once again. As I write this article we are scheduled heavy rain and it could be thunder storms then early tomorrow morning we are anticipated gales of 70 miles an hour. Let us hope this weather is long gone for the 2nd inland national from Maidstone this Saturday 16th June.
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.
Arbroath RPC had 5 members sending 55 birds to Tow Law with the convoy liberated at 21.00 with No wind at the race point. Taking the number one spot is Kevin Murphy with a pure Deweerdt bred in my stock loft from Bernard’s top winning lines. The 2nd club winner is Charlie & Glen Cameron was a 2 year old hen who won 190th open SNFC Buckingham the Sunday previous. She is bred from a son of Duracell who was clocked after 11pm from Reims in the SNFC when paired, to Little Dorrie winner of 3rd open SNFC Reims, the dam being a daughter of the Castres of Leon Messiaen. Third club was a 2 year old hen who is from a Keith Bush bird when paired with a daughter of the Castres of Leon Messiaen.
Ayrshire Federation
News from Archie McIntyre federation race secretary with the report for the Buckingham race, with 2 attached two photographs. One of David Armstrong and his good friend Gavin Urquhart with (Gavin is to the left in the photo) I have also included a photo of Harvey Pollock winner of 2nd federation, once again many thanks Joe yours Archie’. Ayrshire Federation’s joint convoying with the SNFC from Buckingham was the next race on the calendar for the membership with the marking of the pigeons taking place in the Kilmarnock club rooms. It was noticeable from early on at the marking there was not going to be enough baskets (as only 10 baskets had been brought down to the station) and this was proved to be the case as our federation secretary was asked if he could go and get additional baskets from the Ayrshire Federation Transporter to complete the marking. Not a great start for the pigeons as they would have to be re handled into the correct SNFC baskets once our feeder lorry met up with the other SNFC Transporters. The federation membership sent a total of 397 pigeons but not all of these pigeons would have been duplicated into the Scottish National, but still a good turnout from the federation.
Buckingham to the membership is between 268 miles up to 305 miles to the top end of the Federation. Leading the way in to Ayrshire this week from Buckingham is David Armstrong of West Kilbride. David timed 2 of his pigeons in 46 minutes out of his entry of 7 to not only record top positions in the fed but also in the SNFC as well. Winning 1st fed, 2nd section H on a velocity of 1095.6 and 69th open SNFC. David winner is a 2 year old dark chequer cock send just coming off the drive; as a yearling this cock was sent to Ypres 464 miles and was timed the following morning to record 13th federation. The sire of this fine cock was bred by Karen Newcombe of Macmerry, while the dam is just a blend of all David’s family of pigeons from over the years. The 3rd federation winner 5th Section H on 1000 velocity for David also took a great position in the SNFC winning 178th open. This cock was bred by his good friend and close neighbour Gavin Urquhart. The sire is one of Gavin’s Denis Dall pigeons containing all the best of Denis bloodlines, Lady Helen, Rowena II, Denis Delight and Ulrica. The dam was a gift bird to Gavin from Dave Barrett of Sudbrook in Lincoln being bred down off Dave’s House of Arden x Chris Gordon pigeons. 2nd fed this week we have Harvey Pollock of Irvine on 1003.3. As well as taking a top federation position for Harvey, this 2 year old widowhood hen also won 4th Section H and 169th open SNFC. This was another great performance achieved by our Ayrshire members on what could only be described as a very difficult race. A brother to this hen has also previously recorded a 2nd Section F for Harvey from Ypres. The Sire goes back through Harvey’s old family of pigeons. The Dam is a daughter of W Watson’s of Wishaw Silver Award Hen ‘Genna’. Harvey timed 4 pigeons on the night and ended up with 10 out of his entry of 12 with 2 out of his 10 being hawked. There are a few other pigeons I think well worth mentioning on the Ayrshire result that put in good
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