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Joe murphy
Today 13th June is a very special day in the history of the Murphy family as this was the day we won 1st open SNFC Sartilly with our hen ‘Mystical Rose’. Kevin always phones me and wishes me a ‘Happy Anniversary’ which is very nice of him. While on about the Scottish national quite a number of fanciers have reported poor returns from the Buckingham race and this will have a knock-on effect with the distance races to come. Kevin ended up with 8 from his entry of 10 returned with 2 of them taking about a week to come back and the other has just reappeared yesterday. However he has not seen or heard of anything from the other 2 which is a pity as they were good pigeons but I’m afraid to say ‘Not good enough’. It was good to see a young man Martyn Brown of Bo’ness win 1st & 4th section D 44th & 123rd open in the national. I have included a photograph of Martyn and his dad Allen along with a picture of their winner ‘Well Mabel’ named after Martyn’s gran mother; well done
Results
Angus Federation
Federation result from Kenny Droog who informs us that the members send 258 birds to Tow Law on the 9th of June with the convoy liberated at 12 noon with no wind at the race point. The Forfar club dominate the result with Macaulay Ferguson and Curran partnership winning 1st 2nd 5th 13th & 28th open. Ian Scott is 3rd & 7th with Bob Baldie in 4th 8th 10th 11th 12th 14th 15th 19th & 20th with David J Liddle in 6th & 17th Kenny Droog & son are 9th & 16th thus filling the top 20. The east section is again dominated by Kevin J Murphy and Charlie & Glen Cameron of Arbroath club. Kevin is 1st and 10th with the Cameron lads taking all the other 8 positions.
Club winners are as follows; Forfar 155 birds winners the Macaulay Ferguson and Curran partnership. Montrose 37 birds winners G Campbell; Gourdon 11 birds winner D & D Hay, Arbroath 55 birds winner Kevin J Murphy.
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