Guernsey OB Race Mark and Les Duffell from Havant 1 st Open 1 st SE Section with Last Minute It wasn t long before the Central Southern Classic s first race of the season was upon us, 304 members sending 3,109 birds over the English Channel to the lovely Island of Guernsey. Guernsey is a race point which favours a lot fanciers at the beginning of the season, as in the past even pigeons with little experience seem to do well from here. Also in our convoy we had 849 birds from the London & South East Classic Club with their first race of the year. The forecast for Saturday was reasonable with patchy light rain showers in places but nothing really posing a threat to the liberation. So there it was, Nigel liberated the 3,109 pigeons into blue skies at 9.15am with a 15mph south west wind. Releasing the LSECC birds 20 minutes later at 9.35am. Marking went swiftly due to the effort of all markers and helpers. Many thanks to those who helped as all four marking stations were faultless. Please could members be reminded that all pigeons must be written on your Part B not just pool pigeon s. What a great achievement for new members Mark and Les Duffell of Havant taking 1 st Open 1 st SE Section, after only two weeks as Classic members with their aptly named Last Minute. Mark moved to Havant two years ago from Epsom in Surrey leaving his Uncle, partner Les still in Epsom. Having had good success with a small team of widowhood cocks in the Three Borders Fed winning it on several occasions. Mark became a member of the Channel Racing Club in 2011 and after a few wins decided to join the CSCFC this year. He sent a small team of cocks to Guernsey after just one race in the Solent Fed. He timed his first bird at 10.53 to record 1 st Open on his first attempt. The Classic Winner was bred from birds given to him from friends in Kingston, Chris Slight and Trevor Taylor when paired with his own Van Reets. Mark has entered his 12 th year of racing keeping only has 6 pairs of stock birds and breeding around 40 youngsters a year. He has about 50 olds but only races 11 or 12. The birds are fed on Vanrobaeys all year round.
Mark Duffell. The Runners Up spot goes to David Fry also of Havant. Dave s pigeon is a 2 year old blue widowhood Cock of Lou Wouters bloodlines bred down from Andre Roodhooft stock purchased from Roger Lowe out of his Wonder Boy National winner. Dave has previously won 1 st section A NFC in 2011 and 2012 with the De Klak blood line obtained from Roger Lowe whom he wishes to thank for the excellent stock. Dave Fry.
Next up we have Richie Thomas of Portsmouth recording 3 rd Open 3 rd SE Section. Congratulations to the winner and Dave Fry for second open. It was a very windy and overcast Saturday morning up on the hill where I live. The weekend didn t get off to a good start, because when I went to the marking station Jayne forgot my pocket clock. (This is the Classic Secretary interrupting Richie s write up. I have it on good source that it was Richie who forgot the clock and blamed Jayne). So I had to go back home to Portsmouth to get it. On basket night on Friday at the pigeon Club, I was four pigeons missing that had not been registered on my clock. I went to bed with all this on my mind, where was my missing pigeons? I woke up all through the night. When I woke up in the morning and it was raining and really windy, I thought they're not going up in this weather, but where are my missing pigeons? Then at 9.30am my mate Mikey Wilson told me the Classic birds are up. I thought the birds would be an hour and 50 minutes. To my surprise they took an hour and 35 minutes that's 95 minutes to fly 115 miles. The pigeon I got was a super Soontjen bred by Paul Stobbs of County Durham, One of ten I bought last year. The system which I am flying this year is a Remi De May type system. I am flying 18 cocks and 18 hens and they seem to be coming well on it but its early days yet, but where are my four missing pigeons? I will tell you where my four missing pigeons were. In the nest boxes where I left them! That I only found on the Saturday morning when I went to feed the other pigeons in my loft. So the ETS clock was right when it told me how many I sent in the Solent Fed. I bred 60 babies this year to fly on the system what I call baby hood, they are kept in a 16ft by 6ft shed with two bays on the front so the babies can have a bath and lay in the sun. The babies have to fly the full Solent Fed young bird programme. All my pigeons are fed Versele Laga corn from Kevin King and I also use corn and products from Brian and Viv Wall of Gem. I would like to thank my lovely wife Jayne and my daughter Courtney for helping and motivating me because my health has not been very good lately. I would also like to thank Rodney Broome for training my pigeons. This is Richie Thomas keeping it real living in the golden mile. Peace.
