Ian McKay

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The Joe Murphy Column Received an email with some photographs attached from David Liddle of Forfar who wrote; ‘Hi Joe as you know we are now well in to the new racing season but here are some details and photographs of the 2015 season joint trophy presentation for Angus and Dundee federations as well as the Grampian Combine. This was held on the 1st April in Letham (Angus) and there was a good turnout of members of both federations to support the trophy winners. The trophies were presented by Jock Scott and Stuart Fyfe from Fife Federation. The Angus winners were Ian Scott of Forfar who won the Old Bird Average, Combined Average, Three Longest Race Average, 1st Federation Clermont and the best 2 Bird Average from Clermont. Les McKay also of the Angus fed won the trophy for 1st federation from Portsmouth, Mike Leggett of Forfar won the Clermont yearling trophy and Eric Galloway of the same club won the shield for 1st federation from Wakefield YB. The trophy for the Lowest Winning velocity was won by Forfar partnership of Macaulay, Ferguson & Curran while Ypres national winner Davie Glen won the Young Bird Average and the Fancier of the Year trophy. The Grampian Combine Winners were as follows; 1st Newark won by Davie Glen; 1st Leicester won by Ian Scott; 1st Lauder won by Bruce McKenzie; 1st Portsmouth won by John Duthie; 1st Eastbourne won by John Wiseman; 1st Clermont won by Bruce McKenzie; 1st Wakefield YB won by Billy McEwan. The trophy for Best Average in all Combine races was won by Ian Scott. The Dundee winners were John Duthie who won Fancier of the Year, Old Bird Average, Combined Average and 1st Federation Portsmouth. John Wiseman was 1st Federation Eastbourne; Jack Alexander was 1st Federation Leicester; Billy McEwan was 1st Federation Wakefield Young Bird; Stewart Davie won the Young Bird Average and Joe Hunt won the best 2 bird average from Eastbourne. Following the presentation of trophies we had a successful Breeder / Buyer young bird sale which raised around £900 so we should have a decent amount to compete for in the combine young bird race from Wakefield. All the best for the nationals which will be upon us before you know it, good luck to you and Kevin kindest regards David Liddle’. Bruce McKenzie and Stuart Fyfe Davie Glen with Jocky Scott Jock Scott with Gavin Ferguson Stuart Fyfe and John Duthie Results Angus Federation The members sent 781 birds to Tow Law liberated at 11-45am into a north east wind a hard steady race was the order for the day. Topping the federation and breaking the ‘strangle hold’ of the Forfar club is B Main of Inchcape club in Arbroath with a winning velocity of 1089. Forfar club take the next 19 federation positions with Bob Baldie in 2nd & 13th places. David J Liddle is 3rd 6th 7th 8th & 9th with Macaulay Ferguson & Curran in 4th 5th 11th 12th 15th 19th & 20th places followed by Ian Scott in 10th 16th 17th & 18th positions and finally Davie Glen is 14th federation. East section winners are as follows: Inchcape B Main is 1st with J & J Leven of Montrose in 2nd place Chic and Anne Carrie of Inchcape being 3rd & 6th with Kevin J Murphy of Arbroath in 4th & 7th section positions. Carlie Cameron of the same club is 5th & 8th with G Campbell of Montrose 9th and D & D Hay of Gourdon club make up the top ten places. Club Winners are as follows: Inchcape 115 birds B Main; Forfar 46 birds R Baldie; Gourdon 36 birds D & D Hay; Arbroath 122 birds Kevin J Murphy; Montrose 46 birds J & J Leven; Arbroath RPS News from Charlie Cameron who informs us that from the 3rd old bird race of the season from Tow Law flown on 7th May 5 members sent 122 birds liberated at 11-45 am into a north east wind. Taking 1st & 3rd club is Kevin J Murphy with the winning velocity 904 for the 128 miles. The winner is a 3 year old later bred red hen who has been raced out to Eastbourne last year. Her sire was known as ‘JS’ and was bred by Jock & Willie Strang and son Tyrone. He won 1st club (only bird on the day) 26th section C 130th open SNFC Eastbourne 419 miles; he also won 11th section 65th open SNFC Ypres 454 miles and then 15th section 36th open SNFC Clermont 539 miles ALL AS A YEARLING. He also won 23rd section 213th open Cheltenham a distance of 321 miles and was sent to Ypres then into Clermont and won 107th open. Unfortunately he was lost the following year going for his SNFC Silver Award. The dam of the Tow Law winner was stopped as she was paired to JS above however when he was lost she was