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Epsomand Huy

 

RHONDDA VALLEY FED

Reports by Martin Dunn

EPSOM & HUY

NEXT RACE FOR THE FED WAS EPSOM. WITH THE SEVEN-DAY RESTRICTION ON ALL THE PIGEONS THAT COMPETED FROM OUDENAARDE, A GOOD TURN OUT OF NEARLY 2000 PIGEONS FOR THIS WEEK'S RACE SAW THE BIRDS DELAYED DUE TO POOR CONDITIONS AT THE RACEPOINT. THIS WAS THEN COMPLICATED BY THE HEAT. EVENTUALLY THE BIRDS WERE RELEASED AT 12:45 INTO A LIGHT NORTH EAST WIND.

THE WINNER DROPPED TO THE TONYREFAIL CLUB 2 HOURS 48 MINUTES LATER FOR A VELOCITY OF 1400 YPM, THE WINNER BEING B.JONES AND M/M GREEN. THE PARTNERSHIP CONSISTS OF BRETT JONES AND HIS SISTER AND BROTHER IN LAW. THEY CLOCKED A YEARLING COCK FROM GRAHAM WARREN'S BLOODLINES. FROM WHAT I’M TOLD, THIS COCK HAS PREVIOUS FORM IN A NORTH EAST WIND, PREVIOUSLY FINISHING 1ST CLUB 4TH FED NEWBURY 1, 4920 PIGEONS.

CLOSE UP AND JUST A FEW SECONDS BEHIND WAS FELLOW CLUB MEMBER CHARLIE PATRICK WHO CLOCKED A 3 YRD OLD FOR 2ND FED, JONES AND M/M GREEN GET THEIR SECOND ARRIVAL FOR 3RD CLUB 14TH FED, MAL AND DARRON WOODLAND 4TH CLUB 25TH FED.

NEXT IN, WERE THE FEDS FORM LOFT, BRIAN AND MIKE GILL, THIS WEEK THEY GET 2 TOGETHER FOR 1ST AND 2ND CLUB 3RD AND 4TH FED, INLAND OR OVER THE WATER THEY HAVE THEIR BIRDS IN TOP FORM AT PRESENT.

3RD CLUB AT PENYGRAIG WERE ARNOLD AND KEITH DAVIES, WHO CLOCK A 2YR OLD WIDOWHOOD COCK FOR 13TH FED, FOLLOWED BY DUNN SON SEAL, THEY CLOCK A YEARLING HEN, IN WITH THE YOUNG BIRDS FOR 4TH 28TH FED.

NANTYMOEL KEEP UP THEIR GOOD PERFORMANCES, MAKING THEIR PRESENT FELT THIS SEASON, AFTER REJOINING THE FED, THIS WEEK TATTCHEL AND DADDOW CLOCK A YEARLING WELL CLEAR IN THE CLUB FOR 5TH FED, BAYLISS AND BAYLISS ARE SECOND CLUB AND DENNY PHILLIPS IN FOR 3RD.

BACK TO THE RHONDDA VALLEY,TONYPANDY CENTRAL, ROY STREET AND LES HUGHES CLOCK A CRACKER ONCE AGAIN, NO STOPPING THESE 2, INLAND, THEY CLOCK A YEARLING COCK FOR 1ST CLUB 6TH FED, WITH GARY DAVIES TAKING 2ND CLUB  AND GARETH WATKINS 3RD CLUB.

DOWN NEXT TO THE BOTTOM END OF THE FED AND TO KENFIG HILL, W.THOMAS, CLOCK S ONE CLEAR FOR 1ST  CLUB 7TH FED, RICHARDSTOKES WAS 2ND CLUB 17TH FED AND DAI GORE, EVER PRESENT IN 3RD CLUB 20TH FED.

