early liberation

Good luck to one and all.

Hope the weather turns out fine do no want bad weather for these first races ( or any other for that matter)

Regards.

200 miles. Up at 6.30. 7.10 now. Light tail wind sun and cloud. Folks should do good. Should be few losses. Keps them all flying for next week.

oldstrain wrote:

well for me today looks the better day to race but we changed to sunday ah  well cant always get it perfect eh ,should be an early lib tomorrow with rain moving in mid morning se wind

Strange that. I just mentioned this this morning, saying 'some changed racing to a Saturday marking to race Sunday.. They maybe wishing they hadn't'!

Mind I feel it might well still be a better day. Tuesday looks best though!

Worcester fed up a 9.45 in a east south east wind thought they would have come better 1hr 53 for the 99 miles

we went at 9.35 in a east wind ...sent 11 cocks to ilkeston 116 miles

Good luck those racing, can't see more than 200 yards here, thick mist and dampness, awful for about 4 days of this now

oldstrain wrote:

we went at 9.35 in a east wind ...sent 11 cocks to ilkeston 116 miles

 Yearlings won't like the east wind. Well none really! Will certainly take the edge off for a while etc.
We used to just send the old old bird in East was forecasted.
Yes I know many do, and did send yearling's ...

Well, looking and seeing others pigeon's returns yesterday, Maybe it was more than the right decision to race today. We will see of course.

Many empty perches last nigh Losses galore on Saturday. MIND there WAS East in the wind!!!

we up 7.45 , calling them in rain , should have gone yesterday, bicc had cracker,

redrog wrote:

we up 7.45 , calling them in rain , should have gone yesterday, bicc had cracker,

good luck r/rog ..........like the bike in the new avatar

9/11 so far lost 3 minutes due to a garage being built behind loft ,is what it is ...old wagon wheel was in the clock first vdb x bushy then we had a soontjen yearling i bought in breeder buyer last year ...to be fair the yearling naturals performed better today but it was a widower in the clock first ...anyway no chance losing 3 mins from 116 mile ,roll on next week

Have to have optimism!

Well Oldstrain, seems to have turned out good. Far better - it looks like - than yesterday.

10/11 now a 2 year old missing ...we were 4th 5th club

oldstrain wrote:

10/11 now a 2 year old missing ...we were 4th 5th club

well done on taking 4th and 5th darren, a good start to the season ....

Losing 3 minutes oldstrain does not help.

All in the game, if everything went right all the time one would get bored.

4th band 5th better than 6th and 7th and leaves room for improvement.

On the whole well done.

Regards.

2 god awful races, thunder storms all day, did nout in either race, glad to see the end of today, better days at the dentist.

Sods Law redrog.

Weeks of good weather no racing, then this.

One way to look at it, things can only get better and we secondly we are able to race.

Hope all return.

Regards.

sorry to hear rog ....plenty birds away in our club yesterday hopefully with todays weather they will work back

well most have worked there way home, the hens were ready 5 weeks ago and got to admit struggling to get their heads right, just hope they pull round next race otherwise gonna have to re pair them earlier than what i wanted, just looking for scraps at moment

Aye, when the wing has east, it's no good to man or beast! as true today as it has always been I say.
Back in the day, especially, when the East was forecasted the fed struggled to get any amount of birdage.

'Why risk a disaster, lose birds, or ruin my season sending them' was the cry. As was told, especially seeing a fancier sending a dozen, ' With a smug laugh saying 'There goes his season.

For instance, clubs here about, were 2 Corby over 40 members (one nearly 50). Irthingborough over 40 members. Rushden 2 clubs over 40 members, Raunds nearly 50 members. Oundle the same etc. with other smaller clubs.

But less then 200 would be sent. Mostly a old birds or so … Just to keep them in the Averages. Which was why I never sent first race in the main.. would scratch a race early altogether, so I would stress the birds trying to win an average.
Yes did sent all races some time, by paid heed to the adage Mny a good bird sent and lost chasing an average. A race too much etc.

East wind here tail wind. Son- in-law ex was doing 1450 mpm. No other clubs posted yet. Assume winner will be over 1500.

halcanada81 wrote:

East wind here tail wind. Son- in-law ex was doing 1450 mpm. No other clubs posted yet. Assume winner will be over 1500.

East wind here can mean different type races as such on average Hal as each year we alternate between 4/5 different race directions come race day. Being, West, North West, North, North East & also for a sea change holiday each year across our pond etc we always go South for the enjoyment factor.
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Fed winner was close to 1600 mpm.