Richie and Jayne Thomas. 4 th Open 4 th SE Section is Jason Bowen of Havant. Jason s first pigeon in the clock is a 2 year old Janssen Cock of Jimmy Wearn bloodlines. The pigeon was sent after previously having two coast races with the Solent Federation and having been trained and feeding a six day old youngster. He was raced in 2012 on widowhood being very consistent to the loft and being first bird from Le Mans in the BICC. I would like to thank my wife Lynda for all her help with doing most of the chores whilst I m at work, if it wasn t for her I wouldn t be able to race, My thanks also to the Classic Team for an excellent race with 100% returns. Jason Bowen s Janssen cock. Taking 5 th & 6 th Open 5 th & 6 th SE Section is Mr and Mrs Garry Moody of Portsmouth.
We had two birds together both of these being yearlings flown on roundabout, the first bird is from my direct Braspennings, this pair having bred three Fed winners and a Section winner in the NFC. My second bird also a Braspenning but this time a cross with Mattheuws also out of my stock loft. I would like to thank Mim my wife and my friend Lee Freshney as with out there help it would be impossible for me to race. My congratulations to Mark Duffell a Club member on his First Open. Garry Moody with Grandsons Frankie and Archie. Recording 1 st & 2 nd NE Section 14 th &15 th Open is Steve & Paul Kulpa from Reading. Steve and Paul s first bird is a 4 year old Janssen x Van Loon hen. Her sire was bred from the line of Hans Eijerkanmps Bartoil & Flits, her Dam from our old Van Loon lines. Previous results for this hen include 4 th Section E 19 th Open NFC Messac last year, although she is not a winner, she has taken many Club and Federation positions. Second bird in the clock another 4 year old hen, this one a full Eijerkamp Janssen. Her sire is a direct son of Hans Eijerkamps Mr Bond. Her Dam is a Grandaughter of Eijerkamps Flits. All of the birds are fed on Versese Laga widowhood mix and given Aviform products in the water.
Steve and Paul Kulpa. Next up in the section is Jim Derbyshire of Whitchurch taking 3 rd NE Section 19 th Open with a 3 year old mealy cock GB10N32344, this pigeon previously taking many other positions including, 37 th Solent Fed 1,759 birds, 68 th open 3 rd section CSCFC Carentan also 26 th open 6 th section CSCFC in 2011 winning the yearling derby, 58 th open 3 rd section BBC Carentan, 139 th open NFC Fougeres 7,064 birds. This pigeon also won the Club race the week prior to this race. This clearly a pigeon on form. The pigeon is bred by Carden Garrod of Whitchurch, it s a gift bird which is a Van Reet raced on the Widowhood system. Jim Derbyshire. Topping the North West Section is Steve Slade from Calne also taking 2 nd Section as well. Steve s first of his two pigeons scoring well was a cock who has previously won 1 st Exeter out of 170 birds in the Chippenham Club. Also he was 5 th Club Newton Abbott out of 206 birds. The hen and second pigeon in the clock has had one race this season winning 1 st Club out of 206 birds and 12 th Combine, 5074 birds. This is Steve s second North West Section win in the Classic, he won the section in 2011 from the Carentan young bird race.
Steve Slade. 3 rd NW Section is the pairing of Chris Howse and David Parsons from Devizes. The bird we timed is a 2 year old widowhood cock, it s the nest mate to our Tours YB winner. It was a consistent yearling last year being 28 th open NFC Fougeres. This was our first competitive race of the season, prior to this they had trainers from Seaton and Poole. We actually had two together but the first bird failed to register and we did not notice for 5 minutes so we will be checking the clock straight away in future. Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to the Convoyer and Race Controller for a good race. Chris Howse with Grandaughter Layla. One of the Classic s most consistent section winners is the married partnership of Mark and Julie Gower from Fordingbridge who once again takes 1 st SW Section position.
My section winner is a Vandenabeele cock raced on roundabout. He is bred from a pair of pigeons purchased from Phillip Waters of Salisbury when he stopped racing. The section winner is a yearling on his first race of the season after having five 25 mile training tosses when work and weather permitted. As a young bird he had 4 races, the last two being the Classic where he was 7 th Section and then the next week the very hard young bird National where he was my 3 rd bird home. I had 9 of my 10 birds home on Saturday. Mark Gower messing about on the water! Mark s fellow Club member Roger Smith of Salisbury is in the Runners Up position of the SW Section. Roger s bird is a Janssen x Busschaert. These birds are raced on traditional widowhood. This is the 3 rd race of this pigeon s season and previously was 10 th club from Exeter last week. Roger prefers inland racing now but has proved he is no stranger to success as he incidentally was the first winner of the Classic s Blue Riband race from Pau back in 1976.
