Graham Sparkes
Pigeon Enthusiast since boyhood
Chairman and stock production Director
Also chairman and owner of Patrington Haven Leisure Park
Brian Bolton
Racing Director
An Ace fancier for many many years and winner of countless races and awards over several decades, he is now in sole charge of the Premier Stud racing lofts in Antwerp Belgium since July 2009
Derek Nicholls
Sales and Marketing Director
Many years a professional pigeon fancier, known internationally in the pigeon sales market, and one of the founders of the One Loft Race scene around the world.
Guy Sparkes
Overall Business Co-ordinater of Premier Stud and the Leisure Park
Dave Walker
Full-time Loft Manager and Assistant to Derek Nicholls
As well as the Directors we have four dedicated full-time members of staff to care for the birds & our customers
We at Premier Stud take pride in our World Famous stock and couple them to provide us and our customers with young birds that we can watch grow and thrive and hopefully reach their potential to become champions. We believe every bird we produce has the potential to become a Champion, or we would not breed it!
Our original stock has been sourced from some of the best lofts in the world, in the belief they can make us and our customers amongst the best in the world!
The Directors at Premier Stud have been very successful at racing pigeons for many, many years and have a combined winning experience of nearly 100 years. In that time many, many races and awards have been won at the highest level.
All this flying to several different loft locations. Over the last five decades, with many different strains and families of pigeons, but all with just the one thing in common, always searching for the very best birds available from the very best lofts of the present day and winning races with them.
So that's the history lesson! And our qualifications so to speak. But what of our present day racing lofts? Well at the moment we have two racing lofts, one located on the Stud grounds here at Patrington Haven Leisure Park near Hull England. 2009 saw the re-launch of this racing loft with a great series of 3 Combine wins on consecutive weeks, as follows:
These have been added to in 2010 with:
2010 saw us start flying to our racing loft in Antwerp Belgium, in our own name for the first time with some sensational results. Indeed in our very first race in competition in the first race of the 2010 season, in the prestigious Antwerp Union from Melun 240 miles we won 1st 2nd 3rd & 4th, beating the total convoy of 4,302 old and yearling birds with 4 birds in front !!!!!!!! Which it is fair to say shocked the local competition, and some very well known flyers, many sent congratulations, the following are just two:
"Hello Guys, I think I must congratulate you boys for the super result you have made there in Belgium. A lot of Belgium people were surprised when they saw the final result. Its Unbelievable! And I hope you make more results like this. Good Luck."
Kees Bosua - Dordrecht NL"Hello Guys You are in every journal in Belgium! On PIPA and everyone is talking about what your pigeons did unbelievable! As you know we have won many races but there was never as much talk about a result as the one for your birds last Saturday! Ha Ha just nice, they never thought some one from another country could do this in Belgium !!!!! Good Luck."
Luc Houben - Antwerp B
