" WELCOME TO THE RACING IN SOMERSET"

ALL THE BIRDS HAVE SOME THING TO PROVE, A WILL TO WIN AND NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED, THAT IS WHY THEY ARE HERE,   GOOD LUCK 

    THE OLYMPICS ARE COMING AND WE ARE BRINGING YOU A REAL CHALLENGE TO WIN

                      "CELEBRATE THE OLYMPICS HERE WITH OUR OWN OLYMPIA CHALLENGE"

FOR 2012 WE ARE HOLDING OUR OWN OLYMPIA CHALLENGE AND WE WANT THE BIGGEST PAYOUT IN EUROPE £50,000 1st PRIZE AND PRIZES DOWN TO 100TH POISTION ON THE FINAL RACE, £5,000 PER HOT SPOT RACE, THE CHALLENGE IS THERE, WE NEED YOU TO ENTER TO HAVE THE BIGGEST RACE IN EUROPE, HAVE YOU GOT THE BIRDS TO WIN YOU £50,000 !! "PROBERLY YOU HAVE" so come and prove it.   

WE HAVE A HOT SPOT TO OPEN THE GAMES AND OUR FINAL IS TO CLOSE THE GAMES AT THE PARALYMPICS, AND WE WANT THE PRIZE TO MATCH IT.

AN INTERESTNG LINK FROM NEW ZEALAND (Click on text to open)

                                  THE PRIZES ANTICAPATED FOR THE HOT SPOTS

We are hoping to UP the prizes in the Hot Spot races and  we would like to have it even bigger as these races are the back bone of the pigeons so every one will have a chance from the shortest Hot Spot to the Longest 

1st Hot Spot:    1st £1000  2nd  £500  3rd  £200  4th  £100   5th  £75.   6th   £50

2nd Hot Spot :  1st £1500  2nd  £500  3rd  £200  4th  £100  5th   £75    6th   £50

3rd Hot Spot :  1st £2000  2nd  £500  3rd  £200  4th  £100  5th   £75    6th   £50

4th Hot Spot :  1st £2500  2nd  £1000  3rd  £500 4th  £250  5th  £200   6th  £100

The Final Prize will be determind by the entries we have in, and we want it to be BIG we have uped the Hot Spot prizes to make it a `little mouth watering` to race for, The Ace Pigeon will be a Min of £2,000 , also the Ace pigeon will finish on the LAST Hot Spot, We will also have a special for all of you who trust your birds For the Final Race a nom: £50 per bird winner take all , First Nom bird in wins, Good Luck Everyone we hope it makes it more interesting , "Roll on 2012"  " WE WILL MAKE THIS EVEN BIGGER IF WE CAN"             

                    "THE OLYMPICS ARE COMING AND WE WANT IT TO BE YOUR OLYMPICS "

            " DON`T FORGET GET YOUR CLUB TO ENTER AS A SYNDICATE, YOU NEVER KNOW"

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                                                                              "OK ROB "

                                                        2012 UPDATES AND NEWS

8th February,

 The first birds arrived today and all are OK and settling down ok , when you send your birds in you will be given a code to access the ring list on the web site , you will be given your code when the birds arrive, The weather is getting really cold tomorrow and the next day, but on the bright side it can only get warmer ! more news if it arrives !!!  Terry     

 

 

