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Reserve Best in Show and the loft won Fancier Gaining Best Points. Best in Show overall at Blackpool in 2017 was won by a yearling Show Racer mealy cock owned by John & Alice Bell and when I spoke to John at the event on Saturday morning he said, that the partners were thrill to
2019 BHW Blackpool Show. The day after the Clydesdale Show the partners made the 360 mile drive to Skipton in Yorkshire for the BSRF Open Show, to win Best in Show with another blue chequer cock. The next weekend they made the 800 mile drive to High Wycombe for the RPRA Southern Region Show and won Best in Show, with 474 birds competing. I judged the specials at the Southern Region Show that day and picked out a wonderful yearling Show Racer blue chequer to win Best in Show and the hen, now named ‘Dottie’, was owned John & Alice Bell of Catrine in Ayrshire. ‘Dottie’ won her class at the BHW Blackpool Show in January 2018 and then went on to win, Best YB in Show, Best Hen in Show, Best Opposite Sex Show
John’s late mother Mary and she won Best in Show at the Kingdom of Fife Show (506 birds) to qualify for her place al Blackpool. The Bell show loft has had tremen- dous success at the Blackpool Show over the years winning Supreme Champion six times, including winning it over the last three years on the trot, Reserve Supreme Champion five times, Best in Show twice and Reserve Best in Show twice. ‘Mary’s Dream Supreme’ is a half- sister to ‘Bell’s Young Supreme’, the Blackpool Supreme Champion in 2016. A fantastic achievement! I had a conversation with John after the Blackpool show and he told me that they had a bad start to the current show season, with Alice going in and out of hospital over the period of the first three major shows, but once she got
Ron Lacey with John & Alice Bell.
win Best in Show at Blackpool for the second time. The handsome cock named, ‘Anniversary Supreme’ is a Show Racer Champion in the truest sense of the word, also going on to win Supreme Champion of the
Racer and Best Opposite Sex over all with over 2,000 birds competing. Her dam, another beautiful blue chequer hen, won her class on the day at the RPRA Southern Region Show and was Best in Show at the Region Show in 2017. John and Alice also won Best Racer in Show with beautiful six year old blue chequer pied hen and she had previously won Best in Show at the Kingdom of Fife open show (450 birds), and then won Best Racer in Show at the Kingdom of Fife in 2017. Talking to John at the Region Show he told me, he had entered eight classes on the day and won six firsts. The following weekend they made the 150 mile round trip to Fife for the Kingdom Open Show (510 birds) and won Best in Show with young blue chequer hen, which was a full sister to Southern Region Show winner, ‘Dottie’. John and Alice travelled the length and breadth of the country to compete with their wonderful team of Show Racers and won six times Best in Show and had four birds qualify for the Supreme Champion class at 2019 BHW Blackpool Show. A wonderful performance! Thousands of fanciers made the
Blackpool Show in 2017. This wonderful Scottish partnership were also runner up in the Supreme Champion class with a full brother to their good two year old blue chequer cock, ‘Bell’s Young Supreme’, the winner of Supreme Champion at the BHW Blackpool Show in 2016. The sire of these two Champion cocks was ‘Bell’s Supreme’ and he was also in the Supreme Champion class this time at eight years of age, and he won BIS (800 birds) at the SHU Show in 2016 and 2017. John tells me the partners have won Supreme Champion at the BHW Blackpool Show five times and thinks it is a record. A fantastic achievement! John & Alice Bell always have great success wherever they compete and before their 2017 Blackpool Show success, they also had a brilliant 2016 Blackpool Show winning four first, several trophies and Supreme Champion. The Bell partnership started showing at Blackpool in 2003 and have won Supreme Champion an amazing six times and have been runner up five times! This Blackpool success finished off a wonderful
John & Alice Bell with Keith Mott.
drive up to Blackpool in mid-January 2018 for the main event of the Show Racer calendar, the 46th British Homing World ‘Show of the Year’. John & Alice Bell won Supreme Champion at the Blackpool Show for a record sixth time. There winning pigeon was a wonderful sliver blue hen, now named ‘Mary’s Dream Supreme’ after
back in to her roll of the pigeon management they won BIS at the RPRA Southern Region Show (six firsts), BIS at the Kingdom of Fife Show (six firsts) and BIS at the Black Country Show (two firsts). John and Alice had two class winners at the Blackpool Show, with a young blue chequer hen winning Best Hen, Best Young Bird,
2015/16 show season for them, when they had won several premier shows. That season’s Supreme Champion was their good yearling blue chequer cock, ‘Bell’s Young Supreme’ and to qualify he won BIS at the RPRA Southern Region Show in November. I judged four Show Racer classes at the Region Show and John
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