Lisburn & District - Spence Bros Sect D Ace Loft
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:15 pm
Lisburn & District one of the major clubs in the NIPA have a strong membership competing in the Sect D which includes the hot-bed of Dromore. A top loft for as long as I can remember are Spence Bros who in 2010 achieved the Sect D Fancier of the Year. Locally in Lisburn & Dist the loft won 10 x 1sts and this in a club sending up to 750 pigeons weekly. Remember as well this club have a 35 bird limit racing inland and 25 bird limit cross channel. Most racing is done on the natural system, young birds are paired up for the longer races. Spence Bros also race a team each week in the Ulster Federation, competing with the Lagan Valley RPC in Lisburn. It takes a bit of doing operating race teams in two organisations, and with success at that. The main race team are Soontjen with a few Van Loon, and some very good direct Belgium stock among the race team which themselves have won a fair bit over the years.
The Lisburn & Dist prize presentation was held at the start of the year, the Big Club night of the year got underway with the Sect D Fanciers of the Year Spence Bros once again first to the table to collect 19 different awards including Old Bird Ave, Combined OB & YB Ave, Channel Average and Old Bird Knock-Out. Winning the NIPA Sec D Fancier of the Year was achieved with an inland and channel bird limit as a rule in the club, up against other Sec D clubs who race with open limits throughout the season. Next up was L Magee and son who raced well in the y/birds and won the YB Average amongst their awards and also a Bronze Diploma out of the French NIPA OB National. Their 2yo Black cock won 3rd Sect D & 90th Open NIPA St Malo 2009 and 10th Sect D & 149th Open NIPA St Malo in 2010. Third top was Mark Laffin and next up was Sam Briggs who topped the Sec D out of Bude in a difficult race. Other lofts to make the Top 10 in the prize list were H Browne & Son, A Hanna, A T & J Houston, C Coates, R Topping & Son, D Ferguson and W Joss. Other good results were had in the NIPA, including from France. We note A Hughes & Sons with Bronze Diploma winning 192nd Open NIPA St Malo 2009 and 6th Sect D & 77th Open NIPA St Malo in 2010. This bird was a 4yo Blue hen. Also J Waring & Son who won the Hall of Fame Diploma in the INFC also out of France. His 7yo Blue Cheq cock was placed in the Kings Cup, 24th Open in 2005, 53rd Open in 2006 and 25th Open in 2010.
For the first time this season the INFC presented Merit Awards for birds timed twice in the Kings Cup and Friendship Nat prizes. The members done INFC Secretary Trevor Topping proud by winning no less than five in the Kings Cup race, 2 each to A Hughes & Sons and J Waring & Son and one for Sammy Briggs. Again for the record the winners were. A Hughes & Sons 25th Open Vannes 2009 and 66th Open Vannes in 2010, a 5yo Blue Cheq hen. A Hughes & Sons 68th Open Vannes 2009 and 113th Open Vannes in 2010 with a 3yo Blue Cheq cock. S G Briggs 118th Open Vannes 2009 and 90th Open Vannes in 2010 with 3yo Smokey 79 Blue hen. J Waring & Son 114th Open Vannes 2006 and 196th Open Vannes in 2010 with a 7yo Blue Cheq w/f cock. J Waring & Son 53rd Open Vannes 2006 and 25th Open Vannes in 2010 with a 7yo Blue Cheq cock. In all 30 members made the prize list and a great night was had by all, well into the wee small hours .
Jackie Waring has a long list of achievements especially at the distance, winning his first Hall of Fame Diploma in 1995 racing from Rennes in France at 482 miles. All very hard races, just look at the details. 1992 – 83rd Open Kings Cup Rennes 1052/2442 on velocity 476. 1994 – 134th Open Kings Cup Rennes 1032/2420 on velocity 945. 1995 – 149th Open Kings Cup Rennes 1195/3259 on velocity 509.
Spence Bros of Lisburn & District, Brian and son Roy.
NIPA President Joe Kelly presents the NIPA Sect D Fancier of the Year
award to Spence Bros at the annual Ladies Night.
Jackie Waring holding his INFC Hall of Fame winner.
