Saltney Social Club

 

 

It’s been another tough year for the Saltney Social Club for racing, flying in the North East Wales & West Wirral Federation. We’ve experienced losses across the board, in particular the young birds. A year like this I have never seen in terms of losses. On the other hand, we have all had the same problems nationwide what with weather & losses. All we can do as individuals, societies and so on is to carry on and give it a go another year. Today marked the end of the year for us as a club as we held our final show of the year and our club presentation.

 

The final show as always consisted of 3 classes, Any Age Hens, Any Age Cocks and also Any Other Colour Class (fancy class). We started to hold a fancy class to try and create a USP for the final show that would be different to all the other shows in the area, it’s fair to say it’s always been quite a coo for the flyers.

 

In the Fancy Class there were 30 birds entered of all colours and varieties. One of the most interesting classes I’ve been involved in for a while, as the name says fancy we saw the likes of fan tails, kings birds and colours of all varieties. Then in the Any Age Hens class we had a total of 38 birds entered with a number of show winners from around the area in alongside many other quality birds. Finally in the Any Age Cocks class there was a total of 63 birds entered which is by far the best number in one class we have had over the last few years. Today we asked two top flyers from this area to judge the birds today. We would like to say a big thanks to Charlie Millward and his dad Ian who took time out to judge and then present prizes to the members.

 

Any Age Cocks Result

1st	A Malone	£10	£60
2nd	Jones Lamb & Daughter	£8
3rd	T Ellson	£6
4th	G O Jones	£4
5th	J Jones
6th	J Roberts
7th	G O Jones
8th	Lloyd & Bagnall

 

1st                                          -                             2nd                     -                                     3rd                            -                              4th

 

Any Age Hens Result

1st	Jones Lamb & Daughter	£8	£36
2nd	G O Jones	£6
3rd	G O Jones	£4
4th	A Murray & Sons	£2
5th	Jones Lamb & Daughter
6th	Lloyd & Bagnall
7th	Jones Lamb & Daughter
8th	Jones Lamb & Daughter

 

 

Any Other Colour (FANCY) Result

1st	Lloyd Bros	£8	£28
2nd	G O Jones	£6
3rd	D & L Woodworth	£4
4th	J Roberts	£2
5th	G O Jones
6th	J Roberts
7th	Lloyd Bros
8th	Lloyd Bros

 

 

So, as you can see from the pictures above there was a fair amount of class shown today. Throughout the whole of the show period here at Saltney we have seen a number of class pigeons who have all been competing to get their flyers points for the show league we run. Whoever ends up at the top of the show table at the end of the period wins a trophy and a bottle of Jack Daniels finest Tennessee Whiskey. So in the table below you will find the final league table of points for the year. Last year saw Jones Lamb & daughter win by 24 points and who put up a great fight again this year but couldn’t catch the outstanding birds of G O Jones who this year won by 26pts to regain his crown from the year before. Well done the birds have been in outstanding condition all year and your results in the shows have proved this.

 

1st	G O Jones	99pts
2nd	Jones Lamb & Daughter	73pts
3rd	Lloyd & Bagnall	44pts
4th	A Murray & Sons	33pts

 

But as the racing season went, we experienced again Alan Atkinson aka the Sandycroft Slayer have another outstanding season with the birds, Alan who is a down to earth true Gentleman and a credit to the sport is a pleasure to have in any club, full of advice and story’s. Alan’s had a rough year to say the least and we wish him well. He finished off the year with 16 x 1st, 14 x 2nd, 13 x 3rd and 14 x 4th club positions, not to mention the Federation position Alan achieved with these birds. Alan Has got some top class birds and knows how to replicate this year after year with the bloodlines still there from the well-known Tele Savalas pigeon.

 

As a club we saw a number of losses both through old birds inland and channel through to the young birds, to what caused such a bad year for losses is still up for discussion across the sport but something needs to be done. Having said that this didn’t stop the top class performances coming through for those hardy pigeons showing what they can do.

 

Below I have attached our result table for the club for the year 2018:

Pos	Member	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Points	Total (£)
1	A Atkinson	16	14	13	14	146	£283.80
2	G O Jones	0	3	5	3	22	£120.75
3	P Moulton	1	4	2	1	21	£180.14
4	Lloyd Bros	3	0	1	2	16	£216.68
5	D & S Williams	5	1	0	0	11	£81.84
6	D & L Woodworth	0	0	1	0	2	£50.77
7	D Parry & Partners	0	0	0	0	0	£15.80

 

We also ran our Breeder Buyer and Open Race this year. With a new selection of winners this year saw a maximum of £4740.00 paid out in prize/pool money. Below are a few pictures of all winners receiving prizes today.

 

        

Charlie Millward (Left) D & S Williams (Middle) Ian Millward (Right)  -  Rob Lloyd of the Lloyd Bros Partnership receiving £902.78  - Craig Hughes (Right) of the Mr & Mrs Hughes Partnership

 

         

Lynn of the D & L Woodworth Partnership   -   Loty & Williams receiving their £200.00   -   Jamee, Ashlee and Carla (Left to right)

  

             

Nigel Shaw Picking up his winnings  -  Leeann Jones of G O Jones with Show trophy

 

 

 

Yours in Sport

Alan Foster

Saltney Social Press Officer