its different down here westy though you only really have 3 combine races berwick,stonehaven and thurso and lerwick if you wish to send. And personally thats the reason why i dont have so called long distance birds as we have more sprint races and im out there to win them all. I dont think any bird has a particular distance as they say. If a pigeon is fit and healthy and full motivated it will win from all distances thtas a fact. Ive had many pigeons over the years to prove this. Ive had pigeons in the top 5 and 10 of the LNRC that win from the short races and top the fed from these short races.My lerwick lnrc winner for example Won for Lerwick which is a distance of 600 miles she was a lefebre dhaenen proven so called sprint pigeons,is 600 miles a sprint race??She won from all distances from me but she used to score and win regular from Peterborough distance of 74 miles. I think sprint,middle, and long distance is just a tag used to say they can preform well at these distances. But if the pigeon has the right componants for racing it can win from any distance. Thats why when i pair up doesnt bother me if i put distance to sprint ect,as i know if its got them winning genes to create a gene pool where every generation is a winner, like geoff kirkland says the apple doesnt fall to far from the tree.However as i was saying i think sprint,middle and long is on a tag as pigeons can win from any distance if they are right!