3 February .     IF YOU CLICK ON "AT THE MOVIES" I have put " A birds eye view" Film to watch done this morning .

It is now intake time here and the lofts are open for the birds, The weather is cold it was minus 10 in the top fields that was the wind factor of course, I even saw a cow standing up hiding behind a tree !!!!!  pull the udder one ? We had Bilco come round the other day just for a little chitt chat about things as he does, he lets us know he is 84 years old and showing it !!! but he has all his marbles, he must of done more things for the sport more than most committee members, most just want some thing to do etc but Bill Cowell has and is a Pigeon man and if the whole thing had a dozen of him on board we would all head in the right direction, a wealth of information and a wise man, a little still in the 50s but is right up there with todays needs, if only people along side him had the same keeness to move on , I better move on now , Well done Bilco you have Good Bad & Ugley on your side and boy you are the Ugley one , ( Bill that is a joke ) no sueing me ! I don`t know if anyone follows the One Lofts abroad but they are having a hard time and I mean hard , and i should know!!!! ,  It looks like we have all the overseas rings in that we are going to get, not as many as I wanted but we don`t always get everything we want ! All is well here waiting for the lofts to have some birds in it, and people telling me they have y/bs in the nest some nearly ready to come, one person won`t be coming in, some thing got in his loft , made a 2 " hole and killed all the birds in the stock loft  all eggs and young birds dead with just 1 bird missing from the loft, taken back to feed there young we are guessing !  Rugby starts tomorrow , England play Scotland !!!!  ( I just might have to go and cut the grass after half time ) (  Bilcos Scottish ), Went down to see how the Swap Shop birds were getting on , and as per normal the birds were as happy and strutting around in a cleaner than clean lofts , Martin cleans out twice a day, in the morning and when he comes home from work, when we got there he had nearly finished , and he was full of Flu and head cold , but still went out to clean them out, then we sat and had cheese and crackers with them , now i have a head cold and Flu, he is in full ringing mode now and has to keep his eye on them all, not a lot to write about as you can see, but soon there will,  so untill then , Thanks , (and Thanks to the Club)   Terry

 

 

31st January,

The lofts will be open for the early birds !! this weekend the 4th, it`s come round quick this year, hope all the breeding is going well, we had a trip over to Belgium last weekend and the sites we had are OK well 3 are the other 2 were built on with house`s and one with 30 giant wind turbines, not good for the birds that one, but are best site is there in good order, next to a big Canal, and that cant be built on , well not yet anyway, it was really foggy all day, so site seeing was out, i`ll tell you what, dictaphones are a good think! sorts all sorts of problems out and you can`t hide the truth either ! we have visted all the new lib sites we have spoken to the owners and they are looking forward to it as well, The entries are coming in nicly and as soon as your birds arrive we will put them on the 2012 website ring list as per normal, For the one`s who have been before to bring there birds and for the ones that have not , we are Jabbing (vaccinating) the birds in the Lofts this year so you can walk straight up the field to the lofts and go in the back way to the "operating shed" !! the old jabbing shed is no more, that will give you abit of exercise ! we have a couple of trolleys  if needed,, we have most of the rings now from the countries that said they would send in and most are nearly on birds being rung now /soon , The weather is getting colder as perdicted not a lot of snow here yet ! If you are going to the New One day pigeon show in Telford we will see you there  Saturday March 3rd we have our stand there to meet some middle country pigeon fanciers, if you are going and your birds are ready bring them along , but please let me know if you will be bringing them as we have to have baskets etc for the birds,  it is only a one day`er show so should be good , its run by the Racing Pigeon weekly / Pictoral , good for them ,at least there having a go of moving forward, and we need it to ! might see you there, Thanks keep em coming Terry

 

 23rd January.

Well thats the Blackpool show over and done with, and for us it was a good one and it was good to see New and Old and have a good chat and the usual banter, but thanks to all the good comments and people still supporting and up with us, On the Saturaday first thing was slow it seemed that everyone stayed in bed , but by 11 oclock it was like a flood , nice to see and we hope the BHW were pleased . One sad bit is good old Bob Reeeves is going to close his loft door this year, and will be selling his birds , and he told me the proceedes will go to Charity, that is typical of Bob, so please buy some when you see the advert, he has won the National and others with his birds,and still holding his own

As you know we have increased the prizes for the Hot Spot races and we will increase it again if we can , and also the ACE PIGEON will FINISH on the Last Hot Spot (Folkstone) this is so, we feel the Hot Spots and the Ace Pigeon are there for all to have a bit of fun and to monitor your birds, of course the Final race is what we all want to go for, but why not have a good bit to fly for before, the birds and you can just concentrate on the Final , we will also have a £50, pool for all to have a go at in the Final winner take all, and of course the pools will still be there to have a go, but we hope the Hot Spots give a bit more interest and we still have the GOLD RING nom as well so there should be a good bit of money to have a go for in the Hot Spots, We will let you know what  Final Prize fund will be after all entries are in, But we will also add on to the Final Prize fund the Swap Shop Birds that get sold right up to the Final  so the more we sell the more we add on to the Prize fund,  We also have the Junior League as well that should genarate a bit of intrest and we now have quite a few enter which is good !!

