Burton & South Derbyshire Federation.
Phil Bourke of Stretton takes 1st fed as “Mo” leads the field out of Frome
Saturday September 5th saw 9 clubs send 1167 birds to Frome; they were liberated at 09:30 in a W.N.W. wind. The north in the wind seemed to hold ‘em on a good line and it turned out to be a good race.
Congratulations to Phil Bourke of Stretton on taking 1st fed on 1520 with his young blue cock christened “Mo”, his last 2 numbers are 11; Phil’s’ son Jack is Liverpool mad; so of course it was named after Mo Salah. This cock off stock from D & G Wright of Blyth was Phil’s’ first pigeon on the bank holiday Monday from the NMCC Wincanton race, provisional 4th open? Well done Phil, from all at Stretton.
PHIL BOURKE OF STRETTON 1ST FED FROME
Another brilliant performance from the Rugeley lofts of D. Nesbitt & sons, Mark has his YB team of Leo Heremans on fire, this week they took 2nd; 3rd; 4th; 7th; and 8th fed on 1514; 1513.5; 1513.3; 1500; 1499.9. The first two were both grandchildren of “Isla”.
Mick Harvey & son loft 2 of Swadlincote town got the best bird into South Derbyshire, their M.J.K. Gaunt x Gary Cox Cuester cock taking 5th fed on 1504.
Club mates Mr & Mrs Trevor Collins & son were 6th fed on 1502 with a bwf Cuester hen.
Completing the top ten were Rich & Gordie Jones & Batt of Hill Ridware, they took 9th & 10th spots on 1499.8; 1499.6.
GORDIE JONES
Around the clubs,
At Stretton, 9 sent 152 and a very popular win for Phil Bourke and his young son jack, they were 1st & 4th on 1520; 1493; the winner was a blue cock named “Mo” off stock from D & G Wright of Blyth. He was Phil’s’ first pigeon on the bank holiday Monday from the NMCC Wincanton race, provisional 4th open?
Phil’s’ next arrival was a cheq hen out of a son of “Frankel” from Tony and Lee Painter, when paired to a hen off Mr & Mrs Ken Lycett’s “Pink Panther” x Central Lofts “Kittel”.
2nd & 3rd on 1498; 1497; was the in-form Phil Whetton, Phil timed in a dark pied Lambrecht hen off a red cock from Trevor bird x De Zot lines; and a blue hen off Pete & Jackie Cox stock.
Over at Hill Ridware, 5 sent 110 and the show goes on for D.Nesbitt & Sons, they are in imperious form at the moment. Mark took the first four on 1514; 1513.5; 1513.3; 1500; the winner was a granddaughter of their champion Leo Hereman hen “Isla”; she will be lining up in the breeder buyer race from Honiton in 2 weeks time; runner up was a grandson of “Isla”; and fourth another granddaughter of “Isla”, she topped the fed out of Hullavington (1).
MARK NESBITT HILL RIDWARE GREAT YB SEASON
At The Nelson, 5 sent 103 and Mr & Mrs John Passey & family are another loft in form, they took the first four on 1498; 1497.9; 1497.5; 1488; the winner was a Geoff Kirkland Flor Engels cock, brother to last weeks 2nd club; 14th fed.
Runner up was a red hen off Geoff Kirkland x Bobby Walton stock, she was 17th fed the week before. Third was a Vandenabeele cock off Gerald Wood stock and fourth was a Flor Engels hen, her nest mate was 3rd at Birch Coppice in the Tamworth fed the same day.
At Osmaston Park, 16 sent 215 and Dave Waddington makes it back to back wins, he timed in a red cock off Alan Brassington stock to take top spot on 1479.
Dave won the week before with a red cock off Alan x Lambrecht, not sure if it’s the same bird?
Glew & O’Donnell were runners up on 1477 with a Jansenne cock; Shenton bros were 3rd on 1471 with a blue hen off stock from the Dutch loft of Jacob Poortvliec x Pieter Veenstra. Simon Woolley was 4th on 1470 with a blue docx cock off Ant Arnold.
At Swadlincote Town, 8 sent 182 and Mick Harvey & Son loft 2 took 1st; 3rd; and 4th club on 1504; 1480; 1478; the winner a cheq cock off M.J.K. Gaunt x Gary Cox cuester. Their next was a dark cheq cock off James Parkers’ national lines x “Man o Chester” lines off Chris Vasey. Their third arrival was the same blue pied cock off M.J.K. Gaunt that was 4th fed the week previous.
Neil would like to thank Jo Gaunt for the great birds that are proving their worth.
Mr & Mrs Trevor Collins & son were runners up on 1502 with a granddaughter of “The Premier Stud Cock” x John Soderlund Herman Cuester.
At Etwall, 8 sent 126 and Alan & Liz Houldsworth make it back to back wins, taking 1st & 2nd club on 1479; 1462; both Lambrecht hens.
ALAN HOULDSWORTH
Kev Southall was 3rd on 1410.9 with a Van Den Bulck cock, just edging Alan Peach into 4th spot, with an Ian Axe Delbar on 1410.6.
At Holbrook, 9 sent 181 birds and Trevor Jennings won a tight finish on 1497 with a dark cock. This cock is a Cooreman bred from a Bob Fench hen that has bred winners with different cocks.
TREVOR JENNINGS
Russ Bailey took the next three on 1496; 1495 (2).
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