Another weekend and another National.
Yesterday we raced with the National Flying Club from Nort-sur-Erdre and the birds were liberated at 07.00am into SW winds and becoming very strong in the channel gusting up to 35mph with shower activity predicted on the way home and all through the UK.
We were expecting the birds to cover the 280 miles in about 4 and a half hours but we finally got two drop together at 11.49 for a velocity of 1699ypm. The birds came back out of the east side so we knew we would be a little behind the leaders.
We managed to provisionally take 5th Section E and 12th National so the second pigeon should be in the mix also with another one a minute later to back them up.
‘199’ is from a grandchild of Jan Hooymans ‘Harry’ and Gino Clicque’s ‘Golden Prince’ on the fathers side and a grandchild of Joel Verschoots ‘Armando’ (sold for 1.25million euros) and Gino Clicque’s ‘Prince Rudy’ on the Mother’s side.
‘199’ last year as a baby scored 6th Section, 9th National British Barcelona Club Guernsey.
Second on the clock was ‘194’ and he is from a son of ‘Brenda’s New Harry’ who is the sire of 2nd UK, 28th Open (1st drop) Pattaya International PR Final 5,854b 2024 when paired to a daughter of ‘Den Boswachter’ 1st National, 2nd International Pau 13,176b 2020 both Jan Hooymans pigeons.
The mother of ‘194’ is a granddaughter of ‘Armando’, Joel Verschoots 1.25 million euro pigeon.
‘194’ also scored last year as a baby and was 6th Section, 7th National British International Championship Club Guernsey and 8th Section 16th National NFC Carentan 2190b.
We had 49/69 on the day so it looks like a few got themselves into trouble, but so far this morning they have started dropping in again.
Onto the Pau International next week!
Yesterday we raced with the National Flying Club from Nort-sur-Erdre and the birds were liberated at 07.00am into SW winds and becoming very strong in the channel gusting up to 35mph with shower activity predicted on the way home and all through the UK.
We were expecting the birds to cover the 280 miles in about 4 and a half hours but we finally got two drop together at 11.49 for a velocity of 1699ypm. The birds came back out of the east side so we knew we would be a little behind the leaders.
We managed to provisionally take 5th Section E and 12th National so the second pigeon should be in the mix also with another one a minute later to back them up.
‘199’ is from a grandchild of Jan Hooymans ‘Harry’ and Gino Clicque’s ‘Golden Prince’ on the fathers side and a grandchild of Joel Verschoots ‘Armando’ (sold for 1.25million euros) and Gino Clicque’s ‘Prince Rudy’ on the Mother’s side.
‘199’ last year as a baby scored 6th Section, 9th National British Barcelona Club Guernsey.
Second on the clock was ‘194’ and he is from a son of ‘Brenda’s New Harry’ who is the sire of 2nd UK, 28th Open (1st drop) Pattaya International PR Final 5,854b 2024 when paired to a daughter of ‘Den Boswachter’ 1st National, 2nd International Pau 13,176b 2020 both Jan Hooymans pigeons.
The mother of ‘194’ is a granddaughter of ‘Armando’, Joel Verschoots 1.25 million euro pigeon.
‘194’ also scored last year as a baby and was 6th Section, 7th National British International Championship Club Guernsey and 8th Section 16th National NFC Carentan 2190b.
We had 49/69 on the day so it looks like a few got themselves into trouble, but so far this morning they have started dropping in again.
Onto the Pau International next week!
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