BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION
by Pete Wightman
CLIVE YATES TAKES 1ST FED OUT OF BLANDFORD AGAIN!
SATURDAY JUNE 21ST SAW 122 MEMEBERS SEND 1268 BIRDS TO BLANDFORD. THEY WERE LIBERATED AT 09-00 IN A LIGHT NORTH WIND. MORE NORTH WEST AT THE HOME END, AND THE EAST SIDE OF THE FED HAD IT ALL THEIR OWN WAY FOR A CHANGE.
CLIVE YATES OF THE BELGRAVE CLUB IN TAMWORTH CONTINUED HIS LOVE AFFAIR WITH BLANDFORD BY TAKING 1ST FED ON 1411 WITH A YEARLING BLUE COCK. CLIVES RECORD OUT OF BLANDFORD IS SECOND TO ONE, WELL DONE CLIVE. MICK AND NEIL HARVEY OF THE NELSON WERE 2ND & 3RD FED ON 1405, 1404.9, BOTH ARE G/SONS OF “CORKYS PRIDE” THEIR M.N.F.C BORDEAUX WINNER X WITH A DIRECT SON OFF PETER FOXS’ “DRUM”. THESE ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR “BIG JON” 2ND FED LESSAY AND SAINTES, AND THEIR GOOD TOURES COCK, WINNER OF 3 X 1ST’S AND 38TH OPEN M.N.F.C. AS A YEARLIMG AGAINST 6500 BIRDS. DAVIS, WRIGHT & SONS ALSO OF THE NELSON WERE 4TH FED ON 1404.3 WITH A YEARLING HESSION X MUNNS STAF VAN REET COCK,HIS NESTMATE TOPPED THE TAMWORTH FED FROM EXETER THIS YEAR. DAVE OSBORNE BROS & PARTNER OF BIRCH COPPICE WERE 5TH FED ON 1403 WITH A YEARLING LAMBRECHT COCK OFF IAN PARSONS. SHEASBY & WATSON ROLLED OUT YET ANOTHER WINNER AT TUTBURY, TAKING 6TH FED ON 1402 WITH A 2YO STAF VAN REET COCK WINNING HIS THIRD RED CARD THIS SEASON, PLUS A 1ST FED. THIS WAS THE ONLY LOFT ON THE WEST OF THE TRENT TO GAIN FED HONOURS. ELMORE & SMITH OF BIRCH COPPICE WERE 7TH FED ON 1401.2 WITH A YEARLING CUESTER HEN. JIMMY OTTEWELL OF WINSHILL WAS 8TH FED ON 1401.0 WITH A YEARLING VAN REET COCK. T & D FEARN OF THE NELSON WERE 9TH ON 1400 WITH A YEARLING MEALY OFF TERRYS “BOMBER” AND “BROKEN WING” X JANSENNE LINES. MICK SALE OF TUTBURY WAS 10TH FED ON 1399 WITH A WILDIE COCK OFF NIGEL CAWSER.
Clive Yates
Mick & Neil Harvey
AROUND THE CLUBS
AT STRETTON, 10 SENT 122 AND SEAN & IVAN SMITH TIMED IN THEIR GREAT BLUE COCK “71” ON 1387,THIS 3YO JANSENNE OFF JOHN STRETTON AND ALAN BRASSINGTON STOCK HAS NOW HAD 3 X 1ST’S AND 1 X 2ND THIS SEASON. PETE WIGHTMAN & SON WERE RUNNERS UP ON 1380 WITH A 3YO VANDENABEELE X SOONTJEN, A SON OFF “PORTLAND BILL”.ALAN BRASSINGTON WAS 3RD ON 1376 WITH HIS GOOD YEARLING COCK, A SON OFF “PREMIUM BOND”, AND PHIL BOURKE WAS 4TH ON 1366 WITH A STAF VAN REET.
