Ballymoney & Coleraine Season 2019 -

[willie reynolds]

Ballymoney & Coleraine -

The two big clubs north of Mid Antrim are Ballymoney HPS who have most members competing in Sect B while further north we have the big Coleraine Premier HPS where most members compete in Sect A. Prizes were well shared in Coleraine Premier HPS and the major result was D Coyle & Son topping the NIPA in the old bird Roscrea. In Ballymoney the prizes in the old birds well were shared although in the young birds Danny Dixon dominated winning 1st & 2nd Club in most events including the Nationals from Talbenny and Skibbereen. The big distance results were for Andy Wilson having the only bird in the St Malo OB Nat recording velocity 638 and finishing 1st Blub, 5th Sect B & 30th Open NIPA 373/1351. James Walker had a fantastic Kings Cup with two good birds including one on the day flying 523 miles and winning the Robin Duddy Extreme Distance Trophy which was won by club-mate Robbie Elliott the season previous. Let me list the Ballymoney HPS results first.

Old Birds 2019: 13/04 Mullingar 13/326 L Neill vel 1674, 20/04 Tullamore 19/613 J Hutchinson & Son vel 1587 and D Dixon vel 1581 finished 1st & 2nd in Sect B 112/3083, 28/04 Roscrea 22/726 J McDowell & Sons vel 1473, 04/05 Gowran Park 23/658 D Dixon 1st & 2nd vel 1250, 11/05 Fermoy (1) 25/822 D & H Stuart vel 1292, 18/05 Corrin 23/622 J Connolly vel 1158, 25/05 Barleycove Nat D Devenney vel 1449 1st Coleraine Centre & 3rd Sect B, 02/06 Gowran Park (2) 13/420 D & H Stuart vel 2075, 07/06 Fermoy (3) 18/359 L Neill vel 1684, 07/06 Fermoy 5 Bird Championship 4/20 D Devenney vel 1649, 9/06 Talbenny 19/245 D Dixon vel 1550 3rd Sect B & 8th Open NIPA 588/7854, 15/06 Castletown Yearling Nat D Devenney 1st & 2nd vel 1457, 15/06 Bude 15/127 D Devenney vel 1367, 22/06 Penzance 19/220 J Hutchinson & Son vel 1534, Penzance Classic 12/112 J Hutchinson & Son vel 1534, 26/06 Fermoy (4) 18/311 L Neill vel 1605 3rd Sect A & 10th Open NIPA 378/5218, J Hutchinson & Son and D Devenney 2nd and 3rd Sect B, St Malo OB National (France) Andy Wilson vel 638 5th Sect B & 30th Open NIPA 373/1351 and best in Coleraine Centre. Kings Cup Grand National St Allouestre (France) James Walker 1st & 2nd vel 995 & 533 winning 18th & 109th Open INFC 605/2478.

Young Birds 2019: 20/07 Area Lib (1) Mullingar 9/237 D Dixon 1st & 2nd vel 1315, 27/07 Area Lib (2) Tullamore 15/545 D Dixon 1st & 2nd vel 1422, 2/08 Area Lib (3) Tullamore 14/447 D Dixon 1st & 2nd vel 1430 plus 4th & 5th Open NIPA, 11/08 Gowran Park 20/618 D Dixon 1st & 2nd vel 1270, 17/08 Fermoy (1) 11/275 D Dixon 1st & 2nd vel 1987, 25/08 Fermoy (2) D Dixon 1st & 2nd vel 1479, 31/08 Roscrea Comeback 6/195 D Dixon 1st & 2nd vel 1458, 2/09 Talbenny Nat 9/71 D Dixon 1st & 2nd vel 1317, 7/09 Corrin 7/88 D Dixon 1st & 2nd vel 1175 plus 3rd Sect B 36/565, Corrin 5 Bird Championship D Dixon vel 1175 plus 1st Coleraine Centre and 1st Sect B 33/148, 14/09 Skibbereen Nat 5/88 D Dixon 1st & 2nd vel 1901 plus 1st & 2nd in Coleraine Centre.

