BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION.
C T Leadbeater & Sons make it back to back Fed Wins out of Blandford (1).
Saturday August 23rd saw 54 members from 8 clubs send 671 birds to the Dorset Town of Blandford Forum. Again we never had a straight forward race, the leading birds made about the time we expected, but once again a lot of the young birds made their way home late afternoon and into the evening, with plenty of those missing at nightfall making their way home Sunday morning. The earlier liberations seemed to have good racing and returns, we weren’t up late; don’t get me wrong; but something went amiss somewhere? The winds were very light, there was no rain about, just cloud cover, but that wasn’t dark cloud? I do know that numerous birds again returned home with damage to them caused by the Falcons!
Alys liberated the fed birds at 11-10 in a light ESE wind and a good day for C T Leadbeater & Sons of Hill Ridware who made it back to back fed wins, taking six of the fed top 10 positions and had 8 in the top twenty, well done Brian.
C.T. LEADBEATER & SONS . BRIAN AND BAZ.
The fed topper on 1414 was the same cheq wf hen that was 2nd fed the week before out of Frome, she’s out of a direct son of the Van Den Bulck “Mr Specialized” when paired to one out of the “Golden Lady II” line; and her dam is a direct daughter of the Van den Bulck “Banksy”.
Runners up on 1411 were D & A Swift & Son of Dragonfly lofts; flying out of Holbrook; timing in a Blue cock; grandson out of Patrick Boeckx “Sagan”; great pigeon this lads.
Andy Swift of Dragonfly Lofts
Staying at Holbrook; two more good birds taking 3rd and 4th fed. Mather & Haywood were 3rd on 1395 with a Blue Pied cock; this one a Breeder Buyer bird from Edward Young’s top sprint family.
Tony Mather of Holbrook
Kev Matthews was 4th fed on 1394 with a blue cock; he’s a Vandenaheede x Jos Cools “Speedy” lines; Kev had 6 in the top twenty.
Kev Matthews of Holbrook
Back to C T Leadbeater & Sons now, they took the next five positions in the fed; 5th on 1393.5 was a blue hen; 6th on 1393.2 another blue hen; she’s out of a 2016 brother to the “Bolt” when paired to a daughter of “Vale Olympic”; 7th on 1385.9 was her nest mate a cheq hen. 8th on 1385.0 was a blue hen; she’s nest mate to the fed topper; 9th on 1383.6 was a cheq wf hen; she’s out a Vandebrande cock when paired to a Leo Hereman hen, she topped our fed out of Upper Heyford.
10th fed on 1372 was Phil Bourke of Stretton, he timed in his good cheq hen “01”; she topped the fed out of the opening race from Cheltenham. She’s out of the M/M K Lycett stock; “Well’ard” x “Relentless”. “Well’ard” is a Leo Hereman; and “Relentless” a Vandenabeele, she’s a daughter of Champion “Eddy”.
Around the clubs,
At Stretton, 6 sent 105 and Phil Bourke was 1st; 2nd and 4th on 1372; 1336; 1248; details of the winner above. Runner up was a blue cock bred by friends Lloyd & Healey of Liverpool; his sire is a double grandson of Blackett & Renwicks “Miss Platinum” the World Middle Distance Champion of 2022. His dam is a grand daughter of “Gordano” and “Andorra”; “Gordano” is a full brother to the top Hereman “Man O’Chester”. Phil’s third arrival was a blue hen; she’s a sister to “31” and “32” the nest mates who were 1st & 2nd fed Honiton in 2023. Her sire is a brother to Champion “Eddy”; her dam a central Lofts “Kittel”.
Phil Bourke of Stretton
Pete Cox was 3rd club on 1277 with the same cheq hen that was 2nd club; 9th fed the week before out of Frome; she’s out of the “Best Kittel” line from Ann Smith of Ashbourne.
At Osmaston Park in Derby; 12 sent 129 and Dave Waddington got a clear winner on 1316 with a blue cock off Jeff Farmer of Atherstone. Dave was also 4th club on 1230 with a cheq hen out of his Alan Brassington x “The Bat” family.
Mick Stone was runner up on 1249 with a cheq wf Ceuleman cock; Stan hall was 3rd on 1242 with a blue pied Van den Bulck x Lambrecht hen.
Up at Holbrook, 11 sent 141 and the top three all appear in the fed report above, taking 2nd; 3rd; and 4th fed. Kev Matthews was 4th club on 1363 with a cheq cock out of his Vandenaheede x Jos Cools “Zoon Chipring” stock. The Vandenaheede cocks that bred Kev’s 3rd & 4th club birds were both bred by Sheldon Leonard of County Wicklow in Ireland.
At Swadlincote Town, 9 sent 105 and Mr & Mrs Trevor Collins & Son took 1st & 3rd club on 1360; 1243; the winner a blue hen bred by the Somers Brothers; followed by a blue Sagan Kittel hen.
Charlie Murfin was runner up on 1253 with a blue “Rossi” Hereman x Sylvain Verhestraeten cock.
Davis, Wright & Sons were 4th on 1239 with a blue pied hen; her sire; a fed topper is off a son of the Super 147 from the Gordon Bros when paired to the lofts top Staf Van Reet hen (She also topped the fed). The dam is the goldmine Kris Wijnant hen “Golden Eggs”; again from the Gordon bros over in Northern Ireland.
At Winshill,8 sent 47 and they had a real struggle here; Mark Lester took the top three on 1109; 758; 672; all Marley Westrop x hens; Melv Willis was 4th on 594 with a red Hereman x hen.
At Etwall, 6 sent 66 and Secretary Alan Peach was 1st; 2nd and 4th on 1178.6 with a Jan Theelan x Delbar; 1107 with a Roland Jansenne; and 1070 with a breeder buyer bird off Dave Stone.
Kev Southall was 3rd club on 1091, this one also bred by Dave Stone.
Over at Hill Ridware, 2 sent 54 and details appear above in the fed result above of Brian Leadbeaters birds.
Finally, at Castle Gresley, 2 sent 24 and Graham Evans was 1st & 2nd on 1307 and 1237; his winner bred by Phil Whetton of Stretton. Keith Burton was 3rd on 1221.
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