Roger Smith Top 100 telephone and website verifications only which may be subject to change 1 SE329 M & L Duffell Havant 10 53 3 2122.519 2 SE133 D Fry Havant 10 52 57 2120.480 3 SE937 R Thomas Portsmouth 10 50 48 2114.332 4 SE507 J Bowen Waterlooville 10 52 6 2110.968 5 SE19 M/M Moody Portsmouth 10 51 25 2098.527 6 SE19 M/M Moody Portsmouth 10 51 36 2094.545 7 SE220 M Skidmore Havant 10 54 26 2080.419 8 SE784 Wearn Brothers 1 & Neilson Ramsdean 11 1 30 2076.357 9 SE220 M Skidmore Havant 10 54 39 2075.896 10 SE414 T Barrett Portsmouth 10 52 34 2071.548 11 SE500 D Mitchell Fareham 10 52 47 2042.966 12 SE929 Barrie Smith Winchester 11 0 44 2032.103 13 SW1071 Mr & Mrs M Gower Fordingbridge 10 49 46 2008.238 14 NE410 S & P Kulpa Reading 11 29 14 2003.124 15 NE410 S & P Kulpa Reading 11 30 30 1984.399 16 SE167 F Bartlett & R Jones Southampton 10 55 7 1975.286 17 SE167 F Bartlett & R Jones Southampton 10 55 10 1974.300 18 SE167 F Bartlett & R Jones Southampton 10 55 12 1973.643 19 SE500 D Mitchell Fareham 10 56 23 1970.422 20 NE1331 J Derbyshire Whitchurch 11 14 14 1961.314 21 SE937 R Thomas Portsmouth 10 58 34 1955.774 22 NE559 G R Seeney Harwell 11 35 35 1955.260 23 SE1267 D Wells Bordon 11 17 0 1955.098 24 SE302 J M Edwards Southampton 10 56 36 1952.087 25 SE931 M Collins Southampton 26 SW398 R J Smith Salisbury 10 57 57 1933.230 11 0 28 1927.538 27 SE129 S Harris & Dtr Portchester 10 59 13 1923.829 28 SE388 Mr & Mrs G Emm Salisbury 10 56 1 1923.098 29 SW1071 Mr & Mrs M Gower Fordingbridge 10 54 25 1914.307 30 SE1246 I & S Smith Eastleigh 11 2 0 1914.131 31 SE310 M/M D Waterhouse Portsmouth 11 1 22 1904.901 32 NE410 S & P Kulpa Reading 11 36 23 1901.822 33 SE615 J Ross Portsmouth 11 0 23 1900.443 34 SE417 Mr & Mrs D Cave Emsworth 11 5 49 1892.017 35 NE1135 E Smith & D Baker Swindon 11 33 10 1878.666 36 NE1135 E Smith & D Baker Swindon 11 33 21 1876.176
37 SW450 C Bartlett Salisbury 11 3 48 1873.143 38 NE1498 A Docherty Swindon 11 35 0 1871.814 39 NE410 S & P Kulpa Reading 11 38 39 1871.813 40 SE1456 S & K Brimecome & Son Cosham 11 3 29 1863.328 41 SW924 J F Travers Poole 10 41 28 1861.503 42 SE234 D & K Jones Havant 11 7 44 1848.708 43 NE218 B Smith Swindon 11 37 11 1845.287 44 NE1156 Mr & Mrs C Merrills Swindon 11 38 56 1837.469 45 SW355 M/M P G Newman & Salisbury 11 6 6 1832.745 46 SW59 Mr & Mrs M King Blandford 10 46 52 1830.729 47 SE500 D Mitchell Fareham 11 4 11 1829.657 48 NE1400 S Thorpe Swindon 11 40 9 1819.166 49 SE177 K Bakes Havant 11 8 8 1818.129 50 NE1717 L Hall Oxford 11 59 3 1814.642 51 SE53 Mr & Mrs B Wall Havant 11 9 2 1811.672 52 SE96 P Hookins Emsworth 11 10 9 1811.672 53 SE999 Opportunity Lofts Havant 11 11 14 1801.437 54 SE405 J Attrill Salisbury 11 10 25 1799.896 55 NE192 B Taylor & Sons Abingdon 11 54 18 1798.362 56 SW166 Newman & Sevier Salisbury 11 8 52 1793.686 57 NE205 F J Hambidge Chipping 12 12 0 1790.960 58 NE546 D Morris Swindon 11 43 8 1783.819 59 SE372 D M T Whitcombe Southampton 11 6 32 1781.261 60 NW350 S Slade Calne 11 34 1 1780.751 61 NE332 M/M A Webber & Son Abingdon 11 53 46 1780.412 62 SE600 Mr & Mrs C Lever Romsey 11 8 41 1779.443 63 