ABOUT US
Who We Are.
Matt Munslow has been involved with racing pigeons from a very young age; he inherited the bug and passion from his grandfather and having been around the pigeons and learning his trade over the years he made a conscious decision that he wanted to become a force within the pigeon sport. Matt is a young man who was never going to settle for second best and he decided a few years ago that he wanted the best of the best and so began his quest; he studied the sprint/middle distance racing scene intensively and soon learned that Antwerp was the hotbed of top fanciers and top pigeons and so this is where he narrowed his search. Matt visited many lofts and handled hundreds of good pigeons and after time he decided he wanted two breeds/families to blend and concentrate on and he wanted to buy as many direct from all the main pigeons as possible. So the husband and wife partnership ‘Munslow Loft’ was set up with the view to specialising in the sprint to middle distance and Matt now firmly believes he has reached his goal as he decided on the super lofts of Rudy Pitbull van Reeth for his sprint birds, this was before Rudy’s sale on PIPA and not being content with just one top loft, Matt decided he also wanted to find a more durable breed/family.
Matt wanted to create a super family that could cope with all races from sprint to middle distance in the toughest of competition and so after much searching and research and many visits Matt’s heart was eventually set on the king and Queen of speed Van Vugt Donckers. After the partnership of Stickers Donckers was dissolved Dirk was told by many that it would take him a few years to get back to the top after the split with his old partner so he and his wife Cindy set out to prove everyone wrong.
In their first year back racing as the new partnership Van Vugt Donckers they hit the ground running and astonished the Antwerp region by winning 44 X 1st prizes in the first year and 95 X 1st in 2 years. After constant visits and numerous phone calls a great friendship has been firmly formed with Matt and Dirk, which has resulted in Matt becoming Dirks agent. This has given Matt a unique opportunity to own direct children from all of Dirks breeders and Munslow Loft now houses the biggest collection of Van Vugt Donckers in the UK.
