BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION
by Pete Wightman
TREVOR & GARY COLLINS COME OUT ON TOP AS YB’s FACE THEIR FIRST REAL TEST OF THE SEASON OUT OF FROME(2).
SATURDAY AUGUST 27TH SAW 87 MEMBERS SEND 1527 BIRDS TO THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE RACE OUT OF FROME. BIRDAGE WAS DOWN A LITTLE, WITH MEMBERS KEEPING BIRDS BACK FOR THE FOLLOWING WEEKS OPEN RACES; BREEDER BUYERS AND NATIONAL RACES; ALSO THE UNCERTAIN WEATHER FORECAST MAY HAVE DETERED MEMBERS? AFTER A RUN OF EXCELLENT WEATHER AND RACING, THE YB’s FACED THEIR FIRST TEST AS THE WEATHER WENT BACK TO ITS’ OLD TRICKS WITH HEAVY SHOWERS HITTING SOME PARTS, BUT NOT OTHERS ONLY A FEW MILES AWAY. I KNOW QUITE A FEW ORGANISATIONS MARKED ON THE SATURDAY, BUT SOME OF THEM THEN HAD TO HOLDOVER TILL THE BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY. ON THE SATURDAY THE MORNING WAS ALWAYS FORECAST TO BE THE BEST PART OF THE DAY, WITH THUNDERY SHOWERS FORECAST FOE THE MIDLANDS IN THE AFTERNOON. THIS IS HOW IT PANNED OUT, HERE IN BURTON IT WAS TEA TIME BEFORE THE THUNDERY SHOWERS STARTED. BUT THERE WAS HEAVY RAIN IN LEICESTER IN THE AFTERNOON AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS IN WILTSHIRE LUNCHTIME.THE BIRDS WERE LIBERATED AT 07-00 IN NO WIND, A LOT OF US FORECAST 48 TO 50 MPH, BUT THAT TIME CAME AND WENT, AND THE LEADING BIRDS HIT HOME ON THE 39 MPH MARK. THERE WERE GAPPY RETURNS, BIRDS HAD OBVIOUSLY COME THROUGH RAIN, AND ALSO THERE WAS AGAIN SIGNS OF HAWK DAMAGE TO OUR BIRDS, WHICH WERE LATER REPEATED ON OTHER LIBERATIONS OUT OF FROME. AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE MAJORITY OF BIRDS WERE HOME, AND FOR THOSE THAT DIDN’T GET HOME, SUNDAY MORNING WAS GOOD, SO HOPEFULLY MOST GOT HOME TO THE SAFETY OF THEIR LOFTS?
GARY COLLINS - TREVOR COLLINS
CONGRATULATIONS TO MR & MRS TREVOR COLLINS & SON OF NEWHALL IN SOUTH DERBYSHIRE, THEY GOT A MUCH DESERVED FED TOPPER, AND THE ONLY SURPRISE IS THAT THEY DIDN’T GET ONE EARLIER AS THEY ARE ALWAYS A THREAT. THEY TIMED IN A CHEQ LAMBRECHT HEN ON 1146 TO WIN SWADLINCOTE TOWN AND TOP THE FED, SHE’S A G/DAUGHTER OUT OF THEIR GOOD HEN WHO WON 8 X 1ST AND A 1ST FED. TREVOR AND GARY ALSO TOOK 3RD & 4TH FED ON 1142; 1141.5; WITH THEIR RUNNER UP AT SWADLINCOTE, AND THEN THEIR WINNER AT THE NELSON. THE FIRST WAS A LAMBRECHT HEN OUT OF BILLY CALVERT STOCK, THEN A BLUE COCK, AGAIN OUT OF BILLY CALVERT STOCK. A TREMENDOUS PERFORMANCE FROM MASON & JONES OF HILL RIDWARE, THEY TOOK 2ND FED ON 1145 WITH A BLUE COCK, THIS WAS THE ONLY BIRD ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE FED TO GET ANYWHERE CLOSE, FLYING SOLO INTO RUGELEY. DAVIS, WRIGHT & SONS OF HARTSHORNE WERE 5TH FED ON 1141.2 WITH A CHEQ WF VAN REET X DE MEYER HEN. MR & MRS ALAN STRETTON WERE 6TH FED ON 1138 WITH A BLUE COCK OUT OF WALL, LUNT & GREENS “PIET” LINES X LOUIS THIJS. MICK & NEIL HARVEY WERE 7TH FED ON 1134.8 WITH THEIR WINNER AT THE MINERS ARMS , JUST PIPPING MR & MRS GRAHAM EVANS INTO 8TH SPOT ON 1134.0 WITH THEIR WINNER AT CASTLE GRESLEY. TAKING 9TH & 10TH SPOTS WAS JAMES HORNE OF THE NELSON, JAMES TIMED IN A M & D EVANS VANDENABEELE OUT OF “BLACK NATIONAL” LINES AND A STEFFEN LAMBRECHT ON 1133.6; 1133.4.
