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tx message recieved this morning at 8.37am... 'Hello William Donachie, your 5 pigeons already IN FUERTEVENTURA ISLAND ready to SEMIFINAL CAR RACE. Good Luck! DERBYARONA.com' :emoticon-0123-party: :emoticon-0123-party:

these pigeons are so ready for this semi final race, the camera was on through the week at the lofts when they were exercising... impressive! jumping over to the next 'canary island' will prove a real test for these pigeons, lets hope all goes well for a great semi final in preparation for the GRANDE FINALE... good luck everybody!

SEMI FINAL CAR RACE... FUERTEVENTURA... 220km Sunday 10th March

i for one wont be entering this OLR... too many grey areas at the moment for me! imo, pigeons competeing in a OLR should be class pigeons with the brain and heart to accomplish a flight on there own merit, not a possible 'lucky tail biter' who gets a 'cuddy back' up the road with pigeons from a joint liberation! and i refer to the final and the hot spots who everybody wants to win with the big cash prizes! from the final and the hot spots which involve large sums of cash, imo should be a single liberation where all pigeons are heading to the one loft and only the best can come to the front... is it fair that fanciers who have paid hundreds of pounds to enter and at the final and there pigeons get dragged off the line of flight because pigeons are heading to different areas in different sections due to a joint liberation... not for me i'm afraid!!!

well done the lanarkshire fed, a real credit to you a step in the right direction as far as the welfare of the pigeons is concerned back to the dark ages for us i'm afraid come april!

winning batch... first arrivals hit the board! more arrivals... LIBERATION!

HOT SPOT CAR RACE 2 another huge success, with returns over 96%! well done to German winner GUNTER SCHNEEMANN, with pigeon 'Snowman 3' SEMI FINAL CAR RACE 3 scheduled for 11th March, from the island of Fuertaventura 220km! this will prove a real tester for the remaining entrants befor ethe big Final, good luck to all lucky enough to have pigeons reach this stage!

route for tomorrows 2nd CAR RACE! view from the island!

HAPPY FANCIERS! :emoticon-0123-party:

... some more arrivals, race was a huge success! ... arrivals in superb condition!

First Arrivals Car Race 1

ANTONIO MESA DIAZ, TENERIFE

cant fault Geordie service, delivered a doo to my door this morning...

there for another day mate, Jock Ross done well also 2/2... still 38 birds adrift and nothing returned today! gives an indication that once doos are on the other islands they are reluctant to cross that ocean??

returns from yesterday race are 87%, which is the best Survival Race from Gran Canaria that i can recall! well done to the race winner, and car winner... ANTONIO MESA DIAZ, TENERIFE and his pigeon 'Corrie' :emoticon-0137-clapping:

yip it was a cracking race, pigeons have def learnt from the first off shore training race...

Pigeons are in Gran Canaria now! see basketting movie on the Derby Arona website... pigeons are in superb condition! :emoticon-0123-party: This is the FIRST HOT SPOT CAR RACE, 301 entries... good luck! :emoticon-0167-beer:

300 entries for CAR RACE... GRAN CANARIA 100kM!

FIRST HOTSPOT RACE... and car race! VROOM VROOM!

GRAN CANARIA SURVIVAL RACE... planning for the weekend!

DONACHIE & STEWART my new partnership...

RETURNS 97%

The Derby Arona Team got it spot on today... :emoticon-0137-clapping:

303 ENTRIES BASKETTED FOR TOMORROW OFF SHORE TRAING FLIGHT... basket list now available on line! good luck everybody...

OFFSHORE TRAINING #2... Monday 18th February (60 + 40km) 100km :emoticon-0157-sun: