous ‘Turbo Line’

This is a very succesful line of good race- and stockpigeons. For instance the ‘Turbo 106’. In 1998 he won the 128^th national Barcelona against 6.290 birds and last season he won the 35^th Barcelona against 8.140 birds. To show you that he isn’t only a good racer, I have to say that at Barcelona 1999 two sons of the ‘Turbo 106’ also participated in the longdistance races. Both won very good prizes, while one of them came home wounded.

Also two daughters of the ‘Turbo 106’, from the loft of Dick van den Berg (Tuk, The Netherlands), won very nice prizes at the races from Limoges (> 800 km). One of them won the 1^st national Bergerac 2000 sector 4.

Jac Frenken: ‘The grandfather of the ‘Turbo 106’ is a halfbrother of our own ‘117 stock-hen’. On the mother’s side there is a coupling of ‘Catrysse x sister Turbo 2’. ‘Turbo 2’ is a son of the ‘117 stock-hen’ and won 10 prizes per 10. Six of these prizes were won at the famous Barcelona-race. A second descendant from the ‘Turbo Line’ is the ‘Turbo Frans’. His father is a direct van der Wegen (‘Oud Doffertje x Lamme’) by Frans Derks coupled with a daughter of the ‘Turbo 1’. This ‘Turbo 1’ is a son of the almost famous ‘117 stock-hen’, and was for that moment coupled with the 1^st national Marseille from Keunen – Nijssen (Sevenum, The Netherlands). He also was a bird directly from our loft! A grandson of the ‘Turbo Frans’ won in 1999 as a yearling the 215^th provincial Bordeaux against 11.756 birds and 122st national Dax against 19.125 birds. It wasn’t only this yearling which won good prizes, but the whole shift had good results. The future is looking good!’So there is another grandson of ‘Turbo Frans and he won as yearling in the last season 2001 a 228th provincial Montauban against 4.525 competitors and he also won the 11^th national Dax against 18.323 birds. ‘Turbo 106’ en ‘Turbo Frans’ are our highlights for the next breeding season. The future is looking good’.