then put back on the road and flew Maidstone and Clermont (twice). Last year 2015 she won 20th section C 120th open SNFC Gold Cup race from Alencon flying a distance of 573 miles. Kevin’s 2nd pigeon to win 3rd club is another roundabout hen as a youngster she won 1st club 3rd federation 3rd Grampian Combine from the last federation race, she was then sent to the SNFC young bird national and returned very badly injured and required 20 stiches. Since then she has flown Maidstone and won 95th section C 315th open SNFC 4472 birds competing. Last year she won 67th section C 210th open Billericay 3406 birds. She is bred from the top Elphinstone lofts of Richard & Jamie Combe and a Tom & Scott McEwen bloodlines. 2nd club is Charlie Cameron with a Jos Claes bred from a full brother of a Claes pigeon that won 1st & 2nd section C in the SNFC. Ayrshire North Road Federation News from Andy Kyle who writes we were at Thornton on 7th May for our 2rd race of 2016 season with 585 pigeons. However due to mist over the Firth of Forth we moved the convoy to Stirling and liberated at 11-30 into a fair East to South East wind. This proved to be a very fast race and overall returns were good. Valley North Club winner and 1st Federation is owned and raced by John L Dumigan, his pigeon is a 2 year old chequer Hartog crossed Jock Reid cock. He has previously won 1st club and his winning velocity today was 1715 ypm. Carrick Club winner for the 2nd week in a row also winning 8th federation owned and raced by the partnership of Jamieson and Cameron. Their winner is a yearling blue cock bloodlines being Jan Aarden crossed John Cannon (Club Secretary). This was only this pigeon’s 2nd race as he was not raced as a young bird and his winning velocity was 1648 ypm. Cumnock Club winner and 20th federation is owned and raced by J Auld his winning pigeon is also a yearling chequer cock which was bred by Derek McCullen. This pigeon only had one young bird race and his winning velocity was 1615 ypm. Mauchline Club winner for the 2nd week in a row and 33rd federation position is owned and raced by Kory Galloway. He timed a yearling blue white flight cock. His sire is a Van Reet crossed Busschaert and his dam is known as Matilda. Both sire and dam have produced winners for Kory on north and south routes. He was a steady racer as a young bird being pipped on many occasions by loft mates. He was sent flying widowhood and recorded a velocity of 1434 ypm. Stranraer North Road winner bred and raced by Robertson & McCurdy this being a blue hen bred from a trial cross of Van Reet and Vandenabeele breeding. She is a yearling, never having raced as a young bird, so this was only her 2nd race. She was late last week and first this week, that’s pigeon racing! Her winning velocity was 1529 ypm. There are only 2 members racing in this pioneering club with the other 3 are expecting to start with young birds. These 5 members started this club because of the poor racing they were suffering on the south road. Birds Of Prey being a prevalent problem on that route, but rather than “pack it all inâ€, they decided to try the North Road. They are being conveyed by Ayrshire North Road Federation and racing 60 miles further than our shortest flier and 30 miles further than our longest fliers. We are happy that they are having fair returns and good racing. East of Scotland Federation News from new press officer John Baillie of Tranent who discloses the following report; the East of Scotland are convoyed by Pentland Hills Federation who put back basketting for 24 hours. With the birds being liberated on Sunday from Ripon at 11-40 into a light North East wind which changed to East on route and topping the Federation this week is Ronnie MacIntyre of Gladsmuir with a 2 year old cock. 2nd & 4th open positions were filled by yours truly John Baillie of Tranent. Down the hill to Prestonpans now for Tam Waddell who won 3rd, 5th & 10th positions. Back up to Tranent for Jim McNeil who won 6th position and Davie Gillan is in 7th place. Taking the 8th position is the father and son partnership of Tom & Scot McEwen of Elphinstone and the 9th open place is filled with Rab Waddell of Prestonpans. The federation would like to thank Ronnie and his grandson for loading the baskets for this race by using the fork lift and a JCB as it saved a lot of lifting and walking on scaffolding with the baskets. Prestonpans Homing Society: winning the club this week is John Baillie with a 2 year old late bred dark chequer hen she was raced for George Cochrane of Straiton last year, it looked very similar to the hen that I lost trying to break paired to my dark chequer cock that has scored 3 times from the SNFC Alencon Gold Cup race. I asked George if he would loan me her to try and pair her to my dark cock who then went on to score his 3rd national open position. At the time George thought he was going to move house at short notice, so he told me to just take her and try and settle her. This hen has 4 SNFC 1st open National winners in her pedigree. Taking 2nd place is Tam Waddell with a yearling bred by Chris Vassey from the Up North Combine. 