BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION
by Pete Wightman
FEDERATION SECRETARIES MR & MRS GRAHAM EVANS ENJOY A GREAT RACE OUT OF ANCENIS
SATURDAY JULY 8TH SAW THE FINAL OB RACE OF THE 2017 SEASON FROM ANCENIS. CONVOYED BY PHIL BROWN TRANSPORT, THE 413 BIRDS ENTERED BY 66 MEMBERS WERE LIBERATED AT 06-45 INTO A LIGHT NORTH WIND, IT WAS A CLASSIC RACE, WITH THE LIGHT NORTH WIND AND PLEASANT WEATHER PROVING NO OBSTACLE TO TRIED ;TRUSTED; AND FORM PIGEONS. ONCE AGAIN, SOME LOFTS AND BIRDS MADE LIGHT WORK OF THE DAY, WHILST OTHERS STRUGGLED? CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FEDERATION SECRETARIES GRAHAM AND ELEANOR EVANS OF OVERSEAL, THEY TOOK 1ST; 9TH AND 10TH FED ON 1250; 1204.1; 1203.THE WINNER WAS A 3YO BLUE WF COCK POOLED ALL THE WAY TO WIN £407-50, THIS COCK WAS FEDERATION CHANNEL BIRD OF THE YEAR IN 2016, HE IS OUT OF A COCK BRED BY MICK & NEIL HARVEY, AND PURCHASED AT A FEDERATION BREEDER BUYER SALE, THE DAM WAS BRED BY ALAN BRASSINGTON.THIS COCK WAS FULL OF LIFE, WHEN HE ARRIVED HOME HE STILL HAD ENOUGH IN THE TANK TO FLY ROUND WITH ANOTHER PAIR FOR A FEW MINUTES, BET THE AIR WAS BLUE GRAHAM? THEIR SECOND HOME WAS OUT OF A COCK THE SAME WAY BRED AS THE FED TOPPER, AND A HEN OFF DAVE HARRISON. THIRD HOME WAS A 4YO NEHU RUNG COCK POOLED TO WIN A FURTHER £141-50, HE IS OUT OF STOCK FROM BRIAN WALLACE OF WESTERHOPE NEAR NEWCASTLE, BRIAN WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF PETE SMITH FROM SECKINGTON. A GREAT PICK UP BY GRAHAM AND ELEANOR OF £549-00 POOL MONEY. 2ND & 5TH FED ON 1231.18; 1226; WERE TREVOR & GARY COLLINS OF NEWHALL, FIRST WAS A YEARLING WILDIE COCK BRED BY STEVE ELEY OFF MR MRS CORKETT & SONS STOCK,HE WAS PURCHASED AT LAST YEARS BREEDER BUYER SALE. HE WAS FOLLOWED BY A 3YO NWHU STAF VAN REET HEN BRED BY MR & MRS TOMMY WHITEHEAD, SHE WAS 5TH FED OUT OF MESSAC, AND SHE PICKED UP £97-50 POOLS. G. SMITH OF THE BELGRAVE CLUB IN TAMWORTH WAS 3RD FED ON 1231.10 WITH A 2YO COCK.ROGER AND MARK DUFFIELD OF THE BULLS HEAD WERE 4TH FED ON 1228 WITH A 2YO HEN.A PEACH & SON OF ETWALL WERE 6TH FED ON 1219, ALAN TIMED IN A YEARLING BLUE COCK, THIS COCK WAS BRED BY MELV WILLIS OF WINSHILL AND PURCHASED AT THE FED BREEDER BUYER SALE, NO DOUBT IT HAS WILDIE BLOOD IN HIM? HE WAS POOLED TO WIN £97-50.STEVE TREECE OF DERBY WAS 7TH FED ON 1205. SPINK &BARKS OF HILL RIDWARE WERE 8TH FED ON 1204.4 WITH A YEARLING JANSENNE X ALAN WHITE BLUE HEN POOLED TO WIN £52-50.
OTHER POOL WINNERS WERE; HOOGENDYK & PARKER WERE 11TH FED ON 1196 PICKING UP £134-50; BARRY ODOM OF STRETTON PICKED UP £56 WITH HIS STRETTON WINNER AND D & A SMITH OF THE BULLS HEAD PICKED UP £22-50. TOTAL POOLS PAID OUT WAS £1009-50.
