So yesterday we were racing from Sigogne with the National Flying Club which was their last old bird race of the season.
The birds were liberated at 6.15am into light winds turning southwesterly and stronger south west winds in the channel. A band of weather was also predicted to come into the west side clearing east into the evening and overnight so this could make the race a little tricky.
We had lengthy discussions with different views on when the birds could make it back to the loft and decided to split the differences and were thinking a bird doing 45mph would be good enough today so that would be around the 3pm mark.
At 14.42pm while we were stood chatting and drinking coffee by the house we suddenly noticed a pigeon coming out of the east (offline) and diving at the loft. By the time we got round to the lofts she was on the trap and heading inside.
‘499’ had covered the 395 mile journey in 8 hours and 27 minutes for a velocity of 1372 ypm and managed to secure a provisional result of 2nd Section, 3rd National and was also our fancied pigeon from the 40 we sent so was pooled right through.
This hen has scored before but her most noticeable performance was last year when she arrived with 3 other loft mates to score 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th National British International Championship Club Alencon 4763b, she trapped last so was 4th National.
The Sire of ‘499’ is from a joint breeding with Peter Fox of Syndicate lofts. We paired ‘Southfield Champ’ 1st Open National Flying Club Saintes 4128b to ‘Joy’ a daughter of ‘Kannibaal’ 1st National Asduif Halve-fond KBDB 1996.
The Dam of ‘499’ is a double granddaughter of Gino Clicque’s ‘Golden Prince’ 1st National Ace KBDB Long Distance 2014.
The race did turn out to be a little harder than would have hoped and we had to wait 47 minutes for our second pigeon and had 8/40 on the night. Hopefully there will be a few more dropping into the lofts first thing this morning.
Overall we are pleased with the National Flying Club campaign this year and are in a good position for the overall averages as we scored:
1st section, 2nd National Messac
1st section, 3rd National Tarbes
2nd section, 3rd National Sigogne
5th section, 12th National Norte-sur-Erdre
Congratulations to R Stokes & son for winning the National.
8.15am - there has already been 7 arrivals to the loft this morning so they are working in.
The birds were liberated at 6.15am into light winds turning southwesterly and stronger south west winds in the channel. A band of weather was also predicted to come into the west side clearing east into the evening and overnight so this could make the race a little tricky.
We had lengthy discussions with different views on when the birds could make it back to the loft and decided to split the differences and were thinking a bird doing 45mph would be good enough today so that would be around the 3pm mark.
At 14.42pm while we were stood chatting and drinking coffee by the house we suddenly noticed a pigeon coming out of the east (offline) and diving at the loft. By the time we got round to the lofts she was on the trap and heading inside.
‘499’ had covered the 395 mile journey in 8 hours and 27 minutes for a velocity of 1372 ypm and managed to secure a provisional result of 2nd Section, 3rd National and was also our fancied pigeon from the 40 we sent so was pooled right through.
This hen has scored before but her most noticeable performance was last year when she arrived with 3 other loft mates to score 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th National British International Championship Club Alencon 4763b, she trapped last so was 4th National.
The Sire of ‘499’ is from a joint breeding with Peter Fox of Syndicate lofts. We paired ‘Southfield Champ’ 1st Open National Flying Club Saintes 4128b to ‘Joy’ a daughter of ‘Kannibaal’ 1st National Asduif Halve-fond KBDB 1996.
The Dam of ‘499’ is a double granddaughter of Gino Clicque’s ‘Golden Prince’ 1st National Ace KBDB Long Distance 2014.
The race did turn out to be a little harder than would have hoped and we had to wait 47 minutes for our second pigeon and had 8/40 on the night. Hopefully there will be a few more dropping into the lofts first thing this morning.
Overall we are pleased with the National Flying Club campaign this year and are in a good position for the overall averages as we scored:
1st section, 2nd National Messac
1st section, 3rd National Tarbes
2nd section, 3rd National Sigogne
5th section, 12th National Norte-sur-Erdre
Congratulations to R Stokes & son for winning the National.
8.15am - there has already been 7 arrivals to the loft this morning so they are working in.
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