BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION.
Davis, Wright & Sons take top six in a far from straight forward race out of Stow on the Wold.
Saturday August 3rd saw our youngsters at the second race out of Stow in the Wold in Gloucestershire. After a cloudy and dull start to the day, the skies quickly lightened and it turned out another near perfect day weather wise for our young birds. The 1409 birds entered by 53 members were liberated by Alys at 11-05 in a west wind.
The leading birds made the expected ETA; but again there were a lot of birds that made hard work of it, they were coming all day. Some of the later birds were coming both out of the south and the north? There were a lot of birds on the transporter having their first race, and I would hazard a guess returns were probably around the 80-85% mark at the end of the day? In my club at Stretton, we sent 115 and had around 20 missing at nightfall, but I also heard of great returns on the day such as 38/39.
As expected the east side of the fed dominated the result, the light west wind wasn’t so much a factor, but they certainly had the drag this week, with good sends at Swadlincote; Osmaston Park and Holbrook.
Congratulations to the Hartshorne lofts of Davis, Wright & Sons flying at Swadlincote Town, they take the top six in the fed on 1460.9; 1460.3; 1459; 1458.9 (2); 1458.2 . The fed topper was a cheq pied Van den Bulck x Staf van Reet hen; her sire is “Kittel 82” who’s the number one son of “Blackpool Kittel”; her dam is a Best Kittel lines x Staf van Reet; she topped the fed in 2021 out of Honiton and is now in the stock shed; her mother was a winner of 7 x 1st and 1st fed Portland.
Davis, Wright & Sons 1st six Stow on the Wold(2)
Runner up was a blue cock; his sire a Kris Wijnant; who’s a son out of “The Champ” and “Golden Eggs” which were obtained from the Gordon Bros in Ireland. The dam of the blue cock is a daughter of “31616” when paired to a daughter of Tony & Lee Painter’s “Van Persie”; she is also the mother of “Fat Grizzle”.
GORDON BROS THE CHAMP & Top Wijnant hen Golden Eggs
3rd fed was a blue hen; her sire another Kris Wijnant; again a son out of “The Champ” and “Golden Eggs”; her dam a mealy pied hen on loan from Debbie Fearn, she is line bred to “Brokenwing”; this pair bred a fed topper last year.
4th fed was a cheq hen; her sire bred by T & D Fearn; and is line bred to “Brokenwing” and “Hideaway”; her dam another Kris Wijnant out of “The No 2 cock” when paired to a daughter of “The Champ” and “Golden Eggs”.
5th fed was a blue Hereman x Vandenabeele hen; bred by Litherland, Bailey & Harrison.
6th fed was a cheq cock, he’s nest mate to the cheq hen that was 4th fed.
7th fed on 1450.4 was Russ Bailey of Holbrook; Russ timing in a young cock out of M/M Lycett x Woodroffe bros stock.
Russ Bailey Holbrook winner
Kev Matthews of Holbrook took 8th; 9th; and 10th fed on 1450.1 (3) with his Jos Cools. His first a young hen; her sire is a grandson of “King Balthazar” when paired to “Super Cools Lady”; her dam is a grand daughter of “Cher Ami” and “Remco”. She was followed by two cocks; both the same way bred; their sire a grandson of “Primus”; their dam a granddaughter of “Speedy”. The parents of the Jos Cools are all owned by Andrew Wilton of Essex; and originate from Steve Foster.
Kev Matthews of Holbrook
Around the clubs,
At Stretton, 4 sent 115 and Phil Bourke was 1st & 2nd on 1392.6; 1392.0; the winner a cheq hen bred by Darren & Vicky Johnson; out of a pair that have bred winners previously; Phil purchased her in the fed futurity sale. Runner up was a blue Cattrysse cock; bred by Tony & lee Painter; he’s a grandson of “Olympic Taffy”; his dam is a grand daughter of Colin Lloyds NFC winner “King Arthur”.
Phil Whetton the previous week fed topper was 3rd & 4th on 1385; 1345; first home was a blue Hereman x van den Bulck cock; out of Bobby Walton and Bob Fenech stock. He was followed by a cheq Hereman hen out of Bobby Walton stock.
At Osmaston Park, 16 sent 355 and for the second week running Stan hall takes the top three. The winner on 1434 was a blue Pied Van den Bulck hen; she was followed by a cheq hen and a blue cock on 1422; 1420; both Van den Bulck x Dave Stone. Mick Stone was 4th club on 1403 with a blue van den Bulck hen.
At Holbrook, 7 sent 273 and the top four all appear in the fed top ten report above.
At Swadlincote; 11 sent 394 and Davis, Wright & Sons fed topping exploits appear in the report above.
Over at Hill Ridware on the west side of our fed; their youngsters found it a difficult day? 3 members sent 55 and Mr & Mrs Jim Whitehouse & Sons took the top four on 1121; 1120; 1118; 1116. The winner was a blue hen bred out of the best Simon Parkinson Jochems Van Hasselt stock; she’s out of “Special One” x “Sunday Girl” who was 1st MNFC Vire. The two hens in 3rd and 4th club were the same way bred.
Jim Whitehouse top four Hill Ridware.
Runner up was a blue Johan den Hartog hen.
At Winshill, 3 sent 83 and Liam Clamp took the top four on 1363.3; 1350.0; 1360; 1357. The winner was a red Stefaan Lambrecht hen out of stock from James Horne.
The next three were all bred by Mr & Mrs Lee Clamp & Sons; Runner up was a blue Vandenabeele x Hereman Cuester hen.
3rd club a Vandenabeele x hen; and 4th club was a pencil Vandenabeele hen; the same way bred as their fed topper in 2023.
Finally, at Etwall, 6 sent 98 and Alan Peach was 1st & 2nd on 1409; 1322; the winner a fed breeder buyer from Dave Stone of Windmill Loft fame; followed by a Jansenne.
Pete & Shirley Harrison were 3rd on 1264 and Paul Burton 4th on 1186.
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