TARBES 2013
SPONSORED BY
THE WELSH NORTH ROAD FEDERATION
1st centre section 1st open
FLYING 607 MILES
PADFIELD FAMILY
(cwmtillery)
dave & vince padfield wnfc winners of 1st & 2nd section 1st & 2nd open tarbes 607 miles
1st section 1st open tarbes 2013
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2nd section 2nd open tarbes 2013
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Welsh national f.c.
Tarbes
the longest event on the 2013 calendar for the welsh national flying club was from tarbes an average distance of 600 miles to most lofts within the welsh principality.
basketing took place a day earlier tha previously advertised on monday 17th ,after which the pigeons were transported by the welsh north road
federation across the severn estuary to liase with the central southern classic flying club who had agreed to convoy our welsh entries to tarbes in southern france, also on board for the journey alongside us were the LSEC, which i calculated via different websites would bring the convoy to just under a thousand entries
with the advanced forecast revealing a low pressure over france on friday the advertised day of liberation, it was no surprise to hear that an
early decition had been made to holdover due to rain and thunderstorms at the liberation site which were spreading from the westerly from the bay of Biscay across into bordeaux and further north
saturday morning
and with very little improvement on the weather front once again the decition was once again made to hold off the liberation for yet
another day ,and with an improvement scheduled from the south for the sunday ,which indicated a band of clear weather ,it was seemed to be the better option and highly probable that a liberation would take place the following day.
sunday morning
and whilst here in the uk we were experiencing fine dry weather, the forecast overseas was gradually improving throughout france during sunday
morning both on site and throughout the line of flight, their was high expectations that the strings would be cut by mid afternoon and the convoy would hopefully be away for the long journey home
sunday afternoon
after continued cosultations between various parties the news that we were all waiting for became available on the cscfc website that after six days in the basket the birds were up and away at 2pm into a light south westerly winds across the continent turning a more north westerly on the englsh channel and the home fronts
with the time of liberation and the distance involved it was obvious and the intentions of the convoying team and race advisors ,to allow the
birds ample flying time to reach the french coast by dusk, which would allow them a rest overnight and hopefully get an early start the following morning to crossover the channel for the final leg of this adventure
, with the two holdovers taking place and the expected arrivals continuing into the working week the committee of the wnfc made a decided to assist their members by relaxing the current one hour phone in verification rule to allow any arrivals throughout the day to be phoned in by 6pm on the day of clocking, this we believed was well praised and appriciated by our members for the forward planning
monday midday,
and with hopes still high and the fine weather dominating , we heard that the first pigeons had been recorded on the south coast indicating that the
decition and time to liberate was the best we could have hoped for ,by which time the usual estimated time of arrivals onto welsh soil were once again doing the rounds and expectations of 4pm was appearing to be the fanciers prefered hour of hearing some news of any welsh arrivals
it was a further one and half hours at 5.30 pm that we recieved the news that we had all patiently been waiting for as regards to the first
pigeon being recorded this side of the severn estuary at the home and loft of one of our newest members padfield family of cwmtillery to register 1st centre section 1st open welsh national ,fc tarbes 2013 winning the welsh north road federation sponsored winners trophy
,the winning pigeon timed in at 5.24pm with a velocity of 831.87 is 2yr old cheq pied wim muller arden hen ,The Sire of which is from 80 who is a son of old 89 fantastic racer and breeder when paired back to a Daughter of First Class first international Perpignan for Wim Muller when paired to his famous Crazy Boy. Two of the partnerships previous Tarbes 1st National winners have also been bred in the same way.
The Dam is from a daughter of ALBERT when paired to an In bred hen going back to the Original Super Koppel of Wim Muller.Albert was 9TH OPEN WSR NAT NANTES CENTENERY RACE 1997 IN THE FIRST 200 OVERALL 65,000 BIRDS 2nd WSR NAT PAU 2000 BEATEN BY LOFT MATE. BEAT NEXT BIRD BY 1.5 HOURS. 31st WSRN SAINTES 1999. 2002 13th OPEN NFC PAU WINNING £3180. THE WEEK PRIOR HIS SON WAS 3rd CSCFC San Sebastian, He also bred national and section winners for B Lead beater and Frampton and Price.of abertillery
with everyone relieved to hear of a welsh arrival it was a further forty five minutes when confirmation was recieved of a second, this was also at the same loft of the padfield family recording their second arrival at 18.14.08 recording a vel of 800.76.for 2nd open 2nd section , a 2yr old chequer cock , Sire is of which is a full brother to the dam of our first bird a grandson of Albert which relates to the partnerships first arrival,The dam came from my very good friend and one of the best distance flyers in the UK Mr Ken Hine who has sadly deceased. the origin of this pigeon came about
after mr hine made a visit to the partnerships set up six years ago after which a mutual exchange of pigeons then took place resulting in both parties aquiring the bloodlines of the best each had to offer. Kens hen was bred from Herons Pride the Peter Titmus Golden Cock when paired back to Charville Kayleigh BBC Palamos Merit Winner 4 times over 700 miles. the brothers also aknowledge that when this game pigeon ariived he was in also a fantastic condition and clearlly had a few more miles in him
their was to be one more bit of good news before night fall and that was to indicate that the partnership of john and rosemary humphreys and son
the hard working secretaries of the wnrf from beaufort near ebbw vale had also timed in their solo entry at 19.02 to record a velocity of 778.87. to claim 3rd centre section 3rd open, their arrival was 3yr old jan arden cheq pied hen which is a grand daughter of the partnerships earls palace national winner ,which still remains a foundation for this loft at the grand old age of seventeen and now enjoys her days out and about with the youngsters ,The grandparents, originated from Louella Lofts and Anuerin Williams of Maerdy ,prior to this event she had been raced weekly through to Ramsgate 200 miles this year and then trained single up from every direction which john`s work criteria allows, for this race she was then . Sent sitting overdue eggs then prior to basketing a youngster was placed under her the day before basketing
Tarbes
the longest event on the 2013 calendar for the welsh national flying club was from tarbes an average distance of 600 miles to most lofts within the welsh principality.