3rd position is filled by John Baillie with another yearling bred by Derek Parr of Lakeside Loft in Northern Ireland from his Karl Boeckx lines. This hen flew every young bird race including the SNFC young bird national last year. Fife Federation Dunfermline LRPC news from David Kennedy who writes ‘Hi Joe, we were at Sedgefield this week with 11 members sending 261 birds and taking 1st prize for the 3rd week in a row is Frank Mitchell. He timed a yearling roundabout hen bred by ex-club mate Wattie Sharp from his Frank Sheader bloodlines. This bird tops the west section and is 1st federation. We have had 3 races this year and Frank has topped the west section twice which is good flying in anybody’s language so ‘A big well done’ to Frank from all the club members. Taking 2nd spot is a new member to the club this year John Skelton who timed a 2 year old natural cock sitting 10 day eggs. This bird is home bred and is a De Baere crossed Johns own bloodlines. 3rd spot goes to John Robertson who timed a 2 year old roundabout hen, homebred and a mixture of Johns own bloodlines. This week’s nomination is won by Andy Ritchie and John Robertson scoops up the 2 bird prize. Well Joe that is it for another week the nationals will soon be upon us yours David’. Glenrothes & Leslie PC news from Rosie Armit who tells us the club sent 190 birds to Sedgefield and taking the top spot is Brian Kinnear with a velocity of 1505 with a blue white flight 2 year old cock flown on roundabout. His sire was bred by Ronnie Evans from a son of ‘Blue Flash’ while his dam is a last daughter of ‘Stitchy’. His nest mate won 1st section 2nd open Wakefield and 4th section C in the young bird national. 2nd are Turpie &McCord on 1477 with a 4 year old blue hen bred down from Dougie Hain’s from Ladybank Dordin family. This hen has been 337th open Ypres, 22nd section 90th open SNFC Clermont in 2014, and returned from Clermont 2015 hawked but still made the federation result. In 3rd place is Ian Chalmers on 1476 with a 2 year old blue chequer Van Lint cock. His parents were bought from Dean Pallet Number 1 of 2 cocks paired to one hen sitting eggs. (Good to see Ian on the result as I met him and his wife at Homebase a few weeks ago Joe M) North of Scotland Federation Buckie RPC news from Gavin Russell who informs us that 6 members sent 143 birds to Arniston on 7th of May but due to changing weather conditions the birds were brought back to Thornton. Where I believe Joe Murphy assisted our convoyer Davie with his duties prior to liberating the race birds. Winning 1st club 10th West section is yours truly Gavin Russell with a velocity of 972. I timed a yearling dark chequer cock flying natural he was purchased in a batch of 12 from my good friend Gavin Ferguson of the Macaulay, Ferguson & Curran partnership from Forfar. His bloodlines are Van Loon crossed Busschaert. 2nd & 3rd club is Ian Coull with a velocity of 930 he timed a 2 year old blue pied cock flying roundabout he is a Paul Woolliss crossed Davy Burns of Kirkcaldy. Ian’s 2nd pigeon is a blue chequer cock flying roundabout his bloodlines are Vandenabeele. This was a very hard race with returns mixed at the time of the clocks however a lot of birds returned home the next day and overall 80/95% are home. (I have spoken to Gavin regarding the missing birds and believe me it was a very cold north east wind at the liberation site and many pigeons do not like flying into this type of wind Joe M) Pentland Hill’s Federation News from Andy Miller who informs us that the above organisations held their 4th race of the 2016 season from Ripon a distance of 130-142 miles for the federation members. Basketting was delayed for 24 hours due to a poor weather forecast for the Saturday. Once again this transpired as the correct decision by race controller Bobby Graham so well done Bobby. 