Rpra One Loft 2020 Updates .

David wrote:

i cant find any info on our second bird misty, looks like weve one for the final.........would have been nice two, but im confident our bird will do us proud .

not sure its a good idea all these 30 mile trainers at this stage, but hey ho, what do i know, im just a man on a lap top

30 miles is ok David & far better than 20 miles for a workout when tossing 500 odd pigeons. But I just wish they had picked days there at times where the birds had to do some work etc instead of always having a wind up their backside on average. May just come back to bite them on the bum if the final race turns into a header/slog somehow I feel. Now not that I'm saying that they need to be Brave Heart types with our race as such. But a OLR for youngsters the same age down here is shortly coming up & the best there will have to do well over 500 odd miles to win the jack pot at the end.
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FINAL RACE UPDATE
September 17th, 2020
Good Morning

After studying my normal weather sites 3 from the 4 are saying cloud cover on Sunday and Monday morning at Alnwick with Sunday morning looking like low cloud cover.

Saturday morning is forecast clear and sunny at Alnwick with a light ENE at the liberation point turning more fresh as they come down country which the wind is more or less the same on Sunday.

There will be other domestic racing taking place on Saturday but after most certainly being struck by BOP from Ripon if racing Saturday the one loft birds won’t be the only birds racing Saturday and stand a better chance of being left alone from BOP.

Because of the above i have made the decision not to train today and mark the birds tomorrow late afternoon and race on Saturday.
I will finish off setting up the cameras up later and going live with them late afternoon as a test.

We just want to wish everyone the best of luck on Saturday its certainly has been a tough year all round but let’s hope we finish off with a great final race on Saturday.

Jeremy.

David wrote:

FINAL RACE UPDATE
September 17th, 2020
Good Morning

After studying my normal weather sites 3 from the 4 are saying cloud cover on Sunday and Monday morning at Alnwick with Sunday morning looking like low cloud cover.

Saturday morning is forecast clear and sunny at Alnwick with a light ENE at the liberation point turning more fresh as they come down country which the wind is more or less the same on Sunday.

There will be other domestic racing taking place on Saturday but after most certainly being struck by BOP from Ripon if racing Saturday the one loft birds won’t be the only birds racing Saturday and stand a better chance of being left alone from BOP.

Because of the above i have made the decision not to train today and mark the birds tomorrow late afternoon and race on Saturday.
I will finish off setting up the cameras up later and going live with them late afternoon as a test.

We just want to wish everyone the best of luck on Saturday its certainly has been a tough year all round but let’s hope we finish off with a great final race on Saturday.

Jeremy.

Surprise, surprise what about that     another blow home it appears . One of those welfare of the pigeon scenario decisions I suspect again. Come the 2030 final race etc & I will bet my house here it's a certainty to be another blow home for the final race I suggest     . End of the day thou     I wish everybody the best in the final race etc but just wish certain people would have a good rethink somehow on how they think when making their decisions at times.
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Best left in loft any way as far as I believe.
Rest and let the energy build up. Repeait tired and / or torn muscles if any.

Just wonder, in these One loft races. if a youngster looks tired.puffed up, etc. does it still go for training and race?

Can under stand an out cry if left - where it should be - in loft and not sent. But .... There is always, next week where they may have improved a lot!

FINAL RACE MARKING
September 18th, 2020
Good Evening

The birds are marked and are on the way to Alnwick.

Please see video links below of them being marked and also birds not marked.

To add to the not marked list on the video another two birds arrived this afternoon GB20 E23161 , GB20 R09143.

The weather forecast looks very good tomorrow at Alnwick and we will be hoping for a liberation from 8 to 9am.

The we will go live around 3 hrs after liberation.

I will update tomorrow morning with a update on the liberation and videos of the lib as well.

Jeremy..

74th well done 93

oldstrain wrote:

74th well done 93    

you must have read the results when i did darren .......

74th is a good position, it means we get prize money to carry on to next years syndicate (if members want to enter )

well done darren, you did the forum proud once again

thanks david yeah i watched it trap again smokey tic eye ck smallish type headwind would have suited but hey still got us in the money eh and not to far away

Cannot grumble at that oldstrain, beat far more than beat it.

