Lanarkshire News
Appleton race ,Gault & Quinn make it two in a row
This week unfortunately was the toughest of tests for our pigeons, extreme heat and a North East wind.
Flying from the traditional route in this conditions a true test for the pigeons and fancier.
The morning mist stopped an early liberation meaning the birds return in the mid-day sunshine that was in the twenty degrees mark.
The 3123 birds plus 17 other crates were away at 09 15 am in a light North East wind in bright sunshine.
The winning birds started hitting the boards around 4 hrs 7 minutes for a velocity of 1300ypm ,well one pigeon made that velocity and the next 100 birds recorded 1200ypm.
The vast majority of birds struggled with even the first percentage home showing heat exhaustion, birds hitting the boards desperate for water,
As previously stated over the forty odd years I have kept pigeons these days are always the toughest and losses are significant.
But we are all our own race controllers!
Hopefully the weather will settle down and we see the back of these east winds that have been with us since the start.
1st North section,1st Open federation Two weeks in Row!
This week’s winners making it two in a row 1st Open federation for Gault & Quinn.
This is a brilliant couple of weeks racing with Wullie & Jimmy showing the rest of us the way forward.
It’s not often in Lanarkshire federation out with the names of GWP Macaloney or B McCrindle & Son that any one loft has such a result.
Their winner is a yearling cheq hen bred by Colin Grieve from Woodroffe Bros stock and flown on the roundabout system.
Well done to the partnership on a truly brilliant result .
North section winners
1st Gault & Quinn
2nd Ian Rankin
3rd D Sloan & Son
Centre section
1st Jim Hendrie & Sons
2nd Alan Selfridge & Son
3rd John Lawrie & Son
West section
1st Walter Boswell
2nd Davie Allison
3rd Jim McGuire
This week we move onto Stafford around the 220 miles mark.
Tom Corrie jnr
Lanarkshire Press Officer
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Mark Gilchrist winner of Chryston club |
Wullie Gault & Jimmy Quinn |
Andy Graham winner of Carluke club |
Walter Boswell continues his brilliant season |
Alan Selfridge winner of Dalziel club |
Billy Gordon wins another in Blantyre club |
JJK Gillon are good winners in |
Jim Hendry & Sons are 1st Centre section |
Sharp & Purdie winners of Coatbridge SC Appleton race |
Lewis McCalley(L) winner of Clarkston club |
Davie Allison continues his cracking season |
John Lawrie & Son (C) winners of Newmains club |
John & Scott Donnelly winners of previous |
John Frood (R) can a great race in |