15 clubs sent 3717 bird liberated at 11-40 am into a light north east wind. Winning 1st federation & New Lothian RPC is the form loft of Willie Pryde & Son John (Bubba). They timed their Herman Ceuster blue bar hen that was bred by Paul Morrison from Bo’ness. This hen is raced celibate and is now a winner of 5 x 1st prizes. 2nd is W Hume of Danderhall with I Bennett of Edinburgh West in 3rd spot. D Anderson of Danderhall is 4th with S Benson of Bonnyrigg in 5th place L Ramage of Edinburgh West is 6th with S Gilchrist of Edinburgh Premier in 7th & 8th positions. Steve Girdwood of Sighthill is 9th with E Willis of Castlebrae in 10th place. Club Winners are as follows; Easthouses 505 birds; 1st 2nd & 3rd W Pryde & Son Danderhall 494 birds; 1st Hume (senior) 2nd & 3rd Anderson Edinburgh West 200 birds; 1st I Bennett 2nd Ramage 3rd Lamb Bonnyrigg 224 birds; 1st Benson 2nd Russell 3rd Smith Edinburgh Premier 322 birds; 1st 2nd & 3rd Gilchrist Sighthill 165 birds; 1st 2nd & 3rd Girdwood Castlebrae 151 birds; 1st Willis 2nd L Mitchell 3rd A Mitchell Gilmerton 166 birds; 1st Robertson 2nd Bennett 3rd McCue Arniston 58 birds; 1st Mercer 2nd & 3rd Ray Loanhead 217 birds; 1st Simpson 2nd Murray 3rd Lawrie Woodburn 242 birds; 1st & 2nd Allen 3rd Brown & Black Rosewell 71 birds; 1st Currie 2nd & 3rd Blake New Lothian 102 birds; Traprain 636 birds; 1st Newcombe 2nd Whitson 3rd Thomson Others 55 birds New Lothian RPC from the Ripon race flown on Sunday 8th May 70 members sent 2060 birds liberated at 11-40 into a north east wind the winners are Willie Pryde & Son John who win £125 for their efforts. Second is W Hume of Danderhall with Ian Bennett of Edinburgh West winning 3rd spot, his club mate D Anderson is 4th with A Benson of Bonnyrigg in 5th place. S Gilchrist of Edinburgh Premier in 6th & 7th positions with Steve Girdwood of Sighthill is 8th position. E Willis of Castlebrae is 9th with L Mitchell of Castlebrae in 10th place. Good SNFC Birds This week’s 3 birds are from successful partnerships within the Scottish National starting with the Dundee partnership of Ness & Kempton with their blue chequer hen SU11DF 1972. In 2012 she won 7th section C 19th open Maidstone a distance of 393 miles, and then in 2014 she again scored from Maidstone being 3rd section C 16th open. Last year she was 45th section C 130th open from Billericay a distance of 365 miles. We now come to Section B Edinburgh and the Lothians and our first loft is the partnership of Sammels & Lunn of Edinburgh with their chequer cock SU12P 2411 This pigeon won 471st open from Maidstone a distance of 360 miles in 2013. Last year 2015 he scored twice with the first from Billericay a distance of 333 miles he won 13th section B 18th open he was then sent to Portsmouth a distance of 362 miles and won 8th section B 8th open. Staying in the Capital we now come to the consistent loft of Willie Kinnear & sons of Edinburgh with chequer pied cock SU11P2668 in 2012 he won 91st section B 173rd open from Maidstone flying 359 miles. Then last year he was entered into the first national from Billericay and won 78th section B 150th open flying 332 miles he was then sent to the longest old bird race from Ancenis a distance of 596 miles and he won 5th section B 21st open. So you will see 3 very good pigeons and we wish these partnerships all the best with their pigeons in the 2016 season. Joe’s Joke I’m assuming a lot of you are like me and fed up to the back teeth of all the election stuff going on at the moment so hear is a lighted hearted slant on it. Hillary Clinton goes to her doctor for a check-up, only to find out that she's pregnant. She’s absolutely furious... Here she is in the middle of her election campaign and now this has happened to her! She calls home, gets Bill on the phone and immediately starts screaming: "You sod" How could you have let this happen? With all that's going on right now, you go and get me pregnant! How could you? I can't believe this! I've just found out I'm five weeks pregnant and it's all your fault! Well, what have you got to say?" There is nothing but dead silence on the phone. She screams again, "DID YOU HEAR ME?" Finally, she hears Bill's very; very quiet voice, in a barely audible whisper: "WHO'S CALLING?" Please continue to keep the news flowing; to Joe Murphy Mystical Rose Cottage 2 Flutorum Avenue Thornton by Kirkcaldy KY1 4BD or phone 01592 770331 or Email to joejmurphy1@gmail.com REMEMBER THE J IN THE MIDDLE or log onto www.elimarpigeons.com www.fancierchat.co.uk and www.pigeon-chat.co.uk also www.pigeonbasics.com who wish my weekly contribution portfolio on pigeon topics from Scotland. © Compiled by Joe Murphy

