| Author: WhitbyToday.co.uk | Title: In the News - Pigeon delight for Martin |
| Date: 2005-01-09 15:19:52 | Uploaded by: webmaster |
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A LYTHE pigeon racer achieved a once-in-a-lifetime feat when he topped the combine in the longest young bird race of the season.
Martin Dobson sent 14 birds to Perth for the 171-mile race back home.
Two of them – Combine Cock and Hard Luck – were the first back to the traps, landing at the same time after a four-hour flight.
Remarkably, a total of 1,960 birds were sent by pigeon racers from all over North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
Martin scooped first and second in the Whitby North Road race and the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire North Road Combine.
The pigeon that came second was also the winner in the North and East Yorkshire North Road Two-bird Championship Club.
"I only won it by a few seconds, they came on the right line and on to the landing board," he said. "If they had circled once they might not have won."
Martin started pigeon racing 12 years ago when his late uncle Mick Cousins got him interested in the sport, when he gave Martin some of his pigeons to keep and race.
Whitby Today - 07 January 2005
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