NE304 Sherman & Wells Oxford 11 59 15 1778.484 64 SE522 A Holdaway Emsworth 65 SE430 K & L Cleife Portsmouth 11 12 3 1777.540 11 8 57 1776.376 66 NW350 S Slade Calne 11 34 41 1772.252 67 SE125 R & R Clarke Fareham 11 5 10 1767.349 68 NE317 E Smith & D Baker loft2 Swindon 11 43 55 1766.458 69 SW505 P J Hollard Lytchett 10 46 2 1765.024 70 NE573 Lloyd & Kelly Steventon 11 52 13 1764.609 71 NW106 C Howse & D Parsons Devizes 11 23 54 1764.507 72 SW113 M/M M & L Rumbold Salisbury 11 9 15 1756.298 73 SW122 J & D Staddon Evercreech 11 11 8 1754.759 74 NW123 Crowley & Green Calne 75 SE1387 R Broome Havant 11 35 0 1747.764 11 13 54 1745.046 76 NE348 S Hughes Swindon 11 46 18 1740.066 77 SE913 Mr & Mrs C Harvey Waterlooville 11 13 49 1729.597 78 NE1389 K Thorpe Swindon 11 50 22 1728.807 79 SE432 T Leggatt Havant 11 15 49 1724.158 80 NE418 K Godfrey Chipping 12 15 1 1720.185 81 NW235 D Caudle Cheltenham 12 8 7 1719.574 82 SE1540 D Human Petersfield 11 22 19 1717.772 83 NE286 T Burns Marlborough 11 37 34 1712.525 84 NW266 P Weems Chippenham 11 36 52 1710.930 85 NE348 S Hughes Swindon 11 48 54 1710.669 86 NW489 Janet Wilcox Bath 11 23 28 1710.506 87 NW144 D Knowles Trowbridge 11 30 2 1708.060 88 NW134 M/M G & M Wile & S Lias Withywood 11 33 11 1704.439 89 NW97 S Wilcox Bristol 11 33 58 1704.279
90 NW542 R Brown Devizes 11 28 41 1701.798 91 NW40 K Emery Trowbridge 11 28 55 1699.811 92 NW110 S Dangerfield & S Gearon Stonehouse 11 57 3 1699.482 93 SW938 A Parsons Salisbury 11 16 23 1699.121 94 NW627 F & K Travetti Radstock 11 24 51 1695.849 95 NE497 D Hawthorne Tadley 11 43 15 1695.110 96 SE18 P A Priddle Southampton 11 10 55 1688.644 97 NE296 Mr & Mrs V T Hall Oxford 12 10 54 1687.499 98 NW233 Mr and Mrs A Fielding Bristol 11 41 33 1683.501 99 NW294 A Smith & Son Wotton Under 11 51 23 1680.467 100 SE591 K Davison Southampton 11 6 57 1680.411 Messac We are off to Messac for our 2 nd Old Bird race on Saturday 25 th May with marking taking place on Thursday 22 nd May. This race is the Yearling Derby Race and is kindly sponsored every year by Brian Wall of Gem Supplements. All marking times and addresses are in your handbook. Your last posting date for this race is Saturday 18 th May. Marking times are made for a reason, please could you arrive within the times given. Bergerac For our Isle of Wight members, a trophy has very kindly been donated in memory of Frank Attrill who sadly passed away. This trophy will be awarded to for the best two bird average from Bergerac. Breeder/Buyer The breeder/buyer this season has had great support from the three auctions with 195 birds being entered in the Young Bird breeder/buyer race from Guernsey on Saturday 24 th August. Our biggest prize money to date will see the 5,000 paid out as follows: - Breeder/Buyer Breeder/Buyer Breeder/Buyer 1 st 1000/ 1000 8 th 75/ 75 15 th 50/ 50 2 nd 250/ 250 9 th 75/ 75 16 th 50/ 50 3 rd 175/ 175 10 th 50/ 50 17 th 50/ 50 4 th 125/ 125 11 th 50/ 50 18 th 50/ 50 5 th 100/ 100 12 th 50/ 50 19 th 50/ 50 6 th 75/ 75 13 th 50/ 50 20 th 50/ 50 7 th 75/ 75 14 th 50/ 50 Clare Norman. Tel: 023 8057 3919 Email: secretary@cscfc.com