thanks jack, much appreciated for your opinion and experience., i have only just about to start young bird racing this year with my son, was given some quality stock birds by generous members of this forum.
i have a fasination in the distance birds, not for money on winning big races, just that i find it fasinating.
as a child i was given a few birds by my late uncle who raced the distance birds. i was absolutly gob smacked as a child finding that these birds flew from france.
just one more question?
if you had the best advice for a novice who wants to fly distance birds, & the breeding was there,
what would it be? ( as in train youngsters hard or some people say dont even race their distance birds the first year) regards.