STAYING IN THIS DIRECTION, AT PORT TALBOT, ROY EDWARDS WINS THIS COMPETITIVE CLUB WITH A YEARLING STAF VAN REET X SOOTJEN HEN PLAYING UP TO A COCK.10TH FED,  2ND CLUB B.OLEARY WITH AN EDDY KNIGHT BUSSHAERT, 23RD FED AND 3RD M/M DIAMOND WITH 2YR OLD VAN DER WIEL X VAN DEN BOSCH.

BACK UPTO THE TOP OF THE RHONDDA,MAERDY, GLYN FOSTER CLOCKS A SUPERB PIGEON FOR 1ST CLUB 8TH FED, THIS PIGEON HAD TO GO TO GET UP HERE AT THIS TIME, AND BACK OVER THE MOUNTAIN TO THE RHONDDA FAWR, SEES BUTLER BROS START TO GET THE PIGEONS INTO FORM WHEN WINNING CWMPARC AND 10TH FED, HUGHES AND GRIFFTHS ARE SECOND CLUB 18TH FED AND STREET AND HUGHES GET ONE IN THEIR OTHER CUB, CWMPARC, FOR 3RD CLUB 21 ST FED.

A.WATKINS KEEPS THE FLAG FLYING FOR MAESTEG, WINNING 1ST CLUB 9TH FED WITH A 2YR OLD, AT THE FRONT END OF THE FED M.GIBBONS GETS ONE CLEAR AT NEWPORT WHEN WINNING THE CLUB AND TAKING 12TH FED, AND BACK IN THE MIDDLE, ITS TONY SOUTHWOOD CLOCKING A 5YR OLD FOR 1ST AT CAMBRIAN AND 15TH FED., WITH IKE EVANS 2ND CLUB, 27TH FED.

ONLY PIGEON ON THE RESULT IN THE CYNON VALLEY, IT HAD TO BE A GOOD TO GET UP HERE IN THIS WIND, GOES TO SHOTTON BROS, THIS PARTNERSHIP HAVE HAD AGOOD OLD BIRD SEASON, APPEARING ON THE FED RESULTS REGULARLY,  19TH FED TODAY.

JEFF OWENS WINS PONTYPRIDD AGAIN, DON’T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE WRITTEN THAT THIS YEAR, BUT IT MUST BE AGOOD FEW, ANYWAY HE CLOCKS A BRASSPENNING WIDOWHOOD HEN FOR 1ST CLUB 22ND FED, HE WAS ALSO 2ND CLUB WITH A JANSSEN HEN AND GRAHAM BUSHELL 3RD CLUB.   

BACK TO THE TOP OF THE RHONDDA, THE FEDS TOP LOFT, GRAHAM WARREN DOES A 1,2,3, AND 24TH, 26TH, 29TH FED, GRAHAM HASN’T MISSED A FED RESULT FOR WEEKS.

TAKING THE FINAL FED CARD 30TH, IS GLYNCORRWG’S YOUNG SUPERSTAR COREY LEWIS, COREY IS ONLY 9 YEARS OF AGE, LOOKS AFTER THE BIRDS HIMSELF AND THEY ARE FLYING BRILLIANTLY FOR HIM. THIS WEEK HE CLOCKS A YEARLING PIED HEN, BRED BY HIMSELF OFF A COCK FROM HIS GRANDFATHER JOHN, THIS GOOD COCK HAS WON A NUMBEROF 1ST ,INCLUDING TOURS AND SAINTES, INCLUDING 1ST FED TOURS. COREY WAS ALSO 4TH CLUB WITH THE NESTMATE TO THE WINNER, PLUS ALL THE MONEY TO THE POUND POOLS

2ND CLUB WAS SPARROW AND SON WITH CHECKER COCK POOLED TO £2. 3RD WAS THE LEWIS BROS WITH A DARKIE DIAMOND BLOODLINES PIGEON.

UP AT TREBANOG WINNER THIS WEEK IS GLYN SIBLEY, JUST EDGING CHRIS JONES INTO 2ND AND 3RD PLACE WITH VINCE LANE 4TH.

