Harryville HPS Awards 2018 season –
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:43 pm
Harryville HPS Awards 2018 season –
Old Hand Roy Clements as usual has supplied me with the list of club winners in the 2018 season, last season we had a dead heat for Highest Prize-winner worked out on points, R H Clements and Jimmy Rock. No such problems in 2018 with Roy Clements the clear winner, with 8 x 1sts. The Top 10 winners were: R H Clements, Allen McBride, Jimmy Rock, Lexi Mullan, K & K Kernohan, J Millar & Son, M & D & C Magill, George Price, W & D Rodgers and S Johnston & Son.
The various race winners were starting with the Old Birds. Tullamore 10/258 L Mullan vel 1789, Gowran Park R H Clements vel 1340, Fermoy 10/309 A McBride vel 1820, Gowran Park 12/371 A McBride vel 1665, Rosscarbery Nat 9/78 R H Clements vel 1874, on the same day Corrin 8/259 A McBride vel 1886, Fermoy 9/198 J Rock 1st & 2nd vel 1136, Talbenny (1) 7/130 J Rock vel 1523 (1st Sect B), Talbenny (2) 9/87 J Rock 1st & 2nd vel 1237, on the same day Fermoy 5 Bird 6/30 R H Clements 1st & 2nd vel 1410 (8th & 9th C/B Centre), Dunmanway 8/104 J Rock vel 1785 (2nd Sect B), on the same weekend the Ylr Nats NIPA, Ylr Cocks 5/50 L Mullan vel 1613 (1st C/B Centre & 1st Sect B), Ylr Hens 5/50 A McBride vel 1602 (3rd C/B Centre), Penzance 8/60 M D C Magill vel 1197, OB Classic M D C Magill vel 1197 (4th C/B Centre). On the same weekend Fermoy 7/101 J Rock vel 1480.
Young Birds 2018 started with two Area Liberations and with the second one put back a week due to severe weather the remainder of the programme continued to run a week late with the final YB Nationals for NIPA and INFC flown on the same weekend in late September. Mullingar (1) 7/164 A McBride vel 1198, Mullingar (2) K & K Kernohan 1st & 2nd vel 1363 (6th & 7th Open), Tullamore Mass Lib 11/276 R H Clements vel 1471, Gowran Park 9/191 R H Clements 1st, 2nd & 3rd vel 1790, the next week win with the same bird the top seven in the club Fermoy 10/218 vel 1386, Fermoy (2) 10/210 J Millar & Son vel 1448, Talbenny Nat the first four on the day in a hard race R H Clements vel 1265 (2nd, 3rd, 7th & 9th C/B Centre and 2nd & 7th Sect B), on the same day Roscrea 7/119 L Mullan vel 1663, Dumnanway 6/52 R H Clements vel 1778 (3rd Sect B), Dunmanway 5 Bird 6/29 R H Clements vel 1778 (2nd C/B Centre), Rosscarbery Nat 4/27 A McBride vel 1083 (2nd & 3rd C/B Centre and 5th & 6th Sect B).
In the NIPA Race programme that worked out at R H Clements 8 x 1sts, A McBride 6 x 1sts, J Rock 5 x 1sts, L Mullan 3 x 1sts, K & K Kernohan 1 x 1sts, J Millar & Son 1 x 1sts, and M D C Magill 1 x 1sts.
Not a lot of info for the INFC but I have the following. In the Yearling Nat flown from Sennen Cove the overall race winner was Martin Graham of Ballymena & District, best in Harryville were Allen McBride vel 1294 and W & D Rodgers vel 1242.
Cups and trophies were won as follows, most going to R H Clements who collected – Highest Prize-winner, Best Ave first three cross channel races, Best Individual Bird, OB Cross Channel Ave, Most Points Derby Races, Young Bird Ave, Best Ave YB Talbenny & Rosscarbery, Best Ave Fermoy (1) & (2), Best Ave Penzance OB and Talbenny YB, Best Ave first three YB Races, Most Points Derbies & Nationals. Allen McBride won – OB Inland Average, Lowest Winning Velocity, Best Ave first OB & YB Races. Jimmy Rock won – Best Ave Talbenny & Dunmanway. Lexi Mullan won – Best Ave Comeback Races.
Details of the major YB Nationals Talbenny and Rosscarbery. Harryville HPS 9/51 – R H Clements 1265, 1079, 986, 951, W & D Rodgers 716, 586. Roy Clements who has had a fantastic young bird season had the Card of the Day from Talbenny, the loft had the first four birds home. Winner timed at 14.39hrs as a Black cock containing the best of his distance birds, recording velocity 1265 for the 218 miles. Sire is a half-brother to his Van Hee bird winner of 2nd Open Kings Cup Rennes while the dam was inbred to his Tommy Beckett birds.
