Lanarkshire federation - Wooler 1 - "The Record breakers start with a bang" - 01-05-26

Lanarkshire Federation - Wooler 1 - "The Record breakers start with a bang"

The 2026 season got under way on Saturday 25th April at Wooler in Northumberland, North East  England. The birds had a journey of 77 miles back into lower Central Scotland.

The morning started with fog covering the full line of flight and the 3,415 convoy had to wait till 1pm before being liberated in a light East North East wind.

The weather was bright and sunny on the line of flight.

This week’s winners started hitting the traps just after 1 hr 20 minutes for a velocity of 1692 ypm.

The Macaloney partnership of Paul and Charlene take the first 10 in the Open with their brilliant team of pigeons. Charlene was in charge for this week as Paul was away on work commitments. Charlene is very much a big part of the daily management and was very excited to take on the role as loft manager.

The birds done them proud with outstanding team performance that produced,1st,2nd,3rd,4th,5th,6th,7th,8th,9th,10th,14th North section, 1st,2nd,3rd,4th,5th,6th,7th,8th,9th,10th21st,28th,77th,83rd Open against 3,415 birds.

Sending 28 pigeons World Class Performance!

Breeding is littered with past Champions and his New Golden Blizzard bloodlines.

Well done to Paul and Charlene on another brilliant performance, they set the bar for others to try and reach!

Section Winners

North section-1157 birds

1st,2nd,3rd P Macaloney of Chapelhall club

West section-814 birds

1st,2nd,3rd M Krivokapic of Greenfield club

Centre section-1149 birds

1st,2nd,3rd Cameron & Fan -Uddingston club

Glasgow Section-295 birds

1st P Murphy jnr -Barrhead Fereneze club

2nd HBW lofts

3rd P Murphy jnr

Other brilliant team performances by Cameron & Fann of Uddingston club with them timing their brilliant 2 x 1st Open winning hen to win another section. She is bred from a Geerinckx cock and a Leach Brothers of Hebdon Bridge hen which is from their Syndicate lofts cock.

The winner won 1st Open Kettering and 1st Open Alnwick last season and is raced on the celibate season.

Mio Kravokapic of Greenfield club was the shining light in the west, taking the first three in the section. Mio has always been a top fancier with myself undertaking a loft report(Which can be found on Elimar pigeons website) a number of years ago, small set up big performances!. 

With every federation wishing to liberate around the same time and area returns were mixed with tracker pigeons showing flying up the east coast and even up into Fife crossing over the Firth of Forth.  

Other were heading through and Falkirk and down into Glasgow, before returning into Lanarkshire. 

Around the clubs

Airdrie

1st P Anderson

2nd D Sloan & Son

3rd Gault & Quinn

Blantyre

1st W Semple

2nd W Gordon

3rd T Houston

Burnbank

1st J Green & Son

2nd J McGuire

3rd McMillan, Suckle & Wylie

Carluke

1st,2nd  Graham Bros

3rd S McCardle

Chapelhall

1st,2nd,3rd P Macaloney

Chryston

1st,2nd  Young & Kelly

3rd C Gray

Coatbridge

1st J Donnely & Son

2nd J Forsyth

3rd  J Donnely & Son

Clarkston

1st & 2nd T Corrie Son G/son

3rd D Love

Dalzell 

1st,2nd  C Cupples

3rd G & J Palmer 

Greenfield

1st,2nd,3rd M Krivokapic

Lanark

1st,2nd,3rd J Frood & Son

New Stevenson

1st ,2nd,3rd J Gillon & G/son

Uddingston

1st,2nd ,3rd Cameron & Fann

Tom Corrie jnr

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