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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

Copied from Facebook **Dumbarton Open - Dunbar** Prize Money - 1st - £500 2nd - £225 3rd - £125 4th - £100 5th - £50 Pools - £5 pool open to every pigeon entered.. split - 60% , 30% , 10% £10 Single Bird Nom - winner takes all Marking - Friday 5.30pm onwards at - Dumbarton Pigeon Club 8A Millburn Crescent Dumbarton G82 2LZ Please make sure all lofts submit accurate SHU distance for Dunbar. Dumbarton Club would like to Thank the Scottish Distance Doo Club for their sponsorship. Look forward to seeing you all. Dumbarton Team 🙌🏻

Copied from Facebook A TRIBUTE TO DOUG McCLARY (FORMALLY OF EXETER). I was very saddened to hear of Doug McClary’s recent passing. He was a lovely man, a true gentleman and a pioneer in the world of ‘Show Racer’ pigeons. Doug McClary was a fancier I have admired for many years for his showing, racing and wonderful writing in his regular page in the fancy press, and several books he had published. He was famous in the Show Racer world for holding the record for many years, for wins at a BHW Blackpool Show, with five first, which is now held by Petty & Crawford, with six firsts in 2018. In 2004 Doug and his wife, Ann, up sticks and moved, pigeons and all, to Australia, to start a new life down under with family that were already living there. I must say, he was greatly missed on the English showing scene, but in regular email that we exchange, it seems he was really working hard to get the Show Racer code going in Australia. Back in the mid-1990’s I went to Exeter, in Devon and had the good fortune to meet this great fancier for the first time and look at his 'Ace' team of pigeons and lofts. Doug was famous in our sport for being one of the top show men in the world, but in his last few years living in the UK had raced a small team of birds on the Widowhood system with outstanding success. He was a great worker in the Show Racer world and was a founder member and long serving secretary of the Devon and Cornwall Show Racer Society, as well as former president and founder of British Show Racers Federation. In showing he has won most of the top shows including three years running ‘Best in Show’ at the Great Yorkshire Amalgamation, ‘Best in Show’ at the B.H.W. Blackpool ‘Show of the Year’ and many other top awards. Through the years, pigeons had taken him to many parts of the world including several times to the USA, where he judges many of the top shows on the eastern seaboard. His most thrilling experiences in the sport have been winning the GYA three years on the trot, winning his Section D in the National Flying Club, and being invited to judge so often in the USA. He first judged there at the National YB Show at Louisville, Kentucky in 1981, and after judging a huge entry of over 600 birds, he awarded ‘Best in Show’ to a cracking blue cock owned by Jim Isslehardt. That pleased Doug, greatly! Racing his pigeons, Doug had won every race point North Road to Thurso and on the south road he had won Section D of NFC twice, been 3rd Section and taken several other good positions, always with a small entry of two or four birds. Top racing pigeon at the Exeter lofts was: 'Brian' blue chequer cock: winner of nine times 1st racing, all Devon County Championship Club Nantes races, a fantastic pigeon! The list of champion Show Racer to grace the Exeter loft would be far to many to list, but one was: the "Medallion Cock”: winner of Welsh Region RPRA showing award; Devon & Cornwall Region RPRA showing award, Supreme Champion Devon & Cornwall SRS, 1st Old Comrades Show, 1st and Best Opposite Sex at the B.H.W. Blackpool ‘Show of the Year’, four times ‘Best In Show’. Doug McClary was a great pigeon man! He wrote his articles in the fancy press brilliantly, he exhibits his Show Racers brilliantly and at one time, when he lived in Exeter, he raced his pigeons brilliantly. I always described Doug as the ‘Master Craftsman’! Our sincere condolences to the McClary family at this very sad time. Doug McClary RIP. KEITH MOTT (APRIL 2025)