Enfield Continental Flying Club

Prize-winners 2021

With the racing season now finished for the year at the Cabbage Patch, the next thing on the agenda was to see who our highest prize-winner for the 2021 season would be.

Starting in reverse order, 

Jaio Figueira who only raced half of the young bird season had 1 x 4th.

Next, we had Algis Tiatauris with 2 x 5th's and 1 x 6th.

The past UBI Combine winning loft of Mihai & Roxanna Piper's loft were next with their performances for the season being 1x2nd, 2x3rd's, 1x4th, 1x5th and 2x6th's.

Club Chairman Paul Stone also a past Combine winner with the LNRC from Dunbar with his Brasspenning "Mick" managed 1x1st, 2x2nd's 2x3rd's, 2x4th's, 1x5th and 2x6th.

Paul’s best performance of the season was being 1^st Club, 3^rd Inter Counties Fed, 3^rd UBI Combine Guernsey.

Peter Glass came next with 2x1st's, 1x2nd, 1x3rd, 3x4th's, 1x5th and 2x6th's.

Peter Twyford another past Combine winner on the North & South road, also a former Tommy Long Trophy winner on the North Road who always fly’s a very good pigeon was next with his exceptional Busschaert family won 2x1st's, 2x2nd's, 1x3rd, 2x4th's, 6x5th's and 3x6th's.

The Club Secretary Steve Holloway was next with his team of Staf Van Reet's on the list of winners with his performances for the season being 1x1st, 2x2nd's, 4x3rds, 2x4th's, 3x5th's and 3x6ths.

Runner up for the season was the 4 time combine winning loft of Geoff Barker.

Geoff’s past Combine wins were 1^st LNRC Berwick with a Dark Chequer cock called Resery, winning The Dewar Shield, LNRC Gold Medal, E Jones Trophy, CNRF Berwick trophy, R White Memorial Trophy, SSFC Berwick Trophy. Also 1^st LNRC Thurso  with "Chris's Boy" he won LNRC Thurso Cup, H Slade Memorial Trophy,  LNRC Gold Medal, London Social Circle Thurso Cup, London Social Circle Fancier of the Year, CNRF Thurso Cup, RPRA London Region Harry Hyde Memorial Trophy, RPRA London Region Medal,  SSFC Thurso Cup. Geoff’s next Combine win was 1^st North Thames NRC Berwick with a Red Lambrecht Cock & finally winning 1^st UBI Combine Falaise with a Chequer Pied Lambrecht Cock.

Geoff presently races a team of Cyriel & Carl Lambrecht pigeons won the following positions. 5x1st's, 4x2nd's, 2x3rd's, 4x4th's, 2x5th's and 2x6th's.

Finally, the highest prize-winner for the 2021 season was Billy Watkins, who was helped by his "Billy's Bullet" bred by Mark Edwards who topped the Club 5 weeks in succession in the young bird season, scoring in the Fed twice. For the last couple of seasons Bill has been spending a bit more time with the birds and he is beginning to get his enjoyment back once again, with the help from his young Grandchildren Frankie, Henry, Lara and Arthur who are always willing to help their Grandad. Bill’s main family of pigeons consist of his Wells Fargo’s family from Mr “Superlou” Peter Wells of Dunstable, mixed in with pigeons from Simon Schofield and Tony Cripps. With others gifted to Bill last year by Johnny Chipperfield of Kent, Mark Bulled of Harlow and Johnny Black of Stotfold after finding out that a Fox had got into the loft killing his young bird team, with young birds being swapped this year with Mark Edwards which have worked really well so far.

Bill's performances for the 2021 season were 8x1st's, 7x2nd's, 7x3rd's, 2x4th's, 1x5th, and 2x6th's. 

                       
Billy Watkins with Grandson Frankie, waiting for the pigeons to return home from a Race. “Billy’s Bullet” 5x1st’s in 5 weeks

There were also other members who sent as well but just managed to finish outside the top 6 but finished in the top 10 most weeks.

The Club for the last few years has been running shows with some big-name Judges Judging each week,

But we will not be holding them this year, but we will be hoping to have them return back again next year.

We will also be having our monthly meetings as well as a Christmas get together and drink.

Before I end these notes, I have been asked by the Secretary  Steve Holloway to put that if anybody would be interested in joining the Enfield Continental Club for the 2022 season to get in touch with him,

also the Club now have a trailer so the Club will be doing weekly training for its members next season.

The Clubs training trailer for its members for next season.

Now that all of the racing is over for the year, the Epsom show back again at the end of the month, then Doncaster and then the return of Blackpool again in January. 

Until next time,

Take care