Bart , I reckon our birds come up the east then attempt to cut across once they get over the border. This is blatantly obvious when birds in the Eyemouth area are timed in before ours on occasions.
The First Sartilly race is sorely missed and I remember the attempt to revive it when we had 2 Falaise races in 2004, the first one was a perfect cobweb blower for the other races......