good pigeons will win inspite of the fancier, the is loads of good systems and flyers which now what they are doing, good pigeons win races no matter what distance,good pigeons will also win inspite of the fancier,good pigeons is what you need and the is more bad ones than good ones.
I think personally this is only true in a small percentage of races, when im not on form whether it be through work or anything else my pigeons are also off form and will only sneak in with the odd good result.