1st Club - 3rd,4th,5th,7th,8th,9th,10th,12th,13th,14th,15th,16th,17th,18th,19th Wincanton BB&O Federation 1277 birds

Yesterday we raced with the British Barcelona Club from Guernsey and with a strong northeast wind it turned out to be a tough race for the youngsters.
We had 5 come together in just over 4 hours to provisionally score 2nd Section, 3rd Open. The first through the trap was a full brother to ‘61’ our 2023 1st National BICC Alencon winner.
‘128’ is a grandson of Gino Clicques ‘Bro Golden Devil’ x ‘Nest Sister Limo’ and ‘Southfield Champ’ 1st National NFC Saintes & ‘Lady B’ 1st Open MNFC Bordeaux for Mark Williamson.
Of the 5 that dropped Bro Golden Devil’, ‘Nest Sister Limo’ & ‘Lady B’ were grandparents of 3 of them.
We had just over 50 percent returns yesterday but they have started to drop in this morning.
Congratulation to Derek Vincent for the win and also to team Kenny & Armstrong for winning our section.

​We were pleased to find out that we have not only won the NFC National Ace bird but also won the National Flying Club Champion of Champions competition this year.
Below are the details of the 4 pigeons that helped us achieve this award flying in some of the best competition the UK has to race against.
GB22N42144 - 10th Section, 86th Nat NFC Fougeres 2024
‘144’ last year won 2nd Sprint Champion Titan Games and her best results during the 2023 season were:
1st Federation Kingsdown 880 birds
1st Federation Yelverton 1052 birds
2nd Federation Weymouth 1015b
2nd Section, 2nd National NFC Carentan
6th Section, 7th National BICC Guernsey
16th Section, 41st National BBC Guernsey
She is a grandchild of ‘Southfield Hans’, ‘Southfield Leonna’, ‘Southfield Kittel 09’ and ‘Southfield Kittel 22’. Those 4 stock pigeons are responsible for scores of winners between them.
GB22N42061 - 9th Section, 99th Nat NFC Messac 2024
Last year she was 1st National Alencon with the British International Championship Club 4763b, 1st BB&O Federation 1574b and 3rd UK RPRA National Old bird allround performance aswell as many other results.
‘61’ is a granddaughter of Gino Clicque’s ‘Bro Golden Devil’ & ‘Nest sister Limo’ and also a granddaughter of ‘Southfield Champ’ 1st National NFC Saintes and ‘Lady B’ Mark Williamson’s 1st Open MNFC Bordeaux winner. ‘61’ is also nest mate to 2nd Section, 4th National NFC Coutances 2022.
GB23D13075 - 23rd Section, 53rd Nat Nort-sur-Erdre 2024
This hen also won this year 2nd Section, 8th Nat BICC St Philbert 5037b.
Last year she won 1st Open Thames North & Eastern Counties FC Gold ring race from Guernsey & 11th Section, 14th Nat BICC Guernsey as a baby.
She is a granddaughter of Crammond and Langstaff’s ‘Spartacus’ 1st National NFC Messac 5796 birds and also a granddaughter of Mark Williamson’s ‘Lady B’ winner of 1st Open MNFC Bordeaux 564 miles.
Incidentally Spartacus is in the pedigree of the NFC Ace bird also.
GB21N61499 - 2nd Section, 3rd Nat NFC Sigogne 2024.
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.

Really pleased to find out one of our Yearling cocks has won 1st NFC National Ace pigeon and 1st South Ace pigeon.
He has has been flying consistently well all season so it’s nice he has managed to pick up this accolade in some of the finest competition this country has to offer.
He was bred out of the race team:
The Sire is a grandson of ‘Southfield Warrior’ 4th Open NfC Saintes 4128b 2011,
‘Triggerfinger’3rd Nat Ace LD KBDB 2009, 1st Prov Ace LD KBDB 2009 & ‘Marina’
1st International Narbonne 5098b 2012
The Dam is a granddaughter of
‘Spartacus’ 1st National NFC Messac for Crammond & Langstaff aswell as ‘Son of Golden Prince’ from Gino Clicque
& ‘Liebling’ a racing hen purchased from Gebr Leideman
He had 3 inland races early season and then had the following channel races:
BBC Fougeres 216 miles
NFC Messac 255 miles
NFC Norte-sur-erdre 280 miles
BBC Messac 255 miles
NFC Sigogne 395 miles
The video attached is his arrival from the Sigogne NFC race.

