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Sporting Challenge2008 Sale of Y Bs

 

 

NEWS FROM SCOTLAND

BHW/Joe Murphy 2008 Sporting Challenge

Sale of top Quality youngsters

Again I offer the pigeon fancy 15 quality youngsters - 13 from the fanciers who participated in my Sporting Challenge and 2 from my Fanciers of the Year winners. Brian Love did not have a late bred for the sale as he had been away on holiday and had split his birds before going away, however he intends to participate in the draw for one of these pigeons on offer.

As many of you who read my articles know, my number one subject is THE PIGEON and I have tried to promote these wonderful distance pigeons since starting this one bird nomination competition. The response I receive from many readers of the BHW is how much they enjoy these write-ups, also the knowledge gained is invaluable and, more importantly, there is something different to read on each individual pigeon’s preparation. The more we read about these top pigeons and how they are conditioned makes these Scottish fanciers some of the best in Britain if not Europe. There are fanciers thoughout the world that are still interested in long distance racing pigeons and now you have the chance to purchase some of these top quality pigeons at the very reasonable price of £60.00 per pigeon, which is only a fraction of their true monetary value.

I emphasis again that the Sporting Challenge is about promoting the sport of pigeon racing. There is no financial gain to any of the fanciers taking part. The winners receive a trophy and the remaining fanciers a memento; a diploma and their meal paid at the presentation night from the proceeds of this young bird sale. I again thank everyone who donated pigeons to this sale. Their support is very much appreciated. 

Rules of the sale

This young bird sale will again be a postal ballot and all entries must be sent to Joe Murphy, Mystical Rose Cottage, 2 Flutorum Avenue, Thornton by Kirkcaldy, KY1 4BD by Saturday 30th August 2008. Fanciers are requested to write in with their choice of lot numbers, plus their name, address and phone number. As we have a youngster direct from our winner Setonpark Caelan it will still be sold at the same price of £60.00, which proves that the sporting challenge is here to promote the sport and not to ‘cash in’ on this or any other pigeon success. Therefore like last year I am prepared to give you the fanciers a fair deal as I will allow you to bid for 3 pigeons of your choice in this draw, however NO one person will win 2 pigeons. If your name is drawn out against Setonpark Caelan then you cannot win another pigeon in this draw. If your name comes out again against another pigeon then it will be the second name drawn out. I think it is only fair that we have ONE PIGEON PER PERSON which will allow 15 different fanciers the chance to each receive a top quality pigeon. I cannot be any fairer than this. All entries will be put into individual Lot numbers and a name will be drawn out. This will take place at a race marking station with individual fanciers making the draw. If you would like to take part then SEND me an envelope with your name, address, phone number and the lot numbers you wish to be entered in. Once the draw has been made I will contact the successful purchasers and once payment has been made, I will send them the contact number for the fancier donating the young pigeon. All purchasers will have to pay for the carriage of the pigeon.

Good Luck !!

Youngsters on Offer

Lot 1: Richard Combe of Elphinstone has kindly donated a youngster direct from his double sporting challenge winning hen Setonpark Caelan; a true sign of sportsmanship and we thank Richard for supporting the sporting challenge.

Setonpark Caelan, raced by Richard Combe.

Sire is 863 - a stock cock he is a ½ brother to Midnight Son SNFC Gold Award winner (same sire - my old Kirkpatrick stock). 863's dam was a grand-daughter of Midnight Son. 863 has already sired 8th section B 41st open Newbury; 10th section B 69th open Falaise; 18th section B 64th open Falaise; 20th section B 59th open Falaise; and a couple of more minor SNFC prize winners. He is also grand-sire of 6th section B 55th open Falaise (raced by my son Jamie) and 16th section B 121st open Falaise.

Dam of Lot 1 is Setonpark Caelan winner of the sporting challenge for the second consecutive year; Setonpark Caelan won her 4th SNFC diploma (having previously won 91st open Newbury, 41st open Falaise and 66th open Alencon) she took her highest open position by being 3rd region B 9th open Alencon 2008. We start off the sale with a cracker.  

 

Lot 2: Bred by Mike Binnie of Banff is another fancier who has kindly gifted a bird direct from his sporting challenge winner Lenny:

Lenny, raced by Mike Binnie.