JUST FOR THE OLYMPICS: We have contacted most countries around the World in the last couple of months, with regards them entering our CHARITY for the "BLIND DEAF" , As we all know we can not get Pigeons in from other countries outside the EU due to the Customs Laws, so we have asked the countries to send us rings of there country, and the rings will be put on birds bred from "HERITAGE LOFTS"  who also breed our Swap Shop birds and as we all know they can perform at any time, the birds will Eat, Drink, Train and Race with all the other birds in the loft and be treated just the same.

If we have any in the loft to go to the FINAL race, they will be put to AUCTION before the Final for you to buy, (remember they have all done all that the other birds have done so are worth a go,) Once the birds are sold they will fly in the FINAL under there new owners name. But the Proceedes from the auction will go to the BLIND DEAF charity, This will NOT interfer with the Prize fund as we will take the entry fee out and add it to the prize fund before the race, nobody lose`s out, the birds that our in the charity are all DONATED birds and the birds will race for there Country !  i/e if we had rings from the MOON then the bird the ring is put on will fly under the heading  "The Moon" in the races but if sold for the Final it will race for its new owner ! this has gone down very well with a lot of countries, they may even buy the birds ! and we hope a few more will follow it up,

But as with most things in Pigeons some people don`t trust things some people are trying to do to move forward and you seem to hit your head against the wall, just look at the ETS debates, now ets has a hold the moaners even now have ets themselves are now on about any thing new, "crazy"  But the real toughie bits and the ones that really matter I/E Defra and the Customs people are brilliant no going around and around in circles they have it in placand thats it . "It is the inside of the pigeon bits that make it hard"most of the time it is about knowing what the left & right hand is doing !!. I have Listed below the Countries that are playing with us now and we are hoping to get a few more, but for now thanks to the countries who are particapating, we hope it is enjoyable and keeps you interested.

THE BLIND DEAF charity "SENSE" thank you very much and it has given them something else to follow. And they are really excited by what we offer and to be able to follow it on the website is as good as it gets,

                                                              List of Countries in

Australia

New Zealand

Canada

France

England

Spain

Portugal

Wales 

Holland

Scotland

Poland

Norway

Malta

We have quite a few rings from Australia , as they are having a hard time with the Paramixo virus so we have got some rings from a few states over there and hoping to give them something to cheer about and give them some racing to watch, again it has opened up the world to watch so thats a good thing !  

We have asked the bigger countries like USA, Russia, India, South Africa ,Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney and many more to have a go lets hope they do. There is no reason not to,  Thanks  Terry

7th / 8th January,

The weather is still pretty damp and cloudy with the odd day of Sun, not a lot to report at the moment , Our little "secret" mission is picking up nicly but still plenty of time for it to grow even more , I will let you know when the time is right and i have had a good feed back !!!!!? . It is intresting what some people write in the fancy press about especilly the letters page , do they get any thing out of of it ? no real intrest to any one really, except to send you off to sleep in the bath while reading , "paper mach`a" in the end !!! , It is AGM time now and I hope you are all helping to move the sport forward, We have secured our sponors this year in the health of the birds and the vaccation of the birds is in place, It is the right time to pair up now if you are looking at young bird racing , as i feel we may have a late cold snap, Blackpool weekend was allways cold and windy , we have our stand at Blackpool, usual spot In the  Pavillon stand 124, near the Bricon and Unikon stands, look forward to meeting you if you pop in, we will have all the bits with us , come and see our new banner !!! we must have one of the qickest up and down stands made , and it does the job, don`t forget the Junior league this year, it has brought in 2/3 new fanciers , so lets see if we can add to that, we also have 4 new non fanciers enter this year for the challenge ,One person stumbled on our website 2 years ago and watched it , and has now signed up as we look to have fun, as well as a real challenge. We have already said we are helping the charity "SENSE" that is for BLIND DEAF people and we have something special for that as well, and it should be intresting this year, Well not a lot happening at the moment but next month it all starts again , roll on,   Terry.