TO BRING US UPTO DATE, WE WERE BACK ACROSS THE WATER TO THE NEW RACEPOINT OF HUY. THIS WAS THE REPLACEMENT FOR LIEGE. FIRST PROBLEM OF A BAD WEEKEND, THE LIBERATION SITE WAS NOT SUITABLE FOR THE NATIONAL AND COMBINE PIGEONS TO BE RELEASED, SO ANOTHER PLACE WAS FOUND A FEW HUNDRED METRES AWAY.

THE PIGEONS WERE HELD OVER ON THE SATURDAY DUE TO THE WET CONDITIONS EN ROUTE, WITH A BETTER DAY FORECAST SUNDAY HOPES WERE FOR A BETTER RACE THAN OUDENAARDE WHEN THE PIGEONS WERE LIBERATED AT 08:00.

UNFORUTUNATELY THIS WASN’T THE CASE. WITH BARELY 25% OF THE PIGEONS HOME ON THE DAY, IT COULD BE CLASSED AS A DISASTER. I THINK THE WELSH COMBINE SHOULD SERIOUSLY LOOK AT THE  OVERSEAS RACE PROGRAMME FOR 2008, WITH A MORE SOUTH EAST ROUTE TAKEN ON, OR EVEN REVERTING BACK TO DIRECT SOUTH, WHICH WAS SUCCESSFUL WHEN TRIED A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK.

WITH THE LIKES OF ADRIAN WARE AND DENNIS FORD SHOWING HOW THIS COULD BE, AT LEAST ALL THE PIGEONS ARE HEADING FOR THE U.K IN THIS DIRECTION, JUDGING BY THE NUMBER OF BELGIAN YOUNG BIRDS THAT CAME WITH THE RACE BIRDS IN THE RHONDDA AREA, WE MUST HAVE HIT THE YOUNG BIRDS EARLY ON, AFTER LIBERATION. RUSSIAN ROULETTE SEEMS TO ME.

ANYWAY, BACK TO THE WINNERS,AND IT’S NO SURPRISE TO SEE GILL BROS AND SON TAKING 1ST FED, 1ST CENTRE SECTION WELSH SOUTH EAST NATIONAL, 4TH OPEN NATIONAL, BRIAN AND MIKE’S PIGEONS HAVE BEEN ON FORM FROM THE FIRST RACE, WHEN TAKING THE FIRST 4 POSITIONS  IN THE WELSH NORTH ROAD FED, TO NOW, THEY CLOCKED THE SAME YEARLING HOUBEN COCK THAT WAS 1ST CLUB 15TH FED OUDENAARDE, THIS WEEK HE WENT SITTING 11 DAY EGGS AND ROMPED HOME, BRIAN SAYS HE’S GOING TO BONN, HOPEFULLY KEEPING HIS FORM GOING.

TAKING 2ND FED IS TREHERBERT'S GRAHAM WARREN, GRAHAM IS A CLASS ACT, TOP PRIZEWINNER IN THE FED 5 OUT OF THE LAST SIX SEASONS AND THIS WEEK HE CLOCKS ONE OF HIS OLD RELIABLES, THE 02 PIGEON ‘48’, THIS COCK HAS WON SOME PRIZES OVER THE WATER INCLUDING 10TH FED BONN 470MILES AND 4TH FED GIESSEN 535 MILES, THIS TIME HE ADDS 2ND FED HUY 390 MILES, SOME PIGEON.

TAKING 3RD FED IS NANTYMOEL'S JOHN COURTS, ANOTHER GOOD FLYER FROM THE DISTANCE, THIS WEEK HE REVERSES THE OUDENAARDE RESULT OVER CLUB MATE DENNY PHILLIPS WHO COMES IN FOR 2NDCLUB 7TH FED, JOHN GETS HS 2ND TIMER FOR 3RD CLUB 12TH FED.