Harryville HPS 4/27 – A McBride 1083, 1081, K & K Kernohan 1013, R H Clements 995, K & K Kernohan 993, 977. Allen McBride had the top result in the hard final race from Rosscarbery, he had two birds almost together at 16.12hrs with the winner doing velocity 1083. The sire won 16th Open Talbenny and 33rd Open in the Yearling Nat while the dam won Talbenny, a g/dtr of Jimmy Rock’s Talbenny Nat winner Rockies Boy.
The first ever Seven Towers Champion Loft winner was R H Clements of Harryville, if you look the results weekly you will not be surprised by this as Roy always featured, Roy had 3x1sts, 3x2nds, and various other top positions. Roy also timed 4 on the night from Talbenny which turned out a difficult race, only beat by Surgenor Bros as mentioned won 1st Open NIPA. The Top 5 in the Champion Loft are as follows: 1. RH Clements Harryville, 2. Surgenor Bros Kells, 3. K & K Kernohan Harryville, 4. A Darragh Cullybackey, 5. A McBride Harryville.
We then turn to the first ever Ace Young Bird. The winner of ace young bird was K & K Kernohan ofHarryville. This pigeon was timed in Roscrea, Dunmanway, 5 Bird, and Rosscarbery. The breeding of the hen is from the top winning lines of Luc Vermeerburgen and a hen from Gerald Delaney. Keith also had a good year of racing, as seen previous he won 3rd in the Champion Lofts, this hen played her part in that 3rd place finish. It was a tight finish for the ace young bird as R H Clements also had a strong claim further cementing that he had a fantastic season of racing. It was all down to the head to head to separate the two young birds with K & K coming out on top 4-3, this showed just how competitive it is in th Points (wins 4-3 on head to head), 1. K & K Kernohan Harryville – 65 Points, 2. R H Clements Harryville – 63 Points, 3. Surgenor Bros Kells – 58 Points, 4. RH Clements Harryville – 38 Points, 5. G Gibson Cullybackey - 36 Points.
Club officials are now Matt Wray a very long time member assisted by George Price who is Chairman. Address for the Secretary on Moat Road is the same as when my brother was Secretary for a short time in the early 70’s before heading to Florida in the USA. We started racing in the young bird season of 1971 with 13 youngsters and cut down to 12 when a bird hit wires and had to be put down. The programme was completed and with winning prizes in both Haverford I think it was then and Skibbereen we won the YB Ave. The next season with a small team we scored in most of the cross channel events and timed a bird early on the second morning to finish 36th Open Dinard enough to win the OB Average. Only remember reading that recently, never thought much about that at the time.
The Irish Region (RPRA) Annual General Meeting will take place in the Templeton Hotel in Templepatrick on Saturday 2nd February at 1.00pm sharp. If any member wishes to be on the Irish Nat FC Committee please attend the RPRA (Irish Region) meeting to be nominated.
Section B Meeting in Ballymena –
NIPA Chairman Ken Wilkinson called a Sect B meeting which was held in Ballymena & District HPS Clubrooms, Fountain Place Ballymena on Wednesday 30th January 2019.The RPRA (Irish Region) AGM will be held on Saturday 2nd February and the NIPA Annual meeting will be held in Glenavy on Saturday 9th February. The Annual General Meeting of INFC will be held on Saturday 2nd March 2019 at 2.00pm in the Lagan Valley Leisure-plex, Governor’s Road, Lisburn BT28 1LP.
The Agenda for the meeting will be published later, with a loss on revenue in the last season the joining fees have increased by £5, the birdage for the Friendship Nat will increase by £1 per bird and this will enhance the prizes for this race. Voting on various race points should ensure a full attendance as it usually does when changes are proposed.
Photo Captions
Roy Clements of Harryville, Highest Prize-winner 2018 with 8 x 1sts and Champion Loft in Seven Towers (Ballymena).
Harryville race winners in 2018, from (l) Jimmy Rock won both Talbenny OB races, Lexi Mullan winner Ylr Cocks and Allen McBride who won 6 x 1sts and OB Inland Ave.
Keith & Ken Kernohan won the YB Area Liberation from Mullingar.
The Magill Family, Monty, Daniel and Connor had the best bird in Penzance.
Report Ballymena Times 2001.
