11/20/2022 0 Comments Australian pigeonWhen Allen Goodger took ill and paired up his birds for what said might be his last year in the sport, he loaned Thede two pigeons that he hadn’t paired up – a full sister to Goodger’s 2 ndBooraban and Lot 60, and another off his 2 ndOodnadatta. Thede introduced his Cousin Grant Patterson to Allen Goodger and within a short time Patterson shifted from Tea Tree Gully to Hampstead, not frar from where Goodger lived. The birds included a Wilf Schumann cock – a brother to Schumman’s famous Plum Hen and a Gits bonhomie Royale hen form Bill Lobb in the Payneham Club. He further improved his blood with birds he purchased from the sale of Peterhead Club flyer Ron Claese, who died suddenly in has backyard aged just 39. When Delsar – a headmaster – was transferred to Port Lincoln he told Thede he had a lot of young birds he wouldn’t be able to race.ĭelsar gave him a youngster of the Cooke winner and Wilf Schumann’s Benalla winner, a pair of Freddy Walsh’s birds, and a third pair from Vin Blanden’s Alice Springs bloodlines. He also struck gold when Fred Delsar, from North Suburban took an interest in him, and he was talked into joining to the all- powerful Hampstead club. One of the first key birds for Thede was a winning Ozzie Benger Cockbird – off Tiny Charlton in the North Suburban Club) out of a Ron Eitzen hen, that finished second from Parachilna with only a dozen birds home on raceday. The retired insurance broker has spent several generations linebreeding and inbreeding his family – introducing successful outcrosses at strategic times … and getting incredible satisfaction and enjoyment from it. Mid career he flew with the (now disbanded) North East Club – which had 30 members at its peak… He now flies with Vitesse, Thede also sent birds to his nephew David Thomas in Victoria, gaining 2 ndand 4th in an all Fed race from Carrieton back to Victoria with only eight birds home on the second day. His birds have also produced winners for other flyers from Alice Springs (twice), an Adelaide 10 thousand, a South SAHPA Derby and a SAHPA Holbrook. (Picture – Great grand-daughter of Thede’s Glendambo Winner) (Silver Shadow Dam was from Willi Thiele). He started in the sport in1960 scoring an Association win from Glendambo in 2011. Thede and his wife, Dorothy married in 1959, and have a daughter Leanne, and son David. He bred and raced pigeons from that relocated loft at his mother’s house for two years in the West Suburban club, before buying another loft and setting it up in the backyard of his home in Adelaide’s North East. Thede’s success gathered even more pace after he was gifted a loft by the widow of Ossie Benger who lived at the back of his Sister’s house in Prospect. Thede took the bird home and kept it in a canary cage for a few days before reporting it and handing back to the owner.īut when it homed back to his canary cage he bought a mate for it from an Adelaide pet store and his interest developed from there into a lifetime with pigeons. He got his first racing pigeon as a lad when a stray landed in his mother’s front yard with a broken wing. Thede is a cousin of Allen Goodger, but ironically only met him after taking up pigeon racing He was a an SAHPA Committeman for six years in the sixties. He lived through the Golden years of pigeon racing when the South and Australian Pigeon Association had almost 400 members, competing against some of the biggest names in the sport including Vin Blanden, Allen Goodger, John Pryor and Bill Walford Eighty-four year old Alan Thede is a highly successful old-school Adelaide pigeon breeder and flyer.
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