Corrin YB & 5 Bird Champ - Sat 22/08/26

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Mid Antrim Combine - NIPA Corrin & Corrin 5 Bird 22/08/26 –

The young bird season continued with the Corrin and Corrin 5 Bird races on Saturday 22nd August. The birds were liberated in County Cork at 9.00am in north north -westerly winds and the race like the previous week again turned out pretty tough. The popular Ballymena & District fancier Bertie Blair timed a flyer into the Ballymena town to win by 11 clear minutes and also won 1st in the Mid Antrim Combine by 6 minutes. Bertie timed at 13.49pm flying almost 208 miles to his Chichester Park lofts. The winning red cock was also the first to the loft last week from Fermoy. The sticker Doncker granddam on the sire's side was on loan a couple of seasons ago from Anthony McNeill of Randalstown. The Sticker Doncker dam was purchased from D C & P McArdle of Armagh and is a full sister to their Nipa Skibbereen young bird National winner of 2021. This hen also bred Bertie a Combine winner from Dunmanway YB National in 2024. The Cullybackey winner Gary Gibson had the next two birds in the Combine timing at 13.54pm. Gary's first bird is off a son his Golden Couple and a Leo Heremans hen from Derek Parr being a daughter of his No1 hen. Second bird timed was off another son of the Golden Couple and his granddaughter of Venus kbdb national ace of Stefan lambrecht. Joshua Whyte topped Ahoghill and finished 4th Combine followed by the Kells & District winner Johnny Barkley for 5th Combine. The sire of Johnny's winner was Emiel Dillen from Jason bones and the dam is a daughter of 'Samuel James' which won 1st Open Penzance for L O'Neill of Larne. Other winners included Marc Neilly in Broughshane. The sire Van Den Brande from Bertie Blair and dam was bought at N Ferguson bereavement sale and has D Parr's Mr & Mrs kingpin lines. Freddie Barkley was best in Rasharkin and Anthony McNeill timed the winner in Randalstown.

Mid Antrin Combine Corrin 27/426 - 1st Blair & Rankin Ballymena 1264, 2nd G Gibson Cullybackey 1236, 3rd G Gibson Cullybackey 1235, 4th J Whyte Ahoghill 1222, 5th A Barkley & Son Kells 1219, 6th M Graham Ahoghill 1219, 7th D Dixon Rasharkin 1218, 8th Rock & Moore Cullybackey 1218, 9th T Johnston & Son Ballymena 1214, 10th M Graham Ahoghill 1213, 11th G Gibson Cullybackey 1209, 12th A Barkley & Son Kells 1210, 13th G Gibson Cullybackey 1209, 14th D Dixon Rasharkin 1205, 15th M Neilly Broughshane 1202, 16th A Darragh Cullybackey 1199, 17th G Gibson Cullybackey 1193, 18th D Dixon Rasharkin 1192, 19th D Dixon Rasharkin 1191, 20th D Dixon Rasharkin 1189, 21st G Gibson Cullybackey 1188, 22nd Ethan Johnston Ballymena 1186, 23rd J Smyth & Son Ahoghill 1186, 24th T Johnston & Son Ballymena 1186, 25th Rock & Moore Cullybackey 1184, 26th G Gibson Cullybackey 1183, 27th A Darragh Cullybackey 1182, 28th Blair & Rankin Ballymena 1182, 29th Ethan Johnston Ballymena 1177, 30th G Gibson Cullybackey 1176.

MID ANTRIM COMBINE 2 BIRD - CORRIN
1st Rock & Moore Cullybackey 1218 GB26C07215
2nd T Johnston & Son Ballymena 1214 GB26B28308
MID ANTRIM COMBINE YOUNG BIRD KNOCK-OUT CORRIN 22/08/26
(winners in capitals)
K & K Kernohan & Sons 1172 v BLAIR & RANKIN 1264
H Turkington 1151 v T JOHNSTON & SON 1214.

MID ANTRIM COMBINE CORRIN 5 BIRD CHAMPIONSHIP
The duplicated 5 bird event was won by young Joshua Whyte of Ahoghill who timed his blue cock at 13.58pm flying 207 miles to win 1st Mid Antrim Combine on 1222. His winner is a grandson of his dad Trevor's 1st NIPA Open winner a few years back and the dam was bred by Gary Gibson. All seven club winners made the Combine top twenty in the event.

Mid Antrim Combine Corrin 5 Bird Championship - 1st Joshua Whyte Ahoghill 1222, 2nd A Barkley & Son Kells 1219, 3rd Rock & Moore Cullybackey 1218, 4th T Johnston & Son Ballymena 1214, 5th M Graham Ahoghill 1213, 6th G Gibson Cullybackey 1211, 7th A Barkley & Son Kells 1210, 8th M Neilly Broughshane 1202, 9th G Gibson Cullybackey 1193, 10th G Gibson Cullybackey 1188, 11th T Johnston & Son Ballymena 1186, 12th F Barkley Rasharkin 1168, 13th A Barkley & Son Kells 1166, 14th J McNeill & Son Randalstown 1162, 15th K & K Kernohan & Sons Ballymena 1158, 16th T & M Morrow Broughshane 1157, 17th Ethan Johnston Ballymena 1149, 18th G Gibson Cullybackey 1147, 19th Ethan Johnston Ballymena 1147, 20th D Dixon Rasharkin 1143, 21st Rock & Moore Cullybackey 1142.

MID ANTRIM COMBINE YOUNG BIRD POINTS (Corrin & Corrin 5 Bird 22/08/26)
K & K Kernohan & Sons Ballymena 205, T Johnston & Son Ballymena 190, G Gibson Cullybackey 166, M Neilly Broughshane 126, Blair & Rankin Ballymena 119.

YOUNG BIRD CLUB POINTS SHIELD (Corrin & Corrin 5 Bird)
Ballymena 44, Cullybackey 35, Kells 32, Ahoghill 28, Broughshane 23, Rasharkin 23, Randalstown 11 Mervyn Eagleson - MAC Race Secretary and MAC Press Officer.

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Bertie Bair 1st MAC Corrin

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Joshua Whyte 1st MAC 5B Corrin