GRAHAM EVANS 1ST 9TH AND 10TH FED ANCENIS
GARY AND TREVOR COLLINS.1ST FED MESSAC 2ND FED ANCENIS 2107 - ROGER AND MARK DUFFIELD
ALAN PEACH OF ETWAL - DAZ BARKS
AROUND THE CLUBS,
AT STRETTON, 12 SENT 84 AND BARRY ODOM GOT A MUCH DESERVED WIN, BARRY WAS 1ST & 3RD ON 1172; 1144; BOTH STEMMING BACK TO STEVE & MATT BURKE STOCK. THE WINNER OFF STEVE & MATT X JOHN McPHILLIPS, THIS 2YO HEN WON TUTBURY MESSAC LAST YEAR, AND HAS BEEN KNOCKING ON THE DOOR AT FOUGERES AND MESSAC THIS YEAR. BARRYS NEXT ARRIVAL WAS OUT OF STEVE & MATTS “SUPER BLUE” AND CHOCOLATE STOCK. “SUPER BLUE” NOW OWNED BY DAVE ATKIN.RAY & JEAN GRIMSDELL WERE RUNNERS UP ON 1148 WITH A 3YO DE KUYPER X BRIAN DENNEY COCK. JIM & MATT PARKER WERE 4TH ON 1118 WITH A 3YO JANSENNE X HUYBRECHTS COCK.
AT OSMASTON PARK, 9 SENT 39 AND STAN & H. W. HALL TOOK THE FIRST THREE ON 1179; 1157; 1098; THE WINNER A YEARLING CHEQ COCK BRED BY B. BROUGHTON, ALSO WON MESSAC THIS YEAR, GOOD COCK THERE STAN? THE RUNNER UP WAS A YEARLING HEN, FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER YEARLING HEN, THIS ONE A BROKEN BIRD BOUGHT OFF ROY GREGORY & SON.HALL & TORREY WERE 4TH ON 1060, THIS HEN BRED BY STAN HALL.
AT WINSHILL, 6 SENT 34 AND JIM & MATT PARKER TOOK TOP SPOT ON 1118 WITH A 3YO JANSENNE X HUYBRECHT COCK, WINNING £40.MELV WILLIS TOOK THE NEXT THREE PLACES ON 1056; 893; 793; THE FIRST A 2YO HUYBRECHTS X WILDIE COCK, THEN A 2YO HUYBRECHT HEN, AND AYEARLING HUYBRECHT HEN. IT WAS A GOOD WEEKEND FOR MELV, NOT ONLY DID HE BREED ALAN PEACHS’ WINNER AT ETWALL, HE ALSO WON £160 PRIZEMONEY AT WINSHILL, THEY PUT £100 UP FOR THE LAST OB RACE, IT WAN’T WON LAST YEAR, SO IT ROLLED OVER. THEY AGREED TO PAY OUT £40 EACH TO THE FIRST 5 BIRDS HOME, MELV GOT THE 2ND; 3RD; 4TH; AND 5TH.
AT ETWALL, 7 SENT 25 AND ALAN PEACH GOT THE WINNER ON 1219, BRED BY MELV WILLIS. MICK LESZCZYSZAK WAS 2ND & 4TH ON 1180; 1057; AND PETE HARRISON TOOK 3RD ON 1107.
AT HILL RIDWARE,6 SENT 41 AND SPINK & BARKS TOOK THE TOP THREE SPOTS ON 1202; 1144; 1065; THE WINNER A YEARLING JANSENNE X ALAN WHITE HEN, FOLLOWED BY A MICK WILLIS BRED BIRD, THEN ONE OFF BRIAN MURRAY STOCK, SHE HAS WON LOTS OF PRIZES FROM OVER THE CHANNEL FOR PHIL AND DARREN. MR & MRS KEN LYCETT WERE 4TH ON 1059 WITH A BLUE HEN, A SISTER TO “EDDY”, AND WINNER OF NUMEROUS PRIZES.
APPLEBY MAGNA, WHERE GERALD WOOD TOO K THE FIRST THREE ON 1107; 1081; AND 999; ALL WIDOWHOOD COCKS, THE FIRST AND THIRD HIS JANSENNE VAN DEN BOSCHE, THE RUNNER UP ONE OF GEOFF KIRKLANDS OLD BREED, DESMET MATHYS PERHAPS? AUBREY PHIPPS AND CRAIG BETTERIDGE WERE 4TH ON 937 WITH A CELIBATE HEN.
FINALLY, AT SWADLINCOTE TOWN, TREVOR & GARY COLLINS TOOK 1ST; 2ND; AND 4TH ON 1231; 1226; 1149. THE WINNER A WILDIE COCK, THEN A VAN REET HEN, THEN A 3YO BLUE HEN. HOOGENDY & PARKER WERE 3RD ON 1196, MARTIN AND CHRIS TIMING IN A 3YO JANSENNE X VANDENABEELE HEN, SHE WAS 16TH FED NIORT LAST YEAR.
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