NEHU Queens Cup Clermont 8/06/08

[Guest j.bamling]

Great result for me 1st club and 3rd club, 3rd fed and  3rd combine

 

1ST GARNETT BROS. + VARTY DEAN BANK VEL. 1127.6.

2ND PARKER + SON MIDDLESTONE MOOR VEL. 1122.6.

3RD J. BUTTLE, SONS + GRAND-SON AYCLIFFE VEL. 1108.9.

4TH + 5TH ATKINSON + THEXTON BROWNEY VEL. 1108.8 + 1105.2.

6TH D. BARBER COXHOE VEL. 1090.5.

7TH SNOWBALL + SON LOW SPENNYMOOR VEL. 1089.6.

8TH T. METCALFE BROWNEY VEL. 1081.8.

9TH TAYLORSON BROS. BROOM VEL. 1077.6.

10TH E. JOHNSON CLEVELAND BRIDGE VEL. 1066.1.

 

Well Done !!!!

[Blue Chequer Pied]

I got my 2 first ones 5.13 this morning gets 1st club 7th fed

5 in our fed on the night

Well done Jim, another good performance.

All the best, Paul.

 

 

[Guest Paulo]

Crap race for me sent 5 and only got one back. 412 miles to me think I maybe was getting carried away and expecting a bit much for yearlings. Still they did Arras with no trouble but that was a WDA race.

 

We always seem to have crap racing when the birds are away with the up north. The folkstone race was an example of this. Personally I had a good race from folkstone with decent returns and not being too far away from the winner but a lot of people in the club and fed dropped tons of birds guess it was my turn to feel the UNC jinx this weekend.

 

In my opinion the birds shouldn't have been libbed as late as they were in the day. Libbed at 10.00 am ensured that they had to do the distance in the height of the mid day heat and this has shown in the crap returns most people have had.

 

Lad who won our club and the fed has only had one back out of the 10 he sent and one of the birds he's lost is a two year old with quite a few chalks from the channel. Last year it was 1st club Arras, 1st fed Arras and 20th WDA Arras.

 

The lad who was 4th club for the channel lives for the channel races sent 19 and he only had 3 back. One of the top men in our fed only had one bird back and he cleans up and wins good positions in the amal.

 

With it being the Queens Cup and a national I bet theres too much political pressure on the convoyer to lib. I personally find it hard to believe that it went from the weather being totally crap in france and unsuitable for racing to acceptable conditions in the space of a few hours.

[madmaxlofts]

 

Well Done !!!!

 

excellent result mate realy well done

well done to all that got them on the day

[Guest j.bamling]

Crap race for me sent 5 and only got one back. 412 miles to me think I maybe was getting carried away and expecting a bit much for yearlings. Still they did Arras with no trouble but that was a WDA race.

 

We always seem to have crap racing when the birds are away with the up north. The folkstone race was an example of this. Personally I had a good race from folkstone with decent returns and not being too far away from the winner but a lot of people in the club and fed dropped tons of birds guess it was my turn to feel the UNC jinx this weekend.

 

In my opinion the birds shouldn't have been libbed as late as they were in the day. Libbed at 10.00 am ensured that they had to do the distance in the height of the mid day heat and this has shown in the crap returns most people have had.

 

Lad who won our club and the fed has only had one back out of the 10 he sent and one of the birds he's lost is a two year old with quite a few chalks from the channel. Last year it was 1st club Arras, 1st fed Arras and 20th WDA Arras.

 

The lad who was 4th club for the channel lives for the channel races sent 19 and he only had 3 back. One of the top men in our fed only had one bird back and he cleans up and wins good positions in the amal.

 

With it being the Queens Cup and a national I bet theres too much political pressure on the convoyer to lib. I personally find it hard to believe that it went from the weather being totally crap in france and unsuitable for racing to acceptable conditions in the space of a few hours.

 

Its nothing to do with the U.N.C. mate we have had very few losses this year i never dropped 1 bird from folkstone, lillers or clermont you are racing in probably the worst organisation in the country ~The Durham Combine if thats not bad racing i dont know what is for one you have a kamakazie pilot for a convoyer the birds are not fed and watered properly and the wagans are pre war furnature wagons which heat up like a pressure cooker thats why they get bad losses i bet the W.D.A. club you fly in don't get as many birds lost  !!!!!!!

But you are right about the late liberation its no good when we have a late lib from an inland race we get a badun

and with the sun being so hot a lot will of folded

 

Lillers and Arras are a differant kettle of fish to Clermont i can send sprint based birds which win from Lillers or Arras

in 2000 we topped the Durham Combine from Lillers with a Blue Cock named the BattleShip he was a massive bird he won 2 weeks previous aswell from Ashford that was his limit 332 miles he could not fly clermont though 405 miles to me !!!!

[Guest j.bamling]

 

Its nothing to do with the U.N.C. mate we have had very few losses this year i never dropped 1 bird from folkstone, lillers or clermont you are racing in probably the worst organisation in the country ~The Durham Combine if thats not bad racing i dont know what is for one you have a kamakazie pilot for a convoyer the birds are not fed and watered properly and the wagans are pre war furnature wagons which heat up like a pressure cooker thats why they get bad losses i bet the W.D.A. club you fly in don't get as many birds lost  !!!!!!!

