Hi tam, I don't like airing federation business on social media sites, the main reason for central marking was that several clubs couldn't muster enough members to race mark their pigeons, several clubs approached to he federation for permission to mark at their premises and ferry their pigeons in which was granted as long as they followed the federation guidelines as done often in ferry in races. Remember this isn't an open race only a pool race which would normally have all clubs marking and picked up at their own premises. Hope this helps.