Glastonbury FC
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:19 pm
Well today we had our first race of the season from Stoney Cross, just 34 miles for me. I hadn’t managed to get any training in and it was the first time these birds have been raced on Widowhood. I sent all 11 cocks.
They were liberated at 10.45 in a light NNE wind. They had waited to liberate to allow it to warm up a bit. I had thought that anything before 11.30 wouldn’t be far behind. Around 11.25 I had 2 drop together. Both yours Buster. First bird was “Steve” the B.PD two year old. Second was the B.CH.PD yearling 25. They trapped very well and went straight into their boxes. But when I went into the loft I noticed they hadn’t registered on the clock. I picked one of the cocks up and put him on the pad. It still didn’t register even though the clock seemed ok. I unplugged the ETS and plugged it back in. By this time I had had another 3 trap. I had to put all 5 cocks back over the pads. So all 5 were on the clock in a minute. So I obviously lost a fair bit of time. I had 3 more 5 minutes later, although one of those wouldn’t trap. Your Mealy Buster turned up at 12.03 and the 10th of the 11 at 12.55. The last one didn’t turn up until I was up the club.
I was a bit behind but wouldn’t have been far away if the clock had worked. On the whole though happy with the way they came.
The club result was:
Looking at some of the other club results in the combine it looks like our club will take a lot of the top 50 in the combine. Mine may even get in there.
They were liberated at 10.45 in a light NNE wind. They had waited to liberate to allow it to warm up a bit. I had thought that anything before 11.30 wouldn’t be far behind. Around 11.25 I had 2 drop together. Both yours Buster. First bird was “Steve” the B.PD two year old. Second was the B.CH.PD yearling 25. They trapped very well and went straight into their boxes. But when I went into the loft I noticed they hadn’t registered on the clock. I picked one of the cocks up and put him on the pad. It still didn’t register even though the clock seemed ok. I unplugged the ETS and plugged it back in. By this time I had had another 3 trap. I had to put all 5 cocks back over the pads. So all 5 were on the clock in a minute. So I obviously lost a fair bit of time. I had 3 more 5 minutes later, although one of those wouldn’t trap. Your Mealy Buster turned up at 12.03 and the 10th of the 11 at 12.55. The last one didn’t turn up until I was up the club.
I was a bit behind but wouldn’t have been far away if the clock had worked. On the whole though happy with the way they came.
The club result was:
Looking at some of the other club results in the combine it looks like our club will take a lot of the top 50 in the combine. Mine may even get in there.