1. Golden Prince € 360.000 (Gino Clicque)

2. Bolt € 310.000 (Leo Heremans)

3. Safier Kweekkoppel € 270.000 (Leo Heremans)

4. Dolce Vita € 250.400 (Pieter Veenstra)

5. Nikolaas € 244.000 (Casaert-Sénéchal)

Mark Kitchenbrand, Nikolaas Gyselbrecht and Samuel Mbiza raise a toast to the record breaking sale of Golden Prince (Pictures: Foto-KaSt)

And this is a short film of the moment when Samuel Mbiza and Mark Kitchenbrand become the official owners of Golden Prince.

This is an updated list of the most expensive pigeons ever sold in auction. These pigeons were all sold through PIPA.

1. Golden Prince € 360.000 (Gino Clicque) 2. Bolt € 310.000 (Leo Heremans) 3. Safier Kweekkoppel € 270.000 (Leo Heremans) 4. Dolce Vita € 250.400 (Pieter Veenstra) 5. Nikolaas € 244.000 (Casaert-Sénéchal) 6. Nieuwe Olympiade € 210.000 (Leo Heremans) 7. Ouders Bolt € 184.000 (Leo Heremans) 8. Euro Diamond € 170.000 (Brockamp) 9. Gilbert € 162.000 (Leo Heremans) 10. Blauwe Prins € 156.000 (Pros Roosen)

The auction had quite a promising start indeed, with an overall revenue of 1,000,000 euro

already on Saturday morning. Revenue rose to 1,500,000 euro by Saturday evening, halfway into the auction. The most

expensive pigeons on Saturday were Prince Rudy, which goes to China for 64,000 euro, and the dam of Prince Rudy, sold for 36,500 EURO to Samuel Mbiza & Mark Kitchenbrand, to be paired to Golden Prince. Argentina was sold on Saturday as well, and will be going to China for 36,000 EURO. Next in line was Gabriella, 1st Int. Agen Hens, which the South African combination purchased for 32,000 euro. She will be the second partner for Golden Prince. Several more top pigeons were sold on Sunday, and the most expensive one was Devil Prince, with a starting price of 50,000 EURO in the morning, and a winning bid of an impressive 126,000 EURO.
The following pigeons turned out to be the five most expensive ones in this Gino Clicque auction:

1 – Golden Prince – 360,000 EURO – South Africa 2 – Devil Prince – 126,000 EURO – China 3 – Super Gaby (sire Devil Prince) – 81,000 EURO – China 4 – Robertina (dam Devil Prince) – 71,000 EURO – China 5 – Prince Rudy – 64,000 EURO – China

With an overall revenue on Sunday evening of 2,145,375 EURO the Gino Clicque pigeon auction now sits in second place in the prestigious list of most expensive auctions of all time:

1. Leo Heremans May 2013 Online € 4,346,500 2. Gino Clicque March 2017 Online € 2,145,375 3. Pieter Veenstra January 2012 Online € 1,899,300 4. Gaston Van de Wouwer October 2014 Online € 1,542,800 5. Pros Roosen January 2011 Public € 1,368,000 6. Jos Thoné December 2010 Public € 1,323,780 7. Andre Verbesselt January 2012 Online € 1,292,400 8. Marc De Cock January 2013 Online € 1,273,300 9. Erik Limbourg December 2009 Public € 1,252,000 10.Etienne Meirlaen December 2012 Online € 1,159,700 11.Dr. H.P. & P. Brockamp November 2010 Online € 1,017,750

All one million plus auctions have been organised by PIPA

The 405 pigeons were eventually sold to the following countries: China (134), Belgium (93), Taiwan (65), USA (18), Japan (16), Romania (9), France (8), Thailand (8), Slovakia (7), South Africa (7), Germany (6), India (5), The United Kingdom (5), Mexico (3), The Netherlands (3), The Philippines (2), Portugal (2), Morocco (2), Iran (2), Spain (2), Malaysia (2), Iraq (1), Poland (1), Canada (1), Croatia (1), Egypt (1), and Turkey (1).