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 A five-year-old blue cock won his third race on the trot to give David Todhunter and Rodney Ismay their fourth Derwent Valley Federation triumph on Sunday.
The Busschaert, bred down from birds obtained from Alfie Fletcher of Carlisle, had won successive club races from Stafford and Wollaston.
The Federation birds were held-over until Sunday and liberated from Cheltenham at 8-00am into an east-north-east wind with the Maryport club members clocking at 12-08.
Rodney said: “He’s been a very consistent pigeon for us over the years and his father was just as good, scoring many times and winning two RPRA awards.
“We also got ninth Fed with a three-year-old blue cock who is the same way bred.”
Unlike a lot of lofts these days, Todhunter and Ismay race on the natural system and Sunday’s winner was sent sitting 11 days on eggs.
David and Rodney had flown separately in different racing partnerships before getting together in 1984. Their first Federation win was with Keith Graham in the partnership but the last three have been just the two of them.
The loft sent 15 birds to the race – got 12 on the day and the other three were back on Monday morning.
Flimby West Coast will br staging it’s show race from Marlborough this week-end and all completed forms should be with the secretary before the birds are liberated.
Next week’s race is from Fareham because the Cumbria Combine changed the programme from Portsmouth so the second show race
ill be staged then, and again completed sheets have to be with the secretary before the birds are liberated.
West Cumbria Fed members can send their entry forms via transporter to Flimby. All bird times to secretary as early as possible.
Any members who entered a bird in the £1 single bird nom must mark on entry form which bird is the nomination.
The form loft in Keekle club came up trumps at the week-end in the West Cumberland Federation race from Cheltenham.
David Buchanan and son Neil were winning their fifth race in a row, and for good measure they had also won the Cheltenham Fed race last year.
Their first bird was a blue yearling cock, and a year ago it was his full brother who won from Cheltenham which was their first success in the Federation for 12 years.
Like last year it was a holdover and this time they were liberated from Cheltenham at 8-00am with the Buchanan bird homing at 11-54am after the 195-mile flight.
Neil has been involved in the sport for close on 40 years while his father Dave has been racing pigeons for the best part of his life.
Back in 2004 Neil went over to Brugge and bought some birds for stock from an ace Belgian fancier Maurice Mattheeuws.
The hen which was the mother of the two Fed winners is one of those Mattheeuws pigeons while the sire is part Wildemeersch and part Staf van Reet.
“This latest Fed winner had a minor ticket as a young bird but hadn’t scored previously this year, although he has been very steady and consistent.
“We fly him on the widowhood system and that was how his elder brother was flown last year,” says Dave.
The loft started the season with 30 widowhood cocks and still have 22 to fly. They also have 12 hens on the widowhood system. At the week-end they sent 34 and got 30 back.
The partnership has had numerous Fed winners over the years and this is the second since they moved lofts in 1997 from the Ginns to behind the Hensingham Stadium.
DERWENT VALLEY
FEDERATION (1278 birds): 1, Todhunter and Ismay 1431; 2, Sleightholm and Broatch 1430.5; 3, 4, 5, J. Devlin 1430.4, 1428, 1427; 6, Nelson and Crellin 1418.
HARRINGTON CENTRAL (11 sent 143): 1, 5, Sleightholm and Broatch 1430.5, 1413; 2, 3, 4, J. Devlin 1430.4, 1428, 1427; 6, Mr and Mrs Wood 1409.
MARYPORT (4 sent 36): 1, 2, 4, 5, Todhunter and Ismay 1442, 1414, 1363, 1348; 3, T. Fox and grand-dau8ghter 1400; 6, R. Wilson 1341.
NETHERTON HS (10 sent 154): 1, 4, K. Rafferty 1416, 1394; 2, 3, 5, Graham and daughters 1401, 1395, 1393; 6, Ward and son 1390.
FLIMBY WEST COAST (6 sent 97): 1, A. Hayton 1402; 2, Ellwood and co 1401; 3, 4, J. and D. Hine and grandson 1394, 1385; 5, Mr and Mrs Proctor 1355.
FLIMBY HS: 1, Nicholson and Crellin 1418; 2, 3, 6, Tinnion bros and Aitken 1406, 1401, 1399; 4, G. Weaver 1400.5; 5, Bromley and co 1400.06.
ELLENBOROUGH FC (8 sent 125): 1, 3, 4, Barker, Charlton and Brown 1402, 1390, 1388; 2, J. Whitehead 1392; 5, D. and J. Reay 1380; 6, Hodgson and grand-daughter 1376.
WORKINGTON VICTORIA FC (16 sent 172): 1, 2, 4, G. Best 1421, 1416, 1409; 3, K. Harper 1412; 5, Blacklock and sons 1408; 6, Johnston bros 1407.
WEST CUMBERLAND
FEDERATION (1,225 birds): 1, D. Buchanan and son (Keekle); 2, S. and E. Chambers and daughter (Keekle); 3, Mr and Mrs D. Wilson (Egremont Rangers); 4, 6, J. Fitzsimmons and son (Cleator Moor); 5, Mr and Mrs McConvey and Bowes (Mirehouse).
CLEATOR MOOR CENTRAL (385 birds): 1, 2, J. Fitzsimmons and son; 3, Nolan, Hetherington, Coultas and Easdon; 4, C. Doran, son and grandson; 5, Graham and co; 6, R. Muncaster and son.
DISTINGTON HS: 1, 3, R. McAvoy and son; 2, 4, Holliday, son and Dixon.
EGREMOPNT RANGERS: 1, 5, Mr and Mrs D. Wilson; 2, Marr and Scott; 3, 4, Mr and Mrs Trodden; 6, D. Harrison and son.
FRIZINGTON HS (7 sent 81): 1, 2, Mr and Mrs Burns; 3, J. Mossop and son; 4, D. and K. Mingins and son; 5, McSherry, Nicholson and son; 6, T. Scott, sons and Sim.
KEEKLE HS: 1, 5, 6, D. Buchanan and son; 2, S. and E. Chambers and daughter; 3, 4, Mr and Mrs Garner.
LOWCA HS (3 sent 57): 1, 2, 3, 4, Holliday and Dixon (Wollaston – 2 sent 44): 1, 2, R. Ennis and sons; 3, 4, Holliday and Dixon.
MIREHOUSE HS: 1, 3, McConvey and Bowes; 2, McGrady and son; 4, Trodden and son.
SANDWITH FC: 1, McGrady and son; 2, 3, 4, Scurr and Parry; 5, Henderson and Hutchinson; 6, D. Lofthouse.
EAST CUMBERLAND
FEDERATION (Lymm): 1, 3, J. Easterbrook 1953, 1947; 2, A. Donnelly 1950; 4, 5, K and N Shackley 1945, 1939; 6, I. Graham 1934.
CARLISLE SOUTH END (Carnforth, 6 sent 70): 1, J. and H. Turnbull 1173; 2, 4, V. Short 1158, 1152; 3, D. McNeil 1157; 5, 6, J. Bell 1148, 1144. (Carnforth 2, 6 sent 103): 1, J. Bell 1203; 2, J. Easterbrook 1149; 3, D. McNeil 1134; 4, 5, V. Short 1129, 1122; 6, J and H. Turnbull 1086. (Appleton, 7 sent 143): 1, 2, 3, 5, J. Easterbrook 1953, 1947, 1925, 1889; 4, Smith and McCluskey 1898; 6, J. Bell 1871. (Stafford, 7 sent 162): 1, D. McNeil 1369; 2, 4, 5, J. Easterbrook 1332.8, 1324, 1319; 3, Smith and McCluskey 1332.1; 6, V. Short 1318.
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