THE RACING PIGEON 29 MARCH 2024
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‘Downtown Milly’ on 12:43:32.20 closely followed by Team Emperors of Sussex with pigeon ‘Arrecife’ over the line on 12:43:32.90 for 5th. William Donachie from Scotland takes 6th with pigeon ‘Bold Blue’ at 12:43:34.25, whilst two more arrivals for Team England sees Team Keith Warnes & Mick Bray taking 7th with pigeon ‘She’s A Goodun’ on 12:43:35.10 and Team Maja UK in 8th on 12:43:25.25 with pigeon ‘Gabe’. Taking 9th, we see today’s winner Krzysztof Bury from Norway timing in his second arrival named ‘Kamilo’ on 12:43:37.45, resulting in leaving Team England to take 10th international position with Team Murray and Mills and pigeon ‘Rude Awakening’ on 12:43:38.30. With the top ten concluded and congratulated, we can see once again that the pigeons worked hard to hold their line of flight as they all came from the same direction today at regular intervals, and as we check the returns later in the
Hotspot Race 1, the survival race where the pigeons are required to leave land below and face the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Anyway, that’ll be a story for another day. Before we finish, we will again take a look at the King of Sprint Averages, and as we end another week, we see the Welsh team of Ryle Rockets holding pole position with pigeon Deirdre on 9.068pts. In 2nd place, we have the Belgium team of Jaak, Maseo & Dirk with pigeon ‘Millaca’ on 8,643pts, and in 3rd, following a few good results in recent trainers, we have the Tink’s Treasures with pigeon ‘Happy Tink’ on 8,538pts. So that’s it for another week on the island of Tenerife. As we hear of the 1st hotspot on Monday, good luck to each participant and the Arona management team in the coming weeks, not forgetting the final on March 23rd. Tom Harris Team Ryle Rockets, Wales, holding pole position in the King of Sprint with pigeon ‘Dierdre’.
Anita & Tage Grevesen, Denmark, 2nd International TR11.
With a few visitors at the loft once again to witness the returns, we could see that there was no calima to cause any concerns and with clear blue skies, we awaited the first sight- ings. Taking top position of 1st International TR11, we see the TR10 runner up Krzysztof Bury from Norway today with another of his entries, ‘Black GT’, on 12:43:25.95. In 2nd place, we see the Denmark team of Anita & Tage Graversen with their entry ‘Ruban’ with a time of 12:43:30.60. Team Taxi Musch from Ireland claims 3rd International and the 1st UK pigeon’s glory as their pigeon ‘Taxi Musch 897’ on 12:43:31.10. Team GB takes the next few positions with
More arrivald from TR11.
evening, we could see that 659 pigeons were recorded, with a few more coming in on days 2 & 3. This brought training race 11 to a respectable 672 birds home and 97.81%. Well, that seems to be phase 2 of the training programme after completing the pre-selection training in phase 1, island training in phase 2, these brave warriors will now go forward in the coming days to take on the final stages of this year’s campaign, being the island-to-island hotspot races where cash prizes and trophies are up for grabs. The first of such is
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