THE RACING PIGEON 3 MAY 2024
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McManus loft (Ahoghill) best from opening race The 2024 racing season got under way on Saturday 20th April when the NIPA liberated 13,199 birds at 10am in clear blue sky’s and warm sunshine with little wind turning variable en-route. An excel- lent race followed with little or no losses. Ace flyer’s Paddy & William McManus of Ahoghill recorded the best pigeon in the local area on 1521.20 and topped the Mid Antrim Combine with 1,048 birds competing. Their winning yearling blue hen bred from two Henk Simons pigeons was sitting eggs around 10 days. A very close runner up in the Combine on 1521.03 was Gary Gibson who had the winner in Cullybackey. Gary’s winner a two year old dark Van Den Brande hen racing Celibate was from D C P McArdle of Armagh. Next best was Danny Dixon of Dunloy for 3rd & 5th Combine on 1511 & 1509, these two birds took the top two positions in the Ballymoney club. Danny’s first bird a two year old chequer Lambrecht cock has been in the open prizes in both the INFC Penzance YB National 2022 and INFC Penzance Yearling National 2023 and all being well will be going for the triple crown this season. The sire’s a son of ‘Heartbreaker’ and the dam is down from ‘Superke’. Johnston Eagleson & Sons of Ballymena have a cock the same way bred at stock breeding good winners. The Rasharkin winner Harold Cubitt was placed 4th Combine on 1510 with his good double Combine winning chequer cock that won the Section B Bird of the Year and Champion Old Bird of the Year
Smyth & Son Ahoghill 1470, S Johnston & Son Ballymena 1469, J & J Greer Cullybackey 1467, Blair & Rankin Ballymena 1465, J Smyth & Son Ahoghill 1463, A Darragh Cullybackey 1461. Coleraine Triangle Kilbeggan – Sean Diamond Coleraine Prem 1521, R & J Parke Windsor Soc 1500, B & D Coyle Coleraine Prem 1498, 1498, 1493, Sean
on 1459 with a two year old Widowhood cock. Breeding is a David Currell special, Stewart Bros best in Randalstown on 1430, Sam Crawford in Harryville on 1422 and Alistair Purvis with the top three in Broughshane & Dist with the winner doing 1391. – Mervyn Eagleson PO. Mid Antrim Combine Kilbeggan 45/1,048 – Young & McManus & Sons Ahoghill 1521.20, G Gibson Cullybackey 1521.03, D Dixon Rasharkin 1511, H Cubitt Rasharkin 1510, D Dixon Rasharkin 1509, Blair & Rankin Ballymena 1490, A Darragh Cullybackey 1490, W McFetridge Rasharkin 1483, Blair & Rankin Ballymena 1482, J Eagleson & Sons Ballymena 1481, H Cubitt Rasharkin 1479, D Dixon Rasharkin 1478, J Eagleson & Sons Ballymena 1478, Mr & Mrs Robinson Cullybackey 1477, Mr & Mrs Robinson Cullybackey 1477, J Eagleson & Sons Ballymena 1477, A Darragh Cullybackey 1477, J Eagleson & Sons Ballymena 1476, J Millar & Son Rasharkin 1475, J Eagleson & Sons Ballymena 1472, F Barkley Rasharkin 1472, Young & McManus & Sons Ahoghill 1471, J Eagleson & Sons Ballymena 1471, S Johnston & Son Ballymena 1471, J Norman Maginty 1st & 2nd in Muckamore and 1st & 2nd in the NIPA Section B.
Paul Maxwell Jnr Foyle 1454, J & G Ramsey Derry & Dist 1452, Paul Maxwell Jnr 1450, Dessie Mullen Strabane & Dist 1445, Dessie Mullen 1443, Dessie Mullen 1443, L Flanagan & Son Londonderry 1437, D wick Londonderry 1434, Dessie Mullen 1429, N Murray 1426, Freddie Patterson 1420, Paul Walters Strabane & Dist 1419, Dessie Mullen 1418, Paul Maxwell Foyle 1417. After a long winter racing has kicked off once again, Noel Murray opens up with a 1st & 2nd this week. Red hen, a gift from William & Paddy McManus, her sire is a red grizzle Van Den Brande cock, he is father to numerous winners including 1st Irish South Road Fed for Sean O’Driscoll. The dam is a mealy Alex Docx hen, sister Noel Murray from Londonderry, 1st in both City of Derry and Foyle Valley Combine.
Diamond 1479, Paul O’Connor Coleraine Prem 1479, Trevor Steele Coleraine Prem 1478, R & J Parke 1476, B & D Coyle 1474, Trtevor Steele 1472, B & D Coyle 1471, Trevor Steele 1470. City of Derry Federation Kilbeggan – N Murray Londonderry 1479, N Murray Gerald Campbell big card in Armagh and 1st NIPA Section E.
in the Mid Antrim Combine last season. Bertie Blair was best in Ballymena & District and the Town on 1490 and was placed 6th Combine with his good grizzle Widowhood cock. This is another cock with a top racing record including 1st, 3rd, 6th, 7th & 9th Mid Antrim Combine and 2nd Section & 20th Open in the NIPA Fermoy Yearling National last season. Sire is a son of Gary Gibson’s Sticker Doncker ‘Golden Pair’ and dam is from clubmate Johnston Eagleson, the breeding being ‘Pitbull’ from P & D Breeding Stud x Van Den Bulck. Other club winner were Geoff Surgenor in Kells K Morton & Sons from Cookstown Social 1st in Cookstown Social and 1st NIPA Sect A.
Armagh HPS members at teir new club for the first race of 2024.
1476, N Murray 1467, J McGettigan Maiden City 1458, Paul Maxwell Jnr Foyle 1454, J & G Ramsey Derry & Dist 1452, Paul Maxwell Jnr 1450, Flanagan & Son Londonderry 1437, D wick Londonderry 1434, N Murray 1426, Paul Maxwell Foyle 1417, P & M Healy Maiden City 1408, L Flanagan & Son 1407, L Flanagan & Son 1407. Foyle Valley Combine Kilbeggan – N Murray Londonderry 1479, N Murray 1476, Freddie Patterson Strabane & Dist 1468, Freddie Patterson 1468, N Murray 1467, J McGettigan Maiden City 1458,
to ‘Bolt’. I would like to take this opportu- nity to thank William and Paddy for supplying me with great pigeons. Well done Noel. – Eddie McGettigan PO. HOMER. Willie Reynolds Tel/Fax: (028) 256 44683 Mobile: 07538 238364 Twitter: willie reynolds@homerbhw Email: homerbhw@gmail.com www.pigeonnetwork.com www.irishnationalflyingclub.com
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David Booth from Mourne & District with Kilbeggan 1st Section H winner.
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