The West Cumbria Amalgamation’s second race of the season was held back to Tuesday.
Weather forecasts for Saturday and Sunday were poor and with Tuesday looking better than Monday that was the decision.
The birds were liberated at Charnock Richard at 11am in a north west wind and the race appears to have been a good one with near 100% returns.
West Cumberland had their second Federation race and it was won by David Harrison and son of the Egremont Rangers club.
The winner is a yearling dark grizzle cock bred for David by Malcolm Scott of Gateshead from birds he bought in Belgium in 2014.
The sire is a great grandson of Pitbull and the dam a granddaughter of Pitbull hence the colouring. They have bred many winners including a hen for Davy Ball at Greenside which has six club wins and 2 Fed wins to her name before being retired to stock.
Talking of his Fed winner David said: “He didn’t race last year after being lost in a falcon attack from Bootle (only his fifth training flight) when I had 12 out overnight and was reported the next day in Wrexham!
“By the time I got him back racing had started so I just put him away for this year. We were lucky enough to be second club and 11th fed as well with the blue cock that won the Amal at Cannock last year and the gold watch kindly presented by Mr and Mrs Cape in memory of their son Michael so I was very pleased with that as you can imagine.
There was double success for Joe Tomlinson and Brian Banks, winning Cleator Moor and Lowca – the same bird as last week taking first spot again in Lowca.
It’s a Lambrecht, a yearling blue pied cock which had been 3rd Fed as a young bird from Charnock.
Winning Cleator Moor made-up for last week when he was second in that club and also second in the Federation.
They dropped in well for Barry Irving at Sandwith as he took the first five tickets and nine places in the top thirty on the Federation sheet.
The Derwent Valley members are racing in clubs only at the moment and there were some repeat performances across the Federation from the first week.
Pride of place goes to Jimmy Nelson and Fleck Crellin in the competitive Flimby club where they annexed the first six spots.
The winner is a yearling chequer hen and due to young bird sickness last year was only lightly trained as a young bird.
She’s racing on roundabout and is if Van den Bulck bloodlines bred from stock the partners obtained from Keith Rafferty.
John Devlin followed up his opening win in Harrington Central by taking the honours again and had the first two in the clock, both on the same second.
First on the sheet is a yearling blue cock whose sire was a gift bird from North East fancier Andrew Morgan who was a member of the West Cumbria Amalgamation Moot panel a couple of years ago.
The dam is a blue hen which won as a young bird and was then put in the stock loft. This is the first young bird off her.
The hen that bred last week’s winner is grand-dam to this week’s winner.
Richard Martindale and George ‘Pal’ Lawman take some stopping in Workington Victoria and they had five of the tickets – missing out on fifth which went to John and Liz Walters, who won Workington Social Limit.
Their winner is a yearling cock who topped the Derwent Valley Federation for the partners as a young bird.
He’s bred from the pairing Balboa x Freya, two top Can den Bulke stock birds. Balboa has bred Federation, Amalgamation and Combine winners for the loft.
Their second pigeon also topped the Federation as a young bird and has had other good Fed and Amalgamation tickets. He’s out of their original Leach brothers stock that have also bred Amalgamation winners.
The Social Limit winner for the Walters’ loft is a yearling chequer hen which flew steady as a young bird with a minor ticket.
She’s off a hen of Ian Stafford’s while the cock has Leech brothers/Les Green blood inn his breeding.
WEST CUMBERLAND
FEDERATION (711 birds): 1, D. Harrison and son (Egremont) 1595; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, B. Irving (Sandwith) 1594.7, 1594.7, 1594.4, 1594.4. 1594.1.
CLEATOR MOOR (8 sent 305): 1, Tomlinson and Banks 1593; 2, 3, Nolan, Hetherington, Coultas and Easdon 1590, 1587; 4, Rodgers and Benn 1586; 5, Graham and co 1581; 6, J. Fitzsimmons and son 1575.
EGREMONT RANGERS (115 birds): 1, 2, D. Harrison and son 1595, 1582; 3, 6, J. and M. Doran and son 1567, 1544; 4, 5, Wilson and Buchanan 1557, 1554.
SANDWITH (5 sent 168): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, B. Irving 1594.8, 1594.8, 1594.45, 1594.45, 1594.1; 6, McGrady and son 1594.06.
LOWCA (5 sent 168): 1, 2, 4, 5, Tomlinson and Banks 1589, 1542, 1524, 1523; 3, Holliday and Dixon 1531; 6, D. Lofthouse 1515.
DERWENT VALLEY
WORKINGTON VICTORIA (11 sent 418): 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, Martindale and Lawman 1591, 1587, 1581, 1580.77, 1579; 5, Mr and Mrs Walters and son 1580.71.
WORKINGTON SOCIAL LIMIT (8 sent 284): 1, Mr and Mrs Walters and son 1557; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, McLuckie bros 1554, 1552, 1549.8, 1549.8, 1549.8.
SEATON RBL (5 sent 99): 1, 3, Mr and Mrs Dustin 1521, 1505; 2, 4, Dobie and Palmer 1508, 1500; 5, J. Gale 1495; 6, A. Parker and son 1480.
FLIMBY HS (10 sent 345): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Nelson and Crellin 1569, 1562, 1561, 1533, 1531.4, 1531.1.
HARRINGTON CENTRAL (8 sent 299): 1, 2, J. Devlin 1546.02, 1546.02; 3, N. Semple 1520; 4, R. McAvoy and son 1519; 5, N. and G. Wordsworth 1515; 6, I. and D. Wood 1509.
DEARHAM (8 sent 260): 1, 2, 3, 6, Grisedale and Todhunter 1507, 1494, 1493.7, 1491; 4, 5, Dempsey, son and Reay 1493.5, 1493.05.
