The New North Road Amalgamation 2Bird

The third event of the old bird season for the two bird division was at Thornton Park in Fife were famous Scottish scribe Joe Murphy lives the liberation site on the football playing fields and local park took place on the 7/7/24 at 07.20 am into west south west wind the two bird entries were liberated with £287.10 on the table and the top scoring ten are as follows; leading the way with not one but two with two out of two sent for 223 miles with two landing together at the loft was Steve Wallace of Sutton in Ashfield Mansfield his first over the pad a 2y chequer pied cock being a Willy Jacob crossed Gabby Vandenbeale being raced on the widowhood system for this old bird season Steve informs us the cock was not raced as a young bird but two weeks prior to this race he returned home from a local club race injured so Steve placed him in the young bird sections away from the aggressive widowhood cocks since placing him in the young bird section he was soon chasing the young hens around the section and pairing he then became super fit and made a quick turnaround so sent him to the Thornton 2Bird event his second just 13 seconds after was a 2y blue pied cock being a Gabby Vandenbeale crossed Lambrechts he was sent natural paired up sitting nine day old nest eggs he's been a good racing cock Steve informs us achieving five prizes for Steve and he is a full brother to Steve's 2nd section 4th open Northern classic club scoring bird from Guernsey when Steve flew south road Steve's velocities were 1327 and 1326.

Steve Wallace with his 2Bird winner & Steve Wallace’s 2nd 2Bird

3rd being the Perth 2Bird winner with the same bird of Mr & Mrs Moakes of Selston Nottinghamshire flying 226 miles with a 2y grizzle cock being a Dave Peeters from Joesbury & Darby of the West Midlands birds flown on the roundabout system with a velocity of 1304.899.

4th was Darren Hadfield of Selston flying 226 miles with a 1y grizzle hen also being a Dave Peeters strain flown on the roundabout system with a velocity of 1304.672.

5th was Keith Orton & Son of Newstead Nottinghamshire flying 226 miles with a 3y blue hen being a Van Den Bulk crossed Kittel sent on the natural system sitting a two day old nest chick her velocity was 1273.

6th was G Chaplin & Son of Leicestershire flying 250 miles with a 2y grizzle cock flown in the roundabout system and has flown 2Bird Perth and 2Bird Elgin scoring previously in the 2Bird event and at club level and federation level picking up cards for the partnership and now 2Bird Thornton Park his breeding being a Pit Bull being bred by John Abela of Preston with a velocity of 1097.

7th was Dean Fantom of Leicestershire flying 250 miles with a 2y red cock being a Van Den Bulk bred by Ray Lees of Appleby Magna and raced on the roundabout system with a velocity of 1061.

Dean Fantom

8th was A Kemp & Son of Nottingham flying 235 miles with a 6y red cock that's flown Thurso 5 times he was flown on the widowhood system and being one of their own created strain of bird with a velocity of 1035.

9th and 10th was TP Wainwright of Ashby De La Zouch flying 245 miles with 2 x 2y chequer cocks flown on the natural system being of their own breed strain they have created over the years with velocities of 1022 and 983.

Well that's the top ten of the two bird event of the separate liberation and result from Thornton Park. 

The Rat Man