Coleraine Premier HPS season of many winners including Rab Montgomery winning the opener. Old Birds 2019: 13/04 Mullingar 16/429 R Montgomery vel 1728, J L Madden vel 1714 and D Coyle & Son vel 1710 finishing 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sect A 40/1108 and for good measure T & J McDonald vel 1698 finished 1st Sect B 82/1930. 20/04 Tullamore 16/429 J Hanson 1st & 2nd vel 1581 plus 1st & 2nd Sect A 60/1245, 28/04 Roscrea D Coyle & son vel vel 1540, Bond & Diamond vel 1537 and J L Madden finishing 1st, 2nd & 3rd Sect A plus 1st & 2nd Open NIP{A 702/18,761, 4/05 Gowran Park 15/403 D Coyle & Son vel 1268, 11/05 Fermoy (1) 17/534 D Coyle & Son vel 1276, 18/05 Corrin 18/452 Diamond Bros & G McLauhghlin vel 1148, 25/05 Barleycove Nat Bond & Diamond vel 1380 plus 3rd Sect A 29/265, 25/05 Fermoy (2) 17/335 D Coyle & Son vel 1539, 2/06 Gowran Park (2) 14/291 Bond & Diamond vel 2068, Bond & Diamond and J L Madden finished 1st, 2nd & 3rd Sect A 40/823, 7/06 Fermoy (3) 16/237 Bond & Diamond vel 1710 and L Hanson & Son finished 1st & 2nd in Sect A 40/624 plus T & J McDonald finished 3rd Sect B 75/1191, 7/06 Fermoy 5 Bird Championship A McDonnell vel 1694, J Hanson and Bond & Diamond 1st, 2nd & 3rd in Coleraine Centre, 09/06 Talbenny 16/148 J Hanson vel 1527, D Coyle & Son, D Coyle & Son 1st, 2nd & 3rd Sect A 60/629, 15/06 Castletown Yearling Nat Bond & Diamond vel 1465, M/M McSeveney and Bond & Diamond 1st, 2nd & 3rd Coleraine Centre, 15/06 Bude Paul O’Connor vel 1399, 22/06 Penzance Diamond Bros & G McLaughlin vel 1591, J Hanson, J Hanson finished 1st, 2nd & 3rd Sect A 50/428 and 8th, 11th & 18th Open NIPA 555/5913. In the Penzance Classic same three birds 1st, 2nd and 3rd in Coleraine Centre, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Sect A 31/320 and 4th, 6th & 12th Open NIPA 276/2719. 26/06 Fermoy (4) J Hanson vel 1610 finished 2nd Sect A 31/425 and finally only one arrival from St Malo to the former Kings Cup winner Anthony McDonnell doing velocity 623 and finishing 5th Sect A and 33rd Open NIPA 373/1351.

Young Birds 2019: 20/07 Area Lib (1) 14/465 Bond & Diamond vel 1262, 27/07 Area Lib (2) Tullamore A McDonnell vel 1367, 2/08 Area Lib (3) Tullamore 14/467 J L Madden 1st & 2nd vel 1449, 1448 winning 1st & 2nd Open NIPA 227/6250, 13/08 Gowran Park 13/382 Bond & Diamond vel 1255 3rd Sect A 108/30, 17/08 Fermoy (1) 12/348 T & J McDonald vel 1941, 25/08 Fermoy (2) 11/302 Diamond Bros & G McLaughlin vel 14221st Sect A 34/765, 31/08 Roscrea Comeback 9/158 J Hanson vel 1471, 2/09 Talbenny Nat 9/53 D Coyle & Son vel 1421, Bond & Diamond vel 1327 winning 1st & 2nd Sect A 23/152, 7/09 and T & J McDonald vel 1352 was 2nd Coleraine Centre, Corrin D Coyle & Son vel 1083 and same bird in Corrin 5 Bird Championship finished 2nd in Sect A 11/52, Skibbereen Nat D Coyle & Son 1st & 2nd vel 1897 plus 2nd Sect A 13/138.

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Dark Pied (h) winner of 1st Club & 18th Open INFC Kings Cup St Allouestre
and the INFC Duddy Extreme Distance Trophy for James Walker of Ballymoney.


Andy Wilson had the only bird into Ballymoney from St Malo Old Bird National.


Lynn Neill won three old bird races plus 10th Open from Fermoy.


Davy Devenney winner 5 races in Ballymoney and 1st Coleraine Centre from Barleycove Nat.


Danny Dixon won 11 x 1sts in Ballymoney Young Birds including Talbenny & Skibb Nationals.


Red Lighting winner of 3 x 1st MAC for Danny Dixon and MAC Young Bird of the Year.


W & L McCaw won 1st, 2nd & 3rd Club Lamballe Friendship Nat 2018.


R J Elliott won the Duddy Extreme Distance Trophy in the Kings Cup 2018.


Danny Coyle & Son with the vast array of awards won in 2019.


Winner of 1st Open NIPA Roscrea for D Coyle & Son, Coleraine Prem.


Diamond Bros & G McLaughlin of Coleraine Prem won Sect A Meritorious Award.


The Mullingar Sect & Open winner for Rab Montgomery of Coleraine Prem.


Top prize-winner in Coleraine Premier Jimmy Hanson.


Anthony McDonnell had the only bird into Coleraine from St Malo.


Coleraine Secretary J L Madden collects the Tullamore Diploma at Ladies Night.


Rab Montgomery from Coleraine collects the Mullingar Diploma at Ladies Night.


The Bude winner for Paul O’Connor, 1st Comb, 7th Sect A bred by R Bell & Sons.


Winner 1st Club, 1st Section A, 1st Coleraine Centre & 20th Open
Y/B National Talbenny for D Coyle & son Portrush.

