I'm not sure what's going to happen with the Meadow race. The first race is scheduled for next Saturday from 300 kilometres but they seem to be a little bit behind in the training. Yesterday they went 100 kilometres and had a very good fly, the first 1000 or so were all home in reasonable time.
They are going well, but they may need to shorten the first race or put it back a week. They did last year and it worked well.
The first race is from nearly 200 miles which is a fair jump, it sorts them out a bit. The second race is about 250 miles and the final is about 420 miles. It's a test for what are only 6 to 9 month old mostly.
Devo and I had two in it last year. One, Free Beer, did the whole series. The final was a blow home, very fast, so two weeks latter they had a repeat final and she did it again. Good little pigeon.Flew 420 miles twice in a fortnight at 9 months of age.
Her daughter VeeBee is in for us this year and is making nice progress through the training. That family have a strong "get home" gene.
The final is worth Au$75,000 to the winner so there's a bit on offer.
We've got pigeons in lofts all over the place competing for about half a million dollars in various races. I'm not greedy. A little share will do.