But you are right about the late liberation its no good when we have a late lib from an inland race we get a badun

and with the sun being so hot a lot will of folded

 

Lillers and Arras are a differant kettle of fish to Clermont i can send sprint based birds which win from Lillers or Arras

in 2000 we topped the Durham Combine from Lillers with a Blue Cock named the BattleShip he was a massive bird he won 2 weeks previous aswell from Ashford that was his limit 332 miles he could not fly clermont though 405 miles to me !!!!

 

the same thing with the cock what won clermont for me he was at bourges last year and came the 4th day not quite good enough yet he can win clermont

Its not the distance what beats them its the time on the wing !!!!!!!

[Guest Paulo]

Suppose its my fault a bit as well Jim. My dad checked the birds for me before they went but maybe I was pushing them a bit too much for yearlings just they had come great from Arras and I thought they'd do clearmont.

 

Problem is with me at the minute its my first season with the ob's and I don't know what half of them are bred off so its a case especially with the channel of just sending and see how they come.

 

Got 10 birds that have come good inland including one that got me a win in the club and the fed so they will form the basis of my inland team along with the best young birds from this years yb season. Then the older ones that aren't coming will go to the channel and see how they come.

 

Still was a bit of a shock to the system for me as have had very few birds lost inland and my first channel race. Guess clearmonts smashed me up.

 

 

[Guest Paulo]

How do you get on with the gabys then Jim? Cause the bird I'm most gutted about loosing was a gaby cock thats performed well inland and came good from arras? Is clearmont a bit too much for them do you think?

[pigeon1000]

been told unc convoyer heldover at 9am then orded to lib at 10am (By unc president) as only 100 birds sent from top end (sacrificed again so rest of unc gets a race???) Might only be 100 birds but a lot of men have put a lot of work into them birds just to be sacrificed for a later lib.

[ken]

how far do you fly from clearmount pigeon 1000

[pigeon1000]

459m for me

[davebuttle]

Crap race for me sent 5 and only got one back. 412 miles to me think I maybe was getting carried away and expecting a bit much for yearlings. Still they did Arras with no trouble but that was a WDA race.

 

We always seem to have crap racing when the birds are away with the up north. The folkstone race was an example of this. Personally I had a good race from folkstone with decent returns and not being too far away from the winner but a lot of people in the club and fed dropped tons of birds guess it was my turn to feel the UNC jinx this weekend.

 

In my opinion the birds shouldn't have been libbed as late as they were in the day. Libbed at 10.00 am ensured that they had to do the distance in the height of the mid day heat and this has shown in the crap returns most people have had.

 

Lad who won our club and the fed has only had one back out of the 10 he sent and one of the birds he's lost is a two year old with quite a few chalks from the channel. Last year it was 1st club Arras, 1st fed Arras and 20th WDA Arras.

 

The lad who was 4th club for the channel lives for the channel races sent 19 and he only had 3 back. One of the top men in our fed only had one bird back and he cleans up and wins good positions in the amal.

 

With it being the Queens Cup and a national I bet theres too much political pressure on the convoyer to lib. I personally find it hard to believe that it went from the weather being totally crap in france and unsuitable for racing to acceptable conditions in the space of a few hours.

 

Paulo,

how yer doing mate, little dc hen you gave me is paired up with a nice cock bird, who does well in distance, i was going to send him to clermont, glad i didnt I dont think he would have scored or possibly got back.

The bird i sent in his place, nest box above him won me 1st club 3rd fed and 3 combine, he was back on the day. I have dropped only 1 two yr old, but we have lads that have not got any back yet.

Keep losing young birds from the loft, i hate them, but we have got a lot of hawks back again.

You seem to be flying well enough, perhaps it may have been wise to hold them back for a year, but you can never tell.

 

Oh yes and we are the durham combine suicide club as Jim said, glad our birds went with the WDA to Clermont. Otherwise we could have been racing Saturday!!!

Catch yer later

Dave

[Guest Paulo]

 

Paulo,

how yer doing mate, little dc hen you gave me is paired up with a nice cock bird, who does well in distance, i was going to send him to clermont, glad i didnt I dont think he would have scored or possibly got back.

The bird i sent in his place, nest box above him won me 1st club 3rd fed and 3 combine, he was back on the day. I have dropped only 1 two yr old, but we have lads that have not got any back yet.

Keep losing young birds from the loft, i hate them, but we have got a lot of hawks back again.

You seem to be flying well enough, perhaps it may have been wise to hold them back for a year, but you can never tell.

 

Oh yes and we are the durham combine suicide club as Jim said, glad our birds went with the WDA to Clermont. Otherwise we could have been racing Saturday!!!

Catch yer later

Dave

 

Hi Dave glad you still have her hopefully she'll win something for you. Glad you have got such a good win especially so high in the combine. You'll have to have a look over something to see the new loft.