Europa Classic One Loft Pigeon Racing

[stoker121]

Can anyone tell me if Europa One Loft are joining the Welsh South Road National for 2010 y/bs and 2011

 

John

[Guest tom123]

im lead to believe that talks are ongoing with the wsr national for 2011 but like otthrs ive only read it on the europa web site

 

tom

[Tenny]

Following the smash from Thurso Derek issued a statement on the Europa site. Here attached is most of it.

 

However for a number of years now, North road racing into Wales has been very hard at the distance not helped I am sure by the shrinking number of birds on that route. That not withstanding it is probably time for us to have a change! And with this in mind negotiations are already under way with South road organizations with a view to be flying South in 2011.

 

This radical departure for the Europa Classic YB and Europa 500 OB will also coincide with new management for 2011 which will see Derek Nicholls relinquish control of the Business to a new management structure, and a new Loft Manager in charge of the daily running of the place while he spends more time away from home, in particular at the racing lofts he is involved with in Belgium and Yorkshire.

 

The young bird race of 2011 onwards will be South Road but of the same distance, that being 240 miles approx but over the English Channel. The old bird race will be of about 350 miles from Tours or somewhere similar. The reason is we really do not want to run races where we have a load of visitors for the main race and you just don't see any birds on the day! it's great when it works like last years Thurso where they tumbled in from 500 miles but as we have seen this year you can take a real bashing from that distance! so we think 350 miles is long enough to test them without risking another smash race, this also helps people when they select birds to send to the race I am sure it will in the future become clear, that you want a classic middle distance racer not a sprinter not a distance bird but a specialist middle distance bird to win the Europa whether it be 240 miles for youngsters or 350 miles for old birds. Anyway, this is the vision that will be taken forward by the new management team, who will hope to carry with them all the existing Europa customers, and hopefully a lot of new ones as well, all inspired by the challenge of winning Classic Big Money races, while competing for national honours over the English Channel to home here at Cardiff the capital of Wales.

 

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