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This slatey blue hen flew well for Henry towards the end of the young bird season picking up 1st club 129 birds 9th fed 310 birds Cheltenham and also picked up a couple more fed positions for him .

This Is For My Son Ted This Is His Idea And I Hope People Support It Westbury Bro’s “Super Star Family ⭐️” 2025 Teds First Season Results - National Results - Old Birds Maidstone 1 3rd & 12th North Section Maidstone 2 8th, 21st, 31st, 35th, 46th, 63rd, 81st, 84th, 116th North Section Ramsgate 1 15th, 22nd, 26th, 53rd, 58th, 76th, 87th, 93rd North Section Ramsgate 2 15th, 22nd, 23rd, 26th, 36th, 38th, 44th, 49th North Section National Results - Young Birds Ramsgate 6th, 9th, 10th North Section Club Racing 1 x 1st 3 x 2nd 4 x 4th 5 x 5th 4 x 6th 3 x 7th 2 x 8th Etc…. Moving Forward For The 2026 Season Teds Own Family Ted Chose The Name “Super Star” Because Of The Super Mario Bro’s Film Which Made Mario & Luigi Invincible For Those Who Aren’t Familiar With The “Super Mario Bro’s” Film Ted Loves That Film Which Reminds Him Of Himself And His Brother Arthur, In The Super Mario Bro’s Film There Is A Magic Star You Collect Which Makes You Invincible And Thats How Ted See’s His Birds “Invincible” After This Young Birds Racing Season Ted And His Little Brother Arthur Have There Own Loft Arthur Is Little Bit To Young To Have His Own But Helps Ted, These Are Teds Birds He Chose To Create His Family He Named “Super Star Birds” Because They “Fly Their Hearts Out” And “Don’t Give Up” (For The Whole Of The 2025 Young Bird Season We Only Lost 4 Birds Racing 3 Of Those Were In The National Flicking Them From South To South East 234+ Miles) Which To Ted Makes Them Invincible These Are A Combination Of The Best Birds Ted Has Selected From All Our Families And Principal Birds All Crossed And Proven These Have Had To Fly Against The Odds To Our Loft 25 Miles To The West Of The Federation Up A Valley On Their Own As We Are The Only Fancier Up Here (Believe Me When I Say Not Many Birds/Families Can Hack It) What Isn’t Good Enough Does Not Make It This Is Where The Basket Plays Its Roll On Which Are Good Enough They Have To Battle Head Winds, Peregrines (Up A Renowned Valley For Ringing Has Its Own Warden There’s That Many Breeding Pairs) And With Having To Keep Alert They Also Have To Keep Ahead Of The Competing Birds To Be Able To Win Or Score As Ted Has To Give 6 Miles Over Fly To The Club Members These Will Be From Teds Birds That Have Raced And Scored For Him And Brothers And Sisters To Them Birds From All Different Families He’s Combined To Create His Own Family That Have Done Him Justice As A Father I Am Extremely Proud Of Ted He Has Selected The Birds Raced The Birds And Won, Ted Likes To Do Everything For His Birds Cleaning, Feeding, Exercising And Wants To Pay His Way For The Birds Keep He Likes Doing Chores And Things For Us And For His Grandparents To Earn Money To Be Able To Do This These Birds Are Teds And All The Money From Selling These Kits For Racing Is Teds For Him To Spend On Whatever He Likes Which Knowing Ted Will Be His Pigeons For His Corn His Bits And Bobs He Wants For Them And If He Sees A Bird He Would Like To Bring In To Try Teds Kits Of “Super Star” Birds Carry The Bloodlines Of The Westbury Bro’s European Imports That Ted Has Raced And Scored With And From Brothers And Sisters To Them Birds, No Pedigree Supplied As There Bred Out Of A Mixture Of Everything We House That Ted Has Selected Himself That Has Scored And Won For Him, Limited Numbers Available, Please Private Message If Your Interested, Thank You.

