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The Derbyshire North Road Federation - 23-05-24

The Derbyshire North Road Federation

The DNRF fourth race of the season to report on was being flown from Hexham on the 18/5/24 at 930am into a north east wind the birds were liberated on their way by Tyson. The top open twelve in the federation are as follows; claiming 1st, 2nd, 11th and 12th federation was the inform lofts of Darren Oakley flying 132 miles and on the same day as winning this federation race Darren also achieved 1st NRCC Dunbar and 12th Nottingham federation from Berwick so a remarkable weekend it was Darren had a tremendous season in 2023 with many Derbyshire federation and Nottingham federation fed toppers plus winning the New North Road Amalgamation 2Bird from Perth and other Amalgamation position cards and being second to Robert Pearson in the New North Road Amalgamations grand final Futurity from Dunbar YB final winning some tremendous prize money this form has certainly moved into 2024 his winner from Hexham a 1y chequer cock being a Herman Cuesters and this being his first achieving card so future prospects hopefully his second a 2y Pit Bull Grizzle hen that's won and carded other prizes already for Darren his third and fourth arrivals both being 1y hens of Alex Dockx X Herman Cuesters all flown on the widowhood system Darren's velocities were 1800, 1798, 1777 and 1776.

Darren Oakley

Darren Oakley

3rd, 4th,5th and 10th federation was Mick and Christine Herbert flying 119 miles their first three birds all being Gabby Vandenbeale Hens and their fourth a 1y pencil pied Lambrecht hen all being flown on the widowhood system with velocities of 1787 2 x 1785.93 and 1781.

6th, 7th, 8th and 9th federation was Mr & Mrs Hasslam & son flying 137 miles with 4 x 1y Herman Cuesters based hens on the widowhood with velocities of 1785.31, 1785.09, and 2 x 1784.

The Rat Man.