Yesterday we had the second National flying Club race of the season from Messac and after a holdover Saturday due to bad weather in France the 4756 birds were liberated at 7.00am into a light northerly wind and predicted nne winds all the way home.
We were talking in the morning and decided that the winds would not be that strong and that a fair race should be on the cards today and that good pigeons would pop up anywhere. This was proved right with 11 section winners being in the first 16 pigeons on the result.
We thought you would want a good pigeon around 12.45 - 1pm and after a longer wait than anticipated we had two yearlings arrive at 13.13 doing 1202 ypm. One clocked straight away but the second one didn’t clock until 38 seconds later. Then with another yearling 3 minutes later we then had to wait over half hour for the next pigeon.
Our first pigeon was provisionally 1st section, 2nd Open and it looks like we will possibly take the first 4 in the section with our later arrivals.
The hen that clocked first is from a son of C & G Koopman’s ‘Amano’ & ‘Alzina’ paired to a daughter of G & S Verkerk’s ‘Fireeyes’ & ‘Flyingwonder’. This hen last year as a baby was 1st BB&O Federation Weymouth 1467 birds so we knew she has promise going into this season.
As it turned out this race was a little more tricky than we expected it to be and the birds were coming all day, come nightfall we had 100/180 back. We sent about 30 sprinters, 80 middle distance and 70 long distance birds for some time on the wing.
At the time of writing this we have had another 28 back first thing this morning so they are still working in.
Congratulations to Mr Hollow for winning the national.
We were talking in the morning and decided that the winds would not be that strong and that a fair race should be on the cards today and that good pigeons would pop up anywhere. This was proved right with 11 section winners being in the first 16 pigeons on the result.
We thought you would want a good pigeon around 12.45 - 1pm and after a longer wait than anticipated we had two yearlings arrive at 13.13 doing 1202 ypm. One clocked straight away but the second one didn’t clock until 38 seconds later. Then with another yearling 3 minutes later we then had to wait over half hour for the next pigeon.
Our first pigeon was provisionally 1st section, 2nd Open and it looks like we will possibly take the first 4 in the section with our later arrivals.
The hen that clocked first is from a son of C & G Koopman’s ‘Amano’ & ‘Alzina’ paired to a daughter of G & S Verkerk’s ‘Fireeyes’ & ‘Flyingwonder’. This hen last year as a baby was 1st BB&O Federation Weymouth 1467 birds so we knew she has promise going into this season.
As it turned out this race was a little more tricky than we expected it to be and the birds were coming all day, come nightfall we had 100/180 back. We sent about 30 sprinters, 80 middle distance and 70 long distance birds for some time on the wing.
At the time of writing this we have had another 28 back first thing this morning so they are still working in.
Congratulations to Mr Hollow for winning the national.
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