Barcelona !

[king]

1 CS1 Andrei Bargaoanu Basingstoke GB20C04292 690 162 11 0 34 2 819.890 896.642
2 CS2 M Gilbert Winkfield, W GB21V98307 697 1030 12 9 19 2 788.760 862.598
3 CS3 M Gilbert Winkfield, W GB20B06273 697 1030 12 20 21 2 782.692 855.963
4 CS4 M Gilbert Winkfield, W GB21B07300 697 1030 13 9 22 2 756.829 827.678
5 ES1 J Clarke & Dtr. Selling GB18N45523 673 1410 13 1 6 2 735.122 803.939
6 ES2 L & K Buddle Dover GB18B00192 663 18 12 43 53 2 731.891 800.406
7 ES3 G M Preece & Son Dover GB20C46750 665 492 13 12 32 2 720.242 787.666
8 ES4 G M Preece & Son Dover GB21D04157 665 492 13 23 53 2 714.784 781.698
9 CS5 M Gilbert Winkfield, W GB20B06292 697 1030 14 40 20 2 713.098 779.854

[MIL]

I meant Buddle not Bulled

Bloody phone

[Buster121]

I meant Buddle not Bulled

Bloody phone

Kevin and Lee are having a good season this year

[wynands56]

well done all who timed congratulations to the winner

[NeilA]

8 pigeons within 1 hour.

https://youtu.be/jXg_wOsLcP4?si=8XsDcUPJYhvwtC0x

Great that Devo thanks for posting it

[Buster121]

8 pigeons within 1 hour.

https://youtu.be/jXg_wOsLcP4?si=8XsDcUPJYhvwtC0x

Brilliant performance congratulations, that one had a lucky escape

[MIL]

I see the BICC Barcelona winner this weekend was 4th Barcelona last year

A terrific hen that

[MIke Lycett]

The Dutch are masters at this late night / early morning racing

I was on 12hr nights last year watching them time in at 01:00, 02:00 and 03:00 in the Marseille race
These birds were having like 19 hrs plus on the wing

You might say ‘they have the terrain’ but very few birds are gallant enough to stick that time on the chin

We touched on "hours on the wing" on another thread recently

Made me cast my mind back to this race from Marseilles

The Dutch were timing in in this race at 01:00, 02:00, 03:00 etc in the morning, with some of the pigeons having 19 hrs + on the wing

Now, flat terrain or not, it's some balls to keep going for 19 hrs

[Diamond Dave]

I have a good friend who is on very good terms with Rieks Lonsaine from Holland. He won the international from Marseille a couple of years back with a bird called Blue Lucy. ( I have 2 hens in my stock shed that are from the Rieks loft and are loosely related to Blue Lucy - 1 from my good friend and 1 with great thanks to Charlton( Dave) off here)
My mate Jim has visited the Lonsaine lofts and swapped babies with him on a couple of occasions.
He said that the lofts are totally set up for night time clocking with the lofts in the middle of a field and the whole field has lights all over it. Must be like a beacon to the birds coming home.

[Steve Howells]

The Dutch are masters at this late night / early morning racing

I was on 12hr nights last year watching them time in at 01:00, 02:00 and 03:00 in the Marseille race
These birds were having like 19 hrs plus on the wing

You might say ‘they have the terrain’ but very few birds are gallant enough to stick that time on the chin

We touched on "hours on the wing" on another thread recently

Made me cast my mind back to this race from Marseilles

The Dutch were timing in in this race at 01:00, 02:00, 03:00 etc in the morning, with some of the pigeons having 19 hrs + on the wing

Now, flat terrain or not, it's some balls to keep going for 19 hrs

The terrain is only flat towards the finish line, plenty of hills on route. I’ve a friend who lives in Germany but on the boarder so he can fly in the ZLU and he tells me they get night flyers every year although not many. He won best marathon pigeon at the olympiad in 2014 ( I think) and twice that year he timed birds in during the early hours of the morning. Remarkable because he lives in a very rural location so no lights to follow.