About the history  
Together with his father his interest in pigeons began 37 years ago. During the last 14 years Jaap has raced alone. At the end of 1993 he moved from a farm into his house in Veenendaal. He sold half of his pigeons and started off again with young birds in 1994. Hans Eijerkamp too bought ten pigeons from him thereunder the NL91-1802753 "Lady Bergerac". This ace races a second Bergerac (882 kilometers) among 40.925 pigeons.

Organization of the stock  
The first pigeons came from sportsenthusiast L. Stok from Halsteren. In the fifties and sixties his loft has been one of the top-lofts in the Netherlands. And in 1963 and 1964 his father bought a few pigeons from the Janssen brothers. These pigeons are still the red banner in the blood of the present day pigeons. Of course during the last 20 years of pigeon sports several other races were added. Most of them pigeons which had made top-performances by themselves. So one can say that it has become a "Koehoorn-race" today. In the past years Jaap Koehoorn has become a program-racer. He races from the first in April to the last in September and the results are sensational!

Jaap with one of his toppers