Sire is Lenny who was runner up to the Sporting Challenge winner this grizzle cock put up an outstanding performance by being timed at 14.02 flying 647 miles to win 6th section G 42nd open and when you consider he was 5th section G last year from the Gold Cup race which entailed him entry into the sporting challenge. Lenny has proven to be one of the best ultra extreme distance pigeons in Scotland especially when you consider the distance from Alencon to Banff which is nearly 650 miles.

Sire was bred by Louella Pigeon World being a 02 cock sire a son of 1st open Barcelona cousins De Smaragd Barcelona & De Smaragd 1. Dam of the 02 cock was 94 bred hen from De Smaragd 11 when paired to a daughter of Champion Viekje the Dutch Dax national car winner crossed with the best ever from the 3 times Barcelona cock De Barcelona 1st Dutch national from 6.612 birds. Dam of Lenny was a gift 99 bred NE 1802 hen from Jim Donaldson of Peterhead her sire was a son of Circus Boy (sire of Donaldson loft); he bred 3 x 1st north section winners from races over 600 miles. Dam of 1802 was an 88 bred hen who was a full sister to Jim’s Sartilly Ann his first SNFC north section winner. As you will see this hen was 10 years old when she bred 1802 for Mike and in fact Jim Donaldson told me that she filled her eggs at 15 years of age and only died in 2007. She was another daughter of Circus Boy when he was mated to a red hen who turned out to be one of his best stock hens. She was bred from the first 2 pigeons Jim received from Dave Scott of Brechin and was advised by Dave to stop her for stock.

Dam of lot 2 is a blue bar hen SU 98 NE 2700 she is a direct daughter of Jim Donaldson’s 1st open SNFC Sartilly winner. So you will see a ¾ bred Jim Donaldson of Peterhead crossed De Smaragd 1 & 2 what breeding.

 

Lot 3: Brian Kinnear of Pitlessie has donated a ‘cracker’ of a youngster bred in the purple. Read on and just count the amount of winners in the pedigree:

Sire is SU 07F a direct son of Stichy when paired to his own mother the Gibbon Hen. She has bred winners with every cock she has been paired to. Stichy was Brian’s sporting challenge entry this year. He has previously won 141st open Newbury SNRPC 1541 birds; 1st section 3rd open SNRPC Newbury 1531 birds. 2nd section 8th open Falaise 2039 birds; 2nd section 6th open Alencon SNFC Gold Cup.

Sire of Stichy was purchased from Louella Pigeon World and was very inbred to ‘Oude Dolle 67’ legendary stock base pigeon of the modern day Jan Aarden pigeons.

The dam of Stichy was bred by Jimmy Gibbon of Sunderland from his Golden Pair who have bred winners up to Bourges 570 miles. The Gibbon Hen as she is known has bred winners for Brian every year from Otterburn 82 miles to Tours 630 miles.

Dam of Lot 3 is SU 07 E a chequer hen bred by Tom McEwen of Elphinstone being direct from his 1st open SNFC Tours winner Petite Rose. Sire of SU 07 E is a blue cock bred by Norman Black & Sons of Dromore Northern Ireland being direct from their 1st & 2nd open INFC Kings Cup winners. Dam of SU 07 E is Petite Rose 1st open SNFC Tours 611 miles sire of Petite Rose is nicknamed 17 and is a direct son of the Niort Cock who won 4th open SNFC Niort 673 miles. The Niort cock is a direct son of Marlene’s Boy 1st open SNFC Sartilly for Tom in 1985. Marlene’s Boy dam was a daughter of Tom’s 4th open SNFC Rennes hen when paired to Blue Paul who won 1st open SNFC young bird national from Cheltenham in 1970.  The dam of 17 is a direct daughter of Tom’s SHU Dewar Trophy winner (awarded for Scotland’s bird of the year). Tom’s Dewar Trophy winner won 5th open Beauvais, 21st open Sartilly, 58th open Sartilly and 112th Rennes in the SNFC and he has left a dynasty of good distance winners for Tom and others over the years. Dam of Petite Rose is a blue hen a direct daughter of Tom’s 1st east section 3rd open SNFC Sartilly winner when he was paired to a stock hen 231 who is a full sister to Shari 5th open SNFC Portland & ‘74’ winner of 21st open SNFC Reims.

