BURTON & SOUTH DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION

by Pete Wightman

WALKER & WAITE OF HILL RIDWARE MAKE A GREAT START TO THE 2014 SEASON

SATURDAY APRIL 19TH SAW THE OPENING RACE OF THE 2014 SEASON FROM CHELTENHAM. 142 MEMBERS SENT 2122 BIRDS AND THEY WERE LIBERATED AT 10-00 IN A LIGHT E.N.E. WIND. AS EXPECTED THE HILL RIDWARE LADS CAME OUT ON TOP BUT THERE WERE SOME EXCELLENT BIRDS ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE FED, WITH THE WIND BEING LIGHT IT LOOKS LIKE THE BIRDS KEPT ON A GOOD LINE.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WALKER & WAITE PARTNERSHIP FROM HILL RIDWARE, THEY TOOK 1ST, 2ND, 5TH & 9TH FED ON 1363.7, 1363.4, 1348.8, 1341.3. THEIR FIRST TWO WERE OFF SPINK & BARKS STOCK, A 2YO VAN ECKHOUT AND A 3YO JANSENNE. CLUBMATES MR & MRS GEORGE HODGKINSON WERE 3RD AND 6TH FED ON 1362, 1348.7, THEIR FIRST WAS A STAF VAN REET COCK. J. MADGIN & SON COMPLETE THE RIDWARE ENTRIES IN THE TOP TEN, TAKING 4TH FED ON 1352 WITH A JANSENNE COCK.

ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FED NOW, WHERE A.J.PASSEY & SONS TOOK 7TH FED ON 1343 WITH A 2YO MEALY CEULEMANS COCK OFF GEOFF KIRKLAND STOCK. ALBERT BABBINGTON OF ELFORD GOT THE WINNER AT TUTBURY, HIS YEARLING PENCIL VAN DEN BOSCHE COCK, BRED OUT OF HIS R.P.R.A. WINNER WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO TAKE 8TH FED ON 1341.4. AN EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE BY ROY GREGORY & SON PAUL OF DERBY, THE MACKWORTH LOFTS TOOK 10TH & 12TH FED ON 1338, 1336, BEAR IN MIND THESE LADS FLY OVER 15 MILES FURTHER THAN ANY OF THE BIRDS IN FRONT OF THEM IN THE RESULT.

AROUND THE CLUBS

STARTING AT STRETTON WHERE 11 MEMBERS SENT 203 AND SEAN & IVAN SMITH TOOK THE RED CARD ON 1332 WITH A 3YO JANSENNE COCK OUT OF JOHN STRETTON AND ALAN BRASSINGTON STOCK. PETE WIGHTMAN & SON WERE 2ND & 3RD ON 1324, 1319, A 2YO LAMBRECHT X AND A 3YO VANDENABEELE X SOONTJEN, A SON OFF “PORTLAND BILL” DOING THE BUSINESS. PHIL BOURKE WAS 4TH ON 1302 WITH A YEARLING STAF VAN REET COCK OFF HIS KEITH ARNOLD STOCK.

Ivan Smith

AT THE NELSON, 9 SENT 138 AND MR & MRS TREVOR COLLINS & SON TOOK THE TOP TWO SPOTS ON 1326, 1321. JAMES HORNE WAS 3RD & 4TH ON 1308, 1304.

AT DOSTHILL 9 SENT 146 AND JOHN GILBERT MADE AN OMINOUS START TO THE SEASON TAKING THE TOP TWO SPOTS ON 1338, 1334, BOTH LAMBRECHT COCKS. ELMORE & SMITH WERE 3RD ON 1305 WITH A GUS JANSENNE HEN, AND D & E ATKINSON WERE 4TH ON 1300 WITH A LAMBRECHT OFF ROB HORTON STOCK.

