The Joe Murphy Column
It is quite funny to be writing this article for the 8th January2016 and it is only the 9th of December but the pigeon papers require all the information in plenty of time so that they can print them prior to the Christmas holiday period, so a busy time for the staff at both papers.
Blackpool Show
As I said previously I’m not going to travel down to the show this year as I don’t think it would be much fun going about on 2 crutches and to be honest my knee is giving me ‘jip’ just now with all this damp weather we are having just now. So I’m going to see if a friend will take my pigeon down for the Charity Auction. I have named this young red cock ‘The Murphy Cock’ he was bred for stock and contains the very best of Bernard DeWeerdt bloodlines. In fact when I told Bernard what I was presenting to the charity sale he said ‘Lucky the man who purchased this well-bred pigeon’. The sire of the ‘Murphy Cock’ was bred direct in Kortemark and I called him ‘Bernard’ he is a direct son of ‘CLOVIS’ Bernard’s most consistent racing cock who won 8 times in national and international races; his performances are as follows:
The sire of the ‘Murphy Cock’ was bred direct in Kortemark and I called him ‘Bernard’ he is a direct son of ‘CLOVIS’ Bernard’s most consistent racing cock who won 8 times in national and international races; his performances are as follows:
Limoges 590km 2632 from 19.373 birds
Montauban 790km 1007 from 9091 birds
Narbonne 876km 482 from 12.605 birds
Perpignan 914km 953 from 16.893 birds
St Vincent 880km 395 from 10.907 birds
Perpignan 936km 1958 from 15.106 birds
St Vincent 880km 1183 from 11.388 birds
Perpignan 936km 231 from 17.971 birds
Unfortunately CLOVIS was lost at Perpignan in 2015
CLOVIS Sire is Belge02 3251542 KEDIRTJE winner of 40th National Dax 5189bs; 433rd Euro prov Biarritz 2.902bs; 502nd national Barcelona 11.484bs; 532 national Perpignan 5.547bs; 1330th national Perpignan 6.765bs; 1546th national Perpignan 7.611bs; 2071st national 12.612 birds Barcelona and at 7 years of age he won 292nd national 13.503 birds Barcelona. KEDIRTJE is a grandson of the famous ‘KEDIR’ 34th international Dax 11.807bs, 78th international Dax 12.880b he was also an outstanding breeding sire.
CLOVIS DAM is Belge04 3239439 a full sister to IBAN winner of 57th international Dax 19.420bs: 1st provincial Perpignan 1259bs, 10th international 17.570birds; 39th national Perpignan 7611bs 179th national Bordeaux 7490. IBAN sister is JOAN winner of 1st provincial 1936bs 4th national 10th international Barcelona 12.998bs; 9th international Perpignan 3.934 hens. Another brother is CECIL winner of 234th national Perpignan 7537bs;
Dam of ‘BERNARD’ (B14 3007721) is Belge07 3206467 a daughter of ‘GOOD 102’ Belge 06 3140102 the DeWeerdt best 2-year old season 2008 he was only raced up to 600 km and was twice in the top 10 in the club from Limoges (593 km). After this he was sent to a 650 km race on a very windy day with extremely high velocities and never returned to the loft. Dam of 3206467 is a sister to TED winner of 282nd national Montauban 6.901bs;
2nd ACE international Pigeon 2004 winning 102nd international Pau 8.270bs, 30th international Dax 17.570bs, 239th international Perpignan 17.570bs, 1st club 154bs, 41st international Carcassonne 10.448bs.
‘The Murphy Cock’ Dam is was bred by Mr & Mrs Mark Gower and her sire was bred in Kortemark and is a direct from son of KEDIRTJE (see above the Father of CLOVIS) when mated to hen who won from San Sebastian; Perpignan and Barcelona she is a daughter of RALDO winner of 18th international Dax 12.176bs; 157th international Dax 11.807bs; 186th nat Cahors 11.090bs, ½ brother to sire IBAN; JOAN; CECIL etc
Dam of ‘Gower Hen’ is GB10R 45841 bred by Mark Gilbert the Winkfield Ace; her sire is
GB01J 25647 ‘Southfield Treble’ winner of 112th open Saintes 2004: 8th open LSEC Bordeaux, 63rd national Dax 534 miles; 5th national Perpignan all in 2005; 1st GDSB Palamos and 12th open national 684 miles. ‘Southfield Treble’ is from a full brother to RALDO when mated to a double granddaughter of Smaragd 1st international Barcelona.
