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Breeders Union. Since the solo champion scored only 6.5 points, Barsur’s 6
points was good for a runner-up finish.
The derby was the first of three legs
that constituted the basis for EVGBA
BOTY.
The Sugbo lemon is the main stay at Barsur Farm of
brothers Rener and Jimmy Camposano.
They were able to acquire an additional
blue face stag bred at Scorpion Ox
gamefarm and more importantly were
told to see Lemuel Go in Tacloban because Lemuel has all of RB Sugbo’s
bloodlines including then exclusive blakliz. At that time, Lemuel had been fighting RB Sugbo bloodlines with success
for already some time. Some of his
handlers also came from RB Sugbo that
his farm became a virtual partner farm.
Thus most queries about RB Sugbo
bloodlines from Leyte were redirected
to Lemuel.
Their meeting Lemuel resulted in an extra close partnership. “Parang kapatid
napo ang turingan naming ni Lemuel,”
Jimmy confided to Roosterman. From
Lemuel they got the Blakliz, the flag
bloodline of RB Sugbo. After which, on
their reckoning, they were ready to try
their luck in the EVGBA. They applied
for membership, were accepted, and
pulled an upset right on their first attempt.
The entry Barsur of the Camposanos
opened its bid with a 6 wins 1 loss performance in the P5M 7-stag derby of
the Luzon Visayas Mindanao Gamefowl
The 2nd leg was the eliminations and
semis of the Bakbakan. Barsur sweep
the elims, 3-0. They faltered a bit in the
semis 2-2. Barsur now had 11 out of
14. Barsur went on to sweep its Bakbakan pre-finals assignment 5-0. However, it was not part of the EVGBA
BOTY count. But their 10-2 score in
their first ever Bakbakan was again
more than what was expected.
The stage was set for the BOTY bid. The
last leg was the elims/semis of Bulangbulang last December 13. In a climactic
finish to the Cinderella story, Barsur
again swept the opposition 6-0 and
bagged the BOTY award. Not only that,
with the 6-0 sweep, Barsur has also positioned itself in the running for the
NFGB BOTY with 16 points out of 18 (10
-2 in Bakbakan and 6-0 in Bulangbulang). There are now only four bullstag
fights in the finals of Bulangbulang in
February at Araneta Coliseum that
separates Barsur from the NFGB plum.
Barsur story is also a story of teamwork. Brothers Rener and Jimmy are
both hands-on at the farm from breeding, raising to conditioning. Lemuel
serves as adviser and also helps in the
very important aspect of pointing of the
rooster. Lemuel is fond of RB Sugbo
methods and a graduate of MANA’s PMA
Live training seminar.
They must be good as erstwhile mentor
Rey Bajenting is set to pay them a visit
in Leyte, this time not to teach but to
learn from them.
Thanks for sharing Roosterman
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