You have now been given an explanation When someone pays to advertise it's not an open invitation for all to have a pop at if you have a querie send a PM and ask the question Ian

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Read this it is very interesting Please read There is a once in a lifetime chance to have a go,at the bird of prey problem,and shaft the Rspb,if your not a man to vote but maybe you should this time, Your chance is voting to leave the EU its the EU that make up the rules and laws regarding the wildlife act in Britain,if we doo vote to leave,the EU the rules do not stand anymore,and have to be re-done,this may take up to 10 years,85% are rules and laws made up by the EU,its them that brought the wildlife act in to place,I have spoken to a very good friend MP,on this and the Rspb are craping them selves Vote LEAVE might just help us ?

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8 members sent 134 birds approx 160 mls 1st M Mooney 2nd E & K Elliott 3rd E & K Elliott 4th M Mooney 5th M Main 6th J Benzie 7th Coutts & McKay 8th I Ellis 9th A Baxter Well done Mr Mooney your having a good time :emoticon-0136-giggle:

Well done Alan I see your retirement is doing your birds well :emoticon-0136-giggle: :emoticon-0136-giggle:

It's NOT clean if it covered in sheit Would like to see your reaction if you got sheit on your food :emoticon-0136-giggle: Nobody looking for excuses it was only a simple question :emoticon-0179-headbang:

Depends how much you put in a crate ??

Most won't answer cause as you say it's thrown on to the sheit but the chips are clean we live in ignorance and blindly blame someone else that's the way it has always been so it must be right :emoticon-0179-headbang: :emoticon-0179-headbang:

Hey Ho some new stock Andy :emoticon-0136-giggle:

Great It was a long haul 16 phone calls 8pms but I got there :emoticon-0136-giggle:

Silver City Aberdeen 8 members sent 134 birds to Consett approx 160ish :emoticon-0136-giggle:

Hi Pat sent you a PM Phone me if you want info 01224 741028 Ian McKay

I will take Andys advice :emoticon-0136-giggle: 1190

Thanks for your reply but Peter Brown (unclealbert) is collecting it Thanks again Ian

