SOUTH
BIRMINGHAM FED & DISTRICT
Jeff
Gleeson
THE BROMFORD NORTH RD FLYING CLUB 24/8/10 sent
15/168 birds to aycliffe transported by the coalville fed liberated at 12 noon into a north east wind with a e.t.a of 2hrs 45min to cover the 145 miles aprox.
1st having his third win of the season was jimmy freeman with a blue hen vel 1527 pools £5.75 r/r £20.00 this young han was bred out of a 2009 late bred cock which jimmy had off keith & pam brown out of their 9 x 1st 137 coulemans cheq cock.the dam is a direct coulamans two year old which keith let jimmy have to pair to this cock.
2nd keith and pam brown with another eric coulamans cheq w/f hen one that was bought over from belgium on his visit to erics in april this year vel 1520 and £10.00 r/r.this bird also wins the gold ring race.
3rd derek garnett and son vel 1518 and pools £28.20 its nice to see derek back in the frame as he wasnt certain if he would be racing this year due to not being to well at the beginning of the season and only breeding a few y/bs this young bird is out of a 3 year old red fox janssen off keith and pam brown paired onto a janssen hen off paul skinner.
4th jim freeman with a cheq cock out of a yearling cock from keith and pam brown 8 x 1st pied coulamans cock paired onto a hen of mark collins so it is bred out of two of the best fanciers birds in the club.vel 1516 pools £2.30 plus £10.00 r/r.
the first four birds in the club this week i noticed were all related to birds from keith and pam browns loft.the rest of the pools money and r/r money were won by dave hewitt at 5th 7th & 9th £19.52 pools and £30.00 r/r.keith & pam brown at 6th 17th & 23rd pools £46.83 r/r £10.00 next ken oliver £10.00 r/r the last £10.00 ring raffle was won by john & shirley moore.
the club also held its special ring race this week with £270.00 to be flown for divided 50-30-20.
1st in sixth position keith & pam brown winning £135.00 2nd & 3rd was dave hewitt at 7th & 9th also winning £135.00.
birmingham one loft gold ring race update
14.8.2010 from aycliffe 145 miles
keith & pam sent 16 gold rings bird to the race leaving four in the loft not yet fit to race the first gold ring back to the loft taking second club and first gold ring for paul lane and winning this weeks £100.00 prize paul is a none fancier and only had a go for a bit of fun with his mates fred & mick all three decided to split any winnings fred & mick are the pigeon men and are now able to talk paul into having a few himself.well done paul and there is still time to win some more with four races to go with only 11 out of the 16 sent home on the day this week things are getting tough but still alls not lost with birds returning or being reported keith tells me the y/b team is now back over twenty
BROMFORD NORTH RD FLYING CLUB
15/141 birds to ripon transported by the coalville fed.and liberated at 8.15am into a light south west wind with an e.t.a of 2hrs 45mins to cover the 113 miles aprox.
1st club and continuing having a fantastic season is jimmy freeman not only did he win the race he also took the first seven places in the club which i believe is also a club record jimmy has only moved to his presant address in the last eighteen months he has also had a new loft and set up he has gone from strength to strength with racing his birds.
he now tells me he will call these young birds his magnificent seven and hopes they will go on and win more prizes so lets hope the new house is a lucky one for you jim.
jimmys first bird is a vandenabeeles out of a pair he purchased in 2009to breed off this young blue hen vel 1164 pools £27.28 r/r £20.00 his second bird a cheq hen out of a coulemans cock onto a mark collins hen vel 1163.5 pools £16.36 & r/r £10.60 jimmys 3rd bird a pied hen with a vel of 1163.2 £41.79 pools £10.00 r/r.
this young hen is bred off a coulamans yearling off keith & pam in 2009 which is also the nest mate that bred last weeks winner for jimmy.
