Bang on Harky! Had the same last season, they would get tossed on the clubs motor, return in the local vasinity and go again. The first race last season young bird season they was an hour behind the club winner, in a 74 mile race. Changed my feeding the homed good time training that week and then went on to take first 3 in the club and federation, and was not out of the first ten in the federation after that, as well as topping it again, with multiple 2nd Feds, young bird racing has a lot to do with how you feed and what you feed as well as the health of the birds