[willie reynolds]

Ballymoney Update – I recently covered the results of Ballymoney HPS listing the wins in the NIPA season of 2019, although I did miss looking at the INFC season other than the Kings Cup when James Walker timed two excellent birds, one on the day at 523 miles. Ballymoney are one of very few clubs that produce a result for the entire season races and I do my best to feature as many as possible as most already know. Firstly I have some very sad news to report the passing of Mrs Gloria McMullan the wife of long time Secretary Derek McMullan at the family home in Dervock. She had been in ill health for a while and we extend condolences to the family circle at this very sad time. Donations in lieu of flowers if desired to Macmillan Cancer Support on line at mcmullanfunerals.com or by post to James McMullan & Son, 22 High Street, Ballymoney, BT53 6AQ.

The Irish Nat season started as usual with Skibbereen old birds 6/53 and Danny Dixon top four with winning velocity 1257. The well supported Yearling Nat was next Sennen Cove 13/98 and winning the club for the second time former National winners J McDowell & Sons velocity 1340. The Grand Nat Kings Cup flown from Saint Allouestre 8/47 I have already covered James Walker 1st & 2nd with a day arrival at 9.25pm recording velocity 995 and winning the Robin Duddy Distance Trophy at the INFC. The Friendship National was again flown from Lamballe 6/27 and W & L McCaw follow up the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Club of 2018 timing their second bird again in 2019 only bird in club to win 1st Club, 32nd North Section & 45th Open INFC Lamballe and a Merit Award.

In the young birds Skibbereen was flown first Danny Dixon having a fantastic young bird season had won all races to date and in this one had the top six birds with the winner recording velocity 1597. One of the top results of the year was in the final Grand Nat from Penzance 4/34 the Dixon loft put up a big result but was pipped at the post by D & H Stuart who are very consistent racers and win every year, in Ballymoney HPS they loft the cup for the loft with the highest position won over the year, well done Darwin.

4th North Section, 5th Open D & H Stuart, Ballymoney HPS, vel 1324 flying 346 miles, winning £130
D & H Stuart are very consistent racers in the big Ballymoney HPS, with the quality of the membership it’s hard to lift the Red Card. The loft timed a very early bird into their lofts in Dervock at 15.40hrs and just finished part of a yard behind M/M McNeilly in the Muckamore Centre. The pigeon timed is a Cheq Pied hen and it had 4 races down Ireland and was the lofts first bird clocked from Talbenny on the Monday winning 4th Club, previous best performance in this race was 3rd Open in 2013. Sire is Van Wildermeersch x Soontjen. Dam is Soontjen and is a half-sister of the lofts 2nd Open Bude in the NIPA. Feeding is Versele Laga and Beattie’s.

6th North Section, 7th Open Danny Dixon, Ballymoney HPS, vel 1309 flying 339 miles, winning 994
Triple National winner Danny Dixon of Rasharkin. This is a fancier who needs no introduction to the fancy, always thereabouts in the major races and has amassed many top ten finishes in derby and national events including 3 x 1st Open National wins. The first of these was the INFC Skibbereen YB National in 1998 followed by a NIPA Rosscarbery YB National in 2006 and then the INFC Penzance YB National in 2010. Other big results include 2nd Open NIPA Old Bird Derby from St. Malo and 2nd Open NIPA Penzance OB Classic. Danny had a fantastic Penzance race timing 7 of his 14 entries in just half an hour. Positions taken were 7th, 14th, 35th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd and 59th Open. The first bird timed at 15:36 hrs was a blue hen that had been slipped a youngster before basketing. The sire of this hen is Danny's ace stock bird "Belgie Cock" This Wildemeersch cock is a great grandson of the famous "De Beer" He is sire of Ryan Barr's North Coast Classic winner, G/Sire of D Coyles Section A Talbenny YB National and G/Sire of J McDowell & Sons of Ballymoney NIPA Talbenny YB National winner. The dam of the 7th Open hen was purchased at a sale last year for Martin Graham of Ballymena and is a daughter of "The Big Hen" Danny's second bird timed at 15.38hrs was a blue chequer cock, breeding is De Rauw-Sablon x Joss Josson. Thanks to PO Mervyn Eagleson for this detailed report.


Darwin Stuart holding his Ballymoney HPS winner, 5th Open INFC Penzance.


Danny Dixon from Ballymoney, holding his winner of 7th Open, also 1st in MAC Penzance.


Winner 1st Club, 8th North Sect & 15th Open INFC Lamballe 2018.


Winner 2nd Club, 21st North Sect & 31st Open INFC Lamballe 2018, 1st Club,
32nd North Sect & 45th Open INFC Lamballe 2019 and Merit Award.


Winner 3rd Club, 52nd North Sect & 64th Open INFC Lamballe 2018.




“Red Lighting” the YB Skibbereen winner for Danny Dixon also 1st MAC.


J McDowell & Sons when winning the Talbenny YB National.