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"With Distance in Mind"

UPDATE 11/8/08

Hi all. Due to terrible weather were unable to train on Thursday or Friday and there was no training last weekend due to racing. We had the oppurtunity to race this weekend 91 miles with the first batch of youngsters we have trained but they are starting to moult and again we have very heavy rain. This does not seem to stop the French from liberating and we are not willing to throw them away just for the sake of getting them into a race. They have been well schooled and, weather permitting, I will give them a 60 or 70 mile toss tomorrow then we will leave them alone and start training the later arrivals.

It's very difficult for us to try to enter the young birds into races as they start racing them on the 8th June and we are still receiving birds in June and July, as the distance fanciers do not pair up too early, so plenty of training is what we shall be doing with them. We have not raced our own young bird team either because, as you know, we had the disaster of our stock shed blowing down in March so our own youngsters are also that much later, but we don`t see this as a problem as last year's Barcelona Challenge youngsters were not raced either, just well trained and with the 99 we started racing this year we still have 87, so very pleasing.

Out of the 9 sprint races this year we have won 7 of them with our yearlings and these too were young birds of ours that did not race last year as youngsters. The young bird race programme starts on the 8th June with a 70 mile race then they race every week. 15th June is 101 miles then the distance increases week after week up to the final two races of 319 then 350 miles, so by the time we have finished training it would mean jumping them straight into a race of around 200 miles and, as I have already said, we feel it is too big a jump for their first race, but next year as yearlings we will enter them in plenty of races of around 150-200 miles in preparation before they race Angouleme 350 miles. Hope you are all keeping well. All the best and ake care - Lou.