OVER AT HILL RIDWARE, M/M KEN LYCETT HAD THEIR TOP VANDENABEELE X SOONTJEN X CATTRYSSE X VAN REET COCK “EDDY” IN POLE POSITION AGAIN, ON 1365. THEY WERE ALSO 4TH ON 1340 WITH A VANDENABEELE X SOONTJEN. SPINK & BARKS WERE 2ND & 3RD ON 1353, 1351, THEIR FIRST A BRIAN MURRAY JANSENNE OFF “LITTLE STAR” WINNER OF 2ND & 5TH IN THE N.M.C.C. FOLLOWED BY AN ALAN WHITE X JANSEENE HEN.
AT THE NELSON, DETAILS OF THE FIRST FOUR APPEAR IN THE FED REPORT ABOVE.
AT BIRCH COPPICE, 8 SENT 97 AND DAVE OSBORNE BROS & PARTNER HAD THE WINNER ON 1403 WITH A LAMBRECHT. ELMORE & SMITH TOOK THE NEXT THREE ON 1401 WITH THE CUESTER HEN THAT WAS 2ND FED LAST YEAR IN THE YB SPECIAL RACE FROM YELVERTON, 1394 WITH A CUESTER X GUST JANSENNE COCK, AND 1393 WITH A GUST JANSENNE HEN.
AT THE MINERS ARMS, MR & MRS ALAN STRETTON WERE 1ST & 4TH ON 1395.98, 1375, WITH MICK HARVEY & SON 2ND & 3RD ON1395.95, 1379, HOW CLOSE WAS THAT!!
AT THE SILVER GHOST,8 SENT 58 AND RUEBEN HOUGH CELEBRATED HIS 91ST BIRTHDAY IN STYLE, TAKING 1ST & 3RD ON 1392, 1325, THE WINNER HIS GOOD 2YO SOONTJEN X CASSEART X VAN REET COCK “THE DART”. RUEBEN'S 2ND BIRD WAS ASLO BRED THE SAME WAY AS THE WINNER. BRIAN DYJAS WAS 2ND & 4TH ON 1342, 1322, BOTH YEARLING JANSENNE COCKS.
Rueben Hough (front right) at his 91st birthday celebration
AT ETWALL, 12 SENT 82 AND M/M ALAN HOULDSWORTH WERE 1ST & 2ND ON 1388, 1380. M/M CHILDS & SON WERE 3RD & 4TH ON 1366, 1360.
AT WINSHILL, 9 SENT 103 AND JIM OTTEWELL KEPT UP HIS GOOD FORM OF LATE TO TAKE 1ST & 3RD ON 1401, 1359, BOTH YEARLING MEALY VAN REET COCKS. JIM & MATT PARKER WERE 2ND ON 1383 WITH A YEARLING JANSENNE X HUYBRECHTS COCK. T & P LOFTS WERE 4TH ON 1358.
AT APPLEBY MAGNA, 4 SENT 32 AND M/M JOHN PASSEY & FAMILY WERE 1ST & 2ND ON 1376, 1374, BOTH FLOR ENGEL COCKS OFF GEOFF KIRKLAND STOCK. GERALD WOOD WAS 3RD ON 1338 WITH A VAN DEN BOSCHE AND WALLA BAILEY 4TH ON 1312.
AT TUTBURY, 11 SENT 111 AND SHEASBY & WATSON ADD ANOTHER RED CARD TO THEIR GROWING LIST, THEIR GOOD 2YO STAF VAN REET COCK WINNIG HIS THIRD RACE OF THE SEASON, ON 1402, THIS COCK HAS ALSO TOPPED THE FED. HIS NESTMATE WAS 3RD CLUB ON 1393. MICK SALE WAS 2ND CLUB ON 1399 WITH A WILDIE OFF CLUBMATE NIGEL CAWSER, AND F. RICHARDSON & SON WERE 4TH ON 1382 WITH A VANDENABEELE.
THE MALTSTER01283-568000
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