Dam of ‘Mark Gilbert hen’ is GB05N 79231 a direct daughter of ‘Night Flight’ winner of 1st NFC Saintes 2756bs, (he is brother to Southfield Pau winner of 1st national Pau). Night Flight (sire was a ½ brother of RALDO) Night Flight was mated to a daughter of Champion EMIEL winner of 1st international Dax/Bordeaux. She is the dam of ‘Darkie’ 1st BBC Messac and 1st BICC Pau.
As you will see these pigeons are steeped in INTERNATIONAL WINNING pigeons and I cannot give a better bred bird to the charity sale. Good Luck to the new owner of ‘The Murphy Cock’ and I hope he does well for the new owner.
SHU Trophy Winners
George Baird Perfomace young bird champion
The Mr. & Mrs Murphy Trophy for the Champion Young Bird was won by G Baird of Blantyre with a blue hen SU15L 13612 her performances are as follows;
Lanarkshire Federation; 25th July won 12th section Otterburn 87 miles 164 yards competing against 1349 birds recording a velocity of 1174.44.
Lanarkshire Federation; 25th July won 12th Open Otterburn 87 miles 164 yards competing against 4252 birds recording a velocity of 1174.44.
Lanarkshire Federation; 8th August won 1st section Otterburn 87 miles 164 yards competing against 2097 birds recording a velocity of 1355.69
Lanarkshire Federation; 8th August won 14th Open Otterburn 87 miles 164 yards competing against 5614 birds recording a velocity of 1355.69
Lanarkshire Federation; 15th August won 1st section Sedgefield 131miles 1732 yards competing against 1744 birds recording a velocity of 1137.01
Lanarkshire Federation; 15th August won 7th Open Sedgefield 131miles 1732 yards competing against 4712 birds recording a velocity of 1137.01
George Baird with Mr and Mrs Murphy Trophy
The Unikon Trophy for young birds was won by David Jamieson of East Calder whose chequer cock WHU2015T 00765 won 1st Federation 2nd region D 23rd open SNFC Buckingham flying 287 miles 1170 yards recording a velocity of 1664.97 from an entry of 2577 birds entered by 284 members. This young cock topped the federation the week before Buckingham beating the next member in the federation by 12 minutes from a 221 mile race.
Good SNFC Birds
This week I cover a very good pigeon for J & J Hunt of Dundee with their chequer cock SU10DF 3159 who won 7 times in the SNFC races and won a SNFC Silver Award in 2015. Unfortunately this cock was killed by a hawk from a training flight from Freuchie in Fife prior to the 2015 season. As a yearling in 2011 he won 112th section C from Eastbourne a distance of 422 miles, then as a 2 year old he won 12th section C 35th open Maidstone a distance of 397 miles and was then sent to the Clermont race point and won 46th section C 79th open flying 545 miles. In 2013 he won 20th section C 175th open from Newbury a distance of 362 miles, he then went to Maidstone a distance of 397 miles and won 63rd section C 198th open and was then entered for the last old bird race of that season from Clermont and won 12th section C 36th open flying 545 miles. Then in 2015 he won 15th section C 107th open from Alencon a distance of 575 miles. A truly wonderful cock that did so well in his racing career; and it was a bitter blow when he was the only bird to not return from that fatal training flight. Knowing Joe he will come back with another ‘star’ so keep your eyes on the national result for J & J Hunt of Dundee.
I have covered ALL the birds who won Bronze; Silver and Gold Awards at the SNFC presentation in 2015. However I know from studying the national results there are other very good pigeons that have achieved good results over the past few years and I will try to cover as many of these as possible over the next few months.
Joe’s Joke
A priest was being honoured at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish. A leading local politician and member of the congregation were chosen to make the presentation and to give a little speech at the dinner. However, he was delayed, so the priest decided to say his own few words whilst they waited. ‘I got my first impression of this parish from the first confession I heard here. I thought I had been assigned to a terrible place. The very first person who entered the confessional told me he had stolen a TV and when questioned by the police, was able to lie his way out of it. He had stolen money from his parents, embezzled from his employer; had an affair with the boss’s wife; had frequent sex with the boss’s daughter; taken illegal drugs; and was arrested several times for public nudity and indecent exposure. I was appalled that one person could do so many awful things. But as the days went on, I learnt that my people were not all like that and I had, indeed, come to a fine parish full of loving people’.
Just as the priest finished his talk, the politician arrived full of apologies at being late. He immediately began to make the presentation and gave his talk. ‘I’ll never forget the first day our parish Priest arrived’ said the politician. ‘In fact, I had the honour of being the first person to go to him for confession’.
Moral of this story --- Never, never be late for a function.
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