| Author: Mike Horner & Webmaster | Title: Nantes NFC Report - I Dyer BEM takes the top spot |
| Date: 2004-06-08 22:47:17 | Uploaded by: webmaster |
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The first race of the season for the National Flying Club saw an entry of 8,022 birds from 1157 members held over due to inclement weather on the Saturday. This was a good decision after many organisations experienced difficult races even from inland race points on the Saturday. Once again the weather forecasters got it wrong when they predicted a good day on Saturday for the whole of the Country but as we now know that was not the case.
As always in the NFC there are some good performances in this race from the winner himself to the pigeon of Jackson & Andrews flying a distance of 450mls into Yorkshire. You can then go to the other side of the UK with D. Parry & Daughters 4th section L over at Deeside and are around the top 100 on verifications, this is what makes the club so good, everyone is there to be beat and everyone has a chance.
1st sec D 1st open is won by Ivor Dyer BEM a richly deserved award for his charity work with guide dogs that were also trained with the help of money raised, however Ivor did stress that this was also down to the people around him who always helped with the fund raising. A great win for a modest fancier who has always put himself out to help other and has been quite rightly awarded for that work. Ivor clocked a 3y chequer hen from the Janssen/Jan Aarden lines, the sire going back to the old Janssen’s that were brought in during the early 90’s from Yorkshire while the dam a Jan Aardens hen came about when a friend of Ivor’s packed the pigeons up and gave him the hen that is one of a batch of six from Louella. On the Wednesday prior to the race Ivor decided to try something new as the hens were not as keen as they had been so he put two hens either side of the cock and left them there until time for basketing. This was based on a jealousy system and it has paid good dividends, Ivor always wants to try something different to keep them on their toes. The winner has had 7 races this season so they are worked well with her last race being with the BBC from Nantes two weeks prior to this NFC race. An interesting point was that she has not dropped a flight so with a full wing had not set backs. This is also only a small team loft with only 12prs kept altogether plus of course a team of normally 24ybs. The feeding is a mix that Ivor makes up from the Versele Laga w/h and Brian Wall’s Gem mixes so a bit of each has given Ivor the mix that he wants for his race team. The birds are never kept short of corn, they get more or less what they want plus a selection f vitamins and minerals. Ivor has been in the sport of pigeon racing for the last 39yrs with this being his greatest win to date. Since he was told on Sunday his life has been a bit more hetic and he would like to thank everyone for their calls of congratulations.
1st sec A is won by David Matthews Of Bordon clocked a Staff Van Reet/Janssen chequer pied cock that was sent sitting 5 day old eggs and as always with this loft raced on the natural. Both parents were purchased at a sale of Bruce McAllister pigeons. This excellent cock has only had 4 races this season winning 19th open BICC Falaise, 336th open Nantes BBC. 63rd open BICC Falaise and now this win, he was also in the first 200 on the Nantes race in 2003. This is a good line and a brother won a pigeon loft in the Solent fed this year. The season started with 12prs racing on the natural system and David is pleased with the way they have flown to date. They are fed on David’s own mix made up from the Versele Laga and Gem corns. This loft is no stranger to national success having win the section three times from Nantes and also once with the old hens.
1st sec. B goes to the lofts of Merv Waters of Salisbury who sounds like a very nice person and I had a good talk to him, mostly nothing to do with this section winner. Merv clocked this good light chequer 2y cock from the Eagleson/Busschaert’s and prior to this win was a winner of 60th open 8th section Nantes and won the...Read the full report.
| National Flying Club Top 10 |
| Pos. | Name | Town | Dist. | Time | Velocity |
| 1 | I W Dyer BEM | Plymouth | 248.1061 | 10.48.22 | 1600.485 |
| 2 | R Brown | Plymouth | 245.1637 | 10.59.6 | 1523.464 |
| 3 | M/M G&M Wile & S Lias | Bristol | 291.1204 | 11.55.4 | 1511.894 |
| 4 | A & D Collins | Bristol | 292.1689 | 11.56.47 | 1508.523 |
| 5 | Fare & Egan | Bristol | 298.264 | 12.4.24 | 1501.903 |
| 6 | Steven Williams | Weymouth | 237.755 | 10.55.12 | 1491.416 |
| 7 | T Griffin | Perranporth | 269.36 | 11.33.52 | 1485.988 |
| 8 | M R Staddon | Crewkerne | 257.616 | 11.19.55 | 1485.375 |
| 9 | T D & L Hosking | Penzance | 269.711 | 11.35.33 | 1484.527 |
| 10 | C M Nelmes | Bristol | 291.791 | 12.0.53 | 1483.078 |
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