Although, in the first 30 years of racing Dad and I had been quite successful, and our family of HVR’s we had started in 1984 were doing great, especially in the 300 to 600 mile races, when Ryan started flying with his young, enthusiastic and highly competitive personality, the Jones Boys were literally at the top of the race results pretty much all of the time from then to the present. I can proudly say our HVR family has held its own against all competition from 100 to 600 miles as old birds and especially in the young bird 300 to 400 mile Futurities.
Our family of HVR’s have won or placed very high in almost all the 300, 400, 500 and 600 mile races we have raced locally since the early 90’s to present. They have won many average speeds, Champion Lofts, Champion Bird and AU Champion awards. As far as young bird Futurity races, the Jones Boys families of HVR’s have a reputation for being in the hunt for 1st place and we certainly have won more than our fair share. The great part is that this family of birds is not just winning for us! To my knowledge most of the flyer's that have acquired our birds are winning with them also. This family of Jones Boys HVR’s has proven to cross with most any other great family of birds and bring out the best from both families. Just a few of the examples are in the year of 2000 Sandy Spurlin purchased two of our inbred 0123 line HVR’s. The following years Sandy pushed the 100K mark with winnings from direct children, grand children or great grand children of those birds. In 2003 our very good friend Chuck Williamson’s wife purchased a cock and a hen from our 0123 HVR line crossed to our George Van Reil Import HVR line. These birds bred to Chuck’s best breeders breed many local club and futurity winners. “Then the ultimate happened”. During the week of Thanksgiving, San Diego has a six race series. They fly a 100 mile Triple Crown race Monday, a 300 hundred mile California Classic race Tuesday, a 200 hundred mile Triple Crown race Wednesday, a 300 mile Holiday Cup race Friday, the 300 mile San Diego Classic race on Saturday and the finally a 300 mile Triple Crown race on Sunday. To my knowledge in 2007 Chuck won first or equal first in all six of these races with direct children from either the cock or the hen from The Jones Boys HVR’s or their grand children (a slam dunk). In 2008 Chuck and his partner Adolfo had almost as good of year. Congratulations to Chuck and Adolfo. I would also like to mention that in 2003 at the Rock River Snow Fest auction Mike Shippert and Lew Digby purchased several of our Jones Boys HVR’s and have had tremendous success with them. Racing them straight and crossed to some of their best. I am also so happy to hear from my good friend Stephen Michael that he just won his first Concourse race with a straight breed Jones Boys HVR. Last but not least, our very good friend Eddie Spetz from southern California recently acquired one of our Indigo colored Jones Boy HVR cocks. He breed six youngsters from this cock when mated to one of his famous 209 breed hens and three of the six young have won races on the 395 Concourse.
ABOUT THE FAMILY OF THE JONES BOYS HVR’S
In 1984 I visited a close friend of my brother-in-law in Whittier, California, Mr. Jack Henning. He invited me to look at his HVR family of birds, they where a family that he and his partner had acquired from a fancier in Germany in the early 1960’s. Jack’s partner had gone to Germany and checked out this family of birds and brought back six pair. Jack told me he thought these birds to be the best he had ever seen, therefore they eliminated the other lines of birds they where breeding and went exclusively with this German HVR family. When I met Jack in 1984 he said he had been breeding this family straight all this time and had only introduced one other bird to the family as a blood refresher. When I looked at these birds they were outstanding, all like peas in a pod. I handled over sixty birds and there might have been a couple that I would not have wanted. I acquired one pair that day, #33 BB cock and #17 BLCHSPL hen. The parents to our famous 0123 cock. We consider this cock to be our foundation cock. Within the next year I acquired #499 who is #33’s mother and three other of Jack’s oldest breeders. The Jones Boys have been inbreeding this HVR line since 1984 and just been getting better! In my opinion it is so hard to find a family of birds that can be so inbred and not go backwards.
In 1986 a very good friend of mine Ellis Penelton went to Belgium and visited Mr. George VanReil, Jeff VanReil’s son. Ellis acquired five pair of birds from George that where all bred down from his dads HVR’s. George did a lot of uncle, niece, aunt, nephew and cousin to cousin mating keeping this line straight. After having acquired a couple of these George VanReil bred birds and crossing them with my 0123 HVR family I found this cross SUPER! I later ended up acquiring all of Ellis’s original George VanReil imports and have continued to inbreed them as a family line and then crossing them with my 0123 line for the high bred vigor. This has been very successful. Better yet when you take one from this cross and breed it to another inbred family or line the three way cross is hard to beat in any race.
In closing The Jones Boys have been breeding these lines of HVR’s for over twenty-five years and have surely proven they will impact anyone’s loft that acquires them. These birds are not just beautiful, perfect in hand birds but also win races and when bred they produce winners! The Jones Boys stand behind their birds and if you are not satisfied with a bird we will replace it. We will be bringing the Best of the Best to this auction.
