I wonder who makes the decision to release rings early and what criteria do they use to choose the date, personally I cannot see any advantage with early youngsters, by the time racing comes around they are sitting around like old birds and need a lot of basket work, the April/May youngsters are still flying and ranging for a couple of hours, no contest as far as I'm concerned
Favourites for me has to be breeding, flying out youngsters, I don't have near neighbours so no chance of landing up the road, I also love young bird racing, old birds gets a bit boring for me, I think I need a race partner