BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION - 13-08-25

BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION.

Phil Bourke makes it back to back fed wins out of a very poor Hullavington race.

Saturday August 2^nd was as near as perfect a day as you could wish for to race pigeons, especially young birds. Dry, bright, blue skies, white fluffy clouds and a light NW wind.                                                                                   

We all thought we were in for a classic young bird race with great returns; but this turned out sadly to be far from what actually occurred. The leading birds made the expected velocity, I said to Phil Bourke,” try and beat the 2 hour mark for the 95 mile trip”; which his winner did by 27 seconds. Unfortunately after the initial rush, things dried up, a lot of later birds were still coming on line, but returns to some lofts can only be described as awful. Some lofts suffered a lot more than others, in Stretton the best returns on the day was 38/42, and the worse 25/38, returns were around the 80% mark. Also heard returns of 29/32 and 7/8 on the day, also there was a few birds home Sunday morning.            

I love this scribe’s job, but I hate reporting on races like this, horrible to see fanciers losing the young birds.

1316 birds entered by 52 members from 8 clubs were liberated at 10-40 in a NW wind, and for the second week running the Hilton lofts of Phil & Jack Bourke flying at Stretton; take top spot. Their fed topper on 1400 is the Grizzle cock “Stevie G”; he was 2^nd club; 2^nd fed the week before out of Cheltenham, beaten by a loft mate by 1 second. His sire is “Mo” their good multiple winning Soontjen x Syndicate loft cock, retired to the stock loft after injury; and the dam is a sister to Tony & Lee Painters “Heartbreaker”; who is out of one of the Painters top stock pair “Loverboy” (David Peeters)“ and  “Fibbersley Princess”(De Meyer) . 

Phil & Jack Bourke of Stretton back to back Fed wins

2^nd & 3^rd fed on 1398; 1397; was Phil Whetton, also of Stretton; Phil’s first over the pad was a Dark pied Lambrecht cock; his sire is the good red cock off the late Trevor Bird; the dam off Matt Munslow “De Zot” lines. He was followed by a blue Van Den Bulck cock out of the Bob Fenech x Jackpot Loft stock; well done Phil.               

Phil Whetton 2nd & 3rd Fed Hullavington                                  

Osmaston Park members filled the next five spots; Stan Hall was 4^th fed on 1394 with a blue wf Van Den Bulck hen off Darren Johnson.     

Stan Hall 4th Fed Hullavington

The Shenton Bros were 5^th fed on 1393 with a cheq cock off Dave Stone.

Shenton Brothers. Ron(L) Norman(R)                                                                                                                       

Mr & Mrs Paul & Lynda Todd were 6^th fed on 1392 with a blue Lambrecht hen.     

Paul Todd                                                                                            

Alan & Liz Houldsworth were 7^th & 8^th fed on 1385.7 with a blue hen off Kev Matthews and a home bred cheq hen on 1385.5.        

Alan Houldsworth

Kev Matthews of Holbrook took the next three spots on 1381; 1380.5; 1380.2; the first a Gay Pied Van den Bulck hen off Steve Foster stock. She was followed by two De Rauw Sablons bred from stock off Petron Lofts.  

Kev Matthews                                                                                                                         

Around the clubs,

At Stretton, 6 sent 182 and the top three also took the top three in the fed result, details above. Phil Whetton added 4^th club to his 2^nd & 3^rd timing in a red Lambrecht cock out of a son of the good Red cock off the late Trevor Bird x with a De Zot hen off Jimmy Dutton.

Up at Holbrook, 10 sent 326 and Kev Matthews took the top three, details above in the fed report. John Dowd was 4^th on 1379 with one out of his Bob Fenech stock.

Over at Hill Ridware, 2 sent 54 and Mr & Mrs Jim Whitehouse & Sons were 1^st & 4^th on 1377; 1257; with two Luc Veeroort hens; bred by Barry Jones off stock from Alex Spence.                                                                      

James Wheeler was 2^nd & 3^rd on 1350; 1349; the first a grizzle Mark Janssen hen out of the “Golden 10” line; she was closely followed by a Blue Mark Janssen hen out of the “King of Sprint” and “Golden 10” line; both these birds were off Daz Barks.

At Osmaston Park, 17 sent 386 and the top five all appear in the fed result above.

At Winshill, Mark Lester took the top four with his Marley Westrop x; on 1218; 1191; 1140; 1138.

At Etwall, 6 sent 95 and Secretary Alan Peach filled the podium, the winner on 1306 a blue Jansenne hen; runner up a cheq hen bred off Kev Southall stock  on 1287; and 3^rd club a black Roland Janssen cock on 1251.                                                                                                                      

Steve Billings was 4^th on 1236 with a blue hen.

At Swadlincote Town, 6 sent 159 and Mr & Mrs Trevor Collins & Son took top spot on 1288 with a blue cock from the Somers Bros.                                                                            

Litherland, Bailey & Harrison were runners up on 1281 with a cheq Hereman Cuester hen.                                                                                                   

Mr & Mrs Lee Clamp & Sons were 3^rd on 1274 with a blue Hereman x Vandenabeele hen; and Pete Brown & Son were 4^th on 1267 with a mealy cock.

Finally, at Castle Gresley, 3 sent 54 and Graham Evans was 1^st & 2^nd on 1371; 1366; Keith Burton 3^rd on 1358 and Ray Lees 4^th on 1199

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