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PAUL STOWELL OF BASINGSTOKE: This is Paul's article that I wrote and appeared in the Canadian Pigeon International magazine in December 2018. It is one of the best monthly magazines on the planet and has 45,000 readers globally every month. (September 2024)

Copied from Facebook 24th September by Sandy Milne North of Scotland Federation Show I have just had the date confirmed it is Sunday the 23rd same detail as previous post. We hope to start with the pens etc at 8am so any assistance will be greatly received. Also if ano one has some rolls of old wall paper it would be great if you could bring them along. Date for the diary is Sunday 23rd of November

Since my youngest daughter got her own pigeons she said she needed her own carry box.so iv fixed up one of mine for her and Michelle has made the decals,think we now have a happy little girl

Copied from Facebook 23rd September North of Scotland Show Change of Date I met Eric for a cup of coffee today and Eric informed me that the 16th is the same date as the Newcastle show and Nicky will be attending that show therefor will be unable to convoy the pens for us on that weekend therefor I have requested a change of date from the 16th to the 22nd off November. The hall organisers are going to confirm if the hall is available on that date to me this evening or Wednesday morning so watch this space. The proposed classes are as follows:- 1) Flown Cock 2) Flown Hen 3) T T Wires Cock 4) T T Wires Hen 5) Likeliest Y Cock 6) Likeliest Y Hen 7) T T Wires young cock Eight) T T Wires young hen 9) Late bred cock/hen I have had an enquiry about a show class, if you are interested please message myself or Eric Yule and if we have enough interest we will input as required. I will update developments as received Sandy

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Brilliant day at Scottish National Flying Club Latebred Auction.. 12k + raised for the Club.. Massive well done to all donors and buyers and all the wonderful people who give up their own time to make this happen.. Distance racing is dead ? 🙈 Not on our watch.. Long live the SNFC ❤️

Copied from Facebook 20th September Here's a wee recap of the performances from the solway at the biggest, and best, race in the country. Many thanks to WP Wortley. 1 / 2 Alencon 1st Section 14th Open Drew Nicholson from Annan Section winner is a 2 y.o. Dark Chequer cock, that went through the programme as a y.b and to 200 miles as a yearling. It was paired at the beginning of March in 2025 and went to the race covering a 10 day old youngster. Sire is a Dark Chequer cock that was bred from a Kirkpatrick hen containing the loft’s established lines when paired to Drew’s 2018 Silver Award winner. The Dark Chequer cock that gained a Silver Award was bred from a Blue hen that contained the loft’s established Kirkpatrick lines with his sire being a Van Der Wegen that was obtained from John Little from Ecclefechan, having been bred by Andy Gregson. Dam of the Section winner from Alencon is a Blue Chequer hen, which was bred from a Son of Willie Borthwick’s ‘White Nose Bud’ that won the Gold Cup from Liege in 2018 when paired to a super Blue hen that was purchased at a Y.B. Sale at Carnforth. The Blue hen was purchased at a Y.B Sale at Carnforth and was bred by John Winstanley from Orrell, Wigan; it was 11th Section 16th Open Guernsey 2021 and 5th Section 6th Open Alencon 2022. Sire a Jan Polder Arden/Wanroy Dam a Blue Chequer hen that was bred by Albert Tarleton & Duncan Ferguson ‘Skyleader Lofts’. 2nd Section 22nd Open Jim Ferguson from Eastriggs The winning pigeon is a 6 y.o. Blue Chequer cock that was bred by the late John McNeil from Broxburn, it raced as a y.b., yearling and 2 y.o. Worked on Widowhood he then went to Alencon in 2022 and was 7th Section 9th Open and worked in exactly the same way in 2023 and 2024, he again scored from the Gold Cup race being 14th Section 60th Open in 2023 and 76th Open in 2024. At the gateway to the 2025 season he commanded three boxes in the widowhood end of the shed, not letting any other birds near the boxes. Jim addressed the issue by moving him into the adjoining Y.B. compartment in the shed. He went right through the Federation programme to Cheltenham, after which he was brought back into his original box in the widowhood cock compartment and put of full widowhood. Occupying the box he was given his hen two days before basketing with straw being placed on the floor of the shed. The position gained from the recent Classic should secure for him an S.N.F.C. Silver Award. We must mention friend Michael Johnstone and Jim’s grandson Finn, who kindly assist at the loft. 3rd Section 25th Open John Gilmour from Ecclefechan Winning pigeon is a 2 y.o. Blue cock that had three races as a youngster and five races as a yearling on Widowhood. John’s father, Jackie, regrettably died some months ago and John took a number of his pigeons. Because of the increased number of birds in his loft he had to deviate from the management method practised in recent years. The Blue cock was raced celibate during the early part of the season and was then paired but did not go to nest, John using the hen to motivate the cock, showing her before despatch to a race. He raced through the Solway Fed. programme to the Inland National from Brighton and then went to the Gold Cup race. It was bred from a pair of 2 / 2 pigeons, which John received from Sean and Linda Trodden bred from direct imports from the Continent. Sean and Linda, of course, bred the Dam of ‘Gilly’, John’s 2017 Gold Cup winner.

