Theres doos from the east won in the west.Theres doos from the west won into the east.Theres doos from the south won in to the north etc.etc.Theres doos from Holland,Belgium,Ireland,Australia that have won into Scotland.Bottom line is theres good yins and not so good yins.The good yins have a tendancy to win the hands of good fanciers no matter where they are located. The East fanciers send a lot more birds to the 500 mile races than the West lads nowadays though when in the past it was the other way round.