my main birds for this do not race much in club or fed they will be set up for race with short training tosses . it will affect all birds different come the real racing season some race well some do not.i will send 5 .3 older birds and 2 yb,s from birds that showed well at the shorter races this year.if any of the birds get in top 10 on result then it will have very little racing next year. this race as i have said not all birds will race in a very cold wet windy day. some years the birds have to come thru falling snow with a cold north wind on their nose.their for needs a bit of gut and determination. also the saturday the 20th a lot of shooting estates have a lot of people shooting on them as it is the saturday before xmus. it won,t be the 1st year i have had birds back shot. i know of some that half their birds back are all pepper shot the other half never seen again.