Best flyer that you know or knew

ok fellas who was or is the best flyer you know or knew and why ?

Jim Price of Price and Hale
Harry Pesell
Barry Fellows
Barry Nicklin
A.K.Tonks

They are all top fanciers with big wins in testing competion

Don Webb wrote:

Jim Price of Price and Hale
Harry Pesell
Barry Fellows
Barry Nicklin
A.K.Tonks

They are all top fanciers with big wins in testing competion

Jim, Harry, Barry Nicklin, A.K.Tonks all made there names with the Busscharts

Barry Fellows was a top fancier with any breed but for me he always raced good Janssens

EssexSteve wrote:

ok fellas who was or is the best flyer you know or knew and why ?

Come on Steve now your turn mate

Budgie Crathorne, national champion in Germany and 2 different locations in the UK.
My grandad who according to my mum and my uncles won the UNC on more than a few occasions.
Budgie prefers long distance.
i admire anyone who can compete well in the UNC theres amazing fanciers up there, My uncle sent me a few YBs with NEHU rings on when i started, raised a few eyebrows i can tell you.

EssexSteve wrote:

Budgie Crathorne, national champion in Germany and 2 different locations in the UK.
My grandad who according to my mum and my uncles won the UNC on more than a few occasions.
Budgie prefers long distance.
i admire anyone who can compete well in the UNC theres amazing fanciers up there, My uncle sent me a few YBs with NEHU rings on when i started, raised a few eyebrows i can tell you.

Budgie is a top fancier and has won well in the south and also in his his new home area of mancester if i am correct

yeah he has, i was in his stock loft once he handed me a hen asked if i liked her, i said yes he said i hope so she was £5,000 i put her down quick, ive had a few birds from him

frank tasker without a doubt and geof kirkland follow the you won go far wrong

i need to find a top sprinter to pick his brains

its been said many times om here how to and how not to race its a fine point we me and a lot of others are not in your loft but look around the picturs on here ian youngs y/b are far away in good nick so are phills ok they aint lit the worl alighte but they are in good order so take whay you want from a system or birds its not always the birds its the handler there race for

i keep getting told that i baby my birds, but until i have a team i cant do much else

birdy2011 wrote:

frank tasker without a doubt and geof kirkland follow the you won go far wrong

Will second that G as you can tell my aviator picture is of Frank Taskers Filmstar

The reason i did not put them on my list because i put the fanciers in my area who i did fly against

theres a bloke down here called John Cowlin hes good

Fri May 11, 2012 11:56 pm
i keep getting told that i baby my birds, but until i have a team i cant do much else
birdy2011
Fri May 11, 2012 11:51 pm
its been said many times om here how to and how not to race its a fine point we me and a lot of others are not in your loft but look around the picturs on here ian youngs y/b are far away in good nick so are phills ok they aint lit the worl alighte but they are in good order so take whay you want from a system or birds its not always the birds its the handler there race for
EssexSteve
Fri May 11, 2012 11:44 pm

EssexSteve wrote:

theres a bloke down here called John Cowlin hes good

Yes John he won the national a few years back he is in partnership with Josh Galdwin of Formula 1 Lofts

yeah, theres 2 John Galdwin's, the younger 1 is in partnership with John Cowlin,

John Cowlin if i am corrct is you youngest fancier to win a national

not sure about that , i remember when he started, he is actually jonathon gladwins step son i think

i basketed the two top flyers birds in my club tonight, they felt nothing special but yet they did feel different to the other members.........maybe it was the feeding/management or maybe it was just the quality of the breeding that made the difference.

sometimes birds that look a picture and look like winners seldon are, sometimes the little insignificant bird who doesnt atract attention wins out of turn, its not all about looks...........

henry gonsalves a fantastic flyer in the west country always their and not with just 1 bird either and his birds are doing well in several lofts i know of since henry packed in.

Budgie Crathorne, I have a lot of respect for the man, he always has the time for a chat and has a good sense of humour, we always have a good chat and a bit of banter with him at the Blackpool show, both Kev and I have bought birds from him in the past and have a VDB line founded on Budgies birds. A great fancier.
Andy Gregson, He was a fancier that influenced my racing back in 2001 -2003, I only managed to beat the man twice, although in the midweek racing for every 1st he had I had a 2nd and so on. he's a great fancier, very knowledgeable and a great sportsman.
Vic Harrison A man who dedicated his life to pigeon racing. He was a distance man through and through and a successful one at that, Vic gave me some little bits of advice that influenced my style of racing and that advice was don't discard your hens, because what will make a hen fly faster? A thousand rampant widowhood cocks chasing her
He was right.

i like that 1 Gaz, yeah ive know budgie years went to his wedding up in Middleton, when i got this loft he came round he lived 20 mins away he said the floors crap its tongue and groove, we went and got some loft flooring, he spent 2 days putting my loft floor in and sorting 1 or 2 adjustment he said would be better, then he bred me some babies(for free) i used to go around his regular, we went to Belguim once or holland cant remember he drove all the way to buy a cock, i helped him when he had his 1st auction at blackpool, before he went to manchester he got me to come round made a cupper and sat and told me how i should race pigeons i wrote it all down,but ive bloody lost it.we swap xmas cards still.

hi steve, interesting post, can you not ask him for the system again......?

Geoff Kirkland went to his place when I was in blackpool for show

Budgie is a good laugh, I'm sure he'd write it all down again for you Steve.
He was once telling me he applied to be the loft manager at Sandringham, he got shortlisted, but failed to get the job.
We had a good laugh this year, ribbing Kev about his Mrs leaving.
We was on the stall next him last year.