4th place a cheq hen bred out of a braspenning blue janssen cock paired onto a jannsen hen from barnfield & son vel 1163.02 r/r £10.00 jimmy also won r/r £40.00 for being 5th,6th,7th & 10th club plus £22.62 at 6th club nice one jimmy the rest of the pools & r/r were won by keith & pam brown at 8th £9.75 pools £10.00 r/r this bird also wins the gold ring schemefor mark thompson. dave hewitt wins £10.00 r/r at 9th
the birmingham gold ring one loft race up date
keith & pam sent 11 birds to ripon leaving 8 birds in the loft as origanoly the birds were to go to whitley bay but due to poor returns the week before from aycliffe the coalville fed decided to go to ripon so with 11 out of 11 keith & pam have 19 to go to ripon on 28-8-10 leaving just two at home one of which was reported up in hartlypool on sunday.keith got in touch with u k couriers on 01260273433 on monday and by 8.30am on tuesday the bird was back in the loft.this was great stuff well done u k couriers keith would recommend this courier service to anyone.
this weeks golg ring winner and winner of the £100.00 is mark thompson with gb2010b42 this bird was also 8th club.
mark is a none flyer but thought a bit of a gamble would be fun mark & his partner kerry are the proud parents of a three week old little girl called rachel so congratulations to both of you i know the winnings will now come in handy well done mark and good luck
thanks to wilky for this report.
THE SOUTH B.HAM FEDS race this week is from kingsdown and starting with
THE TWIN GREEN
5/48 1st & 3rd this week to steve walton his first bird a cheq and his other bird a blue cock these both out of his herbot lines 2nd to micky brown with a dk/ch hen a wildy x s.v.r which was 2nd club from taunton two weeks previous 4th spot to ron brown with a blue s.v.r [keith arnold]hen vels 1497-1491-1488-1486.
THE SPARKHILL F.C
5/103 in 1st,2nd & 3rd club 7th & 9th fed to bryan haddon and silent partner graham field a blue soontjen hen a bl;ue w/f cock out of grahams belg hen and a cheq hen a gift bird from bernard carter & son bryan wins £31.00 pools £27.00 in the £1.nom and £10.00 railway nom 4th club to bernard carter & son with a cheq cock out of their yskout crosses vels 1563-1561-1542-1536.
THE ASTON & DISTRICT F.C
16/212. 1st & 2nd to barry cluley a blue hen and a pied hen both buschaert x s.v.reets 3rd & 4th to peter thomas with two blue cocks which win £35.00 in the lotto race and the £1.nom vels 1543-1542-1535-1534.
THE SOUTH B.HAM SOCIAL
8/90. 1st club 8th fed dave & jayne hughes with a bl/ch hen which has already won this year 2nd & 4th club 10th fed to john bate a roland janssen geizzle hen no info on the other one 3rd to billy hocking with one of his walter docx a bl/pd hen.the ring raffle winner this week john bate picking up £28.00.the pools won this week are dave hykin & son £10.00 malcom cooper £8.00.billy hocking £4.00 vels are 1563-1554-1538-1514.
THE MACKADOWN SOCIAL
4/49 1st club 5th fed to m/m darren norris a bl/pd gaevart hen 2nd,3rd,& 4th club 6th fed to steve edwards with his lambrechts & s.v.reets vels 1568-1562-1536-1533.d shorthouse wins the kings heath t durows wins the grange and the selly oak won by d winfield & son
THE TOP TEN IN THE SOUTH B.HAM FED
this week from kinsdown up at 9.30am in a light variable wind 53/723 1st & 4th d shorthouse kings heath 2nd & 3rd j steele & son kings heath 5th m/m d norris mackadown 6th s ewards mackadown 7th & 9th b haddon sparkhill 8th m/m d hughes south b.ham social 10th j bate south b.ham social vels 1575-1573-1573-1571-1568-1564-1563-1563-1561-1554.
THE SOLIHULL & KNOWLE
racing with the
SOUTH MIDLAND FED
from swainswick 9/188.with 1st & 4th on the clubs drop back race to jim & lisa green with a blue direct lambrecht cock and a cheq coooreman hen which jim aquired via the pigeon chat site which was a y/b swop scheme swopped with site member paul hurst.2nd & 3rd to james & gary ditton with two dark cheq cocks the first out of rob horton of tamworth lambrecht stock and the other is a direct carl & cyriel lambrecht vels 1634-1626-1626-1624.
THE GLEBE FARM
also with this fed 17/205 winning their 2nd race of the day is m/m darren norris who also win 2nd & 3rd spots.steve edwards is 4th no more info on this club only vels 1633-1633-1632-1617.
THE TOP TEN IN THE SOUTH MIDLAND FED
racing from swainswick up at 9.30am in a west wind 57/997.1st & 2nd r.w.parker 3rd,4th & 5th g & j joans & adams 6th,7th,& 8th to r parkes 9th j steele & son 10th m/m j green vels 1658-1657-1651-1651-1650-1648-1643-1638-1635-1634.
jeff gleeson
0121 628 5573 .
