yearings laid

I have already said this before but i would rather have 6 widowhood cocks that i can say will put everything into racing home, rather than have a team of 20 to 30 widowhood team that you hope with fingers crossed they will have a go at racing home

But you have to first get a team of birds round you

to be honest we all have all only got a half a dozen birds that try every week but you cant just keep them few and no others as now and then you always get one of the others , one of them ones don goes on about also rans,

Yes your right but the sooner you sort them out the better

No prizes after 2 years they are gone

no not for me some you have a gut feeling for you keep

they would have proved you wrong many of the time had plenty prizes with 3 year olds + which have done nothing as yearlings or two year olds

yes more so over the distance i bet,not sprint

yes thats what i was going to add distance birds

i was going to say,you will hardly get a bird to win at sprint at 3 year old if they have,nt already done so,i have never had one ,a 2 year old but not 3

my bourges cock is 5 year old this year

perfect age for me between 3 and 5 for that race with plenty of experience

so your not racing it this year then as you only have 2 year olds

no not this year,i remember years ago when we flew well across the channel,people where telling us to send them as yearling, we had no experience so we took their advice and sent them.big mistake even though a few of them scored as yearlings i think we burnt them out to early.we raced them week in week out inland then sent them across the channel.now i would do it totally different if i had a channel team, every race as a yb bird ,yearlings up to say 350 then two year old 400 to 450,then 3 year old the distance.thats the trouble nowadays can we wait that long to find out if they are good enough or do we hurry them on and possible burn them outlike we did

I agree with the older they am then the distance calls

But have a mate Andy Wright had a cock sprint and win at 7 year old

But Andy never sent them any futher than the coast 135 miles

But will agree with the gut feeling Ian, only gave them one more season

Peel Bros will also agree can you wait forever to see them win a prize

would never get rid of a yb that had done nothing racing, would definately race it as a yearling and also try it as a two year old.....if it had not shown or done anything by this time i think as a racer its not much good.

I agree with you there David

By the time a pigeon as completed the racing season as a 2 year old, you have raced the pigeon for three years by then you know if they are going to be any good racing and also breeding

DAVID wrote:

would never get rid of a yb that had done nothing racing, would definately race it as a yearling and also try it as a two year old.....if it had not shown or done anything by this time i think as a racer its not much good.

yes maybe 9 times out of ten you will be correct but you still get that gut feeling about certain pigeons and they can prove you wrong

Yes your right Ian that gut feeling has a lot to answer for

But it is only a few times a gut feeling has worked for me so eveyone to there own