The Joe Murphy Column What a contrast we have had with the weather up here in Scotland you would see from last week’s issue on the Friday we had about 3 inches of snow. Then the following day it was bright sunshine with not a drop of snow to be seen. In fact from the reports from clubs and federations it turned out to be a good racing day with nearly 99% of the pigeon’s home. I have to say that the weather forecasters are getting it spot on nowadays and it just goes to show you that their knowledge and information has improved a 100 fold. Kevin sent all his team this week and dropped some late breds which makes you wonder if it is worth the bother of trying to keep them for the racing team. You get the odd one or two who make the grade but to be honest youngsters are better to have one or two races in the year of their birth. His first bird was a chequer hen bred by Rob Glover who has been a very consistent pigeon over the years and is now one of the national team so let us hope she come good in the channel events. Results Angus Federation The members sent 823 birds to Ridsdale liberated at 08-00 hours into a light south west wind the federation winner was doing a velocity of 1315 ypm to the Forfar loft of David J Liddle who took the first 3 positions in the fed as well as being 11th & 15th open. Ian Scott of the same club was 4th 5th 14th & 16th with Macaulay Ferguson and Curran in 6th 10th & 13th places. Bob Baldie had another good race being 7th 8th 9th 18th 19th & 20th with Davie Glen making up the top 20 in 12th & 17th positions. East section winners are as follows: 1st 6th & 7th D & D Hay of Gourdon. 2nd is L McKay of Inchcape with Charlie Cameron of Arbroath in 3rd place. B Main of Inchcape is 4th & 10th with Chic and Ann Carrie of the same club in 5th spot. The Montrose partnership of J & J Leven is 8th with Kevin J Murphy of Arbroath in 9th spot. Club Winners are as follows: Forfar 465 birds David J Liddle; Gourdon 51 birds D & D Hay; Arbroath 145 birds Charlie Cameron; Montrose 54 birds J & J Leven; Inchcape 108 birds L McKay. Arbroath RPS News from Charlie Cameron who informs us that from Ridsdale race they had 5 members sending 145 birds liberated at 08-00 am into a light south west wind. Taking the number one spot again this week as well as 3rd & 4th places is Charlie Cameron with the first bird a dark chequer cock bred from a pair of Ferdinand Malfait stock birds and he scored from Alencon last year. The second bird winning 3rd club is blue white flighted 2 year old cock a Mark Gilbert crossed Len Downie bloodlines. Second club is Kevin J Murphy with a 3 year old chequer hen sent due to hatch, this hen is known as the Z Hen and was bred by my dad’s good friend Rob Gower of Nuneaton she won 159th open SNFC Billericay last year and has flown Buckingham, Maidstone, Eastbourne and Clermont and is a very consistent hen. Ayrshire North Road Federation News from Andy Kyle who sends in the Stirling race results from the attached clubs. Mauchline Club winner and 1st federation on a velocity 1252 and is owned and raced by Kory Galloway, our youngest fancier having recently just turned 16. His pigeon is 2 year old blue home bred Leen Boers cock from Tumley Lofts stock. He was a steady racer as a yearling winning 4th club Montrose before being badly hawked on return from the Fraserburgh race. He has not been bred from at this stage of his life and was sent flying widowhood. He is bred down from Tumley lofts stud on his sire's side when paired to a stock hen from the lofts of Gerald Delaney O’Roory Hill Stud. The Grand Sire of this pigeon has become responsible for 2 club winners for Kory through his two sons, both having won 2 races each. Carrick Club winner and 2nd federation is owned and raced by Jamieson and Cameron and this 4 year old blue cock was bred by Jamieson & McWhirter from Brian May stock. He has won numerous positions in the past but this is his first time winning 1st prize. His winning velocity was 1221 ypm. Cumnock Club winner and 9th federation is owned and raced by J & A McDougall their pigeon is a yearling mealy hen only having had one race previously as a young bird. She is bred from Busschaert origins stock pigeons and her winning velocity was 1188 ypm. Valley North Club winner and 13th federation is owned and raced by Derek McCullen with a 2 year old blue Rex Doe Noppen cock and was sent with 2 big young birds in the nest his winning velocity was 1176 ypm. He has previously won 1st club on the south road. Stranraer North Club winner is known as ‘Bob’ doing a velocity of 1172, he is owned and raced by Robertson and McCurdy, this yearling cock was only flown once last year as a young bird trainer from Thornton. He is out of their ‘Stafford Hen’ who won the South West Federation and was the best yearling hen in 2015 to clinch the yearling average for us. She is bred down from a small family within the partnerships loft who have bred and won many federation and club winners over the last couple of years. East of Scotland Federation News from new press officer John Baillie of Tranent who discloses; The East of Scotland Federation were liberated from Tow Law at 08-55 into a west wind. Topping the federation this week is the inform loft of Tom & Scott McEwen from Elphinstone. Taking 2nd & 3rd open positions is John Bird from Prestonpans, with 4th & 9th position going to Jim McNeil of Tranent. We are then back to Prestonpans for 5th open for Tam Waddell and Brian Laverty takes the 6th position. T Hunnam of Port Seton fills 7th place and yours truly John Baillie of Tranent completes the top 10 positions winning 8th & 9th open places. Prestonpans Homing Society: Taking 1st position is Tom & Scot McEwen with a 2 year old cock this bird is bred again like the partners previous 1st fed topper from Ridsdale being a Paul Stobbs and Mark Gilbert cross. The sire of the winning bird is from a ½ brother to ‘Bobs Choice’ and the dam is bred from the Deweerdts from Mark Gilbert from ‘Ted’ & ‘Magnus’ bloodlines. Think Tom should be inviting Mark and Paul up to the