THE RACING PIGEON 26 APRIL 2024
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Around the North East WITH BARRY PEARCE
this hen was a 1st Fed winner from Wetherby last year, so she’s shaping up well. The nearby allotment lofts of Graham, Gilchrist & Brennan were right on the tail of the winning two with two hens, the first a NP rung 2yo, the next a yearling to take 3rd & 4th Club and Fed on 1796 & 1782. Fed Secretary Tom Ridley shows up again with one at 5th Club and Fed, then it was John Walker at 6th Club, 6th Fed. We then head to Jarrow AHS to find Blackburn & Lewis at 1st Club, 9/127, 7th Fed then MB&K are back for more with 8th & 9th Fed and the top 10 ends with I & D Nelson with the Hebburn HS winner, 3/48. Thanks Steve. The Coquetdale Fed were on their way at 7.30am, a fly of 155 to 175 miles for Fed members, which they took in their stride, well the winners did. It was Kevin Moore who got two together, two yearlings on 1831 & 1830 to take 1st & 2nd Chevington Drift HS, 1st & 2nd Fed, and I’m told this is the lad that took over the highly successful loft that was flown last year under the Mallan & Mowbray banner. Not sure what came for Kevin, as I do know the two John’s left pigeons in situ for Kevin to fly, so were these two of them? Never mind, two good pigeons giving the lad a good day. Trevor Shell is always there or thereabouts with Alnmouth HS, Trevor is a friend from way way back, and here he is getting a yearling himself to take 1st Club and 3rd Fed on 1826. Adam Nichol is just about the farthest flying member in the Fed, he’s on 175 miles, but he certainly has some decent lines, for he’s never to far away, and he’s got no less than four in the first 10 from a 932 Fed entry. He’s 1st, 2nd, 4th & 5th Alnwick HS, 5th, 6th, 8th & 10th Fed, with only Richard Murphy splitting him with 3rd Club, 7th Fed. Thompson & pearcebarry1946@gmail.com 15 Rossett Walk, Park End, M’Bro, Cleveland, TS3 7LX
Hope with Alnmouth HS are 9th Fed, and the father and son Amble HS part- nership of Ray & Leslie Hume are there for 13th Fed. Thanks KS. The Section 2 results now from John Cockcroft, the middle liberation at 7.50am. This result has five of the six Federations in the top six of the result, pretty fair result in my book. The one at the top, Morley & Son have been good competitors for quite some time, it’s one of those lofts I’d like to get to see, but as time and tide wait for no one, it’s just a question of when I can find the time. Nevertheless a clear winner for this good loft, against top class fanciers.
Monday 15th April, and its raining again, as if we haven’t had enough! February and March record rain falls, and we are still getting it. Pigeons? Ducks is what we should have! Before I start with results, the ‘scores on the doors’ I now have before me from Karen, the UNC Secretary of what the numbers are that were sent to the first two weeks racing. At Selby, it was seven Feds sending 6,077 birds from 219 members. At Wetherby it was a 16 Feds sending 11,246 birds from 363
job, which entails doing night shifts, and he has a young family, so help him, don’t hinder him. He’s put together the top 20 in the Section from Selby, and he’s also put on the result sheet those Federation winners that didn’t quite make the top 20, but nevertheless with over 6,000 pigeons being sent, what an achievement to be even mentioned on such a result. I’m not going to write it all out again, I’m sure it must be so much easier for the Editors or the people that deal with my efforts, to just put the result in as sent to me, rather than writing it all out again, well that’s my idea anyway. Thanks Matty, keep them coming mate. The second of the UNC’s 2024 races was due to be from Worksop, all Feds joining up together, but as Worksop tends to ‘hold water’ and wagons have got bogged down before on this site, it was onto Newark Cattle Market, and the GYA at Grantham. No problems with the liberations, with the UNC starting at 7.30am, a very fresh WSW wind to push them on again, but not as much as the week previous, but there was still plenty of leading pigeons breaking the 60mph mark. Let’s start with the Mid Tyne Fed result from Newark, they being up and on their way at 07.50, part of the second grouping. It was a 23/535 send, and it was the John & Ian Miller and Steve Kyle loft that was at the top of the result yet again, and they also got 2nd Boldon HS, 11/362, and Fed as well on velocities 1814 & 1797ypm. The first is a yearling blue cock, the sire being a full brother to a 2nd UNC winner, breeding being R & D Hunt VD Bulck’s cross a Redhill Farm lofts Lambrecht, and the one at 2nd, a yearling blue hen is from a son of a 2nd UNC winner, and also from a Redhill Farm Lofts Lambrecht hen, and
Lister & Walker’s winning hen (see text).
Now to the South East Durham Fed, part of the last grouping. There was 1,077 away, and they were led home by a Widowhood cock to the top Horden EEHS loft of Brian Harris and Alan Richardson. This former 1st UNC winning loft of 1st yearlings Eastbourne in 2008 wins with this winner from their well established lines won on a 1832ypm velocity, which was just in front of the Darren Roberts of Blackhall HS winner on 1828, and this was win number two following its win last week at Selby. What a result for Easington HS loft of Jimmy Lyons & Brace, the first five in the club with 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th & 9th Fed thrown in, a mixture of Bob McGillicuddy’s and Mickie Collins lines. We then have two former 1st UNC winning lofts at 7th & 8th Fed, the late Fred Basley and George Roberts at 7th with HEEHS, and Jimmy Richardson at 8th Fed with a Howard Jackson bred Horden HS timer. Neil Jones & Edwards were 2nd Club, 10th Fed behind JR, this a Ted Hickman pigeon that was 39th Fut last season. Looking further down we see Cartridge & Hall with last weeks winner, plus others from his number one stock pair, and the Fed winners got another one bred by Brian Hall of Gateshead. My late and much missed wife Shirley, when she couldn't sleep at night used to get a book out and read, she was a avid reader
Chris Robinson (see text).
lofts. In that Wetherby send there was a 97 lofts send of 3,193 birds, followed by Section 2 with a 266 lofts send of 8,047 birds. On to Newark, and it was a 23 Feds send from 670 lofts sending 20,271 birds, so make of that what you may. Before I start on Newark results, John Luke, the Thornley HS Secretary has sent me that clubs result from Wetherby, and from 117 bird send, Stan Frost and his son Robert are in the lead on 2172. This was a fast but erratic race, and this long time top loft, a previous 1st UNC winning loft which I visited at the time way back in 1977, won from Gwen Holden and Bobby Mitchell on 2037, then there was a drop to Nuttall Bros & Sons with two on 1967 & 1858. So onto Newark, and I’ll start this week with a Section result put together by Mathew Arkless, the East Cleveland Federation Secretary. This is of the last liber- ation of Group 3, it’s something I did some years ago but then I only did East Cleveland, North Yorks and Middlesbrough & District Feds. It will take some putting together, so I hope those five Federation secretaries help the lad, and I’ll remind you, Matty is a Fed Secretary, has a full time
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