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Willsbridge Bergerac Race
1st Open 1
st SE Section
Dave and Lisa Waterhouse from Portsmouth
with “Lone Soldier” Bergerac was the Classic’s last old bird race of the season with another good entry of 990
birds sent by 185 members. With four other organisations on board with us, the total birdage
was approximately 1,450.
All prospects looked good the evening before for a Friday liberation and we were only waiting
for dawn to rise, but unfortunately when it did it was to show full cloud cover and mist likened
to pea soup. It was forecast to clear quite soon with the north westerly winds blowing, but as
the winds were light this didn’t happen in time to liberate early enough.
Next morning the site weather was completely different and Nigel liberated the whole
consignment of pigeons at 6.05am with the birds clearing well and heading north. The winds
up through France were west north westerly but light.
Thank you to everyone concerned at the marking stations, as I know we were a bit thin on the
ground due to people waiting for their Tarbes birds.
The race turned out to be very testing but one gallant pigeon, who was determined to make it
home on the day belongs to our winners Dave & Lisa Waterhouse from Portsmouth. 1st
Open 1st SE Section. Dave and Lisa have been flying a cracking pigeon for the last few
seasons and this win is truly deserved to a lovely couple. Dave races with the Channel Flying
Club and only flies a small team of pigeons and the saying “quality not quantity” certainly
rings true in Dave’s case.
“Lone Soldier” as his is now named is a 3 year old blue cock and is bred from my good pair
which is called “The Ace Pair” bred by Jacob Poortvliet. He was sent sitting 10 day eggs.
Feeding consists of Verse Laga Super Widowhood as much as needed and peanuts every
afternoon.
Three weeks previous he was 2nd
Club, 13th Solent Federation from the new race point Nort-
Sur-Erdre.
Dave Waterhouse.
2nd
, 3rd
& 9th
Open 1st, 2
nd & 5
th NW Section are Colin, Henry, John & Leigh Preece
(Preece Brothers & Sons) from Abertillery. What a fantastic performance put in by this
family with the wind totally against them (5 pigeons verified so far).
1st bird is a Gwasted Mottle, a two year old mottle blue roundabout cock. He has had a few
minor positions in the BICC and WSR National before today. This was his fourth channel race
of the season with his last race 300 miles with the WSR National where he was our second
bird home.
He is a Lefrabre/Dhaenen and contains all the best of our channel family. His sire is a top
stock cock being the sire of numerous top racers for us up to 600 miles and is the nest mate to
Gwasted Mon Mome our Queens Cup winning cock. The dam was lent to us by good friend
Geoff Davies, containing all the best of his old Lefrabre/Dhaenen family. She bred a number
of top birds for Geoff before he lent her to us a few years ago. Since we have had her she has
bred numerous top racers for us. She is now 13 years old and he has been unable to get her
back from us. (Thanks Geoff).
The 2nd
bird is a 2 year old dark Deweerdt roundabout cock. This was his first top result as lst
year he snapped his end flight and was only lightly raced. This year he has had four channel
races, his last race was from Poitiers with the BICC some 400 miles to us where in a tough
race he was up with our leading birds.
His sire was a gift to us from Andy Gregson from his number 1 pair of Deweerdts. The Dam
was another Deweerdt gift from our good friends Geoff and Catherine Cooper, being a direct
daughter of their champion Wriggler paired to a daughter off Farm Boy. We would like to
thank both Andy and Geoff for these gifts.
Our 3rd
bird is a 3 year old blue roundabout cock Gwasted Rowens Lad. He is a son of our
number 1 grizzle stock cock and to High a daughter of One Legs and winner of 2nd
and 8th
National before being put to stock. Rowans Lad has won numerous prizes before, including 4th
BICC Alencon, 17th BBC Bordeaux, and 7
th WSR National Bordeaux.
We would like to congratulate the winner and also our good friends Pat and John Webber on
their fantastic result of also timing on the day, being the only bird in to Wales on the day.
Preece Brothers & Sons.
Preece Brothers & Sons.
Preece Brothers & Sons.
Preece Brothers & Sons.
Winner of the NE Section and 4th
Open is Tony Waite from Whitchurch with a 7 year old
blue cock timed at 06.16 hrs on Sunday morning, obviously not being too far away from home
on the day.
The pigeon is a pure Jim Biss bird from my old partnership as Biss/Waite. It was bred at the
stock lofts at Whitchurch. He had in preparation for this race 4 Purbeck’s with the Club and 2
National Flying Club channel races.
This pigeon was 1st NE Section 2
nd Open in 2012 from this same Bergerac race with the
CSCFC. He is raced on widowhood semi bull system paired to 2 different hens and has 3 nest
boxes. He has been fed on Versele-Laga and Willsbridge mixtures.
