I spoke to Stevie Ferguson from Annan at the Joe Murphy presentation last night and he said that he was very disappointed not winning a S.H.U Award this year with his good ch pd hen that won the SNFC Tours race (only bird on the day 570 miles, winning National by almost 400ypm ) .What a performance by this 6 yr old hen who has 4 x SNFC diplomas and has previously been 6th Open SNFC. Definately a one in a million pigeon that should be celebrated by all Scottish pigeon fanciers. Incidently, the bird that won the SHU Award was D.Owens Ypres winner, which was flown on the same day as Tours. Mr Owens bird was a super bird but I cannot see how it beat the Tours winner for the award.Afterall Ypres is 160 miles less than Tours and was flown with a smaller birdage. I can sympathise with Stevie Ferguson as twice before I was positive I should win a SHU Award and have missed out to lesser performances in my opinion. :-/ :-/