First lot trapping was not bad, bit iffy butty afters wards if fanciers had birds poolled etc; feed just before trapping area bit daft.

All in all we have had fair value for money and well done 93 and the breeders,
I give all credit to Alfie.

Well done oldstrain.

Regards.

Agree Misty.

MISTY wrote:

Cannot grumble at that oldstrain, beat far more than beat it.

First lot trapping was not bad, bit iffy butty afters wards if fanciers had birds poolled etc; feed just before trapping area bit daft.

All in all we have had fair value for money and well done 93 and the breeders,
I give all credit to Alfie.

Well done oldstrain.

Regards.

Wait with interest here etc Misty to see how 93 finishes up in the best bird type average over all. Cream on the cake type of thing for me here . Now         seeing as your saying little Alfie's the one with the brains in  the breeding department there apparently   so just remember, in some ways he is my partner in crime fortunately here come race day etc    .   & take care.

Cannot see how 93 can be out of the top ten, race too fast to make many differences to standings before the race.

Pigeon done well.

Keep smiling Knackered.

Regards.

ive usually found pigeons ace pigeons make good money in the auction......fingers crossed our bird is well placed because whatever it makes we get half, plus £50 for clocking in the first 100 birds home .

Well done to Darren on breeding another top one hundred bird and to the loft managers that look after them also to syndicate members for making this happen thanks dave for the regular posts

YEARLING RACE
September 20th, 2020
Good morning After a cracking race yesterday i am being inundated with messages and calls asking if the yearling races are taking place next year the answer is a big YES.

I will be taking a year out of my own domestic racing or longer to make it happen as I explained earlier in the year.

There will be about 60 of mine sold on the rpra auction site and my loft will be empty to race the yearlings to.

Full rules printed this week online and the BHW.

But at a glance will be 4 races on the North rd I expect Alnwick being the semi final then the final from around 350 miles.

The loft will be limited to 250 birds at £200 each with prize money on each race and the final race 10k first prize plus a Ace pigeon award etc.

Cameras set up for each race plus live clocking on Benzing etc.

So now your be getting 9 races a year including the ybs.

News tomorrow evening on the winner and the Ace pigeon winner.

Jeremy.

Never heard of the yearling races David.

Just how does it work.

Regards.

maybe some of this years young birds misty, if the people who sent them want to pay to race them as yearlings .........?

Think it must be David.

Could not gaurantee settling yearlings that were raced to another loft.

Maybe worth thinking about but what happens regarding the action.

Regards.

not sure misty, but it will cost £200 per bird to fly them as yearlings, compared to £135 per bird to race as a young bird .......not sure why the difference

Think they will have to be cared for through the Winter David in the same area.

Cannot see them in the YB loft as that will be filled with next years entries, think the loft managers loft must be used.

If oldstrain is interested we could kick an idea or two around.

Surely a decision must be made before the auction.

What happens if your entry suffers a mishap during the Winter?


Regards.

yes misty i agree, we need to start thinking about the 2021 rpra one loft ......we will have money coming back to us, and the forms come out around november i think, not too sure.........im sure darren will be willing to breed us more birds if we ask him nicely, they have done us proud for the last few seasons in one lofts, twice in the rpra and once in the mnfc one loft .

so tomorrow i will post up a topic to get an idea whos interested for 2021

yes happy to breed and deliver if members wish no problem,have more strings to my bow now to with a few more of the right birds to breed from ,i wont be racing ybs myself next yr so can focus solely on one loft birds count me in

thanks darren .........

David wrote:

thanks darren .........

Same, same as long as Alfie, the master breeder there, has the final say on all matters on what gets mated to what type of thing & that also means that special favourite little super hen of his also    .
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Yearling races. A. same birds re- enter as y/b's.

many countries snd y/b's that have flown a programme. Like Germany etc.

And do well. thoery is in S. Africa the realise too far/water etc. and return to their feeding place.