alec guinness

yes walter but we are too far down the road now and scottish distance racing will continue with the same format rightly or wrongly. :-/ :-/ :-/

yep,the time for everyone to get on with it is now.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think this topic has had exhaustive coverage in the past couple of years.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-/ :-/ :-/

a big question up here in scotland,snfc has about 4 times the membership than the snrpc,snfc has 100 plus years of tradition and the snrpc pride thereselves on being a forward moving organisation,in scotland we should have only one national but as to who is the best,each to their own. :)

a very big well done. :)

thanks for the push alf :) :) :)

was a good show with d mathieson & son doing very well in the racing classes. :)7 class winners,great showing.

"karens girl" definately up there with all these top top doos mentioned in what has been a really good post. night night. :)

but we had a poor jags team :'( liked nantes and more recently tours.niort maybe just a wee bit far. ;)

yes 77 jb a very fast race,we won the region 11 years later in a fast nantes race clocking 3 birds in an hour 614 mls,and timing our 4th entry a 10 year old hen at 6am next morning,great days indeed jonesybhoy. ;D ;D ;D ;D

ralph whyte annbank won nantes doing 1648 vel from nantes with "jubilee victor" at dinnertime that day ma dads pal and local gamekeeper who gave us some top doos when we started alex lockhart of milton of campsie appeared at our back door in a state of panic telling me and ma dad that he had just timed his good mealy cock from nantes,and cause of his excitement asked my dad to drive him to airdrie with his clock which he did (my dad had no licence)when they got to airdrie everybody was there with their clocks, ;D alex missed the result when alex died i was gifted the lovely mealy cock SU73SN 14101,me and dad timed the mealy from avranches 2 years later,hope this nostalgia did not bore you but i was 8 years old at the time and the national bug had well and truly bitten. :) :) ;)

thats what the national is all about JB,talking about these great birds that were winning 50 years ago. :) and hopeing to turn a few up ourselves. ;) ;)

fantastic,probably the two greatest west section fanciers. :)

i think davie angus from symington had "townfoot topper" who amazingly after scoring from 4 nationals was 1st section 4th open rennes at 10 YEARS OLD some doo. ;) :)

close jim think the cock was 100th rennes the others were all top 100. :) :)2nd section avranches also,top top doo jim. ;)

i think they are everybodies 2nd favs, ;D ;D

ah think you do not too bad. ;)

dont you worry alf it will happen. ;)

good one bob ;)

think that was the fun boy three,the lunatics have taken over the assylum. ;D ;D ;D ;D

great stuff alf.

some great doos and here is another, R RUTHERFORD OF COLDINGHAN 1ST OPEN RENNES 1973, second race, yes SECOND race of this yearlings life first race being BEAVAIS 16TH OPEN i think.some doo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) ;)food for thought.

bob you knew big jack gillespie and i had £20 wages no that long ago. ;D ;D ;D ;D

your right alf,some great scottish bands in the 80s saw them at queen margaret student union 50p a pint and 5 girls to every boy ;) ;)rooftops, nightmoves the barras even big country at ingleston great days and even pigeonwise winning good positions at the national club, fed and combine.great times. :) :) ;D

no bad alf annie can sing!!!!!!!! saw the blue nile in glasgow in the 80s along with all the other scottie bands hipsway,love and money the water boys etc and even sigue sigue sputnick(rank rotten) :) :)