THUNDERBIRD PALAWAN CHALLENGE

THUNDERBIRD PALAWAN CHALLENGE

7-Stag Derby Finals Today at Roligon

7-Stag Derby Finals Today at Roligon

Thousands of derby fans troop to Roligon Mega Cockpit today when the championship of the 1^st Pichay Cup 7-Stag Derby takes center stage with 60 all-important matches lined-up with the first fight set to kick-off at 5:00 p.m.

With only three entries still undefeated after the intense elimination last Tuesday, tonight’s finals is still a wide open competition and is expected to go down the wire that will keep the aficionados at the edge of their seats up to the last fight.

Scoring 3 wins out of 3 fights in the preliminaries are Bong Pineda’s  Rambulan-2 P40M Grand Prize-I; Luding Boongaling’s Big Event sa LDB Oct. 3 6-Stag I  and Eric dela Rosa’s Sta. Monica Stagfest, while Romir Bert of Danny Espinosa & Ding Santos have two wins with five fights to go.

Recent Gerry Ramos’ derby solo champion Pao Malvar with his Sunhaven Paniqui entry (combined with Bebot Roxas) logged 2 wins and a draw, duplicated by Heptagon of David Ong

Hoping to spoil the leaders’ bid are 2-1 win-loss lsaters Red Cobra of reigning Bakbakan champion Engr. Sonnie Magtibay, Chocolate Farm of Totoy Haruta, Ocean Flyers of Mario Gujelde & Co., Kumpadres Mendipos 69 of Joel Aniel & Ding Bautista, V-Tex of Virgilo Lacson, Showdown ASG of Danny Ty, Asisan Sniper of Mon Arcenas, Big Event sa LDB Oct. 3 6-Stag III of Luding Boongaling, Jade Resort II of Arman Santos, Navigator sa SJC 5-Stag Oct. 18 of Jose Panganiban, LDB 6-Stag Nov. 7 of Boy Bata & Boy Lechon, Chaetoria/Monty of Edwin Monton/Alex de Guzman and Victoria I of Alex de Guzman & Boy Lechon.

Meanwhile, 36 entries have confirmed their participation in the October 12 Stagberfest one-day 5-Stag Derby hosted by Lando Luong with a guaranteed cash prize of P400,000 for an entry fee of P11,000 and a minimum bet requirement of P5,500.

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MAGTIBAY JOINS THUNDERBIRD

CARREO by Rolando S. Luzong

Peoples Tonight (February 13, 2010)

BGT CUP “ALL ABOUT CONDITIONG”

Seminars in Leyte & Samar

All cockers and breeders of Leyte and Samar, especially those who have not tried derby fighting yet, will get the chance to learn everything about conditioning of a fightingcock when three consecutive seminars are held in m key cities of the two provinces this month.

Said series of seminars will be held on a) February 20 – 8am to 12noon - Hotel Don Felife, Inaki A. Larrazabal Blvd., Ormoc City; b) February 21 8am – 12noon at the Ritz Tower de Leyte, Real St. Tacloban, Leyte; and on February 23 8am-12noon at the Socio Cultural Center, Northwest Samar State University (NWSSU) Calbayog City.

All who are interested to join are advised to text their name, address and preferred of seminar to Rey Bimbao at 0928-5500951. To enter the seminar, a participant must submit three (3) empty blister packs of Vetracin Gold Caps.

Thunderbird endorser Bernie Tacoy will lecture on all aspects of conditioning including harvesting of stags, cording and stag fighting.

Valuable prizes including Ormoc Gold gamefowls will be raffled to the participants.

MAGTIBAY JOINS

THUNDERBIRD WINNING TEAM

Reigning Bakbakan 10-Stag National Derby champion and newly-crowned 2010 World Slasher Cup solo champion Engr. Sonnie Magtibay recently made official his entry as one of the Thunderbird Winning Team stalwarts after a contract signing in his conditioning farm in San Pablo City witnessed by his wife and farm manager Precy (a professor at Rizal Technological University in Mandaluyong), Thunderbird Product Manager Francis Martinez; Thunderbird Technical Department Manager Dr. Elcid Paraso; Thunderbird Consultant Rolando Luzong the RM Red Cobra Game Farm personnel.

Magtibay stated that it was an honor for him to be lined up with such cocking greats as Engr. Sonny Lagon, Dicky Lim, Boy Marzo, Jesry Palmares, Otec Geroso and the other members of the Thunderbird Winning Team. He added that it was not hard for him to make the decision to jump on board considering that he has been using Thunderbird products since he started into cockfighting, particularly Thunderbird Bexan XP.

ANGEL LANSANG’S WISDOM

A lot of cockers are unaware of these, so, may I give way to my idol, the late Angel Lansang who in the 60s came out with the book Cockfighting in the
Philippines. Here is one chapter of the book that is as timely now as when it was first written;

“ A cock’s code of conduct”

Cock’s are well-disciplined lot, observing good and right conduct in the following manner :

1.Barring accidents, they do not peck at each other’s eyes even if they keep on fighting the whole day. This is sportsmanship on the part of the cocks. What
about men?

2. A cock will never hit while the opponent is in the process of moving his bowels. Try to verify this fact

3. A cock will not relieve itself while being held in hand but the moment he is set down the ground he will do so at once. Good etiquette. After one or two hours
of traveling, put him down in the ground and in a minute he will move his bowels and flap his wings for the needed relief and rest.

