No Sweat
This is the world renown racing pigeon specialist, Earl Lowell "Robbie / "No Sweat" Robbins, Jr. in his lofts in Richmond, Kentucky in the middle of a bitter-cold day in December, 2016. No Sweat mates his Heitzman Sions on Thanksgiving Day and normally breeds three rounds of young birds from each pair. No Sweat is entering his 60th year of having racing pigeons. In this time he has won over 800 first places throughout the United States and the world with his birds. He was the youngest person ever to win The Kentucky State Far and then later, the youngest person to ever win The National Racing Pigeon Show in the USA; he became the first person ever to win all three of the major shows in the United States in the same year. At the SRPA Show, which he entered seven times -- he won all seven times, defeating the best showmen in the USA. No Sweat has won 15 major futurities in racing including The Waldo Hotchkiss Futurity, The Twin City Gold Band Futurity (where he set an all time money winning record in that state), The Blackhawk Futurity, The Conrad Mahr Futurity, The LKY Heitzman Futurity, The New Orleans Futurity and The North Texas Futurity. No Sweat has been the author of hundreds of articles and stories concerning racing pigeons which have appeared all over the world during the past forty years. For several years, he was a columnist for The Racing Pigeon, a weekly racing pigeon magazine published in England. He was recently featured on the front page of a Japanese racing pigeon magazine and has had over 300 positive responses from his most recent article which has been running in North America's foremost racing pigeon magazine, THE RACING PIGEON DIGEST; a very long story devoted to his mentor, Charles Heitzman.
No Sweat prides himself on being the singular loft in North America which annually releases his young birds from 500 and 600 miles. During the past 15 years, the No Sweat Lofts have had some 200 young birds to fly the distance. Today, the No Sweat Lofts additionally take great pride in the fact---- that within the five-loft colony---- are maintained some 110 racers which all have flown 500 or 600 miles. His goals are to continue selective breeding based on performance. No Sweat strongly feels that the Sions he is racing today are the finest long-distance racing Sions now in the world. "These Sions, which are the birds I am breeding now, continue to amaze me in what they accomplish. There are many great fliers out there who think they have great pigeons, but until they take their young birds out to 600 miles -- they really have no understanding of what greatness entails. The young birds which fly these distances for me are treated as diamonds when they return. For diamonds they surely are. When they come home from that big sky in the heavens, they have proven all that needs to be proved. Not only are these Sions incredible long-distance performers, but also quite beautiful; possibly the most handsome racing pigeons which actually perform in all the world." No Sweat is now the author of four books having been published by three different publishers: These Prescious Days, Nefarious, Singer Island & Earnest Hemingway and Letters from a Genius to an Oaf. The later two books will appear in the spring of 2017; in all four books, are many mentions regarding his racing pigeons in one way or the other. "As an author true to myself, I simply could not leave them out."
No Sweat prides himself on being the singular loft in North America which annually releases his young birds from 500 and 600 miles. During the past 15 years, the No Sweat Lofts have had some 200 young birds to fly the distance. Today, the No Sweat Lofts additionally take great pride in the fact---- that within the five-loft colony---- are maintained some 110 racers which all have flown 500 or 600 miles. His goals are to continue selective breeding based on performance. No Sweat strongly feels that the Sions he is racing today are the finest long-distance racing Sions now in the world. "These Sions, which are the birds I am breeding now, continue to amaze me in what they accomplish. There are many great fliers out there who think they have great pigeons, but until they take their young birds out to 600 miles -- they really have no understanding of what greatness entails. The young birds which fly these distances for me are treated as diamonds when they return. For diamonds they surely are. When they come home from that big sky in the heavens, they have proven all that needs to be proved. Not only are these Sions incredible long-distance performers, but also quite beautiful; possibly the most handsome racing pigeons which actually perform in all the world." No Sweat is now the author of four books having been published by three different publishers: These Prescious Days, Nefarious, Singer Island & Earnest Hemingway and Letters from a Genius to an Oaf. The later two books will appear in the spring of 2017; in all four books, are many mentions regarding his racing pigeons in one way or the other. "As an author true to myself, I simply could not leave them out."
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