Last week we featured the outright winners of the two races and now we focus on the sections winners…
YOUNG BIRDS
Adam Light of Horsham wins 1st Section A. Adam split his young bird team at the start of the season, specifically with the BBC Lamballe and NFC St Malo races in mind and really came up trumps, in fact he had a super race all round with 10 out of 12 home on the day including 8 in a half hour period 40 minutes after his first bird. First in the clock was a little cheq hen off his own family developed from mainly distance birds when he started up in the sport. She was weaned in early April and flown natural, and was in excellent feather for this race. She had six races inland with the South Coast Fed as prep and this was only the second ever time he has raced youngsters over the water. His channel youngsters were fed a heavier mix than his inland team being hopper fed Gem Irish. The loft was evidently on top form as the day before this win, Adam won his local fed. Adam’s ambition is to win 1st Open at national level.
Adam Light with his Section A winner.
Adrian Human of Ramsdean wins 1st Section B with a hen direct out of his cock which won a Gold Salver with the BBC for four performances from Palamos, winning 19th, 44th, 51st and 108th Open, this same cock having also bred a Spanish Diploma winner for his dad Derek. Dam of the section winner is a pigeon Adrian timed from Palamos last year and is also a Cattrysse. These Cattryse pigeons have served both Adrian and Derek very well, Derek of course having won NFC Tarbes. They are based on birds from Les Davenport when he was in his pomp, some Louella Cattrysse through Clanfield Expected (which were also Davenport based) and in later years Cattrysse from the late Norman Bishop of Ringwood. Adrian said they normally only come into their own at 2 or 3 so this win was a bonus. The winning hen is a darkness youngster. Earlier in the year, Adrian put an old cock, which had been hawked in with the youngsters to keep him out of mischief. He removed this cock prior to this race and noticed the hen hanging off the front of the loft. He couldn’t work out why, but then the penny dropped. Unbeknown to him, the cock had been calling the hen and when he re-introuduced it along with a bowl this you hen was straight in it. He said to his dad, she would be his first bird. Adrian remarked that the channel was not brilliantly clear but was good enough and he himself had 5 out of 10 on the day and two next morning. Interestingly, his dad’s Grand National winner looks like winning 6th Section B in the Old Hens’ race (and for the record, this top hen was on the day from Tarbes in 2008).
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