Some where in the region of 45 minutes,we had a stinker of a race from Portsmouth,East wind 300ml should have took them 5 hrs.A cheq.landed on the block of houses below mine,I thought it can't be my bird they're not allowed on the roof tops,looked at the clock and thought a bit soon ,being on my own I couldn't leave the loft but the more I looked at the cheq. the more I thought it was mine.Time passed and I was getting that feeling thats mine so I walked down the path behind the houses and threw a ball in the air the bird flew off,ah wrong not mine got to the loft and it was there with it's head that far in the drinker I thought it was trying to drown itself. Beaten into the first place by five minutes.I think there was about 60 birds away in the club on doing clocks 10 or so birds home four hours after clocking