East of Scotland to tell us all their secrets!! What says you Joe? Taking 2nd and 3rd club is secretary John Bird with is first bird a 3 year old hen being a Jos Thone crossed Jan Aarden. This hen topped the federation from Ridsdale in 2015 and also scored with the SNFC Alencon and has won many prizes in the federation. The cock in 3rd position is another 3 year old this time a Vandenabeele from the D & J Hawkins bloodlines crossed with John's own distance blood. This cock has 4 SNFC positions to his name and is another good performing bird for John. It was another cold day waiting on the birds but at the end of the day the majority of birds were home, till next week yours John’. Tom McEwen who topped the East of Scotland Fed Fife Federation Dunfermline LRPC news from David Kennedy who writes ‘Hi Joe, the result of the Alnwick old bird race we had 10 members sending 247 birds. Continuing his winning streak and taking the first three positions is Frank Mitchell. First over the pad doing a velocity of 1080 ypm is a 2 year old roundabout hen, which won 2nd club and 8th Federation last week. Its breeding is the best of Jock Traill bloodlines. Second is a late bred sitting 10 day eggs and was bred by Andrew Lawley of Elson from his M & D Evans bloodlines. The third bird is another roundabout pigeon, this time being a yearling cock, again from Jock Traill bloodlines. This week’s 2 bird is won by Andy Ritchie and the nomination was won by John Robertson, regards David’. Glenrothes & Leslie PC news from Rosie Armit who tells us that the members sent 231 birds to Alnwick, and taking the 1st x 3 places are Turpie & McCord with a velocity of 1261. They timed a blue chequer yearling hen sent paired to another hen and also to a cock with the 3 of them all feeding a big young bird and sitting 4 day eggs. The sire was bred by Martin Bell of Kirkcaldy and the dam is a Braspenning. Their 2nd bird on 1259 is a blue yearling hen sent looking at a cock. This hen won 191st open in the SNFC young bird national in 2015 her sire is a Braspenning crossed Black & sons of Drumore while the dam was bred by David Black & Sons Drumore. Their 3rd bird on 1250 a 5 year old blue cock sent feeding 2 big young birds and sitting 1 day on eggs. He is a double grandson of Charlie Cameron's Belgium stray cock who had 21 x 1st prizes; my thanks to Rosie for the above information. North of Scotland Federation Buckie RPC news from Gavin Russell who sends news of his last 3 week’s results, for the 1st race of the season from Brechin no members sent any birds due to bad weather forecast on 17th April. However as we were back to the same race point of Brechin for the 2nd race a distance of 66 miles we had 6 members sending 93 birds. Taking 1st club and 10th west section (488 birds competing) is John Cumming on a velocity of 850 with a blue yearling cock on roundabout. His sire is a J Strachan Wildermeersch while the dam is a Jan Aarden via G Mair of Wales. 2nd club is Hugh Broadley on 848 with a blue chequer hen flying natural, she is a Jan Aarden from his long distance birds. 3rd club is Ian Coull with a velocity of 844 with a 2 year old blue pied cock flying spare he is a Paul Woolliss of Hull bloodlines. G Russell won the pools and returns were good for such a low velocity. For the 3rd race flown on the 30th April from Thornton a distance of 102 to 104 miles to the majority of members within the club and taking 1st club and 6th west section (851 birds) is that man again John Cumming with a velocity of 1273. He timed a yearling blue hen flying roundabout her dam is a daughter from ‘Poppy’ winner of 1st open SNFC Ypres for Stuart Maskame of Peterhead; her sire was bought at the federation sale and was donated by Ronnie Wilson of Keith. John is also 2nd club again with a yearling doing 1194 this blue chequer hen was also on roundabout. Her dam was bred by Derek Hay from Kirkintilloch while the sire is from Doug Feaks of Elgin. 3rd club is yours truly Gavin Russell with a blue cock on 1193 he was sent flying natural, his sire & dam are Belge rung Gyselbrechts purchased from Walter Ritchie of Elgin. John Cumming won the pools with his 1st bird and returns were not bad being 80 to 100% at the time of writing this report. I hope is what you are looking for Joe, many thanks for adding us to your column yours Gavin Russell’. There is no problem Gavin good to have you on board as one of the race result press officers. Pentland Hill’s Federation News from Andy Miller who informs us that the federation were at Tow Law (2) for their old bird race flown on Saturday 30th April 2016 with the convoy sent by 15 clubs with 3506 birds liberated at 08-55 hours into a light west wind. This was a good race with slight delay after the first arrivals, and then we had 99% returns. Taking the number one spot this week is the Willie Kinnear & sons partnership from Danderhall club their blue chequer cock known as the ‘Christmas Cock’ being the winner. This 4 year old was bred by Royal Oak Lofts, his sire is a top stock cock bred by Moore & Ogden from Wall Lunt & Greens ‘Gem 32’ and ‘Knockout Cock’ being sire of federation and combine winners for John Baker of Latchford. Dam is also from Moore & Ogden in fact she won 2 x 1st prizes and was dam of many prize winners she is also from Wall Lunt & Green partnership. As a youngster the Christmas cock won 2nd club 2nd federation 1588 birds from Ridsdale £58.50. He then won 1st club 1st open Ridsdale Any Age race 124 birds winning £276.40. He was then entered into the Morpeth Christmas race and won 1st club 1st open 257 birds winning £1615.50. As a yearling he won 10th club 22nd federation 1593 birds Wetherby £393. 