racing this week

where ya racing from lads n lasses and pinkies we race from truro about 140 to me ,weather looks bad for sat but sun looks good so I cant understand why our fed don't basket Saturday we will be sending a few hens

west bay for us 130 to me, looks like we basketing Saturday tho

we are at exeter this weekend but might give it a miss due to the weather the gloucester fed will still basket friday night looks like no lib saturday 2 nights in the basket nothanks

Portland 222,miles but we aren't sending good luck to all the members who are racing this weekend.

Essex central Fed are at Newark 120 miles

ours basketed tonight for boves fed race......

We have been put back 24 hours

I have decided not to send they are going to basket tonight but theirs no chance of a liberation tomorrow from truro with mist and total cloud cover and rain throughout the day why is our fed stupid enough to still basket Friday night for a 140 mile race and put the birds in the baskets for a holdover with Thursday basketing the following week ...feck me the mind boggles or is the driver in control of the federation some people make pigeon racing so complicated ,this decision benefits people not the pigeons

going as normal for melton mowbray

oldstrain wrote:

I have decided not to send they are going to basket tonight but theirs no chance of a liberation tomorrow from truro with mist and total cloud cover and rain throughout the day why is our fed  stupid enough to still basket Friday night for a 140 mile race and put the birds in the baskets for a holdover with Thursday basketing the following week ...feck me the mind boggles or is the driver in control of the federation some people make pigeon racing so complicated ,this decision benefits people not the pigeons

I often ask the same question O/S Why oh Why     & how have you come up with that decision etc in differant matters/issues. Especially when deciding on the weather for racing. In this day & age it's not rocket science I believe, if one can read a weather map as such & can get the latest information on hand .

yep, good decision by our lot, we basketing sat. for sunday race

seems like an unsettled weekend, good luck to those racing......

The die hard fanciers will send regardless no matter what the weather is

just like i said we went tonight with the gloucester fed for 150 miles race from exeter when we could have gone saturday night glad i didn't send mine

markevans wrote:

just like i said we went tonight with the gloucester fed for 150 miles race from exeter when we could have gone saturday night glad i didn't send mine

It sounds as if you peeps will be having a bit of a rough time this weekend.

I see no sense sending good quality birds to races when you know they will hit bad weather or be held over in crates.

All the very best to those of you that are sending and let us hope for 100% returns - in GOOD times.

Yours in Sport
Phil

Decided to send cocks only this week.hens next week to the channel

peel bros wrote:

Decided to send cocks only this week.hens next week to the channel

Testing the water are we Ray I hope it all work's out well for you.
Also that clown       in charge there that said your problem the other week was because they all got up high in the atmosphere at that was the problem with the heat & your returns is well out of sight, or even sacked hope-fully  when the decision to release this week is made etc for you. Now      just seen on TV here it's 51 degrees     in India & one ponders what here would have come out with, if you were racing in that type of heat over there    .  

we never sent either a holdover for a 140 mile race is shocking planning no wonder pigeon racing is fecked

No lib for our lot don't no why they didn't mark them today for a race tomorrow holdovers are no good.

our club basketed Thursday for boves, if no liberation today sundays the 4th day in the basket........

VanReet Man123 wrote:

No lib for our lot don't no why they didn't mark them today for a race tomorrow holdovers are no good.

it seems to me the drivers hold the aces and want an extra nights money but its not fair on the pigeons we basket again Thursday for carentan so 4 days then back into baskets for another 2 nights minimum ...no thanks ,feckin idiots honestly

Thats what it all boils down to Darren money no consideration for the bird's.

David wrote:

our club basketed Thursday for boves, if no liberation today sundays the 4th day in the basket........

Where is boves?

i dont know phil, over the channel as far as i know.......

[quote="David"]i dont know phil, over the channel as far as i know....... [/quot




Boves is in the area of France called Picardy.

It is 530 kilometres or 230 miles to Bristol according to Google Earth - but less as the pigeon flies.


I reckon it's about the same distance as I used to fly from Cholet to Stroud, Glos. We topped the Fed from their once in a lifetime, about 15 years ago.

Good luck anyway - let us know how you get on.

Phil