Champbourke08 wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2026 9:33 pm
What about you dave ?
I started my distance journey with the Van Hees and Hagens but soon realised they didn't go far enough.
My current family are from the lines of Bob Beasants Noble Dream/Tuffnut lines.
Stock from the Sunderland partnership of McSween and Sexton including stock from the Marseilles Int winner of Rieks Lonsaine (Holland)
Top Tornado lines of Edmund Tournier (Holland)
Stock from Stan Harding (Midlands)
The family are still work in progress but I do feel they will get me closer to where I want to be.
Fingers crossed for both of us mate.
Sounds like you have some good ones for the distance what ones have shown for you so far at the 2 races you mentioned your section winner ?
I always think the guy from Salisbury Andy parsons is one I would go to if in time I wanted to try the distance him and Mark Bulled would be my two
After that I have no knowledge unless I could get the real Padfield pigeons then I would put them in the mix
I don’t know a thing about continental pigeons of any type so I would be useless picking them
The 3 names are built on years of performance
The section winner from Perpignan was a Van Hee
Neil had them when I first decided to have a go at the distance. Great birds bur didn't quite get the distance I had hoped for. The single entry fro Barcelona was also a Van Hee. I think these were a bit like the plodders you were talking about Neil. That was a few years ago now but I'm convinced I have the tools for the job now and hope to start seeing some good signs this year.
sounds like you both have the birds for the channel racing, hope the birds do well for you both this year.
When is the channel race and is there a few races ?
Hopefully for the birds the weather picks up and they race on Saturday.
will you be putting your results on Neil it'll be good to see how you and a few of the other people on here get on
Champbourke08 wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2026 9:33 pm
What about you dave ?
I started my distance journey with the Van Hees and Hagens but soon realised they didn't go far enough.
My current family are from the lines of Bob Beasants Noble Dream/Tuffnut lines.
Stock from the Sunderland partnership of McSween and Sexton including stock from the Marseilles Int winner of Rieks Lonsaine (Holland)
Top Tornado lines of Edmund Tournier (Holland)
Stock from Stan Harding (Midlands)
The family are still work in progress but I do feel they will get me closer to where I want to be.
Fingers crossed for both of us mate.
The Bob Beasants Noble Dream/Tuff Nut lines are though a bird I once owned 'Little Tuff-Nut' he was the smallest cock bird I ever had. Brian Denneys base birds were Van Hees bought at LPW in the late 70s before he raced in the NFC. They were responsible for his Conintinal Queen family, which were the base of his NFC team of birds. I still have a Van Hee cock in the loft an 11 year old bred by Dixon & Sons (Ian Dixon) of York son of his 3 times Bordeaux cock flying 629 miles.
Tomorrow we're look at forecast and it be totally different. Bbc ,met office dead opposite at moment I hope we race Saturday as planned can't see it raining 8 hours solid in April,,and all these 0.1 mm 0.4mm rain its a joke that ain't even rain .
