alec guinness

just catching up with my 2010 homing worlds and reading the report on william sheldons 800 milers january 22nd issue page34-35 (100 YEARS AGO)some great pictures of fantastic racers particulary the two dark chequers which imo would be winning in todays national flying club races,great fancier great doos, 800miles no problem. :) :) :)

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think you kirky boys went to the townhead school. ;D ;D

snap :) :)

these feds are going EAST.

have watched this post unfold into the usual bickering and tit for tat insults,(nothing new there),from the very start of pigeon racing fanciers have been excluded from clubs and feds for all different reasons most of which are totally unjust and this i am sure will always be the case, these mere obsticles are sent to try us and only encourage good fanciers to go on to greater things. ;) ;) ;)

watched them a few weeks ago at firhill and they gave us a doing,pass the ball well and the lad cardle is a handful. ;) ;)

well done to all and good luck for the next 100 years. :) :) :) :) :)

nice to have all the birds like soldiers but maybe these birds wanting to nest elsewhere shows a bit of character,one of my yearling cocks would not take a telling and after trying to move him my dad and me let him nest on the floor,last week in june he won 2nd federation open dorchester 370mls and 1 week later scored appledore 400mls,nearly 800mls in a week for this yearling cock,the following year the cock flew to a different loft and was less than average,at 3 yr old he was back in the old loft nesting on the floor first week in july 1st region nantes 614mls on the shift,so imo let the birds be happy. ;)

let them nest where they are happy. ;) ;)

nationals a national every fancier in scotland can compete so it is a national, ;)

june 3rd june 17 th i think june 23rd july 3rd july 10th july 16th never wrote the dates down but near as damn it. :) :)

no, bourges the week after, ypres on the 3rd july. :)

think joint convoying. :-/ :-/

about 650mls

bovingdon,eastbourne,reims,bourges,ypres clermont and leicester,first week in june start. :) :)

reims gold cup.

remember her when she was in hot gossip alf in the 80s, ;)i widna say naw ;D :-/ ma old dad says your better wi a roll n sausage and a cup of tea ;D ;D ;D ;D c u at the meeting.

shes no bad for fifty alf, ;) ;)maybe he is the one thats hung alf ;D :)

was at all 7 nationals last year and i think most fanciers flying the water races will also fly the inland races. :)

looking good jimbhoy all the best for 2010. :) :)

fill your boots, big races most weeks from the second week in june. ;) ;) :)yb, inland and across the pond all nationals. :) :)

no problem with what the glasgow boys do frank they have always been thinkers,not sure which combines are still on the go in scotland????

yep everyone has an opinion frank but commonsense must prevail,big feds frank in scotland?? dont no which feds have enough birds to race from the english coast :-/as for the combines in scotland the last one i flew had us lads competing against fanciers 40 miles east of us imo much more chance flying in your section in the national. :-/ still think that there is a place for inland nationals. :) :)

yes the snfc was founded on long distance racing but who says we cant have a programme to suit all scottish fanciers in 2010 be it inland or channel racing or both?????? as for the prize change being set at 1/10 as against the previous 1/15 imo this is the correct ratio check out most of the other uk nationals and classic organisations and you will see 1/10 1/8 1/7 so are these organisations mickey mouse????????? going by last years programme we had 300 400 500 600 mile racing for most snfc men!!!!,pigeon fanciers in scotland are thin on the ground and the national must cast its net to all corners. ;) ;)