 

Lot 4:  Bred by Jim Wood of Uddingston who unfortunately lost his entry prior to the main event however Jim won 1st section E 53rd open SNFC Gold Cup race from Alencon 2008. Jim has kindly donated a youngster to the sale and we compliment him on his sportsmanship the late bred will be 75% Brugemann Brothers Jan Aarden bloodlines.

Sire is a son of Jim’s 3rd west section 24th open Alencon 2007.

Dam is a Brugemann stock hen she is the dam and grand dam of pigeons to score at club federation and SNFC level.

 

Lot 5:  Andy Miller of Edinburgh another top fancier who has kindly donated a late bred from his champion sporting challenge winner Fastline:

Fastlane, raced by Andy Miller.

Sire is Fastline Andy’s sporting challenge winner this year he has previously won: 6th Section B 45th open SNFC Newbury; 12th section B 39th open  SNFC Alencon 540 miles; 35th section B 146th open SNFC Falaise; 7th section B 19th open SNFC Alencon then in 2008 he won  22nd section B 79th open SNFC Alencon. The sire of Fastline is Dennis the Menace’ winner of 1st east section 2nd open SNFC Reims; he was a winner of 7 x 1st prizes from 140 miles to 556 miles and won over £5000 in pools and prize money. Grandsire was 1862 a Kirby Busschaert crossed with a George Hunter (Danderhall) gifted to George from Sandy Popp (Danderhall) when paired to a hen purchased from Dennis Dall of Ladybank being in-bred to his 1st open SNFC Niort winner “Rowena.” Fastline dam is ‘Miss Murphy’ bred by Joe & Kevin Murphy from Kirkcaldy in Fife. Her sire is a direct son of Mystical Rose 1st open SNFC Sartilly when she was paired to a Dennis Dall cock a ‘Brother to Rowena’ which is self explanatory as he was a brother to Dennis’s national winner Rowena. Dam of Miss Murphy was an unrung hen again direct from the ‘Brother of Rowena’ when paired to a daughter of Mystical Rose when she was paired to a son of Lothian Lass the 7 times SNFC winner bred and raced by John Ellis of Elphinstone and she won a Gold Award Winner in the SNFC. 

Dam of Lot 5 is a full sister of Andy’s 1st open East of Scotland Amalgamation Leicester winner with over 8,000 birds competing. She is from a Verbruggen cock when paired to a hen bred by Dale Newcombe of Macmerry.

 

Lot 6: Craig Halbert of Eastriggs Craig wrote to me saying ‘The winner of his pigeon can have the pick of the nest, either of them would be worth a go at stock and I will keep the other for myself for stock’.

Sire is SU 06 S 1244 winner of 5th section 100th open SNFC Alencon 2008. His sire is a stock cock bred by the late Matt Jamieson of Annan while the dam is also Matt’s bloodlines crossed with a Jan Aarden.

Dam of Lot 6 is a stock hen 6535 a direct daughter of Morning Joy, Craig’s sporting challenge winner who has won 33rd open Falaise 445 miles as a yearling. 16th section 97th open Falaise; 159th open Falaise; 1st section 13th open Alencon from a distance of 473 miles and in 2008 she won 3rd section A 80th open Alencon and nearly £500 for her efforts Sire of 6535 is a 4119 from a Matt Jamieson crossed Jan Aarden.

 

Lot 7:  Adam Hamilton of Larkhall has donated a late bred from his sporting challenge winning pigeon Morning Surprise.

Morning Surprise, raced by A J Hamilton.

Sire is SU 06 L 16228 purchased at the late Hugh Brown of Stonehouse entire clearance sale, the dam of 16228 was bred by Dale Newcombe of Mackmerry.

Dam is Morning Surprise Adam’s sporting challenge entry who won 28th open Alencon last year and 16th section E 138th open 2008. Her sire is a blue pied 03 L bred cock that’s sire won 1st club Newark, 1st club Huntingdon and 56th open Lille with Lanarkshire Federation. Dam of the 03L cock won 1st section 25th open SNFC Hastings in 2001. Dam of Morning Surprise is a chequer pied 02 P rung direct from Dale Newcombe containing the best of Jim Donaldson bloodlines.