Tony Waite with Grandsons Archie & Toby.
The “Japanese Sniper” is up there again. Following on from his 3rd
Open Pau Classic and 2nd
Open Tarbes NFC this week Andy Parsons from Salisbury has another top performance to
add to his collection, this time 1st & 2
nd SW Section 5
th & 6
th Open.
Firstly I would like to say well done to the winner having the only day bird. My 1st bird is
from my distance family of Cannon/Burgess birds but with a direct Deweerdt and my friend
Keith Bush's blood being 2 of the Grandparents. He was unraced as a young bird but trained
and in this year, his first of racing he has had 4 channel races up to Bergerac including NFC
Cholet and NFC Messac where he was my first bird out of 6 sent. He was sent, looking at the
first hen of his life which made him a happy boy.
My second bird has helped make this year very special, he is the bird I clocked from Pau
Classic, winning 1st Section & 3
rd Open. His best positions to date are, 1
st Section, 3
rd Open
Pau, 2nd
Section, 6th
Open Bergerac and 3rd
Section, 10th
Open Tarbes. He was basketed for
Bergerac knowing his hen had laid her 1st egg the night before and after flying my celibate
type system for the last three and a half months.
Andy Parsons with Grand Children Charlotte & Sam.
7th
& 8th
Open we have last year’s winners Chris Howse & David Parsons from Devizes
also 3rd
& 4th
NW Section. The first bird is bred from a brother to my NFC Merit Winner and
a hen that is a daughter of Brian Sheppard’s 2nd
Open International Winner. They were both
on their sixth channel race of the season. “98” was previously 6th
Section last year from NFC
Messac.
My second bird was “Jalta” previously 1st Open Bergerac last year. He has flown his last race,
as he is now going in to the stock loft.
Chris Howse & David Parsons with Layla and Archie.
2nd
SE Section 10th
Open is a member who I wrote about in my Pau report that saying that
over the last 5 seasons he has rarely been out of the top 20 in the open from Tarbes/Pau now
he can add Bergerac to his list. I think it won’t be long and we will see his name on that 1st
Open position. Lee Patterson from Portsmouth. Firstly, let me congratulate Dave & Lisa
Waterhouse on their only pigeon on the day. A wonderful achievement.
The bird I timed is a yearling chequer white flight cock and is a cross of my old R O Jones
family and Steve Wright of House of Arden lines. He was sent sitting 4 day old eggs, having
previously been on roundabout. Earlier in the season he returned hawked and needed to be
rested up for 4 weeks. He has only been in the basket twice since, having been sent to Nort-
sur-Edre with the Solent Fed where he was early next morning in another tough race, and to
this Bergerac race.
Lee Patterson’s Cock Bird.
3rd
SW Section 11th
Open is Mike and Lin Rumbold from Dinton, near Salisbury. For
anyone who has attended the Classic dinner they will tell you that Mike is very good
entertainment value with some of the stories that he comes out with especially when teamed
up with his good friend Andy Parsons.
First of all I would like to say well done to Mr & Mrs Waterhouse on winning the race and to
Andy for topping the SW Section.
My bird is a 5 year old Hienbach x Hagen red cock and has been a very reliable pigeon for
me. This year he has been 8th Section B NFC Cholet, 36
th Section B BBC Niort and now 3
rd
Section Bergerac Classic. He is flown naturally and sent sitting on day eggs.
Mike Rumbold.
Next we have our third member in the South West Section, another well established name
Bryan Woods from Shaftesbury 4th
SW Section 12th
Open. This 5 year old Mealy cock
“Andrew” was flown on the celibate system. He is bred from a Fear Brothers cock and a Sid
& Val Miles hen. This pairing given to Bryan by Andrew Tarmas of Radstock a few years
ago. He has produced some outstanding results in the last three seasons alone. In 2012 CSCFC
Tarbes 102nd
Open 26th
SW Section and 10th
Open 1st Section B BBC Bordeaux. 2013, 79
th
Open 17th
SW Section CSCFC Tarbes and 70th Open 3
rd Section B BBC Bordeaux and this
season 41st Open 14
th SW Section CSCFC Messac and 153
rd Open 30
th Section B BBC
Messac.
Bryan Woods.
Ivan Hofton (A Hofton & Son) from Gloucester was our third member in the North West
Section to time in taking 6th
NW Section. Ivan races in the very strong Gloucester & District
Flying Club where competition is rife. The pigeon timed who was sent sitting 4 days has been
very consistent over the channel and is normally home within the first few pigeons every time.
