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been told unc convoyer heldover at 9am then orded to lib at 10am (By unc president) as only 100 birds sent from top end (sacrificed again so rest of unc gets a race? Might only be 100 birds but a lot of men have put a lot of work into them birds just to be sacrificed for a later lib.
Crap race for me sent 5 and only got one back. 412 miles to me think I maybe was getting carried away and expecting a bit much for yearlings. Still they did Arras with no trouble but that was a WDA race.
We always seem to have crap racing when the birds are away with the up north. The folkstone race was an example of this. Personally I had a good race from folkstone with decent returns and not being too far away from the winner but a lot of people in the club and fed dropped tons of birds guess it was my turn to feel the UNC jinx this weekend.
In my opinion the birds shouldn't have been libbed as late as they were in the day. Libbed at 10.00 am ensured that they had to do the distance in the height of the mid day heat and this has shown in the crap returns most people have had.
Lad who won our club and the fed has only had one back out of the 10 he sent and one of the birds he's lost is a two year old with quite a few chalks from the channel. Last year it was 1st club Arras, 1st fed Arras and 20th WDA Arras.
The lad who was 4th club for the channel lives for the channel races sent 19 and he only had 3 back. One of the top men in our fed only had one bird back and he cleans up and wins good positions in the amal.
With it being the Queens Cup and a national I bet theres too much political pressure on the convoyer to lib. I personally find it hard to believe that it went from the weather being totally crap in france and unsuitable for racing to acceptable conditions in the space of a few hours.
Paulo, how yer doing mate, little dc hen you gave me is paired up with a nice cock bird, who does well in distance, i was going to send him to clermont, glad i didnt I dont think he would have scored or possibly got back. The bird i sent in his place, nest box above him won me 1st club 3rd fed and 3 combine, he was back on the day. I have dropped only 1 two yr old, but we have lads that have not got any back yet. Keep losing young birds from the loft, i hate them, but we have got a lot of hawks back again. You seem to be flying well enough, perhaps it may have been wise to hold them back for a year, but you can never tell.
Oh yes and we are the durham combine suicide club as Jim said, glad our birds went with the WDA to Clermont. Otherwise we could have been racing Saturday!!! Catch yer later Dave
Paulo, how yer doing mate, little dc hen you gave me is paired up with a nice cock bird, who does well in distance, i was going to send him to clermont, glad i didnt I dont think he would have scored or possibly got back. The bird i sent in his place, nest box above him won me 1st club 3rd fed and 3 combine, he was back on the day. I have dropped only 1 two yr old, but we have lads that have not got any back yet. Keep losing young birds from the loft, i hate them, but we have got a lot of hawks back again. You seem to be flying well enough, perhaps it may have been wise to hold them back for a year, but you can never tell.
Oh yes and we are the durham combine suicide club as Jim said, glad our birds went with the WDA to Clermont. Otherwise we could have been racing Saturday!!! Catch yer later Dave
Hi Dave glad you still have her hopefully she'll win something for you. Glad you have got such a good win especially so high in the combine. You'll have to have a look over something to see the new loft.
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