Looking out of the window with lunch plate in hand, Derek notices about half a dozen birds on top of the hut roof and when he reached the hut, he noticed 3 birds had already timed themselves in and were sitting in the loft. 1st federation for Derek was dark chequer Soontjen based cock bred by Frank Sheader flying on the roundabout system. The 2nd winner was a blue bar Soontjen crossed Kirkland hen bred by Glyn Stone of Hartshay Lofts. This hen was also flying on the roundabout system but has been sitting for just over 2 weeks on eggs. The 4th federation winner was a dark chequer cock and was also bred by Glyn Stone. All 3 pigeons Derek timed were having their first ever race. Derek would like to thank both fanciers, Frank and Glyn for these pigeons. Taking 3rd federation on 1366.9 is the partnership of Lindsay Cowan and Mark Findlay of Ardrossan flying in the Darvel Club. No strangers to being in the top end of the results Lindsay was telling me their timer known to the partnerships as the “Mullingar” hen, was a winner in the Clyde Coast Club as a young bird and has flown from Eire the last two season. She also flew Bedhampton last season as a yearling picking up a few positions on the way. She is a direct daughter from a gift cock from Alec McInnes of Blantyre which has bred both Mark and Lindsay 15 club wins and over 20 National diploma wins. The dam is one of Kerr Stainthorpe top National winning birds winning 8th open Reims Gold Medal Race. She was purchased at his clearance sale and has now started to produce many good birds for us crossed with our own bloodlines. I would like to thank Lindsay for the information on their 3rd federation winner.
North Section sent 860 birds; 1st & 2nd Derek McKinlay 1374.3 & 1371.5. 3rd Cowan & Findlay 1366.9
Central Section 365 birds; 1st & 3rd Harvey Pollock 1327.5 & 1297.0 2nd McKenna & Diamond 1322.5
South Section 548 birds; 1st W Lawrence 1304.1 2nd D Graham 1259.4 3rd J Watters 1245.2
East of Scotland Federation
News from John Baillie who writes ‘Hi Joe, please find the results from Tow Law 1 race; John Parry had the birds away at 11-15 into an east wind. Taking top spot this week and the runners up position is John Bird of Prestonpans. John also takes 9th & 19th open positions and all 4 birds were cocks flown on the roundabout system. Taking 3rd open is yours truly John Baillie of Tranent with Jim McNeil also Tranent taking the 4th & 5th positions. Tom & Scott McEwen of Elphinstone fill in at 6th, 7th & 8th open positions.
Prestonpans HC result as follows, John Bird takes 1st and 2nd positions with the first a yearling cock a Vandenabeele both parents bred by Brian Shipley of Woodside Lofts. The sire is Solitaire lines and the dam is through Young Solitaire. The second cock is also a Vandenabeele his sire is also bred from a pair from Brian Shipley and the dam is from John's old distance lines from ‘Bits & Pieces’. Taking 3rd position is John Baillie with a 4 year old hen, bred at Loanhead and broken to new lofts in Tranent. She is bred from a hen of the late Jimmy Hamilton of .
Kennoway and a cock from Willie Watson of Kirkfieldbank, her brother had 5 national diplomas from 6 national races for me at Loanhead. That's it Joe, hopefully the weather is going to settle down a bit, even though we had a hard frost this morning yours in sport John B’.
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