Yesterday we had the British International Championship Club Norte-sur-Erdre race in a joint liberation with the British Barcelona Club and the Central Southern Classic Club.
The 5273 birds were liberated at 6.30am into broken clouds and blue skies and a light northerly wind with west northwest winds at 15mph expected in the channel.
We sent 183 birds to the BICC and in the main were yearling long distance pigeons to carry on their training programme in preparation for the longer ones. We did however send 9 middle distance hens back from last weeks national to try and have a good chance in the race. We always get the sprint/middle distance birds first so we had no doubt this would be the same this week and nominated those 9 hens into the British Barcelona Club as our only entries.
We thought with a nice steady race a good pigeon would do the 280 miles in about 6 and 1/4 hours doing high 1200’s. For us this was not the case.
Our first pigeon finally came half hour later than expected at 13.14 doing a velocity of 1216 ypm and came back out of the east suggesting the birds had gone further over to cross. The yearling cock trapped to the distance loft but as it turned out is a middle distance pigeon that chose to pair up in that loft. He is from ‘New Harry’ lines and is provisionally 19th Sect, 36th Open.
The birds continued to come out of the east and our next pigeon home was a grandchild of ‘Southfield Darran’ and ‘Golden Barcelona’ followed by a grandchild of ‘Southfield King’.
The 9 middle distance hens that we nominated back into the BBC didn’t seem to enjoy the race yesterday and we got our first one at 13.27 for a velocity of 1179ypm and she was 7th pigeon to the loft. She provisionally scores 5th Section, 26th Open and is from Gino Clicque and Andre Roodhoft bloodlines. The next two arrivals from those hens were 9th and 14th pigeon home.
Competitively this was not our greatest race but we were very pleased with how the distance yearlings came as a team. We had 152/183 last night and so far this morning we have already had another 8 drop in early so onto the next race we go.
Congratulations to Richard Brunger and Ricky Warner for winning both races.
The 5273 birds were liberated at 6.30am into broken clouds and blue skies and a light northerly wind with west northwest winds at 15mph expected in the channel.
We sent 183 birds to the BICC and in the main were yearling long distance pigeons to carry on their training programme in preparation for the longer ones. We did however send 9 middle distance hens back from last weeks national to try and have a good chance in the race. We always get the sprint/middle distance birds first so we had no doubt this would be the same this week and nominated those 9 hens into the British Barcelona Club as our only entries.
We thought with a nice steady race a good pigeon would do the 280 miles in about 6 and 1/4 hours doing high 1200’s. For us this was not the case.
Our first pigeon finally came half hour later than expected at 13.14 doing a velocity of 1216 ypm and came back out of the east suggesting the birds had gone further over to cross. The yearling cock trapped to the distance loft but as it turned out is a middle distance pigeon that chose to pair up in that loft. He is from ‘New Harry’ lines and is provisionally 19th Sect, 36th Open.
The birds continued to come out of the east and our next pigeon home was a grandchild of ‘Southfield Darran’ and ‘Golden Barcelona’ followed by a grandchild of ‘Southfield King’.
The 9 middle distance hens that we nominated back into the BBC didn’t seem to enjoy the race yesterday and we got our first one at 13.27 for a velocity of 1179ypm and she was 7th pigeon to the loft. She provisionally scores 5th Section, 26th Open and is from Gino Clicque and Andre Roodhoft bloodlines. The next two arrivals from those hens were 9th and 14th pigeon home.
Competitively this was not our greatest race but we were very pleased with how the distance yearlings came as a team. We had 152/183 last night and so far this morning we have already had another 8 drop in early so onto the next race we go.
Congratulations to Richard Brunger and Ricky Warner for winning both races.
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