 

Lot 8: Dr Phil Lynch of Larbert is another fancier to donate one direct from his sporting challenge pigeon Danielle:

Danielle, raced by Dr Phil Lynch.

Sire is a chequer cock a ½ brother to the Vixen being from the same dam. The Vixen won 3rd open SNFC Tours 628 miles; 85th open SNFC Claremont; 150th open SNFC Sartilly.

Dam of Lot 8 is Danielle mealy henand won 36th open SNFC Alencon in 2007. Sire is a son of Fr Eddie McGhee’s stock cock Stamvater when paired to the Jock Reid hen; this hen scored twice in theopenresult from Rennes in the SNFC and also won 16th open at SNFC Messac race flying 555 miles on the day of liberation which makes her that little bit special Joe. Dam is a daughter of the Jock Reid cock who scored 3 times at 500 miles including a 20th open SNFC Rennes diploma when he was paired to the J R Hen herself who was his grand daughter.

 

Lot 9:  Dennis Sloan & Son Francis of Airdrie  continue with the sporting theme by also providing a youngster direct from their sporting challenge pigeon Seven Hills.

Seven Hills, bred and raced by Dennis Sloan and son Francis of Airdrie.

Sire is a blue chequer who has 3 x 1st prizes in the club also winning 160th open SNFC Newbury 2006 with approximately 5000 birds entered. As a matter of interest this cock was the partnerships 2nd choice for the Gold Cup race but was not entered as Francis did not think he was just right

Dam of Lot 9 is Seven Hills Dennis and Francis sporting challenge entry who homed at 19.00 hours on the 2nd day; Seven Hills is bred down from 2 x 1st west section winners; being John Houston’s crossed Bill McIntyre’s birds.

 

Lot 10: Ian Douglas of Aberdeen who has not been keeping well of late and is just out of hospital phoned me to say that although he lost his sporting challenge entry Dream Chaser he kept the 2 eggs the hen was sitting when going to the race and this is one of the youngsters direct from her. This speaks volumes for Ian ask he could have kept both these youngsters but to donate one to the sporting challenge shows true sportsmanship of the highest order and we thank this man for his support and hope is health improves in the future.

Dream Chaser, raced by Ian Douglas.

Sire is a stock cock bred by Scott Robertson of Aberdeen he has bred a 4th north section 54th open SNFC Chenoise 2003; 7th north section SNFC Reims and he is the grand sire of 1st north section Leicester young bird national 2001.

Dam is Dream Chaser flew every race out to the young bird National 320 miles. As a yearling she won 8th club Hastings 450 miles, then 14th North section SNFC Falaise 2 580 miles. As a 2 year old she won 3rd north section G 75th open SNFC Falaise (1) timed 2nd morning from SNFC Falaise (2) just missing the result. As a 3 year old she had SNFC Alencon 610 miles recorded a velocity of 402 ypm just missing the result.

In 2006 she won 4th north section G 112th open SNFC Alencon race then in 2007 she improved winning 3rd north section 100th open SNFC Alencon Gold Cup race.

Dream Chaser’s sire was a 98 cock who flew Vire as a 2 year old he was direct from the last son of Byron Jewel SNFC Gold award Winner 1984, including 1st section Rennes 626 miles; 1st section Sartilly only bird on the day at a distance of 587 miles; Dam of the 98 cock was bred from granddaughter of the Rennes Hen and a cock on loan to Ian’s father from Bob MacDonald of Fraserburgh.

Dam of Dream Chaser was a 99 bred hen she had three races as young bird then put to stock her sire was the last son of the Rennes Hen winner of 1st North section G 82nd open Rennes 626 miles from an approx entry of 6000 birds; as a matter of interest this cock was 16 years old when he bred the dam. The dam of the 99 hen was bred from a grand daughter of above mentioned Rennes Hen and a cock again on loan from Bob McDonald.