Photo Courtesy Ballymena Guardian
Old Hand Roy Clements as usual has supplied me with the list of club winners in the 2018 season, last season we had a dead heat for Highest Prize-winner worked out on points, R H Clements and Jimmy Rock. No such problems in 2018 with Roy Clements the clear winner, with 8 x 1sts. The Top 10 winners were: R H Clements, Allen McBride, Jimmy Rock, Lexi Mullan, K & K Kernohan, J Millar & Son, M & D & C Magill, George Price, W & D Rodgers and S Johnston & Son.
The various race winners were starting with the Old Birds. Tullamore 10/258 L Mullan vel 1789, Gowran Park R H Clements vel 1340, Fermoy 10/309 A McBride vel 1820, Gowran Park 12/371 A McBride vel 1665, Rosscarbery Nat 9/78 R H Clements vel 1874, on the same day Corrin 8/259 A McBride vel 1886, Fermoy 9/198 J Rock 1st & 2nd vel 1136, Talbenny (1) 7/130 J Rock vel 1523 (1st Sect B), Talbenny (2) 9/87 J Rock 1st & 2nd vel 1237, on the same day Fermoy 5 Bird 6/30 R H Clements 1st & 2nd vel 1410 (8th & 9th C/B Centre), Dunmanway 8/104 J Rock vel 1785 (2nd Sect B), on the same weekend the Ylr Nats NIPA, Ylr Cocks 5/50 L Mullan vel 1613 (1st C/B Centre & 1st Sect B), Ylr Hens 5/50 A McBride vel 1602 (3rd C/B Centre), Penzance 8/60 M D C Magill vel 1197, OB Classic M D C Magill vel 1197 (4th C/B Centre). On the same weekend Fermoy 7/101 J Rock vel 1480.
Young Birds 2018 started with two Area Liberations and with the second one put back a week due to severe weather the remainder of the programme continued to run a week late with the final YB Nationals for NIPA and INFC flown on the same weekend in late September. Mullingar (1) 7/164 A McBride vel 1198, Mullingar (2) K & K Kernohan 1st & 2nd vel 1363 (6th & 7th Open), Tullamore Mass Lib 11/276 R H Clements vel 1471, Gowran Park 9/191 R H Clements 1st, 2nd & 3rd vel 1790, the next week win with the same bird the top seven in the club Fermoy 10/218 vel 1386, Fermoy (2) 10/210 J Millar & Son vel 1448, Talbenny Nat the first four on the day in a hard race R H Clements vel 1265 (2nd, 3rd, 7th & 9th C/B Centre and 2nd & 7th Sect B), on the same day Roscrea 7/119 L Mullan vel 1663, Dumnanway 6/52 R H Clements vel 1778 (3rd Sect B), Dunmanway 5 Bird 6/29 R H Clements vel 1778 (2nd C/B Centre), Rosscarbery Nat 4/27 A McBride vel 1083 (2nd & 3rd C/B Centre and 5th & 6th Sect B).
In the NIPA Race programme that worked out at R H Clements 8 x 1sts, A McBride 6 x 1sts, J Rock 5 x 1sts, L Mullan 3 x 1sts, K & K Kernohan 1 x 1sts, J Millar & Son 1 x 1sts, and M D C Magill 1 x 1sts.
Not a lot of info for the INFC but I have the following. In the Yearling Nat flown from Sennen Cove the overall race winner was Martin Graham of Ballymena & District, best in Harryville were Allen McBride vel 1294 and W & D Rodgers vel 1242.
Cups and trophies were won as follows, most going to R H Clements who collected – Highest Prize-winner, Best Ave first three cross channel races, Best Individual Bird, OB Cross Channel Ave, Most Points Derby Races, Young Bird Ave, Best Ave YB Talbenny & Rosscarbery, Best Ave Fermoy (1) & (2), Best Ave Penzance OB and Talbenny YB, Best Ave first three YB Races, Most Points Derbies & Nationals. Allen McBride won – OB Inland Average, Lowest Winning Velocity, Best Ave first OB & YB Races. Jimmy Rock won – Best Ave Talbenny & Dunmanway. Lexi Mullan won – Best Ave Comeback Races.
Details of the major YB Nationals Talbenny and Rosscarbery. Harryville HPS 9/51 – R H Clements 1265, 1079, 986, 951, W & D Rodgers 716, 586. Roy Clements who has had a fantastic young bird season had the Card of the Day from Talbenny, the loft had the first four birds home. Winner timed at 14.39hrs as a Black cock containing the best of his distance birds, recording velocity 1265 for the 218 miles. Sire is a half-brother to his Van Hee bird winner of 2nd Open Kings Cup Rennes while the dam was inbred to his Tommy Beckett birds.
