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Copied from Facebook South West Glamorgan birds were tumbling in doing over a mile a minute after a 7.30am liberation in Swindon today. Returns were over 80% within an hour of the first birds being clocked. I paired up a little later this year so did not send to this one but it certainly proved the right decision to race on Sunday as Saturdays weather was very late clearing up. This enabled me to visit DaI Roach of Treforest who had a health scare this week when he was rushed into hospital with gall stones but was allowed home in time for the race. Dai clocked 4 in one minute showing how successful the race turned out to be. Basketing at the 7 clubs went like clock-work and many thanks to our convoyer/driver Ieuan for looking after the birds so well as usual.

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Please post your club/Federation/Organisation liberation time and information on this post Good luck folks

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Copied from Facebook My daughter happy with her bird she ask me to get some birds to race as she got autism and if that make her happy I will we haven’t got many as it’s hard to find someone to help us but we will get there

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Copied from Facebook Berkshire Fed tonight basketing for tomorrow race from Wincanton

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Copied from Facebook Aberdeen federation strathkinness race on 19th April. Basketing on Friday 18th for a race on Saturday 19th April. Good luck all.

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Copied from Facebook Rising star in Belgium shines in the early races. Fanciers may recall seeing Jelle De Boc together with Joost De Smeyter - Restiaen in Blackpool in January where a few of their class pigeons were up for sale with auctioneer Stuart Wilcox. I regard Joost as one of the best (if not the best) extreme distance fanciers in the whole of Belgium who has won numerous Nationals and International races including 1st Int Pau (9,052 birds)2015, 1st Int Barcelona(4,787) hens, 2nd Int (15,700) 2018;1st Int Narbonne (9158) 2018; 1st Nat St Vincent(3080) 2021 with almost 15 min lead etc To enable him to concentrate on these extreme distance events Joost who also keeps sprint and middle-distance pigeons breeds a round each year for Jelle to race in his own loft which is a few kilometres away. The rise to the top of the sport for the 33-year-old Jelle has been truly remarkable, so much so, that the Editor of De Duif magazine Jan Hermans chose him to come to Blackpool in January along with the Master distance flier Joost De Smeyter. Since Blackpool I have been in regular contact with Jelle and am currently preparing an article about his loft for publication in a future edition of “The Racing Pigeon Pictorial” which will undoubtedly raise a few eyebrows and make really interesting reading. Jelly aged 33 has already won 9 top ten Nationals positions with up to 25, 096 birds competing. Of course, Lena named after his beautiful daughter won 1st Nat (8,424) yearlings but was fastest of (13,718) pigeons. Beautiful weather existed in Belgium for the first 2 races of the season and Jelle really excelled winning 2 last weekend competing against very strong opposition. Jelle was very pleased to hear of success for other fanciers winning 1st prizes with his pigeons on the weekend of 12th April. Team Boddaert won 1st against 1,052 old birds and 1st against 884 yearlings. Vandeputte-Kubica won 1st against 523 yearlings. See results in comments