Yesterday was Teds last race it was from Ramsgate 234 miles and some yards with the Welsh South East National The national was supposed to happen today but we got told Wednesday they had moved the race a day earlier and basketing would be Thursday morning for a race on Friday instead of Saturday Ted was excited the race was definitely happening as we weren’t to sure if it was going ahead but he was also disappointed it had moved a day earlier as he would be in school and miss the race Ted got home from school on Wednesday he was told the race was a day earlier, he got changed and went straight out to his loft he fed them and sat with them for over an hour before he came back out, I wasn’t to sure what he was thinking as he had a straight face on him I asked if everything was alright he nodded his head I asked are you sure he replied “I won’t be home for them” I said to him don’t worry they will be home waiting for you by the time your home Ted took some convincing in the morning he had to go to school and the birds will be okay and they would be there waiting for him when he got home Ted entered 6 into the Young Bird National they were basketed up and met a local fancier who very kindly offered to take them down to South Wales they were marked and we met him for the clock and basket back later that evening The birds were liberated at 8:00 Friday morning in a South West Wind instantly I knew this race was going to be hard for us as them winds do not suit our loft location and they’d be far wide with our young birds been flown on the south route then flicked south east for this national it was going to be a challenge regardless of the wind There was some fanciers we knew who had entered that would keep in contact if the birds were in the area, my phone remained silent not a message or a phone call the time kept ticking on I kept my faith in Teds birds they hadn’t let us down so far I kept eagerly looking at the sky hoping one would came, I kept working out the velocity and it was turning into a slogger of a race, I kept my hopes up Teds birds would come I was pacing up and down the yard and walked back to the loft when there one was! On the top landing board she flew down and went in! She must have came low because of the wind and hopped over the trees and straight down onto the loft! The relief and sheer proudness I felt that one of Teds birds had made it was a fantastic feeling and I was disappointed that Ted hadn’t been here to experience it!! We had a phone call that a local fancier had one then I had some texts from another fancier so they were in the area 15 mins later another one came and then another 17 mins after that one all 3 clocked and I was so proud of Ted what a fantastic sight it was seeing them come home for him!! Ted came home from school and ran into the loft asking did he have any his face lit up with a massive smile and shouted yes!! With his hands in the air!! He was so excited and proud of his birds there was 3 sitting waiting for him!! His smile couldn’t be any bigger!! The clock was taken down later that evening and read out and the result was posted off to South Wales as we’re on Bricon for the nationals and the marking station up here is Unikon We had the result through of the lads on Unikon there was only 16 birds clocked including Teds that’s how hard this race turned out to be!! 🙈🙈 I worked out Teds velocities and comparing them to the result we had sent us of the other competitors Ted should be 6th, 9th & 10th North Section!!! 😁🥳😁 It was just before Teds bedtime and I managed to tell him before he went up to bed he was so excited jumping up and down with joy shouting “my birds done it daddy” i have to be honest it brought a tear to my eye I was so proud of him This morning Ted was up early and out with the birds feeding them making sure they were rewarded for there efforts and has been playing with them in their boxes Unfortunately it’s been raining most of the day here so far and hasn’t been the weather for any more birds to work their way back in, we still stand as 3 out of the 6 back But i am so pleased for Ted and what a way to end the season!! I have absolutely loved Teds first season!! Without him I wouldn’t have sent to hardly any races because of the weather, birds of prey causing havoc and them not being ready but Ted was convinced his birds would do it and they certainly did!! I’m so proud of him!! 😁🥰 what I have experienced this year with Ted is what racing pigeons is all about! Father & Son racing together it didn’t matter if we were 1st or last we loved seeing the birds come and I loved Teds success of getting them! ❤️ Congratulations to all the winners and I hope everyone has the returns!! 🙏🕊️

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