Her breeding is completely long distance from a chequer white flight Stan Dangerfield hen
and a Ken Hine red cock. One of her previous performances from last year was 6th Section
275th Open Tarbes.
3rd
SE Section is one of the sports real gentleman who spent many years convoying the Isle of
Wight fanciers pigeons to the relevant marking stations George Wood from Ventnor. This
pigeon has been a class pigeon for George and only 3 years old. She is a mixture of George’s
own family with other long distance blood lines. Her previous record is 81st Open 42
nd Section
CSCFC Tarbes, 24th Open 9
th Section CSCFC Bergerac and 81
st Open 10
th Section A BBC
Bordeaux in 2013 as a 2 year old and this year 20th
Open 16th Section CSCFC Pau.
George Wood.
For our next members it was like waiting a long time for a bus and then two turn up as both
pigeons arrived within 5 minutes of each other. 2nd
& 3rd
NE Section are Brian & Linda
Dixon from Milton Under Wychwood.
My first bird, a medium size chequer hen bred from my own line of stock birds which I have
had for many years.
This hen had three previous races this year prior to Bergerac these being Exeter, Guernsey and
Messac and had flown Bordeaux in 2013. She was sitting fourteen days and paired up third
week of March with Classic Bergerac in mind.
My second bird a blue bar hen and as with the previous pigeon bred from my own family of
stock birds. The dam was 5th Section and 48
th Open Tarbes in 2013. This hen was paired up
the third week of March and sent sitting eggs for twelve days. She had three races this season
prior to Bergerac these being Exeter, Carentan and Messac.
Brian Dixon and Badger.
Steve Stokes from Wantage was the third member to time in for the North East Section to
take 4th
NE Section. Steve timed a 3 year old Mealy cock bird, who was sent with a 14 day
youngster, He was 78th
Open 6th Section NE Section CSCFC 2013 and 2
nd Club with the
Didcot and Wantage Club who also sent with the Classic.
Steve Stokes.
Convoyers Report TO FOLLOW SEPARATELY.
Telephone and website verifications which may be subject to change.
Open Mem No Flying Name Town Ring Number A-A-T Velocity
1 SE310 M/M D Waterhouse Portsmouth GB11N56303 18 55 1 961.718 2 NW174 Preece Bros & Son Abertillery WHU12N11455 7 12 35 821.210 3 NW174 Preece Bros & Son Abertillery WHU12N11477 7 42 33 799.071 4 NE508 A S Waite Whitchurch GB07N85325 6 16 45 773.281 5 SW938 A Parsons Salisbury GB13N46391 6 1 14 773.208 6 SW938 A Parsons Salisbury GB09N39878 6 15 0 762.813 7 NW106 C Howse & D Parsons Devizes GB12J03598 7 0 24 759.666 8 NW106 C Howse & D Parsons Devizes GB09N22805 7 26 59 741.240 9 NW174 Preece Bros & Son Abertillery WHU11N12110 9 49 13 717.328 10 SE1734 L Patterson Portsmouth GB13N41015 6 26 40 713.192 11 SW113 M/M M & L Rumbold Salisbury GB09N81613 7 45 12 703.802 12 SW653 B Woods Shaftesbury GB09N81432 7 57 7 692.066 13 NW278 A Hofton & Son Gloucester GB10N9451 10 28 56 691.067 14 SE159 G Wood Ventnor GB11E34048 6 28 13 687.309 15 SE620 E Rann Chillerton GB09N52579 6 53 53 677.942
16 NE396 Mr & Mrs B Dixon Milton-Under- GB11V17974 11 47 30 641.289 17 NE396 Mr & Mrs B Dixon Milton-Under- GB11V17954 11 52 37 638.880 18 NW581 M Rakes Paulton GB12X35510 10 53 31 630.592 19 NE268 S Stokes Wantage GB11S78784 11 17 11 629.304 20 SE255 G Matthews Fareham GB11N49578 9 7 32 621.348 21 SE1246 I & S Smith Eastleigh GB08X48274 9 47 4 615.011 22 NW174 Preece Bros & Son Abertillery WHU11N12105 14 7 55 593.358 23 NW165 Mr & Mrs K Davey Bristol GB10S30382 13 26 3 583.064 24 SE220 M Skidmore Havant GB12A17258 10 22 11 581.999 25 NW174 Preece Bros & Son Abertillery WHU11N12104 14 39 51 580.964 26 NW209 J Ludlam Nelson WHU11T05416 14 37 33 577.527 27 SE1015 S Waters Southampton GB10S32340 11 13 54 567.784 28 SE686 J & T Austin Portsmouth GB13P44931 11 3 54 559.717 29 SE432 T Leggatt Havant GB12V08341 