40. From the Tow Law race he won 1st club 4th federation 1586 birds and £51.60. He was then entered into the Morpeth Christmas race and won 1st club 1st open 184 birds winning £1685.50. As a 2 year old he won 17th club from Newark 255 birds and £128.60 then raced from Tow Law he won 23rd club 470 birds and won £73.00. He was again sent to Tow Law and won 1st club 4th federation 1586 birds winning £51.60. In 2015 he was sent to Ridsdale and won 6th club 19th federation 1706 birds winning £332.50. He then had the next 2 Tow Law races and won 15th club 501 birds winning £394.00 in the first event then won 9th club 512 birds and won £142.00. He was then sent to Ripon and won 5th club 8th federation 1907 birds winning £413.50. This year 2016 he was won 7th club 10th federation 1223 birds from Ridsdale winning £425.00 then into the Tow Law race point to win 13th club 386 birds and £42.00 and now this week he wins 1st club 1st federation 2018 birds and £668.00 for his efforts. This cocks total winnings to date is a staggering £6.751.10 truly outstanding and he has proved by the above results that he is an exceptional pigeon well done to Willie and son’s Barry and James. Second federation is G Verth of Danderhall with Willie Pryde & son of Easthouses in 3rd 5th 7th & 8th open places. A McLaughlin of Edinburgh Premier is 4th with L Mitchell of Castlebrae in 6th spot. Owenson Brothers from Danderhall are 9th with W Hume junior of Danderhall in 10th place. Barry Kinnear Who topped Pentland Fed Club Winners are as follows; Danderhall 558 birds; 1st Kinnear 2nd Verth 3rd Owenson Easthouses 407 birds; 1st 2nd & 3rd W Pryde & Son Edinburgh Premier 322 birds; 1st McLaughlin 2nd & 3rd Gilchrist Castlebrae 190 birds; 1st & 3rd L Mitchell 2nd A Mitchell Sighthill 194 birds; 1st & 2nd Miller 3rd Bremner Woodburn 250 birds; 1st & 2nd Lapinski 3rd Halley & Kelly Arniston 44 birds; 1st Mercer 2nd Ray Gilmerton 175 birds; 1st Bennet 2nd & 3rd Robertson Bonnyrigg 189 birds; 1st Brown 2nd Benson 3rd J Dewar Edinburgh West 196 birds; 1st & 2nd I Bennett 3rd C Bennett Loanhead 184 birds; 1st Smith 2nd Simpson 3rd Murray Rosewell 112 birds; 1st 2nd & 3rd Winter New Lothian 71 birds; Traprain 518 birds; 1st 2nd & 3rd Thomson Others 58 birds New Lothian RPC from the Tow Law (2) for their old bird race flown on Saturday 30th April 2016 with the convoy sent by 69 lofts with 2018 birds competing. Taking top prize and winning £472 is the W Kinnear & son’s partnership from Danderhall. Club mate G Verth is 2nd with Easthouses Willie Pryde & son with 4 pigeons to win 3rd 5th 7th & 8th open places. A McLaughlin of Edinburgh Premier is 4th with L Mitchell of Castlebrae in 6th spot. Owenson Brothers from Danderhall are 9th with club mate W Hume junior in 10th place. Good SNFC Birds This week I start with John Baillie of Tranent the press officer of East of Scotland federation. John has a very good chequer cock SU11ML 195 who was raced for 2 years at Loanhead in Midlothian before John moved house to the East of Scotland village of Tranent. He has won 2 section prizes and been 3 times on the National Gold Cup result from Alencon and therefore requires 1 more section prize to win his SNFC Silver Award and hopefully he can achieve this in 2016. His performances are as follows; in 2013 he won 134th open flying 532 miles from Alencon. The following year he was 16th section B 44th open again from Alencon then he was broken to his new loft location and again came up ‘trumps’ by winning 32nd section B 102nd open flying a distance of 535 miles. We wish John well with this chequer cock in this year’s national events. We now come to section C to the father and son loft of Jim and Gary Peggie of Methil whose chequer hen SU12F 5090 has won 3 times from inland nationals. In 2013 she won 34th section C 109th open from Maidstone a distance of 374 miles. Then in 2015 she was entered into the first national from Billericay a distance of 347 miles and she won 37th section C 107th open she was then sent to Eastbourne a distance of 400 miles and she won 6th section C 21st open so therefore another 2 section prizes in the inland national and she can achieve a Meritorious Inland Bronze Award wishing Jim and Gary all the best for the future. We now move to the North section to the Peterhead loft of Dave & Callum McDougall whose red cock SU11NE 1331 has won 3 section awards however requires one more from over the channel to achieve a SNFC Silver Award. His performances are as follows in 2013 he won 9th section G from Maidstone a distance of 447 miles. The following year he was entered into the Ypres race and won 7th section G 103rd open flying 499 miles. Then in 2015 he was sent to the Gold Cup race from Alencon a distance of 633 miles and won 3rd section G 83rd open. Once again we wish Dave and Callum all the very best in the national races and hope his red cock achieves his award. Joe’s Joke Sneezing: A man and a woman were sitting beside each other in the first class section of an airplane. The woman sneezed, took out a tissue, wiped her nose, and then visibly shuddered for ten to fifteen seconds. The man went back to his reading. A few minutes later, the woman sneezed again, took a tissue, wiped her nose, and then shuddered violently once more. Assuming that the woman might have a cold, the man was still curious about the shuddering. A few more minutes passed when the woman sneezed yet again. As before she took a tissue, wiped her nose, her body shaking even more than before. Unable to restrain his curiosity, the man turned to the woman and said, 'I couldn't help but notice that you've sneezed three times, wiped your nose and then shuddered violently. Are you OK?' 'I am sorry if I disturbed you, I have a very rare medical condition; whenever I sneeze I have an orgasm'. The man, more than a bit embarrassed, was still curious. 'I have never heard of that condition before' he said. 'Are you taking anything for it?' The woman nodded, 'Pepper.' Please continue to keep the news flowing; to Joe Murphy Mystical Rose Cottage 2 Flutorum Avenue Thornton by Kirkcaldy KY1 4BD or phone 01592 770331 or Email to joejmurphy1@gmail.com REMEMBER THE J IN THE MIDDLE or log onto www.elimarpigeons.com www.fancierchat.co.uk and www.pigeon-chat.co.uk also www.pigeonbasics.com who wish my weekly contribution portfolio on pigeon topics from Scotland. © Compiled by Joe Murphy

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