Rooster J. Cogburn

Aye he was in the very top bracket of fanciers. It's interesting to note how often his name crops up in the breeding of a number of top pigeons

'Hail The Conquering Heroes' written by Billy Napper for the 1979 Homing World Stud Book

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An old write up on the legend - Billy Napper A picture of his 'Combine Cock', a bird described as 'one of the sport's greatest ever racers'

You've got the wf- MacGillivray's 'Dream Girl' The blue hen won Rennes the same year Dream Girl won Nantes - Galloway of Leslie's 'Jenny'

Some Cormack birds photographed by Jim Hannah and Bob Kennedy

Yer way off the mark this time clue They are both 1950s SNFC 1st Open winners

Here are a couple of good ones for ye to have a guess at

Aye it was a fair old lift that

In light of the information on the foundation birds in Tom Corrie Jnr's great Davie Donaldson loft profile,I thought this would be a nice thing to post and will hopefully be of interest to some members. I have to thank Mossgiel for sending it to me

Great stuff Tom I'd been looking forward to that since I found out it was on cards Tremendous achievements with so few pigeons

Wilson Noble's 'Sir Lancelot', 1st Scotland from Rome, 1260mls. British and European Long Distance record holder. I don't think this is the European record anymore, but as far as I'm aware it's the British

excellent stuff Billy Gardiner could fairly rattle them into the Solway at that time

glad it was of interest to some It's one of my favourite pigeon racing articles and I personally couldn't speak highly enough of Robert Cormack

was thinking the same Alec Thanks for sharing Gareth

Some great information I've misplaced the John Swinburne article I had on Jimmy and Jean Harrison. Would I be right in saying they were another loft to have won the LSC Gold Cup three times? Possibly twice in back to back years? I can't remember exactly how it panned out but I know Jocky Harrison definitely won it once, perhaps twice?? Taking partnership changes into account I think Jimmy may have won it as part of Harrison Bros and J & J Harrison. Any info is appreciated

Robert Cormack of Winchburgh One of Scottish pigeon racing's all time greats

Interesting to see some of Willie Wilson's foundation birds came from Wall Harrision. Was this Jocky and Jimmy Harrison's uncle? Was he also known as 'Banky' Harrison? I'm sure he used to race as W.D Harrison. I've some old results out on loan and W.D Harrison was high up a few-particularly good from Nantes. I'll put them up when I get them back

Great stuff Thanks for sharing that Gareth

Best of luck to all the new appointments Let's hope for a good season

Have heard some stories about the money won back then Andy For some fanciers if they'd a hot one out of Rennes it'd bag them more than a years wages

He was brilliant I've an old loft report on him and it was interesting to see how he adapted the loft to suit him-lowered ceilings with the nest boxes at ground level and only two or three high. Great stuff. When my father first started with the pigeons he used to buy around 10-12 youngsters a year from an old Fife fancier who was in a wheelchair for the most part.Eddie Lynch was his name, although not as well known as the likes of Robert Strachan he flew a good doo and was a great old lad. My dads told me the birds were exceptionally tame and he had great control over them also. He used to have quite a lot of handrails in and around the loft and he basically dragged and threw himself aboot the place without the pigeons so much as batting an eyelid.

This is a nice old photo courtesy of Jock Alston A picture taken of three of Scotland's great fanciers on a marking night

Yees are both right- she was some doo He was some fancier jamjim