11 13 38 559.379 30 SW173 M & G & M Ayles Weymouth GB10N24395 11 21 48 558.575 31 SW107 Mr & Mrs L Cowley Grimstone GB13D34889 11 50 9 557.303 32 SE54 Mr & Mrs D Graham Portsmouth GB08C80111 11 34 15 551.905 33 NW489 Janet Wilcox Bath GB09N25929 14 12 20 544.895 34 NE115 Mr & Mrs C Merrills Swindon GB12V14333 15 4 45 540.658 35 SE620 E Rann Chillerton GB12N21126 11 49 49 530.294 36 SE188 M Moon Portsmouth GB10N19773 12 57 56 517.481 37 SE686 J & T Austin Portsmouth GB13P44960 12 51 21 517.375 38 NW426 R J Rome Cheltenham SU12S6450 17 33 47 516.585 39 SE975 S A Benham Portsmouth GB13N45238 13 3 53 514.080 40 NW467 P Holley Frome GB10J21783 15 31 20 511.533 41 SW165 Corey & Roger Owers Crewkerne GB12C17258 14 46 40 509.113 42 SE360 R Pegler and Son Salisbury GB12N81305 14 24 14 507.433 43 NW5 A Gibb Gloucester GB07S68091 18 7 19 505.897 44 SW154 Harrison & Fournier Dorchester GB10N48422 14 13 3 501.749 45 SE591 K Davison Southampton GB11N32505 13 55 50 500.550 46 SW653 B Woods Shaftesbury GB06N88440 15 22 33 494.327 47 SE70 E Harris Portsmouth GB13N44815 14 47 3 481.657 48 SE686 J & T Austin Portsmouth GB13P44924 15 11 23 470.944 49 SE1363 D Johnson Southampton GB11N89326 16 37 14 456.166 50 SE50 A J Hounsell Portsmouth GB11V24694 17 24 10 436.122 51 SW110 K Land Bournemouth GB11T06999 18 24 2 424.800
Pau Blue Riband Race. Flown on Friday 20th
June 2014. Trophy, Prize and Nomination
Winners.
C Ret (SE321) – The Gordon Richards Trophy, The Major Buckingham Memorial Trophy, The Presidents
Blue Riband, The Truckline Ferries Trophy, SE Section Trophy, The C Lowe Trophy (longest flying bird on
winning day), £150 Ponderosa UK Stud voucher, a replica and a photograph of the winning pigeon.
P A Woods (SE176) – The Runner Up Trophy and replica.
A Sinclair (NW1098) – The NW Section Trophy and replica, Messrs Fear, Fear, Payne, Hunt and Robson
Trophy.
A Parsons (SW938) – SW Section Trophy and replica, The Mr Fry Trophy (winner of SW Section).
J Baden (NE248) – The M A Smith Trophy, NE Section Trophy and replica.
K & J Zerafa (SE315) – The Mr Bundy Trophy (1st yearling in to Hampshire).
G Wood (SE159) – The Frank Roome & Roy Reed Memorial Trophy (highest velocity onto the Isle of
Wight).
Mrs Janet Wilcox (NW489) – The Mr Wilcox Trophy (highest velocity into NE Somerset).
Harrison & Fournier (SW1549) – The W Bainton Trophy (highest velocity into Dorset).
T Leggatt (SE432) – The Hopper Brothers Shield (best 2 bird average) and The Speedbird Challenge Trophy
(best 3 bird average).
Lloyd & Kelly (NE573) – The Oxfordshire Trophy (best velocity in to Oxfordshire).
A Hofton & Son (NW278) – The C Churchill Trophy (best velocity in to Gloucestershire),
Our next race is the Stour Print Young Bird/Old Hens race and Breeder/Buyer from Guernsey
on Saturday 23rd
August 2014. Marking to take place Thursday 21st August.
Classic Dinner and Presentation Saturday 25th
October
In August I will be sending out tickets for the Annual Dinner to those of you that have already
paid. If you would like to order tickets, please let me know. We are limited to 150 seats so
please book early. We have a smashing weekend in Bournemouth, so why not come and let
your hair down and join us! Price per ticket is £35. Rooms can be booked at the Queens Hotel,
Meyrick Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3DL telephone 01202 554415, please mention the Classic
when booking.
Date for your diary: Annual Late Bred Sale Tuesday 23rd
September at Sarisbury Social
Club, Southampton. A chance for you to pick up a nice quality pigeon for your stock loft.
More details on birds in sale to follow.
Trophies. All trophies from 2013 must be returned to me before September 13th 2014. If you
wish to bring your cleaned trophies to the young bird marking to be passed on to me you may
do so. Thank you.
Clare Norman - 023 8057 3919 Email: [email protected]