On Friday 31,254 birds taking part in the Agen International were liberated at 7.05am UK time in to a northwest wind.
With northwest winds forecast for the rest of the journey through France we thought it would slow them down a bit but at the home end it was looking like they could pick up some west to southwest winds in the channel. If the UK pigeons hit on a good line we were hopeful that this would enable a few day birds to be clocked.
This turned out to be the case for just one gallant bird clocked on the night for D Watson and son and so it was going to be another early morning for the rest of us again.
Back at the lofts at 4am and we were hoping for the early ones to start dropping in.
We sent a team made up of yearling distance pigeons and older middle distance pigeons so now it was into the second day we were starting to think it would be the yearlings that would arrive first now and that turned out to be the case.
Our first yearling cock arrived at 7.58am and completed the 528 mile journey with a velocity of 821 ypm to provisionally score 3rd Section and 6th National.
He is a grandson of ‘Golden Barcelona’ when paired to a daughter of ‘Zeus’ x ‘Silke’ on the father side. The mother is a daughter of ‘Roman’ when paired to a daughter of ‘New Laureaat’ x ‘Kleine Jade’.
‘Golden Barcelona’ is the father ‘Southfield Hugo’, ‘Southfield Gold Lady’ and grandfather of ‘Southfield Gold’ so full of the right breeding for a race like this.
Our second arrival came at 9.34 with a velocity of 757 ypm to prov score 4th Section, 12th National.
She is a granddaughter of ‘Southfield King’ (1st Grand National NFC Pau 2020) when paired to a daughter of ‘New Laureaat’ x ‘Kleine Jade’ on the father side. Her mother is a granddaughter of ‘New Jade 1’ x ‘Rena’.
‘473’ is a half sister to 1st National Agen 2018.
Our 3rd arrival was a yearling grandson of ‘Southfield Darran’ & ‘Golden Barcelona’ and then the first middle distance pigeon arrived 4th. She was out of ‘Bro Golden Devil’ & ‘Nest Sister Limo’ from Gino Clicque. This pair are the grandparents of 1st National British International Championship Club Alencon 4763b 2023.
Well done to David and Daniel Watson on a fantastic win with their gallant pigeon. It’s always great to see workers for the club do well and hopefully encourages others to have a go.
Next week we move on to Barcelona but we are going with confidence lower than we would like. This year we are just not getting the birds into the super form we would like so we are hoping the birds surprise us with something unexpected.
With northwest winds forecast for the rest of the journey through France we thought it would slow them down a bit but at the home end it was looking like they could pick up some west to southwest winds in the channel. If the UK pigeons hit on a good line we were hopeful that this would enable a few day birds to be clocked.
This turned out to be the case for just one gallant bird clocked on the night for D Watson and son and so it was going to be another early morning for the rest of us again.
Back at the lofts at 4am and we were hoping for the early ones to start dropping in.
We sent a team made up of yearling distance pigeons and older middle distance pigeons so now it was into the second day we were starting to think it would be the yearlings that would arrive first now and that turned out to be the case.
Our first yearling cock arrived at 7.58am and completed the 528 mile journey with a velocity of 821 ypm to provisionally score 3rd Section and 6th National.
He is a grandson of ‘Golden Barcelona’ when paired to a daughter of ‘Zeus’ x ‘Silke’ on the father side. The mother is a daughter of ‘Roman’ when paired to a daughter of ‘New Laureaat’ x ‘Kleine Jade’.
‘Golden Barcelona’ is the father ‘Southfield Hugo’, ‘Southfield Gold Lady’ and grandfather of ‘Southfield Gold’ so full of the right breeding for a race like this.
Our second arrival came at 9.34 with a velocity of 757 ypm to prov score 4th Section, 12th National.
She is a granddaughter of ‘Southfield King’ (1st Grand National NFC Pau 2020) when paired to a daughter of ‘New Laureaat’ x ‘Kleine Jade’ on the father side. Her mother is a granddaughter of ‘New Jade 1’ x ‘Rena’.
‘473’ is a half sister to 1st National Agen 2018.
Our 3rd arrival was a yearling grandson of ‘Southfield Darran’ & ‘Golden Barcelona’ and then the first middle distance pigeon arrived 4th. She was out of ‘Bro Golden Devil’ & ‘Nest Sister Limo’ from Gino Clicque. This pair are the grandparents of 1st National British International Championship Club Alencon 4763b 2023.
Well done to David and Daniel Watson on a fantastic win with their gallant pigeon. It’s always great to see workers for the club do well and hopefully encourages others to have a go.
Next week we move on to Barcelona but we are going with confidence lower than we would like. This year we are just not getting the birds into the super form we would like so we are hoping the birds surprise us with something unexpected.
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