 

Lot 11: Austin Whittaker of Methil who lost his sporting challenge candidate Cassie Marie at the Alencon race however Austin has had a great season winning 18 SNFC diplomas this year. He said to me ‘Joe I cannot give you one from my sporting challenge hen as she was raced on roundabout so the best I can do is give you one direct from my Top Breeding pair who have bred 15 individual 1st prize winners; winning 1st, 2 x 2nd and 3 x 4th section wins in SNFC level’.

Sire is GB97X 04610 blue bar pied cock bred by G H Dobbs from Sutton Ashfield

Dam GB98S76481 pencil blue chequer hen bred by Wolfenden & O’Neil of Manchester.

 

Lot 12: Tommy Arthur of Newton Village wrote saying ‘Joe I was hoping my sporting challenge cock Newton Boy would have returned as every other bird from the nationals has returned including my Tours bird which is the sire of 1338’.

Sire SU 07 CA 1338 Kenyon crossed Dave Delea he has flown Newbury winning 1st club 4th federation 13th region D 84th open SNFC he was also sent to Falaise and won 3rd club 9th federation 13th open Scottish Central Combine 160th open SNFC.

Dam of Lot 12 is SU 07 CA 3274 unflown chequer white flight bred by D Gribbes of East Calder from his B Ishmael's Kenyons.

 

Lot 13:  Bred by Bobby Green of Prestonpans as many of the readers of the sporting challenge will have noticed Bobby’s cock returned home injured a few days before the Alencon race after being missing for 4 weeks. Bobby has kindly donated a youngster direct from his sporting challenge candidate Forth View Lad.

Forth View Lad, raced by Bobby Green.

Sire of Lot 13 is Forth View Lad previous results are; 2nd club 12th open East of Scotland federation Maidstone 902 birds; 1st club 4th open East of Scotland federation Peterborough. 1st club Northallerton 308 bird’s in the SNFC he has won the following positions; 2005 - Newbury 224th open velocity 1123; Alencon 55th section B 536 miles velocity 672 from an entry of 2245. 2006 he won 7th section B 70th open Newbury velocity 1250 from and entry of 2842 birds; Alencon 25th section B 130th open 1556 birds. 2007 he won 55th section B Newbury velocity 973 from 3918 birds; Alencon winning 4th section B 9th open from an entry of 1470 his sire is a blue cock Verstraster while the dam is a Leon Bores.

Dam of Lot 13 is a 4 year old mealy hen bred from stock originating from Hugh Fairbain of Gullane she contains the very best of Hugh’s 500 to 600 mile bloodlines, this mealy hen won Best opposite sex and best in show and the judge wanted to purchaser her from Bobby he was so impressed with the hen. The Hugh Fairbain stock are responsible for a red cock who has scored 3 times from Alencon and once from Falaise, a blue hen has scored twice from Alencon and Bobby’s third pigeon this year in the Alencon is a descendent of Forth View Lad

 

Lot 14: Bred by Dennis Anderson of Annan winner of the Joe Murphy Fancier of the Year award 2008: Dennis has donated a very special bred pigeon.

Sire is the sire of my 7th open SNFC Falaise 2008 winner he is also the grand sire of my 4th open Tours 2008 winner.

Dam SU06S7184 winner of 103rd open Alencon 2008 so Joe I cannot give you any better as these are the winning lines that won me your Fancier of the year trophy.

 

Lot 15: Bred by Jock & Willie Strang & son of California runner up to the Joe Murphy Fancier of the Year award beaten by 0.2.

Sire is GB06J02560 winner of 7th section D 89th open SNFC Falaise 2008 with 1850 birds competing.

Dam is SU06NW7838 winner of 3rd section D 25th open SNFC Alencon 2008 with 1376 birds competing.  You cannot get any better than direct from SNFC winners and the Strang partnership has donated a ‘cracker’ to the sporting challenge sale.

 

As you will have observed from the above pigeons on offer, they are bred from the best bloodlines in Scotland with 8 of these youngsters direct from the sporting challenge pigeons who took part in the 2008 competition. I thank all the above fanciers for their continued support and look forward to meeting them all at the presentation of trophies in November.

Good luck again to all fanciers who wish to participate please forward your details to:

Joe Murphy, Mystical Rose Cottage, 2 Flutorum Avenue, Thornton by Kirkcaldy, KY1 4BD.

Remember - all entries to be in by Saturday 30th of August 2008