Guernsey races
Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 9:45 pm
Today I raced with the BBC from Guernsey. The BICC were also at Guernsey and Trev sent there.
The BICC birds were liberated first at 7.00am, with the BBC going up at 7.15am.
The 2 races liberated from the same place just 15 mins apart had different results.
In the BICC the winner was in the central section North of Reading doing 1595ypm. Second was Dave & John Staddon from near me in the west with the third pigeon being in Wales. Then they were fairly well spread between the SW, NW & Central sections. Trev is provisionally 137th section 378th open doing 1046ypm. Trev had 3 drop together and got his final 2 later in the day.
In the BBC the winner was also North of Reading. The winner here was doing 1627, so a bit faster than the BICC winner. But so were most of the top 20 from section D. The early ones from over my way were only just in the first 50. I was provisionally 39th section 184th open doing 1192ypm. The bad thing from my point of view is that I only had one more of my 8 birds just over an hour behind my first. So still 6 out. 3 of these flew Guernsey last week. The other 3 were having their first race. My first one was of my own breeding and was 6th bird last week returning while I was up the club. She trapped into the young bird loft having lost her cock last weekend and missed the pad. So I had to catch her and put her over the pad myself losing a couple of minutes. My second bird was a yearling cock having his first race this year. He is a red grizzle that I bred for Murray last year.
I don’t have a race next weekend but am back at Guernsey again in a fortnight. Following a meeting with DEFRA by Ian Evans it looks like we could be going over to France come the middle of June. The thoughts from the BICC is that this would probably be fro St Philbert du Purple, 274 miles to me. I will be quite happy to give the yearlings that have been coming from Guernsey this race and may then stop them for the season depending on the race program.
The BICC birds were liberated first at 7.00am, with the BBC going up at 7.15am.
The 2 races liberated from the same place just 15 mins apart had different results.
In the BICC the winner was in the central section North of Reading doing 1595ypm. Second was Dave & John Staddon from near me in the west with the third pigeon being in Wales. Then they were fairly well spread between the SW, NW & Central sections. Trev is provisionally 137th section 378th open doing 1046ypm. Trev had 3 drop together and got his final 2 later in the day.
In the BBC the winner was also North of Reading. The winner here was doing 1627, so a bit faster than the BICC winner. But so were most of the top 20 from section D. The early ones from over my way were only just in the first 50. I was provisionally 39th section 184th open doing 1192ypm. The bad thing from my point of view is that I only had one more of my 8 birds just over an hour behind my first. So still 6 out. 3 of these flew Guernsey last week. The other 3 were having their first race. My first one was of my own breeding and was 6th bird last week returning while I was up the club. She trapped into the young bird loft having lost her cock last weekend and missed the pad. So I had to catch her and put her over the pad myself losing a couple of minutes. My second bird was a yearling cock having his first race this year. He is a red grizzle that I bred for Murray last year.
I don’t have a race next weekend but am back at Guernsey again in a fortnight. Following a meeting with DEFRA by Ian Evans it looks like we could be going over to France come the middle of June. The thoughts from the BICC is that this would probably be fro St Philbert du Purple, 274 miles to me. I will be quite happy to give the yearlings that have been coming from Guernsey this race and may then stop them for the season depending on the race program.