DAVIS, WRIGHT & SONS - GRAHAM EVANS - JAMES HORNE
GORDIE JONES - MICK & NEIL HARVEY - RICH JONES
AROUND THE CLUBS,
AT STRETTON, 10 SENT 189 AND ALAN BRASSINGTON GOT A CLEAR WINNER ON 1130, A SOONTJEN X M/M K LYCETT HEN. BARRY ODOM WAS RUNNER UP ON 1091 WITH ONE OUT OF STEVE BURKE X MALC McDONALD STOCK. RAY & JEAN GRIMSDELL WERE 3RD ON 1069 WITH A WILLY THAS AND PETE WAIN TOOK 4TH ON 10523 WITH A SHEADER SOONTJEN, BRED BY BROTHER JOHN. THIS ALSO WON THE CLUBS LADIES RACE, WELL DONE PETE.AT BIRCH COPPICE, 6 SENT 133 AND DAVE OSBORNE BROS & PARTNER TOOK 1ST & 2ND ON 1097; 1096. JOHN GILBERT WAS 3RD ON 1073 WITH A FVW X LAMBRECHT HEN, AND GERALD THORPE & PARTNER WERE 4TH ON 1035 WITH A VAN DE RHEE HEN.AT THE NELSON, M/M TREVOR COLLINS TOOK THE RED CARD ON 1141 WITH A LAMBRECHT, AND JAMES HORNE TOOK THE NEXT THREE ON 1133; 1133; 1092; WITH A VANDENABEELE AND TWO STEFFEN LAMBRECHTS. OUT OF FROME (1) DAVIS, WRIGHT & SONS TOOK TOP SPOT ON 1719 WITH A DE MEYER X VAN REET COCK. TREVOR & GARY COLLINS TOOK THE NEXT THREE ON 1717; 1714 (2); WITH TWO LAMBRECHTS AND A WILDIE.AT SWADLINCOTE TOWN, TREVOR & GARY COLLINS TOOK TOP TWO SPOTS ON 1146; 1142; BOTH LAMBRECHTS. DAVIS, WRIGHT & SONS 3RD ON 1141 WITH A VAN REET X DE MEYER, AND M/M ALAN STRETTON 4TH ON 1138 WITH A W.L.G. X LOUIS THIJS. OUT OF FROME (1) TREVOR & GARY COLLINS TOOK THE FIRST THREE ON 1727; 1718; 1714; THE FIRST TWO LAMBRECHTS OUT OF THEIR GOOD HEN, THEN ONE OUT OF SYNDICATE LOFT STOCK X PETER WATSON. DAVIS, WRIGHT & SONS WERE 4TH ON 1694 WITH A CLUB BREEDER BUYER, BRED BY AB JONES.AT WINSHILL, 5 SENT 76 AND JIM OTTEWELL GOT THE WINNER ON 1017, A CAMPHIUS COCK WINNING ITS SECOND RACE. JIM & MATT PARKER WERE 2ND & 3RD ON 971; 960; WITH A POUW X HUYBRECHTS HEN; THEN A C.W.L. X DRAPA HEN. MELV WILLIS WAS 4TH ON 949 WITH A WILDIE X JANSENNE HEN. IN THE CLUBS BREEDER BUYER RACE; JIM & MATT PARKER TOOK 1ST & 3RD WINNING £318-50, THE WINNER A C.W.L. X HEREMANS HEN, THEN A C.W.L. X HUYBRECHTS HEN. A WOOD WAS RUNNER UP WITH A WILDIE X JANSENNE COCK BRED BY MELV WILLIS, EACH WINNING £68-25.AT ETWALL, 76 SENT 85 AND SAM PHILLIPS TOOK 1ST & 2ND ON 971; 970; WITH TONY & JUNE WHITEHURST TAKING 3RD & 4TH ON 967; 955.AT OSMASTON PARK, 12 SENT 181 AND STAN HALL TOOK 1ST & 3RD ON 1065; 1017; THE WINNER A DARK COCK OFF ALWYN HILL X MANTLE BROS STOCK, HE WAS FOLLOWED BY A GRIZZLE HEN. MICK STONE WAS RUNNER UP ON 1039 WITH A CEULEMAN COCK, AND HALL & TORREY TOOK 4TH ON 1016 WITH ONE BRED BY STAN HALL.FINALLY, AT TUTBURY, 8 SENT 173 AND ALBERT BABBINGTON TOOK THE FIRST THREE ON 1100.5; 1100.4; 1100.2. NIGEL CAWSER WAS 4TH ON 1065 WITH A HOFKEN. THE CLUB ALSO HELD THEIR BREEDER BUYER RACE, WITH ALBERT DAVIS COMING OUT VICTORIOUS WITH ONE BRED BY PHIL WHETTON, BOTH WINNING £100. MR & MRS PETE HARRISON WERE RUNNERS UP WITH ONE OF THEIR OWN, WINNING £65.
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