Wanting to race

Yes of course a very large proportion are frustrated in when and if we will get any racing.
Further A. will the pigeons suffer from not racing1 and B. if stayed in till next season. even, will/would it do any harm.

not doing me or my young birds any favours by shutting up and not getting at least some basket and racing experience. Maybe many are not so bothered about old birds, but fear for this seasons youngsters not getting any experience. So most would settle for even a couple of races. Because it would harm them!

It's just one's relating to their Human side. Because would not make the slightest of difference shutting the loft up altogether. Maybe a time of getting better breed as far as possible outcrossed mating's etc. Time used to get many out crosses. Even, maybe bringing in, or swapping some on here.

Gosh! The Roman, Egyptians, and many others had pigeons locked up for way over a year and more. Their pigeons went all over the place, and very vast distances and yet when released, they homed very well and in good time. indeed wars and what not were won! Life's lost or saved.
Lofts even moved around in forests built by wood and bark finished, for hiding, and yet they birds found the!
Same as when on ships housed just in baskets 'FOR TIME UPON TIMES'. They homed to their' basket on ships, to baskets in/on battlefields. After being kept in for months on end!
Gosh what a yearly book was 'Scotland's Own' eh! How and what the pigeons did, and could do! Makes many of us wonder just what and how aspect do pigeons, and other creatures life adheres to humans, eh! They don't. It is us that do THEM a disservice. Us that tamper and ruin their very make, trying to improve what A. we don't understand. B. Refuse, in hope AND IGNORANCE, to be the odd one out and improve - once in a while a good bird. It is us welcoming commercial useless and worthless enhancement, making themselves rich, though not productive! Till we are scared still of reality and wander aimlessly looking for a gold star. A one-upmanship because they are mainly are behind most weeks and the upper above in the ladder often pout rubbish which they WANT to believe withy HOPE!
Time to face facts for many Pigeons, like all creatures, are not human. Nor anything like, and to - as often heard ' Well WOULD YOU...!