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Thunder

 

 

BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION

by Pete Wightman

THUNDER STORMS AND HEAVY RAIN SPOIL PORTLAND RACE

SATURDAY JUNE 28TH SAW OUR OBS AT PORTLAND FOR THE THIRD AND LAST TIME THIS SEASON. THE WEATHER AT THE LIBERATION SITE WAS NEVER REALLY AN ISSUE. RAIN AT THE HOME END FROM MID TO LATE MORNING RUINED THE CHANCE OF AN EARLY LIB, AND THE BIRDS WERE FINALLY RELEASED AT 10-00 INTO A SW WIND TURNING NE NEAR TO THE SOUTH MIDLANDS. THE RAIN HERE IN BURTON STOPPED AROUND MIDDAY AND IT STAYED DRY FOR THE REST OF THE DAY, BUT IT WAS SOON OBVIOUS THAT OUR BIRDS HAD HIT BAD WEATHER WHEN RETURNS BECAME VERY VERY GAPPY, AND WHAT WAS NOTICEABLE WAS THE AMOUNT OF HIGHLY FANCIED AND EXPERIENCED BIRDS THAT WERE LATE HOME, A LOT AFTER 4PM. IT WAS ALSO NOTICED THAT A LOT OF YEARLINGS CAME THROUGH TO BE TIMED IN? THE GOOD NEWS WAS THAT RETURNS AT THE END OF THE DAY WERE HIGH, BUT THERE WERE SOME SORRY LOOKING BIRDS, WHO WERE GLAD TO BE HOME. UNFORTUNATELY WITH THUNDERSTORMS THEY ARE HIT AND MISS, FOR EXAMPLE WE HAD NO RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON, YET APPARENTLY AROUND BIRMINGHAM THE HEAVENS OPENED AND DRIVING CONDITIONS WERE ATROCIOUS. LOOKING BACK IT IS SUGGESTED OUR BIRDS HIT SOME HEAVY RAIN IN WILTSHIRE? WHO KNOWS, IF WE COULD HAVE LIBERATED AN HOUR EARLIER WE MAY HAVE GOT AWAY WITH IT, BUT THEN THE WEATHER AT THE HOME END WOULD HAVE BEEN THE PROBLEM, AND WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE LONGER FLYING MEMBERS IN OUR FED. YOU ONLY HAVE TO LOOK AT THE WOLVERHAMPTON FED RESULT FROM PORTLAND THE SAME DAY, THEY WERE LIBERATED AT 09-30 ONLY HALF AN HOUR BEFORE US, AND THEIR FED RESULT IS A VERY GOOD ONE, WITH THE FED TOPPER DOING 1458 AND THE 20TH DOING 1412, WHICH EQUATES TO 6 MINUTES, WHICH ONLY CONFIRMS WHAT I SAID EARLIER, THESE STORMS ARE HIT AND MISS, WE WERE UNLUCKY. WE COULD HAVE HELD OVER, BUT IT WAS THOUGHT THAT OUR BIRDS WOULD MISS THE RAIN. DON’T FORGET, THE RACE CONTROLLER HAD HIS OWN BIRDS ON THE WAGON TOO, AND I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT HE KEEPS HIS BIRDS TO A VERY HIGH STANDARD INDEED, THERE WILL BE NOBODY MORE DISAPPOINTED THAN ALAN.

MICK & NEIL HARVEY TAKE 1ST FED OUT OF PORTLAND (3)

114 MEMBERS SENT 1191 BIRDS TO PORTLAND, THEY WERE LIBERATED AT 10-00IN A LIGHT SW WIND TURNING NE EN ROUTE, CONGRATULATIONS TO MICK & NEIL HARVEY OF GRESLEY WHO TAKE 1ST FED IN A DIFFICULT RACE ON 1453. THE FED TOPPER IS THE SAME COCK THAT WAS 3RD FED FROM BLANDFORD A WEEK EARLIER, AND IS A SON OFF “BIG JON” THEIR BEST CHANNEL COCK, WHEN PAIRED TO A DAUGHTER OFF “CORKYS PRIDE” THEIR M.N.F.C. BORDEAUX WINNER X WITH A SON OFF PETER FOXS’ “DRUM”. MELV WILLIS OF WINSHILL WAS 2ND FED ON 1440 WITH A 2YO JANSENNE HEN. 91 YEAR OLD RUEBEN HOUGH GOT THE BEST BIRD INTO DERBY, HIS YEARLING SOONTJEN X CASSEART X STAF VAN REET HEN WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO TAKE 3RD FED ON 1413. JUST BEHIND WAS ANOTHER DERBY LOFT, THIS ONE MICK WILLIS & FAMILY, THEIR WINNER AT OSMASTON PARK TOOK 4TH FED ON 1411. FOUR HILL RIDWARE BIRDS FILL THE FED TOP TEN, THE BEST TO DOUG NESBITT & SONS IN 5TH SPOT ON 1409, WITH KEN & CATH LYCETT 7TH ON 1408.4 AND C. LEADBEATER & SONS 8TH & 9TH ON 1407, 1403. JOHN HICKS & SON WON DERBY SR AND THIS TOOK 6TH FED ON 1408.7.  COMPLETING THE TOP TEN WERE DAVIS, WRIGHT & SONS OF THE NELSON, THEY WERE 10TH FED ON 1397 WITH A VAN REET COCK.

