How long did it take

How long did it take to get your first win and whats the details
Mine was a cw yb hen bred from a belg Stragg I got given.she won the club easily and should have topped the fed.surprise surprise we had a bad trap haha.we could.nt get her in .that was I think 3 years from my first race

I think about 7 years for me , and I nearly did not win that one , it was a fellow member insisted I clocked it in , the bird had been home at least 1 and a half hours from a 400 miler , I thought it was too late ,it turned out to be the only bird on the day

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I was 2nd club 10th Castleford fed 15th G.Y.A. back in 1972 with a 9 month old late bred carrying 4 nest flights from Clermont same bird was 3rd club 15th Castleford fed 52 G.Y.A. two weeks later ,from melun .

We joined our current club in 1989 and won a wednesday Club in 1990, had a couple of 2nds, 3rds for a couple of years after that but 1990 is the 1st and only time, still loving it all these years later, still trying, maybe 2017

a good while back I sent 2 hens to nevers 507 miles ,mother and daughter there were no day birds I clocked them both on the second day in the afternoon , they proved to be only 2 birds in race time , them were the days they are still talked about to this day

edgie wrote:

a good while back I sent 2 hens to nevers 507 miles ,mother and daughter there were no day birds I clocked them both on the second day in the afternoon , they proved to be only 2 birds in race time , them were  the days they are still talked about to this day

Quality Boss

I won my first race in 1980 a Young Bird race with a Red Cock from Weymouth  133 Miles 756 Yards

That was when I was in partnership with my dad flying as T Webb and Son at the Tipton and District HS

The next race we won was from Sartilly 260+ miles in 1990 10 Years after my first win with a yearling Chequer Cock

But this was in a club with 100 members with on average between 70/85 members sending every week up to 800 birds a week in land and 500 birds to the channel

The money was also big as well and this was a club with a 3/4 mile radius

In answer to Ray's question, my wife and I started racing pigeons in 2002.

We joined our first club around end of February 2002 and were given a few birds to start with from other club members.  Plus we bought a '6 pack' from Louella, which turned out to be the worst pigeons we have ever had.

We started racing the young bird season in 2002 with the birds we had been given.

We jumped our birds straight in to Exeter - 94 miles.  We were 2nd Club. 

Our next race was from West Bay on the 6th July - 74 miles - we were 4th Club.

The following week the Club was at Wincanton - we were 1st, 2nd and 4th Club.  The week after that we were 1st, 3rd and 4th Club.

But it took us until the 21st September 2002 to top the Fed.  It was the Federation's Young Bird Championship from Picauville, France - 169 miles to us.

There were only 3 birds clocked in race time and we had two of them.

We ended the year with Eight Firsts and One Fed First.

So in a nutshell, it took us three weeks to win our first race.  The following year was even better.

Phil