The South West of England Lerwick Club
The SWELC was at a drop back event at Penkridge on the 16/6/24 and at 10.15am into a light west wind the birds were liberated on their way the top open twenty positions in the club are as follows claiming the red card of 1st open SWELC plus 7th, 10th and 16th open and 1st Longford club was Fred Caruana flying 58 miles his winner a 1y blue cock of his own strain his next a 3y blue hen being a Herman Cuesters crossed Van Den Bulk the sire being purchased from the RPRA one loft race when at Gloucestershire with Jeremy Davis the next a 1y blue hen that was bred by Peter McFarlane of Northampton and was purchased at the new north Road amalgamations Futurity sale and his final a 3y blue hen being a Van Den Bulk via Micky Collins lines she's previously scored in the Gala 2 bird club also operated at Longford club all were flown on the chaos system with velocities of 1538, 1488.437, 1487.368 and 1454.
Fred Caruana
2nd open plus 2nd Longford club was Trevor Cooke flying 58 miles with a 1y chequer hen being bred by Chris Templar of Bristol being purchased at the Longford club breeder buyer sale and being flown on the roundabout system with a velocity of 1527.
3rd, 6th, 12th and 14th open plus 3rd Longford club was Orchard & Vincent flying 62 miles with their natural flown old bird team their first a 2y blue cock called Romeo being a Rudy Van Reeth being bred by Matthew Munslow being in a kit of 6 x Young birds purchased in 2022. The next is a 1y grizzle cock who was beaten on the trap to previously top the south west of England Lerwick club he's also won the Gala club 2Bird event he again is a Rudy Van Reeth the next again a Rudy Van Reeth of a 1y blue cock being a full brother to the above Grizzle cock and their final bird of Polly named after her breeder the late Ian pollard she herself is a south west of England Lerwick club open winner from Wakefield being a Andres Drappa of a 2y blue hen their velocities were 1503, 1488.907, 1463.992 and 1463.025.
Orchard & Vincent
4th, and 11th open plus 4th Longford club was Stuart Luff flying 70 miles with his natural flown old bird team the first a 2y blue cock and the second a 2y chequer pied cock both being Jel Jellema crossed Walker brothers birds with velocities of 1496 and 1468.
Stuart Luff
5th, 8th, 13th and 15th open was the Walker brothers flying 70 miles their first a 1y blue chequer cock of mick Carrick stock birds of syndicate lofts lines their next a 1y blue pied cock of Geoff and Catherine cooper crossed a Jel Jellema the next a 1y blue pied cock being a Franz Zwols and their final clocked a 1y blue pied cock of Gordon Brothers of Ireland crossed a Mark Gilbert bird all were flown on the traditional natural system with velocities of 1489, 1487.844, 1463.837 and 1462.
9th open was Ray Bevan flying 60 miles with a 1y mealy hen of Van Den Bulk crossed Rudy Van Reeth raced on the natural system sitting 15 day old eggs doing 1487.402.
17th, 18th, 19th and 20th open plus 1st, 2nd , 3rd and 4th Sodbury Vale club was the Adams Brothers of Chris and John flying 84 miles with their widowhood team of Coremans Hardy Krugers and Wall Lunt & Green bred birds with velocities of 1451, 2x 1450 and 1449.
The Rat Man.
