The South West of England Lerwick Club
The SWELC second young bird race to report on was being flown from Coventry on the 21/7/23 at 09.00am into a light north west wind the birds were liberated by Peter and Jordan the top twenty open positions in the organisation are as follows; claiming 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th open SWELC plus 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th in the Nailsworth club was the partnership of Nick Orchard and Sev flying 57 miles their winner a blue hen bring a Formula lofts Franz Zwols these originate from the loft of Colin Croucher of Swindon and she was sent sitting a two day old nest chick their second a mealy hen of a Van Doncker from Matthew Munslow she was sent being driven to the nest by her cock their third a blue Franz Zwols cock again from the Formula One Lofts stock lines and this young cock was driving his hen to lay at nest and their fourth a Grizzle cock being a Rudy Van Reeth crossed Andres Drapa the sire was from Matthew Munslow and the Dam from the late club mate of Ian Pollard all were flown on the Darkness system paired up sitting or driving to nest their velocities were 3 x 1347 and 1345.
Sev & Nick Orchard
5th, 10th and 11th open plus 1st, 2nd and 3rd Thornbury club was Dave Smith flying 76 miles his first a dark cock that was purchased at the new north road amalgamations Futurity sale and being bred by Mark Pitman his second a blue chequer hen again purchased at the new north road amalgamations young bird sale being bred by Gavin Duggan and his third a mealy cock being a van Den Bulk all were flown on the Darkness system flying back to their perches with velocities of 1342, 1338.169 and 1337.
Dave Smith
6th, 7th, 8th and 9th open plus 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th in the Longford club was John Morefield flying 52 miles John has unfortunately passed away recently so no information can be obtained John was a kind gentle person and will be missed by the sport RIP John his velocities were 2 x 1341, 1340 and 1338.780.
12th open plus 1st Sodbury Vale club was Ken Whittingham flying 80 miles with a blue white flight cock doing 1336.
13th, 14th and 16th open was Mr & Mrs Andrew and Sandra Cook flying 52 miles their first a blue chequer hen her sire being of Syndicate lofts bloodlines and was purchased from the RPRA one loft race end of season auction in 2019 and her dam being a Richard Faber crossed Koopman crossed Van Loon purchased from the who dares wins one loft race end of season auction their second a blue chequer cock his sire a Henk Simonsq again purchased from who Dares wins one loft race end of season auction and the dam of the partnerships own bred bird of Van Den Bulk cross Andre Drapa that achieved 9th final 2022 Cotswold valley one loft race for them which they purchased back from the end of season auction their third a blue hen purchased from the new north road amalgamations Futurity sale and was bred by J & S Dangerfield of south Normanton Derbyshire of their Van Loons all were flown on the Darkness system flying back to the perch with velocities of 1330, 1326 and 1325.68.
15th open plus 1st Oldlands club was Adrian Bishop flying 84 miles with a chequer cock doing 1325.273.
17th open plus 2nd Sodbury Vale club was Chris & John Adams flying 79 miles with a blue cock being a Van Den Bulk bred by Tom Woods of Nottingham and was purchased at the new north road amalgamation Futurity sale flying on the darkness system back to his perch doing 1324.961.
18th, 19th and 20th open plus 3rd and 4th Sodbury Vale club was Steve Bennett flying 79 miles with three birds of Ben Oakley bred bloodline all raced on the traditional natural system with velocities of 1324.408, 1323 and 1322.
The Rat Man.