Mick & Neil Harvey

Ken Lycett

AROUND THE CLUBS

STARTING AT STRETTON, 10 SENT 108 AND PETE WIGHTMAN & SON WERE 1ST & 2ND ON 1339, 1258, THE WINNER A YEARLING VANDENABEELE X LOTTERMAN COCK. THE SIRE BRED BY DES TAYLOR OF WILLENHALL OUT OF JACK WALKERS STOCK, THE DAM BRED BY SPINK & BARKS. THE RUNNER UP WAS THEIR TOP SOONTJEN COCK “91” GOING BACK TO ANSLOW FARRARS’ “BUSTER”. ALAN BRASSINGTON WAS THIRD WITH A 2YO SISTER OF “BROADBAND” AND RAY & JEAN GRIMSDELL WERE 4TH ON 1192 WITH A BRIAN DENNEY X McCOMISH & COOK COCK.

AT THE NELSON, 6 SENT 59 AND MICK HARVEY & SON GOT A FLIER, OR WAS IT A FLOATER? THEIR WINNER ON 1453 WENT ON TO TOP THE FED, WELL DONE MICK AND NEIL. DAVIS, WRIGHT & SONS WERE 2ND & 4TH ON 1397, 1195, THEIR FIRST WAS THE SAME HESSION X MUNNS VAN REET COCK THAT WAS 4TH FED THE WEEK BEFORE, THEIR SECOND BIRD WAS A VANDENABEELE X VAN REET. MICK & NEIL HARVEY WERE 3RD ON 1232.

AT THE SILVER GHOST, 6 SENT 44 AND RUEBEN HOUGH WAS 1ST & 2ND ON 1413, 1215, BOTH YEARLING SOONTJEN X CASSEART X VAN REETS. BRIAN DYJAS WAS 3RD ON 1151 WITH A YEARLING OFF ALAN BRASINGTON X BRADLEY VAN LOON, AND ERNIE BARKER WAS 4TH ON 1138.

Rueben Hough

AT ETWALL, 10 SENT 78 AND ALAN PEACH TOOK TOP SPOT ON 1216 WITH A JANSENNE OFF THE LATE JOHN STRETTON STOCK. MR & MRS ALAN HOULDSWORTH WERE 2ND & 3RD ON 1203, 1145. STEVE BILLINGS WAS 4TH ON 1144.

AT BIRCH COPPICE, 9 SENT 119 AND DAVE OSBORNE BROS TOOK THE RED CARD ON 1269 WITH A YEARLING LAMBRECHT HEN. ELMORE & SMITH WERE 2ND & 4TH ON 1252, 1188, WITH A CUESTER COCK AND A GUST JANSENNE HEN. THE NICHOLLS BROS WERE 3RD ON 1200 WITH A YEARLING BLACK COCK.

AT WINSHILL, 8 SENT 80 AND MELV WILLIS WAS MILES IN FRONT, TIMING IN A 2YO JANSENNE HEN ON 1440. JIM & MATT PARKER WERE 2ND ON 1245 WITH A 2YO WALL-LUNT-GREEN X HUYBRECHTS HEN, SHE ALSO WON THE GOLD RING RACE PICKING UP £70-20. MELV WILLIS WAS 3RD ON 1244 WITH A 2YO WILDIE HEN, SHE PICKED UP THE 2ND GOLD RING PRIZE OF £46-80, AND JIM OTTEWELL WAS 4TH ON 1213 WITH A YEARLING CAMPHIUS COCK.

M Willis and his daughter Lauren

AT THE MINERS ARMS, ALAN & HELEN STRETTON TOOK THE FIRST FOUR ON 1309, 1288, THE WINNER ALSO WON OUT OF CHELTENHAM.

AT APPLEBY MAGNA, 7 SENT 108 AND MR & MRS JOHN PASSEY & FAMILY TOOK 1ST & 3RD ON 1247, 1197, BOTH FLOR ENGELS. GERLAD WOOD WAS 2ND & 4TH ON 1199, 1182, WITH A YEARLING VAN DEN BOSCHE COCK THAT HAD BEEN 3RD CLUB THE PREVIOUS TWO WEEKS, AND THEN HIS GOOD 6YO VAN DEN BOSCHE COCK.

AT TUTBURY, SHEASBY & WATSON CONTINUE TO DOMINATE, THEY TOOK 1ST & 2ND ON 1358, 1296, NOBBY PRESTIDGE WAS 3RD ON 1234 AND PETE & JACKIE COX WERE 4TH ON 1228.

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