i dont think it would make one bit of difference when we race the birds bop will adapt one of the reasons i stopped going to the youngbird national was i got hammered every year training them in september and also found training my latebreds in october was getting hit every toss there is only one way to sort it and if we all got togethere it could be fixed the lenth and breadth of britain if we all train our latebreds at the sametime breed a round now