| Author: Les J Parkinson & Webmaster | Title: Mother and son take 1st & 2nd Pau National 2004 NFC |
| Date: 2004-06-29 20:21:16 | Uploaded by: webmaster |
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Mother and son take 1st & 2nd Pau National.
For the partnerships of
Lloyd & Kelly and Gilbert & Le Carr
The Pau birds were held over until Sunday morning after bad weather at the race point and further deterioration along the line of flight. I have spoken to a few race controllers and from what I hear these jobs are hard and I did have a talk to race advisor Ray Barrington who was telling me that the birds are always foremost on his mind and that the conditions were not right so he could only advise the convoyer of those conditions. I have just made a few calls at 5.30pm Sunday and the birds are not having an easy day of it, they are having to work for the corn. There were 28 gallant birds on the day of liberation and they were obviously up early next morning to show their owners that they like many fanciers do not stay in bed in the morning. I was aware that we would not be getting the birds up into this part of the world early but I was still outside by 5.20am looking at a clear blue sky. They were not going to get hear by that time but when I woke at 4.45am and thoughts were on the birds I could not go back to sleep so ended up doing a bit of light gardening by 5.30am. I than had a phone call from Chris Knowles a little later after he had been on the web site and was telling me about the early morning birds clocked. It was great to see Jim Biss had once again shown his enthusiasm with a pigeon that comes in at 3rd open.
Frank Lloyd and Eammon Kelly are 1st section F 1st Open National FC Pau with “Little Margaret” duly named after Frank’s wife Margaret who died 2yrs ago. “Little Margaret”is a mid to small 4y blue pied hen. She is a pure Grooter from Pat King a local fancier who has bred many top National and Classic birds. Eammon and Frank would like to thank Pat for all his help also Sam Watson and Peter hall who have both been a big influence. The partnership of Lloyd & Kelly keep a total of 150 birds with 70 of these being youngsters. The system is normally the traditional widowhood but for this race the birds were re-paired. They are fed on Gerry Plus which is mixed with widowhood plus three days prior to basketing. Other additions include garlic twice each week and they did stress that they do not like to use medication other than what is absolutely necessary. “Little Margaret’s” build up to this race was one race with the BICC plus approximately fifteen tosses to the coast with her son by Peter Gilbert. “Little Margaret” won one race as a young bird and was 13th sec 192nd open in the Saintes/Pau National last year. Eammon’s interest in pigeons started at the age of 8yrs when he would go down to Franks loft and feed his chickens. This interest led to further interest by watching the pigeons, which eventually led to Frank making him a partner, and 32yrs later they are still going strong. Since their formation they have had many top club, fed and combine wins but this win is their dream come true. The lofts are nicely sited in the middle of a field with easy access into the lofts for the birds although there are peregrines nesting a few miles away at Didcot power station they have been fortunate because they have not had many attacks from them or the sparrow hawks. Frank said that “Little Margaret” dropped in the trap almost without being seen, but when she was they moved. They race their birds in the BBO South road Fed with the Didcot & Hagbourne club also the Wantage club. Both these clubs have had their fair share of National winners with the exceptional lofts of Mr & Mrs Paul Kendall 1st National Pau plus many more top positions, Ted Brown two 2nd places at Nantes National to name just a few. We don’t normally include the second pigeon if it is not a section or open winner but because they second pigeon is a son of the winner I feel it is well worth mentioning. This is to the lofts of Gilbert & Le Carr, they have named their pigeon “Fast Eddie” who was clocked in this race just 2 minutes after his mother a few miles away. The sire is a Belgium stray that came into Lloyd & Kelly’s loft and later transferred to them, the dam being “Little Margaret” 1st National Pau. Peter started up in pigeons 40yrs ago then packed up 13yrs later before re-starting 7yrs ago with Lawrence to for the present partnership. Peter & Lawrence keep just 54 birds including the stock. The race team are on the roundabout and they are fed three days hald depurative and half general mix, two days depurartive and two days general mix with garlic being used in the water. The build up to this race for “Fast Eddie” was 15 tosses to the coast with his mother “Little Margaret” with many tosses from 40mls plus. Lawrence & Peter live next door to each other with the loft at the bottom of the garden. Their main line of birds are Jan Aardens and Mark Kidby’s Van Treist plus a big influence from the “Fast Eddie” Grooter Lines. Thanks to Ron Crook for his help in gathering this information, it is much appreciated.
1st section A goes to Ron Dove down in Ashford took the rubber off a 2y blue chequer hen raced on the roundabout. The present day family is made up of Ron’s old family with the addition of birds form his good friend Ron Muggaridge of Plymouth who has been a good fancier and friend for many years. Ron also used to live in Plymouth but moved to Ashford 5yrs ago to race the pigeons in peace, away from the birds of prey who were taking their toll. This winner has been a good hen for Ron and was sent to Nantes with the BBC where she put nearly 11hrs in on the wing in a North East wind after that she was kept back for this Pau race where she proved Ron was right in the system. Ron is an old fashioned fancier who takes no notice of the pigeons that are flavour of the day and prefers to be an old fashioned fancier who swaps a few pigeons with friends and does not go out spending lots of money that is not needed. Pigeon racing is his beloved hobby, he likes competing in his selective races and that is how he wants it to stay.
1st section B sees M & L. Jarvis of Southampton who I had a good talk to about the sport in general but I shall not go into that for this report. Mike & Linda saw home a 3y chequer w/f cock from their Rutter/Mitcheson/Van der Esp lines. They came back in the sport in 93 with the Rutter pigeons and have added to them since with a natural outlook to racing i.e. no antibiotics just a natural system. The section winner...Read the full story.
| National Flying Club Top 10 |
| Pos. | Name | Town | Dist. | AFT | Velocity |
| 1 | F Lloyd & E Kelly | Abingdon | 573.170 | 20:49:18 | 1134.207 |
| 2 | Gilbert & LeCarre | Oxon | 571.962 | 20.53.0 | 1126.452 |
| 3 | S G Biss | Norwich | 645.1430 | 5.57.19 | 1117.282 |
| 4 | Biss & Waite | Whitchurch | 548.485 | 20.25.22 | 1115.094 |
| 5 | James Roy | Margate | 561.742 | 20.46.48 | 1114.233 |
| 6 | R Dove | Ashford | 539.1507 | 20.13.28 | 1113.280 |
| 7 | Mr Gary Ellis | Windsor | 561.1022 | 20.48.23 | 1112.563 |
| 8 | H & P Archibald | Dover | 542.837 | 20.21.20 | 1108.464 |
| 9 | M Tuck | Godlaming | 539.473 | 20.18.22 | 1105.720 |
| 10 | Alan Mark | South Croydon | 551.337 | 20.46.29 | 1094.321 |
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