THURROCK FEDERATION

By Demolition Man

Week two of the Thurrock Fed race program with this weekend 19/04/25 booked for another trip to sunny Newark in Nottinghamshire. Unfortunately weather was not looking good for a Saturday race and with a long conversation with race advisor Marcin Grzedowicz it was decided that a Friday race would be a better option. So with a little email to the RPRA informing them of the change of race day, all was set for a Friday race from Newark only to be told by the RPRA that Newark wasn’t available for a weekday liberation. With me now pulling my hair out and a few phone calls it was decided to drop back to sunny Grantham in Lincolnshire a distance of around 100mls to the shortest flyers.

Steve Smith our trusted federation conveyer arrived on site at around 12:00pm with a conveyor of around 670 birds with a hundred up on the previous weekend. This ensured the birds getting plenty of rest, Steve was up around 5am getting himself prepared to give the birds their morning drink before liaising with race controller Marcin Grzedowicz a few phone calls down the line and a clear line of flight, strings were cut and birds were away 9:00am into a clear blue sky with a south east wind birds struggled to clear for around 5 mins but then broke and cleared towards home with the wind being on their nose once more an ETA was around 2hrs 20 min.

At around 2hrs 13 min and a distance of around 100 mile Allen Hills of Chelmsford City H.S took pole position with a velocity of 1309 winning 1^st club 1st Fed. This is Allen 2^nd win of the season in the Chelmsford club and only races a small team of pigeons this only proves you don’t need a big team to enjoy success in this wonderful sport of ours. Well done Allen a great start to the season.

1^st & 2^ND 3^rd Pride of Laindon and 2^nd  3^rd 4^th Thurrock Fed with another great start to the season John & Gaynor Ashenden with a velocity’s of 1307 1307 & 1306 their first bird a Pencil Blue Frans Zwol  hen from a winning son of Gaynor’s Gift . Their second bird Chequer cock nest mate to last week’s 3^rd fed bred by Russell Jaques. Their third pigeon was last week’s 1^st club 2^nd fed Newark Well done guys another loft in top form.

1^st Chadwell St Mary’s and  5^th  Thurrock fed Brian Robinson with a velocity of 1294, Dam of the winner was bred from a Johnny Panis hen that was brought in especially to pair to a son of Brian’s 1^st open Stonehaven LNRC winner. This is Brian’s first week on the widowhood and his first north road win since returning back north. Great result mate,

1^st & 2^nd Laindon RPC  7^th & 8^th  Thurrock Fed with velocity’s of 1292 & 1292 The Portugal wizard Alan Scarborough. Alan’s first pigeon a Dark van de bulk from P & D stud this hen raced on the widowhood was 2^nd club 4th fed last week from Newark. Both Alan’s pigeons raced on the widowhood and have started on fire well done mate great flying.

Other club winners

1^st Gray’s Social.  Stewart Beven

Congratulations to all the winners and good luck from Worksop next weekend.