Lewis, I thought you were up to speed.Drag, wind and location, simple as that.In the years your talking about there were 3000 birds from the west in most races and the majority of fanciers were from here.Alot of them moved east for work when the pits shut down here and the rest is history. You watch any yb national result nowadays,the way the doos come is, section B, then A then C then D then G then E then F, THIS IS THE USUAL TREND.Its the same as any inland national off the east coast. Another thing Tam, im sure Lanarkshire fed went with the national that day as well, which makes it even worse.