Tullamore (1) - 09/04/11

[willie reynolds]

Last Saturday 9th April the birds were in Tullamore County Offaly for the first of the old birds races. With a strong south east wind the top end of the country would dominate the Section and Open positions racing with the NIPA. News filtered through that the strings were cut and the birds were in the sky at 12.30pm. A fast race was expected with the winners expected to do 60mph in the helping winds.

The best local bird and provisional Section B leader looks like going to the Bushmills loft of Kenny Glass of the Windsor Social doing well over 1700ypm and a great start to the old bird season. Kenny has won the section for the further flying lofts in Section B from Tullamore like last season when the loft of Danny Dixon done the same. Kenny not only wins the club and provisional section win but also fancied this yearling cock on winning club pools. The breeding of this winner is Harry Hearn crossed with Jim Gibbon Bloodlines.

What a brilliant card Jimmy Hanson of the Coleraine Premier had taking the first five places in the club and taking very good section B positions. Jimmy timed one of his good hens that had previously won the Rosscarbery YB National, being one of his Wildy family. Must congratulate Danny Dixon on his predictions that Jimmy would be the loft to beat on Saturday. I’d say Danny will know doubt be onto jimmy looking for a tip to get off the mark for the season.

Now onto a loft that needs know introduction and that is the loft of none other than Leslie "The Kingpin" Madden with a cracking race team performance with his crack team of lightening fast Lambrects. Leslie looks like being the winner of another 1st section win racing within Section A. With a top velocity of 1691 this looks good enough for top honours. This loft will be hard to beat if he gets the drive again to put the work into the birds and know doubt with Mr Hanson doing his usual winding The Kingpin will give him his fill of it. Congrates Les on a top perfomance. Lynne says she cant wait for this special pair of Lambrects you have in the nest for her.

Over in the County Derry the winner here is none other that Terrence McCrudden with a velocity of 1670 and 1646 for a good 1-2 with the winner being one of his Marrita Vink pigeons sourced at great expense. This 2yr old cock was racing to eggs and was a previous winner of 30th open Fermoy last year as a yearling.

In the big Ballymoney club it was a good start to the season for the loft of A& R McAuley with a winning velocity of 1689ypm for what looks like 2nd section A. Andy seems to be making this race point his own as last year he won the club in this race also. This years winner was a yearling mealy hen.

Around the Triangle

1. Kenny Glass 1731ypm

2.Jimmy Hanson 1724 ypm

3.Jimmy Hanson 1723 ypm

4.Jimmy Hanson 1694 ypm

5.Jimmy Hanson 1694 ypm

6.Jimmy Hanson 1693 ypm

7. Leslie Madden 1691 ypm

8. A & R McAuley 1689 ypm

9. A & R McAuley 1683 ypm

10.Leslie Madden 1683 ypm

Over in Limavady it was a win for the loft of Ronnie Witherow with a velocity of 1609ypm for this Section A west Fancier of the Year 2010.

In closing id like to congratulate my good mate the flying postman Karl Murphy on winning the Big strong Coalisland & District with one of his super family of Soontens that have over 15x1st Section wins to their credit this is a great start to back to back section fancier of the year 2009 and 2010 and will be one of the dominant lofts to watch for as the season progresses. Good to see Stevie Marshall getting his act together in winning Cookstown Social, no doubt the smugger will be looking to get a win shortly to back up all of his talking in the closed season. Well that’s it for now a few photos will be updated shortly.

NIPA Sect A Clubs

Coalisland 15/343 – Karl Murphy 1659, W Bleeks & Son 1654, Gerry Quinn 1636, Sean Hughes 1626.

Coleraine Premier 13/265 – Hanson & Harpur 1724, 1723, 1694, 1694, 1693, J L Madden 1691, 1683, 1681, 1679, T & J McDonald 1668. What a result for Jimmy Hanson, special training get him the Top 5 places.

Coleraine & County Derry 9/180 – T McCrudden 1670, 1646, A & C McCorriston 1606, K Macauley 1602.

Cookstown Social 7/183 – S Marshall 1638, J McCormick 1635, S Marshall 1616, J McCormick 1606.

Castledawson 6/78 – T Leacock & Son 1606, 1589, M Lynn 1582, T Leacock & Son 1581, 1555, S K Watson 1554.

Windsor Social 9/180 – K Glass 1731, R McCann 1657, R & J Parke 1657, 1656, 1655, K Glass 1647, R McCann 1646, K Glass 1643, Horner & Scott 1641, 1641. Kenny starts the season with a super winner the yearling cock also collects the pools. Breeding is Harry Hearn/Gibbon crossed. Sect B lofts had a good race.

NIPA Sect H Clubs

Limavady 3/61 – R Witherow 1608, 1605, W McIlmoyle 1593, R Witherow 1569, W McIlmoyle 1548, R Witherow 1543.

Enjoy your racing, Bannsider.