The South West of England Lerwick Club
The SWELC was holding its third young bird race on the program list from Coventry in the central midlands on the 11/8/24 with a 12.30pm liberation into a light east south east wind the top twenty open positions in the organisation are as follows; claiming top of the shop with 1st open SWELC and 1st Longford club was Fred Caruana flying 53 miles with a red hen being a Van Den Bulk crossed Lambrechts flown to the perch doing 1449.
Fred Caurana Coventry winner
2nd, 3rd, 5th and 18th open plus 2nd and 3rd Longford club was the Walker Brother of Phil and Steve flying 65 miles their first a chequer cock his sire being MG4838 Bred by Martin Williams from Palletts stud Jellema stock and his dam being the angel of the north a home bred hen achieving 3rd club 3rd new north road amalgamation Stormness Orkney islands 7th section 18th open central southern classic club Perth and 1st club Fraserburgh and her nest mate performed well in the Moray Firth one loft race his Coventry velocity was 1426. Their second a blue cock being a Hooyman crossed Franz Zwols and achieved 2nd open Lerwick club and 2nd club the week previously from Penkridge the next a blue pied hen that was purchased at the New North Road Amalgamation and was bred by Kevin Lawson of Ollerton being a Herman Cuesters and their final being a blue chequer pied cock being bred from Mick Carricks Syndicate loft birds going back to Dancing Brave, Johannesburg and Maxine all were flown on the darkness with velocities of 1424, 1423.344 and 1272.268.
4th, 14th and 20th open plus 4th Longford club was Stuart Luff flying 65 miles his first a blue hen being bred off a cock of Dewert crossed Corbett Bushart when paired to a Meirlaen crossed Mark Gilbert hen the next scoring two birds being home bred strain based all were flown naturally with velocities of 1423.453, 1383 and 1369.
6th open plus 1st Sodbury vale club was Steve Bennett flying 79 miles with a blue hen being a Verkerk bloodline raced naturally doing 1404.
7th,8th,9th and 11th open plus 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sodbury Vale club was Chris and John Adams flying 79 miles with their original Wall Lunt & Green based bloodline birds doing 3 x 1388 and 1387.829.
10th open and 1st Oldland club was Adrian Bishop flying 84 miles with a chequer hen of Brian Olver bloodlines doing 1387.877.
12th and 13th open plus 1st and 2nd Lydney club flying 74 miles was Chris Harding with a red hen and a blue chequer cock doing 2 x 1384.
15th open plus 1st south Bristol club was Andrzej Stanowski flying 87 miles with a chequer white flight cock being a Gus Jansen crossed Van Den Bulk flown naturally doing 1378.
16th, 17th and 19th open was Dave Tyrer flying 80 miles doing 1375, 1374 and 1372.226.
Well done to all.
The Rat Man.