4. At the sight of the morsel of food or any kind of insect, he will call for the opposite sex to share it with her. Noble breed and gallantry. Men do this, too.

5. Birds communicate to each other any impending trouble and danger by a loud cackle and this signal is relayed to all of their kind in far surrounding places, in a natural spirit of mutual cooperation.

6. All birds sleep early at sundown but get easily awaken by the slightest noise, movement or sight. They comply to a strict discipline; so don’t disturb your ace fighter at night when preparing for an important fight.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY AND HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE…beware of explosions and eruptions, both loud and inaudible that will be happening today.

What's Luck Got To Do With It?

CARREO by Rolando S. Luzong

Peoples Tonight (January 27, 2010)

What’s Luck Got To Do With It?

Engr. Sonny Magtibay just won the biggest and grandest World Slasher Cup ever with a record-breaking field of 240-entries and the most number of foreign participants ever to come here.

Before this, just last December 3, 2009, Magtibay with partner Boy Tanyag was hailed as one of two champions in the biggest Bakbakan 10-Stag Derby ever participated in by 2,417 entries.

Was it luck?

The new 33-year old champion revealed that before the winning streak that started in February 2009, he and his family underwent a forgettable stage in which he lost his job, someone very close died and other incidents he would rather not mention and remember anymore.

It was in February 1, 2009 when he got back from Pampanga with some Juancho Grey breeding stocks that he arrived home to find his pregnant wife Precy already in labor. Immediately, he brought his wife to the hospital with the chickens still loaded onto his car because there was no time left to unload them. The poor birds stayed in the vehicle until his youngest delivered – they now call him Baby Juancho.

That was when their lives started to change.

Immediately, 21 days after the baby, Sean Heinrich, was born Magtibay won the chamoionship in the Big Event P55,000-entry fee 5-cock derby held in Paniqui, Tarlac. This was followed by a string of victories in 3-cock and 4-cock derbies.

In September, he scored 5 wins and 1 lost for a share of the top honors in a 6-stag derby at the Sta. Monica Cockpit in Novaliches.

The second big win was the Bakbakan in December which was followed by a 3-cock victory in San Mateo Cockpit and another Dec. 21 conquest of Noveleta Cockpit and a January 12 victory again in Sta. Monica.

They were at Sta. Monica when Sonny called the Araneta Coliseum to register for the World Slasher Cup and to make a cockhouse reservation. It was exactly 6 days before the Slasher begins and at that time and the Araneta Coliseum cockfighting group was already in a point of if-they-can-will-not-accept-anymore-entry.

During the Bakbakan, Magtibay’s entry was in partnership with the veteran Boy Tanyag who registered their bet, so, the best available reason for Pit Manager Dong Lamosste was to tell Engr. Sonny that there’s no more cockhouse avalibale and that they will just have to settle for the corridors. When Magtibay said it was alright, Lamoste then told him that registrants who will pay the entry fee in advance will be given priority. In no time, the entry fee was delivered to Araneta right away.

However, a World Slasher Cup-regular who was supposed to fight on January 18 decided to come in on the 19^th, so a cockhouse was suddenly made available and because the RM Red Cobra Farm of Magtibay already have its entry fee paid, he was given priority to occupy the said cockhouse. Was luck starting to set in?

In the opening salvo, Magtibay’s roosters breezed through the 2-cock eliminations, first lording it over Rhemy Medrano’s Karamba Ilonor entry with a Sweater-Kelso fighter, then winning over Eddie Araneta’s by fielding a Sweater – Yellow-legged Hatch ¾-1/4 cross.

In the 2-cock semis, his entry using a 2-time winner Sweater crosses dominated its opponents’ Lahaina Boys – MCF Game Farm of Kali Casco of Hawaii and Thunderbird – II Hatchet of Nene Araneta and Roger Roberts.

In the 4-cock finals last Thursday, Magtibay unleashed a 2-year old Pure Sweater cock against 3-time Slasher champ Peping Ricafort’s PTK Country Road; a 1-time winner Pure Sweater against Jorge Torres’ Lover Boy; and a Sweater-Lemon cock versus another Peping Ricafort entry, PTK Yucatan. In this third match, Sonny’s fighter was already down and appeared to have no chance of winning when like a prayer heard, the opponent quit.

In his championship fight, Magtibay’s ¾ Sweater- ¼ Grey cross left no room for discussion as it needed only 8 seconds to dispose of its foe from the Ricki Reyes’ Rian Octagon Oliver Colors entry. The championship-sealer rooster hit his opponent in mid-air on the first buckle and the other cock dropped on the ground like a fly sprayed with insecticide. For all the glory, Sonny is proud to say that it was an all team effort from his wife Precy, their three boys Reinhold Harry, Michael Dwayne and Sean Heinrich, handler - Ritchie “Enteng” Buatag; gaffer - Itoy Dumaraos, pointer - Eddie Pontero plus his partners Neil Aguirre and Beng Navarro.

About his Sweaters , he said “I could not afford to buy from the top breeders before, so I got my Sweater from a not-so-big breeder who told me that his broodcock came from Sonny Lagon”

When I asked him which title he treasures most, Bakbakan or the Wolrd Slasher ? He said, “it’s actually the experience of meeting and be with the cockers that I look up to like Nene Araneta, Dicky Lim and Sonny Lagon, among others. It’s like living in a dream” .

Was it luck? Maybe, but not everything. One thing is sure luck comes to those who strive and have faith and who remains humble and magnanimous, in victory, someone like Sonny Magtibay.