We don't race pigeons, but, we have some racing pigeons in with our fancy birds, one of our runts has had young with a racer and it looks just like a racer, the garden fantails never pair up wi racers, but, we've had racers and homers paired up, and they looked like racers also, don't know what they would be like to race though, wouldn't chance it. We have kept a pair of fancy birds in a rabbit hutch and they always went back to the hutch at night so they must have liked it, and they got their privacy away from the rest o the birds.