LANARKSHIRE FEDERATION

Tom Corrie jnr

 

Lanarkshire Federation Open

Billericay

 

 

Billericay is a town and civil parish in the Basildon borough of Essex, England. It lies within the London Basin, and constitutes a commuter town 28 miles (45 km) east of central London. It is thought to have been occupied since the Bronze Age.

The distance back into Scotland is around the 354 miles.

Birds were raced marked on the Thursday for a Saturday race giving the birds plenty of rest time between and with the committee making the decision to reduce the number of pigeons to 18 per basket a proactive measure for the well being of the pigeons(which can only be a good thing) and I am sure others will follow this initiative.

The birds were away at 6 15 in a North by North West wind and the race was on.

Most thought around the nine and a half hours for the winners but this time passed and then the word that birds had reached Lanarkshire just after 4pm but unfortunately most of the federation took an almighty hit with a  small percentage of the 1120 convoy returning on the night.

This has possible been the worst weekend of racing for fanciers up and down the country for many a year.

At the home end the weather was warm and sunny and looked a perfect racing day but that wasn't the case in other areas with reports of heavy showers on route.

Onto those who managed to time, congratulations to all .

Wullie Millen (L) wins the Open 

 

This years winner is the fabulous loft of Wullie Millen who has already had a brilliant season, this being his third federation win with a dark 3yr old hen bred out of his good friend Jim Wood (Uddinston club) good distance hen treble four and an Etienne Neirlaen distance cock. His other two he timed were also out of Jim’s stock.

Well done Wullie, a loft that takes some beating.

 

Cambuslang HC

 

1st W Millen 1034 2nd W Millen 912 3rd W Allison 886 4th W Millen 880

 

Dalzel HC

 

1st W McDonald 872 2nd D Penman 864 3rd J&H Brown Higg 831 4th S Selfridge 806 5th D Penman 804
 Well done Wullie and all who timed
4 members failed to time, returns are very poor Jimmy Latimer wins K/O

  

Blantyre

 

1st A.Mcinnes vel 969 2nd J&A Wylie vel 940 3rd A. McInnes vel 920 4th K.Mcmahon vel 915 5th A.Mcinnes vel 888 

Great race Alec

 

Coalburn HC

 

1st J Callan 949 2nd T & G Steele 916 3rd F Hillan 916 4th F Hillan 861 5th A Suckle 843

 

Low Waters

 

1st Torrance & Mann 937 2nd G Lightbody 876  3rd Torrance & Mann 860 4th G Lightbody 860 5th Torrance & Mann 842 

Well done Alan

 

Airdrie Dist

1st GWP Macaloney  993 2nd E Porter 914 3rd D Love 883 4th D Love 832 5th E Porter

 

This pigeon has now won 4 x 1st clubs bred from Vanderabeele x Dream Pair lines.Well done lads

And also congratulations to the partnership on their stock  having a hand in breeding the winners of both Scottish Nationals that weekend.

 

 

Wullie Smart wins Newmains and Cambusnethan& Morningside clubs  -   Jimmy McMillan (L) wins Burnbank club

 

Wullie McDonald (R)winner of Dalzel club  -   John Callan wins Coalburn club

 

Alex McInnes wins Blantyre  -   George Geddes(R) wins Clarkston & Dist

Burnbank HC

 

1st Baird  &Mcmillan  2nd W Boswell 3rd W Boswell 4th P White 5th W Boswell 

Walter Boswell wins the five pound nom 
Well done to Jimmy, Peter and James in what was 
a stinker of a race returns in club really poor with 
some not getting a bird and 2 from ten and such 
Horrendous stories at checking across the federation.

 

Newmains HC

 

17 members sent 137 birds..

1 W Smart 992  2 J MacLean 934  3 J&KMiller 922  4 J Whiteford&Family 896  5 J MacLean 873 

Well done Wullie

 

Carluke HC

 

1st A Blyth 929 2nd A Wilkie 741

Well done Alex

 

Greenfield HC

 

1st T McQuire 2nd Tallis & McDonough 3rd T McQuire 4th J Leggate 5th Tallis & McDonough 

Well done Mr McQuire I told you they were in good nick.

 

  GWP Macaloney win Airdrie Dist   -    Alec Blyth (R) wins Carluke

 

  Alan Torrance(R) wins Low Waters  -   Dave McCaig(Lanarkshire President) & Dave Young(Race controller) presenting St Andrews Hospice with a cheque for £700 from Lanarkshire  Membership

Cambusnethan& Morningside

 

1st W.Smart 992 2nd J.K.Miller 922 3rd J.Whiteford /Family 876 4th A&J.Cook 873 5th A&J.Cook 863 

Well done Wullie

 

Clarkston & Dist

1st G Geddes 2nd J Murphy 3rd J Murphy 4th J Murphy 5th Muir Bros

Well done George

His winners details are Sire was a Dave Donaldson of Glassford pigeon who won 1st Eastbourne and 1st Salsibury in the club. Dam was a Buschaert hen that was 2nd club Huntington and nest mate was 5th club

 

 

Open Top five

1st W Millen 2nd Cook & Greechan 3rd GWP Macaloney 4th W Smart 5th T McQuire

 

 

Tom Corrie

Lanarkshire Press Officer