LANARKSHIRE FEDERATION

Tom Corrie

April 2012

The start of a new season and bang on time the wind changes into the east and stays there for the first three weeks, not good racing weather especially flying the traditional route. Yearlings and inexperienced pigeons struggle badly in these cold winds, with losses reported throughout the clubs. Myself is no exception holding them back till the third race hoping the wind would change but to no avail and experienced heavy losses of these inexperienced pigeons, birds that hadn't raced the previous season. The wind is one of the biggest factor in relation to good racing, although some place a big factor on the falcon presence throughout the valleys of the borders of Scotland. It is hard to take the loss of birds loss, birds that you had high hopes for all year and they disappear without a say. If only we could work on this tracking system to understand the line of flight and the way our birds are travelling to home. The difference with racing in these conditions is the gaps between the first birds and the others, sometimes hours for them to arrive. We wait all day for birds to home from short races.

Onto the club and federation winners.

Clarkston&Dist, 13 members sent 71 birds to Longtown 1, North east wind
1st H Currie, vel 1209
2nd H Currie, vel 1208
3,4,5,6, Tom Corrie son g/son

Well done Hugh with one of his Roland Janssen cross pigeons.

Clarkston & Dist, 3 members sent 93 birds to Longtown lib 08 30am in an East North East wind

1st H Currie Vel 1321
2nd, 5th D Mitchell son
3rd, 4th T Corrie Son Gson
6th H Currie

Well done Hugh, two in a row, great start, with a grizzle Roland Janssen cross.

13 members sent 102 birds to Appleby, 5th May, lib 09 00 hrs in North West wind

1st T Corrie, Son, G/son vel 1391
2nd H Currie
3rd T Corrie, Son, G/son
4th 5th H Currie
6th G Geddes
Tom Corrie's winner is a two year old late bred from direct GWP Macaloney stock.

Larkhall & Dist
17 members sent 278 birds, a little erratic for the first race of the season but returns finished very good for the vast majority of the fanciers. 1st club was G Rankin vel 1269; the winner was bred by Raymond Moleveld, Holland and contains the best of Frans Zwols bloodlines. This Blue cock is a 2 year old and last year as a yearling he won 2nd club Sedgefield and also 2nd club Kelso. 2nd and 3rd club was W Ramage on 1192 and 1176. 4th club was J Simpson vel 1156. Thanks to Gareth Rankin for the report.

Uddingston & Dist Longtown 1, 25 members sent, 499 birds on 21/4/12
1 J&S Carswell vel 1289.
2 J&S Carswell vel 1257.
3 W Graham vel 1255.
4 M McCormick vel 1250.
5 M McCormick vel 1242.
6 Mullen & Campbell 1242.

Well done to John Carswell on a fine win with his Geavart van Schoorise Pigeons.

Uddingston & Dist 25 members sent 690 birds to Longtown 2 on 28/4/12
1 J&S Carswell 1434
2 J Wood 1432
3 W Graham 1427
4 J&S Carswell 1414
5 J Wood 1412
6 H Murphy 1411

Well done to J&S Carswell on their second win in a row with the same pigeon that won last week, a Gevart Van Schoorise hen from Alan Pollard stock racing natural on eggs. Thanks to Robert Hotchkiss for the report

Lanarkshire Federation winners - Longtown 1 result 21st April, 4,000 birds

1st Centre Section, 1st Federation, J & S Carswell, Uddingston club, vel l289
2nd & 10th Centre section, 3rd Fed, G Shaw, Chryston club
3rd Centre section, W McDonald, Mosshill club
4th GWP Macaloney, Coatbridge club.

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th East section, JJ&M Gillon, New Stevenson club
3rd section, J Dougal, Cam/Morningside

1st West section, 2nd Fed, W Millen, Cambuslang club, vel 1285
2nd section, W Boswell, Burnbank
3rd, 6th, section, P Murphy, Cambuslang.
4th section J Mann, Low waters.


Longtown 2, result, 28th April, 5,947 birds

1st West Section, 1st Fed, W Mullen, Cambuslang club, vel 1440
2nd section, M Krivokapic, Greenfield club
3rd section, Fitzpatrick & Fleming, Cambuslang
4th section, W Boswell, Burnbank.

1st Centre section 2nd Fed J&S Carswell, Uddingston club, vel 1434
2nd section, 3rd Fed, J Wood, Uddingston club
3rd section, B Graham, Uddingston
4th section, R Lanyon, Dalziel

1st East section, J Dougal, Cam/Morningside
2nd section, J Brown, Motherwell
3rd section, Scott & Gillon, New Stevenson
4th section, Lindsay & Henderson, Newmains

David McCaig, secretary of the Lanarkshire Social Circle, has sent me on details of the club winners.

Longtown 1, 27 members sent 607 birds
1st, J J & M Gillon vel 1269.8 2nd G Rankin vel 1269.0 3rd W McDonald vel 1260 4th J J & M Gillon 5th GWP Macaloney 6th W Grahan 7th M Hughes 8th J J & M Gillon 9th J J & M Gillon 10th GWP Macaloney

Longtown 2, 29 members sent 747 birds

1st W Grahan 2nd GWP Macaloney 3rd GWP Macaloney 4th GWP Macaloney 5th K Doherty 6th E Robin jnr 7th W Allison 8th GWP Macaloney 9th GWP Macaloney 10th E Robin jnr

The lofts coming to the fore already in the Federation are- J & S Carswell, Uddingston club. JJ & M Gillon, New Stevenson. J Dougal Cam/Morningside., W Mullen, Cambuslang. Macaloney, Coatbridge.

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Photo shown first is ok

second is wrong person please remove

Photo 3 please keep

Photo 4 change wording to Paul & William Macaloney

Photo 5 change wording to Robert Hotchkiss , Uddingston club receiving his section win trophy

Wullie Macaloney of the all conquering record breaking loft of GWP Macaloney receiving one of many trophies at the Lanrkshire presentation night from Linda Brook, SHU secretary.

A very proud Davie Alison, Burnbank club with good friend Robert McNaughton with a photo of their Ypres winner 2011.

Paul & William Macaloney.

Robert Hotchkiss, Uddingston club, receiving his section win trophy.