by Kevin J Murphy who had a great ‘team’ performance; the 2nd club winner is sire was the Mealy Cock (Daniel Aerens) I gifted to Blackpool Charity show 2018. The dam is also a Daniel Aerens bloodlines; the 3rd club is from a Billy Bilsland cock when mated to a daughter of George & Brain Hunters famous hen ‘Kingdom Spirit’. The other birds are Daniel Aerens crosses with the exception of a Mark Gilbert cock crossed with a sister to Kingdom Spirit.
Topping the federation are the Macaulay Ferguson & Curran partnership who are also 4th 5th 8th 13th & 14th with club mate Ian Scott in 2nd 15th 16th & 17th open places. Charlie & Glen Cameron of Arbroath did very well breaking up the Forfar stranglehold winning 3rd open. Race controller Davie Glen is 6th & 19th with Federation secretary Kenny Droog & Son of Forfar in 7th 18th & 20th. Bob Baldie of the same club is 9th 10th & 11th with club mates Greig & Leggett in 12th place.
East Section is won by Charlie & Glen Cameron of Arbroath who also have 2 birds to win 9th & 10th section. Kevin J Murphy of the same club is 2nd to 7th with D & D Hay of Gourdon in 9th position.
Club Winners as follows; Forfar 467 birds; Macaulay Ferguson & Curran. Montrose 57 birds: G Campbell. Gourdon 34 birds: D & D Hay. Arbroath 133 birds; C & G Cameron.
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Ayrshire Federation from their 4th race of the season from Ripon on the 12th May for a race of between 143 miles to 175 miles across the membership of the federation. Jim O’Hare eventually had the convoy of 1,248 birds (a drop of 748 birds on the previous week’s race) away at 11:00 into a light north wind. The reason given for the late liberation was firstly the amount of organisations sitting at Ripon and secondly the birds from the early liberations were slower to clear than expected thus having a knock on effect on the rest of the federations. Leading the way into Ayrshire this week and missing his moment of glory, is our federation secretary Ian Noble. Ian was telling me he missed the pigeons this week as he was attending the
Ian Noble 1st Fed Ripon
Ayr Agricultural Show and put all his trust into his ETS system he had only just purchased this year and this was only the 2nd time he has used it. Winning 1st federation for Ian on 1473.4 is a 4 year old hen going for her first race of the year flying natural and sitting 10 days on eggs. Ian purchased this hen at Dalry HS Breeder / Buyer sale in 2014 and won 1st club Otterburn, 1st Breeder/Buyer winning £100 each for both the breeder and buyer. This hen has been consistent pigeon for Ian and has previously won 2 x 1st , 3 x 2nd and 2 x 3rd club’s and now 1st fed, 1st section and 1st club Ripon. As mentioned above, this hen was purchased at Dalry HS Breeder/Buyer and was bred by Tom Smith of West Kilbride. The breeding of this pigeon goes back to birds containing the blood of Dalgleish of Ecclefechan a family of pigeons Tom has crossed in with his own family that have produced many winning pigeons from club to national races for Tom over the years. Ian would like to take this opportunity to thank his good friend Davy Jamieson of East Calder for his friendship and all his advice and continual support over the years.
In 2nd, 3rd & 5th federation is Andy Barbour of Dalry HS; his 2nd federation winner on 1464.2 is a 2 year old roundabout Hardy Kruger hen. The sister to this hen scored well in the Golden Algarve One Loft Race for Andy and contains all the
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