A Guide to Practical Breeding Philippine Lemons, 2012 | Page 12

He has fought them crossed with several different bloodlines with same success-- in the
bakbakan, in the world slasher, and in many great gathering of great feathered warriors.
As most of us know, Joe is very active in the big times nowadays. He is now among the
country’s big boys. Joe and his son Johnny have won the prestigious Balbina Breeders Cup
twice already.
The entry JVL is always in the thick of the big fights. Where and when the best chickens
of the land see action, Mang Joe and his fowl are there to reckon with.
In his very beautiful farm that this writer visited, there was an array of imported dink
fairs sweaters, yellow legged hatches, Roger Robert’s hatchets, mcleans and other hatches. Yes,
there were some two thousand beauties on cord. Amid these jewels, still were the batchoy lemons of the old. Not so beautiful, but so precious.
Lance: In negros you are not a breeder
if you have got no lemons

Lance de la Torre with Raul Ebeo (left) and the author
at Lance’s farm in Talisay, Negros Occidental.

Inasmuch as you cannot start a story about the lemons without mentioning Paeng Araneta, certainly, you could not end it without reference to Lance de la Torre.
Lance, the big boy who rose from the ranks. The former policeman who resigned from
service to pursue a much greater love of his—cockfighting.
He went to Manila to condition, handle and tie the knife on the chickens of prominent
cockers.
In due time, he proved his worth.
He found a partner and he was suddenly into breeding, and, became a world slasher