Although i race i've only actualy shown once and only showed because it was for a club show race the next season , i got quite a few cards , but shows don't actualy have any appeal to me , although i like to see fancy birds as to me there true show pigeons bred for type and shape feather size and colour , I think racing pigeons should have to at least win one race to be allowed to be into a show . As for dipped pigeons there neither one or the other , but if this is the way the show scene is going then i feel these types of birds should be accomodated but in a class of there own