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BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION

plus Stretton FC reports

by Pete Wightman

SPINKS & BARKS OF HILL RIDWARE WIN Y.B. OPENER FROM WINDRUSH

Darren Barks of the Spinks & Barks partnership, 1st fed from Windrush

DUE TO THE AWFUL WEATHER OF LATE, THE FEDERATION'S OPENING YB RACE FROM WINDRUSH WAS PUT BACK 24 HOURS TO SUNDAY JULY 22ND.

THIS UNSEASONAL WEATHER HAS MEANT THAT TRAINING HAS BEEN CURTAILED, AND THIS SHOWS IN THE POOR TURNOUT.

43 MEMBERS SENT 819 BIRDS. THEY WERE LIBERATED AT 09-05 IN A WEST WIND, RETURNS, AS WITH MOST OPENING YB RACES, WERE GAPPY.

BUT WITH THE WEST WIND, IT WAS AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY SPINKS & BARKS OF HILL RIDWARE, WHO LIE ON THE WEST SIDE OF OUR FEDERATION, TO TAKE TOP SPOT ON 1614 WITH A PONDEROSA JANSENNE COCK. THIS COCK LOST 2 MINUTES AS WELL!!!WELL DONE PHIL & DARREN.

2ND; 6TH & 8TH ON 1608; 1555; 1547 WAS G.WOOD OF APPLEBY MAGNA.

CLUBMATES MR & MRS PASSEY & FAMILY WERE 4TH; 5TH & 7TH ON 1560; 1557; 1554. THEY TIMED THE THREE BIRDS IN 16 SECONDS.

RON TILT OF WINSHILL WAS 3RD ON 1575.

TWO BOLEHALL LOFTS COMPLETE THE TOP TEN, MR & MRS DAVE HARDING 9TH ON 1516, AND NICHOLLS BROS 10TH ON 1513.

AS YOU CAN SEE, DETAILS ARE VERY SPARSE; I ONLY HAVE DETAILS OF THE HILL RIDWARE BIRDS. IF IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS THE RESPONSE FROM THE CLUBS DOES NOT IMPROVE? I WILL SERIOUSLY CONSIDER RESIGNING AS PRESS OFFICER FROM THE FEDERATION?

AT HILL RIDWARE, FROM TRURO, GORDON TREGAY TOOK THE RED CARD ON 1451 WITH A YEARLING JANSENNE X BUSCHEART HEN. THIS HEN WAS BRED OUT OF RICHARD & KIM MOLE STOCK X A JOHN GERRARD JANSENNE, SHE WAS 3RD FROM MESSAC THIS SEASON, AND TOOK A RUNNERS UP SPOT FROM BATH IN 2006. NICE ONE GORDIE.

GORDON TREGAY, 1ST CLUB TRURO

 

SPINKS & BARKS WERE 2ND ON 1433 WITH THE “QUEER COCK” A VAN DE WEGEN.

JIM KENNY & SON WERE 3RD & 4TH ON 1409; 1389; BOTH AYTON MARSHALL STOCK.

FROM WINDRUSH, THE OPENING YB RACE SAW SPINKS & BARKS TAKE THE FIRST FOUR ON 1614; 1466; 1391; 1338.

THE WINNER (AND FED TOPPER) WAS A PONDEROSA JANSENNE COCK.

RUNNER UP WAS A JOHN GERRARD JANSENNE, FOLLOWED BY A BRIAN MURRAY & SON OF MANCHESTER JANSENNE, THEN A YEATMAN BROS OF ATHERSTONE JANSEENE.

HAVE A GOOD DAY ON AUGUST 11TH DAZ, HOPE THE WEDDING GOES OFF WELL, AND THE ALBION WIN.

ANY NEWS TO

“THE MALTSTER”

01283-568000