1st Club - 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,26 Yelverton BB&O Federation 573 birds

1st,2nd,3rd,4th,5th,6th,7th,8th,9th,10th,13th,14th,15th Exeter BB&O Federation 1106 birds

2nd Club - 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 17th, 19th Kingsdown Berkshire Federation 1014 birds

1st Club - 11,12,13,14,15,16,18,19,20,21 Wincanton BB&O Federation 1441 birds

Yesterday we had the final old bird race of the season from the Perpignan (Tuchan) International and as has been the way with all channel racing this year another tough race was on the cards.
The convoy was due to be liberated on Friday but due to weather conditions not being ideal they were held over until Monday and liberated at 6am.
There was not much wind throughout France and winds westerly to sw in the channel depending on what side of the country they came in. If they came the east side they would have to battle the wind and it was unlikely you would get birds going up the west side due to the geography of Perpignan so wind assistance was not expected.
However we did keep one eye on the loft Monday night just incase as you never know with pigeons they can surprise you.
There were no day pigeons so it was a 5am start at the loft Tuesday morning.
The weather started off nice in the morning and we even had blue sky and sunshine for a while but that soon turned to full cloud cover and then rain for a lot of the day.
We sent 12 pigeons which consisted of 3 pigeons that already went to the Pau/Tarbes this season and the other 9 had been to Barcelona a month ago. We were
confident in their ability but wondered what Barcelona would have taken out of them.
At 9.20am our blue hen ‘Two Nine One’ came out of the east to provisionally win 1st National flying the 613 mile course with a velocity of 895 ypm. This hen was also 2nd Section, 4th National BICC Perpignan last year so seems to like this race point. She was due to go to Barcelona but we missed sending her and so went to the Tarbes NFC instead and she was 6th pigeon from there scoring 11th Section, 53rd National. Incidentally she had the Tarbes NFC last year before Perpignan and scored 14th Section, 46th National.
Her father is ‘Kanibaal Barcelona’ 1st Province 2500b, 4th International Barcelona 25,750b 2010 and 26th International Perpignan 16,921b 2012.
Her mother is a double granddaughter of ‘Golden Barcelona’ the 2014 Gold Wing winner from Barcelona and father of ‘Southfield Hugo’, ‘Southfield Gold Lady’ and grandfather of ‘Southfield Gold’.
We clocked another 4 pigeons during the day at 11.33am, 12.53pm, 19.13pm and 20.22pm and so the overall team performance stood at 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th & 8th Section and 1st, 7th, 10th, 21st and 23rd National.
Our second on the clock is a special hen and she has pulled out all the stops this year.
She returned at 11.33 to score 2nd Section, 7th National but also she has won the Greater Distance Single Bird NFC as she was our nomination.
This is not her only good performance this year as last month she was 1st Section, 1st Open BBC Barcelona and 2nd Section, 2nd National BICC Barcelona 698 miles.
She is from a son of Kees Droog’s ‘Blue Champion’ x ‘Rozalynn’ paired to a daughter of Jelle’s ‘Jack’ & ‘Dafne’
The rest were as follows:
3rd - prov 4th section, 10th National
From a son of ‘New Laureaat’ 1st International Barcelona and a daughter of ‘Golden Barcelona’.
Last month scored 8th Section, 13th Open BBC Barcelona, 14th Section, 22nd National BICC Barcelona.
4th - prov 7th section, 21st National
a grandchild of ‘Southfield Iron Man’ 1st National BICC Perpignan 2018, 2nd National BICC Marseille 2018, 7th National BICC Palamos 2018 x ‘Southfield Dark Star’ 1st National BICC St Vincent and also a grandchild of ‘Golden Barcelona’.
Last month scored 4th section, 6th Open BBC Barcelona and 5th section, 9th National BICC Barcelona.
5th - prov 8th section, 23rd National
father is ‘Southfield King’ 1st Grand National NFC Pau 2020 paired to a daughter of ‘Lloyd’ 1st International Barcelona 2018.
Last month scored 5th section, 7th Open BBC Barcelona and 7th section, 12th National BICC Barcelona.
With three more arrivals early this morning we now have 8 from 12 home.

1st Club - 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30 Wincanton Berkshire Federation 1006 birds.

​1st Club - 13th, 15th Weymouth BB&O Federation 1260 birds.