Harryville HPS 4/27 – A McBride 1083, 1081, K & K Kernohan 1013, R H Clements 995, K & K Kernohan 993, 977. Allen McBride had the top result in the hard final race from Rosscarbery, he had two birds almost together at 16.12hrs with the winner doing velocity 1083. The sire won 16th Open Talbenny and 33rd Open in the Yearling Nat while the dam won Talbenny, a g/dtr of Jimmy Rock’s Talbenny Nat winner Rockies Boy.
The first ever Seven Towers Champion Loft winner was R H Clements of Harryville, if you look the results weekly you will not be surprised by this as Roy always featured, Roy had 3x1sts, 3x2nds, and various other top positions. Roy also timed 4 on the night from Talbenny which turned out a difficult race, only beat by Surgenor Bros as mentioned won 1st Open NIPA. The Top 5 in the Champion Loft are as follows: 1. RH Clements Harryville, 2. Surgenor Bros Kells, 3. K & K Kernohan Harryville, 4. A Darragh Cullybackey, 5. A McBride Harryville.
We then turn to the first ever Ace Young Bird. The winner of ace young bird was K & K Kernohan ofHarryville. This pigeon was timed in Roscrea, Dunmanway, 5 Bird, and Rosscarbery. The breeding of the hen is from the top winning lines of Luc Vermeerburgen and a hen from Gerald Delaney. Keith also had a good year of racing, as seen previous he won 3rd in the Champion Lofts, this hen played her part in that 3rd place finish. It was a tight finish for the ace young bird as R H Clements also had a strong claim further cementing that he had a fantastic season of racing. It was all down to the head to head to separate the two young birds with K & K coming out on top 4-3, this showed just how competitive it is in th Points (wins 4-3 on head to head), 1. K & K Kernohan Harryville – 65 Points, 2. R H Clements Harryville – 63 Points, 3. Surgenor Bros Kells – 58 Points, 4. RH Clements Harryville – 38 Points, 5. G Gibson Cullybackey - 36 Points.
Club officials are now Matt Wray a very long time member assisted by George Price who is Chairman. Address for the Secretary on Moat Road is the same as when my brother was Secretary for a short time in the early 70’s before heading to Florida in the USA. We started racing in the young bird season of 1971 with 13 youngsters and cut down to 12 when a bird hit wires and had to be put down. The programme was completed and with winning prizes in both Haverford I think it was then and Skibbereen we won the YB Ave. The next season with a small team we scored in most of the cross channel events and timed a bird early on the second morning to finish 36th Open Dinard enough to win the OB Average. Only remember reading that recently, never thought much about that at the time.
The Irish Region (RPRA) Annual General Meeting will take place in the Templeton Hotel in Templepatrick on Saturday 2nd February at 1.00pm sharp. If any member wishes to be on the Irish Nat FC Committee please attend the RPRA (Irish Region) meeting to be nominated.
Section B Meeting in Ballymena –
NIPA Chairman Ken Wilkinson called a Sect B meeting which was held in Ballymena & District HPS Clubrooms, Fountain Place Ballymena on Wednesday 30th January 2019.The RPRA (Irish Region) AGM will be held on Saturday 2nd February and the NIPA Annual meeting will be held in Glenavy on Saturday 9th February. The Annual General Meeting of INFC will be held on Saturday 2nd March 2019 at 2.00pm in the Lagan Valley Leisure-plex, Governor’s Road, Lisburn BT28 1LP.
The Agenda for the meeting will be published later, with a loss on revenue in the last season the joining fees have increased by £5, the birdage for the Friendship Nat will increase by £1 per bird and this will enhance the prizes for this race. Voting on various race points should ensure a full attendance as it usually does when changes are proposed.
Photo Captions
Roy Clements of Harryville, Highest Prize-winner 2018 with 8 x 1sts and Champion Loft in Seven Towers (Ballymena).
Harryville race winners in 2018, from (l) Jimmy Rock won both Talbenny OB races, Lexi Mullan winner Ylr Cocks and Allen McBride who won 6 x 1sts and OB Inland Ave.
Keith & Ken Kernohan won the YB Area Liberation from Mullingar.
The Magill Family, Monty, Daniel and Connor had the best bird in Penzance.
Report Ballymena Times 2001.
Photo Courtesy Ballymena Guardian