AT THE CORNISHMAN H.S. 12 SENT 154 AND WOOLLEY & ROGERS WERE WELL CLEAR ON 1312 WITH A 4YO COOREMANS COCK, CHRISTENED “THE RUNAWAY COCK”. RUEBEN HOUGH WAS RUNNER UP ON 1261WITH A 2YO CELIBATE SOONTJEN X CASSEART X VAN REET COCK.BRIAN DYJAS WAS 3RD ON 1220 AND TOM CHADWICK 4TH ON 1226 WITH A JANSENNE COCK. THIS NEW DERBY CLUB ONLY FORMED IN THE WINTER WILL BE CHANGING ITS NAME SHORTLY TO THE SILVER GHOST F.C. DUE TO THEIR HEADQUARTER CHANGE.

NOW OVER AT APPLEBY MAGNA, ALAN PASSEY & SONS TOOK 1ST,3RD & 4TH ON 1343, 1326(2), THE WINNER A KIRKLAND CEULEMAN COCK FOLLOWED BY A FLOR ENGELS AND ANOTHER CEULEMANS, ALL OFF GEOFF KIRKLAND STOCK. MR & MRS JOHN PASSEY & FAMILY WERE RUNNERS UP ON 1331WITH YET ANOTHER KIRKLAND CEULEMANS COCK.

AT WINSHILL, 9 SENT 168 AND JIM & MATT PARKER TOOK TOP SPOT ON 1307 WITH A YEARLING BEVERDAM COCK. RUNNERS UP WERE BRIAN & LESLIE STONE WITH A YEARLING GRIZZLE DE KLAK COCK. MELV WILLIS WAS 3RD & 4TH ON 1248, 1241, BOTH WILDERMEERSCH HENS.

AT ETWALL 10 SENT 178 AND ALAN PEACH WAS MILES IN FRONT, HIS ROLAND JANSENNE RECORDING 1332. STEVE BILLINGS WAS 2ND ON 1244 AND DAVID WILLIAMS & SON 3RD & 4TH ON 1227, 1226.

Alan Peach

AT TUTBURY 10 SENT 201 AND ALBERT BABBINGTON TIMED IN A VAN DEN BOSCHE COCK SENT FEEDING A BIG YOUNGSTER ON 1341 TO TAKE TOP SPOT. JOHN McPHILLIPS WAS RUNNER UP ON 1314 WITH A CAMPHIUS X SUPER BLUE, F.RICHARDSON & SON 3RD ON 1301 WITH A VAN REET WINNING THE £22 NOM, AND M/M PETE COX WERE 4TH ON 1298 WITH A VANDENABEELE X.

AT BARTON 6 SENT 88 AND TREVOR ELSTONE & SON WERE 1ST, 2ND & 3RD ON 1262, 1261, 1254. MRS C BUDD WAS 4TH ON 1240.

THE HILL RIDWARE BIRDS ALL APPEAR IN THE FED TOP TEN.

JUST TO REMIND CLUBS, PEAT AND SAWDUST ARE THE ONLY DRESSING ALLOWED TO BE USED IN OUR CRATES, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CLUBS CRATES ARE IN GOOD CONDITION AND WORKING ORDER AND MOST OF ALL CLEANED WEEKLY. PLEASE MAKE SURE ALL THE FLAP CATCHES ARE IN WORKING ORDER. LASTLY PLEASE TRY AND LEAVE THE BOTTOM 3 ROWS OF THE TRANSPORTER EMPTY SO THAT THE BIRDS THAT ARE TRANSPORTED TO GRESLEY ON THE FEEDER VAN CAN BE LOADED  MORE EASILY BY THE WILLING VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE TO WAIT TILL LATE AT NIGHT TO LOAD THESE BIRDS. A THANKLESS JOB AND THEY DESERVE A LOT OF CREDIT, ON BEHALF OF THE FED THANKYOU, ONE OF THOSE THANKLESS JOBS THAT GOES UN-NOTICED BY MOST.

THE MALTSTER

01283-568000

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