i always like to get them rung for the 1st of june and quite a lot of the time they make the best y/b racers for me when they are rung around this time and i usually have them at the 1st race easy enough at 9 10 weeks old as they are up and flying quickly with the batch In fact i would have been 2nd club with a y/b last year that had only hawf grown it's 2nd flight(not a darky just a wee thing she was) but i sent it as a trainer as i had only transfered it the day before but a fortnight later at our duplication race it was 7th section after sitting oot for nearly 5 mins as an older cock y/b returned from the week befores race just before she landed and chased her all over the loft roof