There are many roads to rome , every year is different , good pigeons and a good system makes all the difference , its getting the good pigeons and keeping them the way racing is today .In our federation we lost most of our birds at under 200miles, yearlings and old birds and then you think the worst is over and then you get hammered every other week if you keep going to the end of the programme, so to succeed at the distance you probable have to put them away till June and then hammer them in training , fresh pigeons that have had the experience on another day