Trickiest conditions

[Diamond dave]

Just wondered what everyone thought is the trickiest conditions for racing.

 

[Guest TAMMY_1]

DEPENDS ON THE BIRD IN MY OPINION, WHAT COULD BE HARD FOR ONE COULD BE EASY FOR ANOTHER.BUT ULTIMATELY IT IS THE WEATHER THAT IS THE DECIDING FACTOR.

[Guest]

A clear blue sky

[peterpau]

Dead sky with no wind can be very difficult

[Mike Lycett]

Like we had on Saturday

 

Full cloud cover, restricted visibility, bit of East in the wind, early season - BEGGING for problems & we got 'em

[Diamond dave]

I've always found those problems in a "variable"wind.

 

Mike - do you send your yearlings in these early races?

[square_peg]

VERY STRONG TAIL WIND     SHOULD BE EASY BUT YEARLINGS ALLWAYS STRUGGLE   ALMOST EVERY TIME AN OLD TIMER WINS THE RACE                            YOUNGSTERS NEVER LIKE A LEADEN SKY   ALWAYS A STEAR UP WHEN WE GET THAT

[Pompey Mick]

I've always found that the SE wind produces the worst conditions here on the South Coast, it always seems to be a 'dirty' wind with lots of pollution from the Continent producing murky conditions.

[Tony C]

When the sky is the same colour as the Thames, we're in trouble :o

[AlanWilkins]

Sky wind rain dont matter you start waiting for um n these no wild birds flying about you can bet your in for a thumping. Those are the ones i worrie about

[Mike Lycett]

Agree with aln re: the wild birds...

 

Dave - our yearlings will be introduced into the programme on 29th april

[johnny11]

 

Did folks experience a tricky race on saturday.

 

We Did! North Wirral Fed

[rlez]

Did folks experience a tricky race on saturday.

 

We Did! North Wirral Fed

 

hi john

we were up at 12 had all my 8 birds b4 i went to clocks at 3.30

 

les

[Guest]

The UNC held over till sunday as it was the exact type of day as described above, dead still and not a wild bird to be heard. We were liberated on sunday and had good returns with all birds coming on a direct line of flight due to a strong west wind. Totally agree with the still day theory and you can always tell when you are going to have bad returns when you see birds going in all directions. Another type of weather is just before a thunder storm and there is static in the air, but any convoyer liberating on a day when thunder is expected shouldnt be in the job.

[speedbird]

had a treadfull race sat with bad returns think no sun poor visibility with north east wind asking for problems

[Guest]

It was the same for use for our Bourges race Rose, and we had a terrible race, I didnt get one till 2pm the next day, but I suppose thats always going to be our problem with channel racing, to get perfect weather over that distance takes some doing. I was told that our convoyer got so much stick last year that he will not liberate this year unless he sees blue sky at the race point. I would'nt do a convoyers job for all the money in the world.

[Guest]

That must have been the same weekend as ours, we were held at bourges 3 days, so our birds were in the basket for 5 days then released in to a strong head wind, which I felt was cruelty.

[Mike Lycett]

John

 

Loadsa Feds had bad racing on Saturday.   Earlier they went the more thwy struggled - generally speaking of course