Catherine and Geoff Cooper present the Hall of Fame Diploma to
J Waring & Son at the INFC prize night.
J Waring & Son won their first Hall of Fame Diploma in 1995.
Adie Hughes collects his INFC Merit Awards
at Dunsilly Hotel from Chris Gordon.
Jackie Waring wins two INFC Merit Awards.
Sam Briggs collects the INFC Merit Award from Chris Gordon,
both are RPRA Councillors.
The Lisburn & Dist prize presentation was held at the start of the year, the Big Club night of the year got underway with the Sect D Fanciers of the Year Spence Bros once again first to the table to collect 19 different awards including Old Bird Ave, Combined OB & YB Ave, Channel Average and Old Bird Knock-Out. Winning the NIPA Sec D Fancier of the Year was achieved with an inland and channel bird limit as a rule in the club, up against other Sec D clubs who race with open limits throughout the season. Next up was L Magee and son who raced well in the y/birds and won the YB Average amongst their awards and also a Bronze Diploma out of the French NIPA OB National. Their 2yo Black cock won 3rd Sect D & 90th Open NIPA St Malo 2009 and 10th Sect D & 149th Open NIPA St Malo in 2010. Third top was Mark Laffin and next up was Sam Briggs who topped the Sec D out of Bude in a difficult race. Other lofts to make the Top 10 in the prize list were H Browne & Son, A Hanna, A T & J Houston, C Coates, R Topping & Son, D Ferguson and W Joss. Other good results were had in the NIPA, including from France. We note A Hughes & Sons with Bronze Diploma winning 192nd Open NIPA St Malo 2009 and 6th Sect D & 77th Open NIPA St Malo in 2010. This bird was a 4yo Blue hen. Also J Waring & Son who won the Hall of Fame Diploma in the INFC also out of France. His 7yo Blue Cheq cock was placed in the Kings Cup, 24th Open in 2005, 53rd Open in 2006 and 25th Open in 2010.
For the first time this season the INFC presented Merit Awards for birds timed twice in the Kings Cup and Friendship Nat prizes. The members done INFC Secretary Trevor Topping proud by winning no less than five in the Kings Cup race, 2 each to A Hughes & Sons and J Waring & Son and one for Sammy Briggs. Again for the record the winners were. A Hughes & Sons 25th Open Vannes 2009 and 66th Open Vannes in 2010, a 5yo Blue Cheq hen. A Hughes & Sons 68th Open Vannes 2009 and 113th Open Vannes in 2010 with a 3yo Blue Cheq cock. S G Briggs 118th Open Vannes 2009 and 90th Open Vannes in 2010 with 3yo Smokey 79 Blue hen. J Waring & Son 114th Open Vannes 2006 and 196th Open Vannes in 2010 with a 7yo Blue Cheq w/f cock. J Waring & Son 53rd Open Vannes 2006 and 25th Open Vannes in 2010 with a 7yo Blue Cheq cock. In all 30 members made the prize list and a great night was had by all, well into the wee small hours .
Jackie Waring has a long list of achievements especially at the distance, winning his first Hall of Fame Diploma in 1995 racing from Rennes in France at 482 miles. All very hard races, just look at the details. 1992 – 83rd Open Kings Cup Rennes 1052/2442 on velocity 476. 1994 – 134th Open Kings Cup Rennes 1032/2420 on velocity 945. 1995 – 149th Open Kings Cup Rennes 1195/3259 on velocity 509.
Spence Bros of Lisburn & District, Brian and son Roy.
NIPA President Joe Kelly presents the NIPA Sect D Fancier of the Year
award to Spence Bros at the annual Ladies Night.
Jackie Waring holding his INFC Hall of Fame winner.
Catherine and Geoff Cooper present the Hall of Fame Diploma to
J Waring & Son at the INFC prize night.
J Waring & Son won their first Hall of Fame Diploma in 1995.
Adie Hughes collects his INFC Merit Awards
at Dunsilly Hotel from Chris Gordon.
Jackie Waring wins two INFC Merit Awards.
Sam Briggs collects the INFC Merit Award from Chris Gordon,
both are RPRA Councillors.