Windsor Social 2020 -

[willie reynolds]

Windsor Social Update for 2020 – Another very good season for the local club, with members competing in both the NIPA Section A and Section B and on the top of that Coleraine Triangle. Without doubt the result of the year was in St Malo with R & J Parke finishing 2nd Open NIPA. My thanks again to Mervyn Eagleson who uses the www.pigeonnetwork.com to very good use to research the various results for me and making my work load a lot easier.

Windsor Old Birds:

08/06/20 Tullamore 13/522 Kenny Glass vel 1396, 2nd Coleraine Triangle; 13/06/20 Gowran Park 14/495 – R & J Parke 1st & 2nd vel 1226, 5th & 7th Coleraine Triangle; 20/06/20 Corrin (1) 544 birds – T Scott & Son 1st & 2nd vel 1902, 4th & 5th Coleraine Triangle; 02/07/20 Corrin (2) 16/415 – A & M Boyle vel 1344, 2nd Coleraine Triangle; 06/07/20 Skibbereen Inland National K Glass vel 1250, 8th Coleraine Triangle; 11/07/20 Talbenny 10/188 – G Donaghy Son & Grandson vel 1261, 11th Coleraine Triangle; 15/07/20 Skibbereen Yearling National 8/88 – E Christie vel 1218, 5th Coleraine Triangle; 19/07/20 Bude 8/63 - C Morrow & Son vel 1032, 5th Coleraine Triangle; 25/07/20 Fermoy Comeback 9/93 A & M Boyle vel 1429 4th Coleraine Triangle; 30/07/20 St Malo OB French National - R & J Parke 1st, 5th & 6th vel 1655 1st Coleraine Triangle, 1st Section B 68/318 2nd Open NIPA National 479/2714.

This year R & J Parke of the Windsor Social in Coleraine timed their first bird at 3.20pm in terrible weather conditions flying just short of 500 miles into Bushmills home of the famous Irish Whiskey. Details of “St Malo Queen” - This wee hen has had a few minor prize card's from a young bird to a 2 year old but was always a steady wee hen. She was raced on Roundabout up to two weeks before Talbenny when she was repaired back to her cock, she was starting to show form, and became very keen sitting tight on her eggs. I was setting her up for Penzance but I was away that day as it was last minute decision by the NIPA to go early. I missed sending that day for what was intended the Penzance race. We all know now the birds were returned from Penzance on the Friday and released in Fermoy Co Cork on Saturday. I decided to send her on to St Malo instead, she had been sitting eggs 12 days and was a lot more keen, as the days went on. She had been getting short training tosses up till 2 days before the race basketing. Her breeding is Herman Ceusters which was from gift birds we obtained from my good friends Andy & Mavis Boyle. Kind Regards R &J Parke.

Windsor Young Birds:

08/08/20 Mullingar Area Lib (1) 9/437 – Robert Montgomery 1st, 2nd & 3rd vel 1346, 8th & 9th Open NIPA 111/4025; 15/08/20 Mullingar Area Lib (2) 16/515 – R Gage vel 1298, 4th Coleraine Triangle & 4th Open NIPA 121/3876; 23/08/20 Roscrea 16/345 – K Glass 1st, 2nd & 3rd vel 1621, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Coleraine Triangle; 29/08/20 Gowran Park 8/222 – R & J Parke vel 1201, 1st Coleraine Triangle; 06/09/20 Fermoy (1) 4/109 – Kenny Glass 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th vel 1226, 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th Coleraine Triangle; 12/09/20 Talbenny YB National 3/14 – R & J Parke vel 1254, 1st Coleraine Triangle. Today's winner is a direct daughter down off the St Malo Queen hen that was 1st section B and 2nd Open NIPA from St Malo this year. The Talbenny bird was timed at 13.44hrs flying 245 miles; 12/09/20 Tullamore Comeback 3/64 – Kenny Glass vel 1864, 1st Coleraine Triangle.

19/09/20 Fermoy (2) 3/68 K Glass 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th club vel 1210 1st, 2nd & 3rd Coleraine Triangle. Kenny's winning blue w/f hen was 1st Club, 1st Coleraine Triangle, 1st Sect B and 56th Open NIPA. She is off Kenny's good blue cock which has been 5th Open,7th Open NIPA. He is off Karl Murphy's NCC hotspot 6 winner 2012 and a daughter of the Armstrong hen. The dam of the Section winner has also won the Section herself; 19/09/20 Fermoy 5 Bird K Glass vel 1040 1st, 2nd & 3rd Coleraine Triangle, 3rd Section B.

2020 race wins and points in Windsor Social - 1st Kenny Glass 6 wins, 66 points; 2nd R & J (Jason) Parke 4wins, 37 points; 3rd Trevor Scott 1win, 18 points; 4th Andy Boyle 2 wins, 15 points; 5th Robert Montgomery 1win, 13 points; 6th Rudi Gage 1win, 11 points; 7th Cliff Morrow & Son 1 win, 7 points; 8th. Ernie Christy 1 win, 6 points; 9th Winky Donaghy 1win, 4 points.

2020 Cross Channel Average: 1st. C Cliff Morrow 7 points; 2nd R & J (Jason) Parke 6 points; 3rd R Gage 5 points; 4th G Donaghy and son 4 points; 5th Robert Montgomery 3 points. Well done to Cliff Morrow winner of the Cross Channel average.

Young Birds season 2020: 1st Kenny Glass 44 points; 2nd R & J (Jason) Parke 11 points; 3rd. Trevor Scott 11 points; 4th. Robert Montgomery 9 points; 5th. R Gage 4 points. Well down Kenny Glass.

Inland Average Od Bird 2020: 1st. K Kenny Glass 22points; 2nd. R & J (Jason) Parke 20 points; 3rd. Andy Boyle. 12 points; 4th. Trevor Scott 7 points; 5th. E Ernie Christy 6 points. Well done Kenny Glass winning OB Inland Average 2020.