BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION - 12-12-24 - Elimar Pigeon Services Limited

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BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION.

Saturday November 16^th saw the annual prize presentation of the Burton & South Derbyshire Federation, held at The Beeches in Ashby De La Zouch.

44 members and guests sat down for a 3 course meal, which was followed by the prize presentation and the draw for the 2025 young birds which were very kindly donated by some top lofts both locally and across the UK, which helped raise funds for both the Federation and the Air Ambulance charity.

Before I go on to the details of the prize winners, I’d like to thank Alan Houldsworth for taking the photos, as I was unable to attend due to being at my grand daughter’s birthday fireworks party. Guests for the evening were Howard Winstanley and his good lady Lin, and Howard presented the following prizes; Ronnie Dakin & Son of Stretton for 1^st fed Marlborough, this was the first time Ron had topped any fed, well done mate.

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Ronnie Dakin with Howard Winstanley

Fred Turner of Holbrook was the winner of 4th Breeder Buyer Weymouth, and £71-99.

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Fred Turner (R) 4th Breeder Buyer

Mr & Mrs Graham Evans of Castle Gresley also won £71-99 as breeders of the 4^th B/B prize winner for Fred.

Alan Houldsworth(L) with Graham Evans

Charlie Murfin of Swadlincote was the breeder and buyer of 7^th Weymouth B/B winning £127-54.

Charlie Murfin (R)

Alan Peach of Etwall was the breeder of the 5th prize winner, and buyer of the 9^th prize winner, in the Weymouth B/B winning £127-54.

Alan Peach (R)

Ray & Jean Lees of Castle Gresley were buyers of the 5^th & 6^th prize winners and breeders of the 6^th prize winner in the Weymouth B/B, winning £191-31.

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Jean Lees (R)

Davis, Wright & Sons of Swadlincote Town, 1^st Fed Weymouth OB; 1^st Fed Stow on the Wold YB; 1^st & 8^th Weymouth OB inland SR winning £39-04 plus the £67 nomination, and breeders of 3^rd B/B Weymouth race winning £88-39, total winnings £194-43. They also won best YB of 2024 in the fed with 24 S 63444; this is out of a Gordon Bros Wijnant x Debbie Fearn. The sire is out of “Champ” and “Golden Eggs”, the dam is out of “88” and a grand daughter of “Hideaway” and “Sweetie”, this same pair bred a fed topper in 2023.

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Malc Wright of Davis Wright & Sons (R) with Howard Winstanley

Phil Bourke of Stretton was next, winning £207-62 for the 8th prize in the Futurity race out of Blandford.

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Phil & Jack Bourke

Russ Bailey of Holbrook was 1^st Fed Marlborough; and bred the 4^th prize winner in the Blandford Futurity race winning £237-28, and also bred the 9^th prize winner in the Weymouth B/B race winning a further £63-77, total winnings of £301-05.

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Russ Bailey (r)1st fed Marlborough and breeder of 4th Futurity race

Mark Nesbitt of Hill Ridware was next up; he won an incredible 7 x 1^st feds with his Old Birds, out of Cheltenham; Frome (x2); Yeovil (x2); and Weymouth (x2). He was also 3^rd; 4^th; 6^th; 7^th; and 9^th in the Weymouth OB SR winning £47-58 and was 2^nd Breeder buyer Weymouth with his own yb, winning £258-78, and total winnings £306-36. Mark also won best OB and Bird of the year in 2024 with his good Lambrecht x Leo Hereman yearling hen “05”.

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Mark Nesbitt (R) winner of 7 x 1st Fed in 2024

Phil Whetton of Stretton was next up, winning £415-24 for being the breeder and buyer of the 9^th prize winner in the Futurity race out of Blandford. Phil also won 1^st fed Stow on the Wold.

Phil Whetton (R) 1st fed Stow on the Wold

Runner up prize winner for 2024 was Kev Matthews of Holbrook; Kev was 2^nd & 3^rd in the Futurity race out of Blandford with his own Jos Cools youngsters, winning £1483. He also won 1^st fed Marlborough with his youngsters. Well done Kev, a great season’s work.

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Kev Matthews (R) 1st fed Marlborough and 2nd & 3rd Futurity

Top prize winner for 2024 was Kev Johnson of Hill Ridware, Kev was 1^st in the Blandford futurity race with his own youngster, winning £1483; and then followed up by also winning the Breeder Buyer race out of Weymouth, again with his own YB, winning another £422-76; he also bred the 8^th prize winner in the breeder Buyer race, winning a further £63-77.Total winnings of £1969-53, a brilliant performance Kev.

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Kev Johnson (r) with Howard Winstanley

Absentee prize winners were as follows; Mark Collins of Swadlincote winning £88-39 in the breeder Buyer race;

Mr & Mrs Jim Whitehouse & Sons of Hill Ridware winners of £63-77 in the breeder Buyer;

Stan Hall of Osmaston park, winning £237-28 in the Futurity race;

Chris parker of Swadlincote winning £207-62 in the Futurity race;

Mr & Mrs Trevor Collins & Son of Swadlincote winning £415-24 in the Futurity race;

Brian & Sue Stone of Holbrook winning £415-24 in the Futurity race;

Pete & Lil Brown of Swadlincote winning £415-24 in the Futurity race;

Mr & Mrs Darren Johnson of Holbrook winning £207-62 in the Futurity race;

Litherland & Bailey £207-62 in the Futurity race;

C Leadbeater & Sons of Hill Ridware with £26-84 in the Weymouth OB SR; and Jim Parker & Son of Winshill with £8-54 in the Weymouth OB SR.

Totals paid out in 2024 were as follows; Weymouth OB SR £189; Breeder Buyer £1640; Futurity Race £5932, total for the season of £7761-00.

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West side meets the East side boys

The fed ran a raffle throughout 2024 for federation funds, for 2025 YB’s very kindly donated by some of the top fanciers both locally and across the UK. The raffle raised £1038 of which £259-50 was passed on to the Air Ambulance charity, a very worthy cause indeed. Donors and winners are as follows;