MR RELIABLE OVER THE WATER, LES VAUGHAN WINS CAMBRIAN FOR THE SECOND TIME ACROSS THE CHANNEL, LES CLOCKS A 4YR OLD FOR 4TH FED AND HE’S ALSO 2ND CLUB 23 RD FED.  

ABERCWMBOI’S BRYN HOLMES 1ST CLUB 6TH FED WITH AN IMPORTED GB YEARLING.VENN SON AND PARTNERS ARE 2ND CLUB 14TH FED, PHILLIP SHELDON CLOCKS HIS RLIABLE YEARLING ‘11'. THIS COCK WAS 5TH FED OUDENAARDE AND 26TH FED HUY. CLEMAS BROS WINS BAGLAN AND 16TH FED.

PAYNE APRRY AND DAVIES, GET THE SAME YEARLING HEN THAT WAS 2ND CLUB 13TH FED OUDENAARDE FOR 1ST WEST SECTION IN THE FEDAND 1ST KENFIG HILL,  CLUB MATES W.THOAMS KEEP UP THEIR CONSISTENT RUNWITH 2ND 3RD 4TH CLUB 27TH FED.

DOWN AT PORT TALBOT, M/M HOOKINGS CLOCK A 2 YR OLD FOR 9TH FED, JOE OBRYAN AND STEVE JONES, GET THEIR DIRECT M&D EVANS VANDENABEELE COCK FOR 2ND CLUB 30TH FED, THISCOCK HAS WON AROUND 4 X 1ST CLUB IN THE PAST AND IS A CLASS PIGEON.

AGAIN AT PONTYPRIDD JEFF OWENS GETSA EARLY ONE WHEN WINNING THE CLUB, MUST BE ATLEAST 6 X 1ST CLUB SO FAR THIS SEASON, TREMENDOUS FLYING, 8TH FED.

KEVIN ANDREWS IS NEXT, TAKING 2ND CLUB AT PENYGRAIG,10TH  FED, THERE ARE FEW EARLY IN THIS CLUB ARNOLD AND KEITH DAVIES ARE 3RD CLUB 15TH FED, GILL BROS GETS THEIR SECOND FOR 17TH FED, DUNN SON SEAL, KEEP PLUGGING AWAY AT 5TH CLUB 19TH FED AND MARTIN JARMAN GETS A YEARLING FOR 22ND FED.

BROWN AND JONES ARE EDGED INTO 2ND PLACE AT YNYSHIR BY A&K DAVIES TIMER AT PENYGRAIG, WITH DAVIES AND EANS WINNING MAERDY 11TH FED, MAL HOLLAND GETS 2ND AND 3RD AT MAERDY,  20TH AND 24TH FED, JUST EDGING OWEN EVANS & SON INTO 4TH CLUB 25 TH FED.

M/MJONES WINS AT MAESTEG PARK1ST CLUB 4TH WEST SECTION 28TH FED FOLLOWED BY STANTON BROS  ANDEVANS 3RD CLUB TREHERBERT29TH FED.

AT TONYPANDY NORMAN BRIGHT AND SON JASON GET 2 TOGETHER FOR 1ST AND 2ND CLUB, SAME 7 YR OLD THAT WON OUDENAARDE 2 WEEKS AGOS FOLLOWED BY A YEARLING COCK, JASON WINS THE NOM WITH THIS HEN, SHOULD BE £60 BETTER OFF AND CAN BUY THE FIRST ROUND WHEN WE GO OUT. LAYTON ISLES WAS JUST BEHIND FOR 3RD CLUB.

TREBANOG SEES ONE OF CHRIS JONES OLD STAGERS IN  FOR 1ST CLUB FOLLOWED BY 2 OTHERS AT 3RD AND 4TH CLUB, JASON SELDON TAKES 2NDCLUB WITH THE SAME PIGEON THAT WON OUDENAARDE.