basketing took place a day earlier tha previously advertised on monday 17th ,after which the pigeons were transported by the welsh north road
federation across the severn estuary to liase with the central southern classic flying club who had agreed to convoy our welsh entries to tarbes in southern france, also on board for the journey alongside us were the LSEC, which i calculated via different websites would bring the convoy to just under a thousand entries
with the advanced forecast revealing a low pressure over france on friday the advertised day of liberation, it was no surprise to hear that an
early decition had been made to holdover due to rain and thunderstorms at the liberation site which were spreading from the westerly from the bay of Biscay across into bordeaux and further north
saturday morning
and with very little improvement on the weather front once again the decition was once again made to hold off the liberation for yet
another day ,and with an improvement scheduled from the south for the sunday ,which indicated a band of clear weather ,it was seemed to be the better option and highly probable that a liberation would take place the following day.
sunday morning
and whilst here in the uk we were experiencing fine dry weather, the forecast overseas was gradually improving throughout france during sunday
morning both on site and throughout the line of flight, their was high expectations that the strings would be cut by mid afternoon and the convoy would hopefully be away for the long journey home
sunday afternoon
after continued cosultations between various parties the news that we were all waiting for became available on the cscfc website that after six days in the basket the birds were up and away at 2pm into a light south westerly winds across the continent turning a more north westerly on the englsh channel and the home fronts
with the time of liberation and the distance involved it was obvious and the intentions of the convoying team and race advisors ,to allow the
birds ample flying time to reach the french coast by dusk, which would allow them a rest overnight and hopefully get an early start the following morning to crossover the channel for the final leg of this adventure
, with the two holdovers taking place and the expected arrivals continuing into the working week the committee of the wnfc made a decided to assist their members by relaxing the current one hour phone in verification rule to allow any arrivals throughout the day to be phoned in by 6pm on the day of clocking, this we believed was well praised and appriciated by our members for the forward planning
monday midday,
and with hopes still high and the fine weather dominating , we heard that the first pigeons had been recorded on the south coast indicating that the
decition and time to liberate was the best we could have hoped for ,by which time the usual estimated time of arrivals onto welsh soil were once again doing the rounds and expectations of 4pm was appearing to be the fanciers prefered hour of hearing some news of any welsh arrivals
it was a further one and half hours at 5.30 pm that we recieved the news that we had all patiently been waiting for as regards to the first
pigeon being recorded this side of the severn estuary at the home and loft of one of our newest members padfield family of cwmtillery to register 1st centre section 1st open welsh national ,fc tarbes 2013 winning the welsh north road federation sponsored winners trophy
,the winning pigeon timed in at 5.24pm with a velocity of 831.87 is 2yr old cheq pied wim muller arden hen ,The Sire of which is from 80 who is a son of old 89 fantastic racer and breeder when paired back to a Daughter of First Class first international Perpignan for Wim Muller when paired to his famous Crazy Boy. Two of the partnerships previous Tarbes 1st National winners have also been bred in the same way.
The Dam is from a daughter of ALBERT when paired to an In bred hen going back to the Original Super Koppel of Wim Muller.Albert was 9TH OPEN WSR NAT NANTES CENTENERY RACE 1997 IN THE FIRST 200 OVERALL 65,000 BIRDS 2nd WSR NAT PAU 2000 BEATEN BY LOFT MATE. BEAT NEXT BIRD BY 1.5 HOURS. 31st WSRN SAINTES 1999. 2002 13th OPEN NFC PAU WINNING £3180. THE WEEK PRIOR HIS SON WAS 3rd CSCFC San Sebastian, He also bred national and section winners for B Lead beater and Frampton and Price.of abertillery
with everyone relieved to hear of a welsh arrival it was a further forty five minutes when confirmation was recieved of a second, this was also at the same loft of the padfield family recording their second arrival at 18.14.08 recording a vel of 800.76.for 2nd open 2nd section , a 2yr old chequer cock , Sire is of which is a full brother to the dam of our first bird a grandson of Albert which relates to the partnerships first arrival,The dam came from my very good friend and one of the best distance flyers in the UK Mr Ken Hine who has sadly deceased. the origin of this pigeon came about
after mr hine made a visit to the partnerships set up six years ago after which a mutual exchange of pigeons then took place resulting in both parties aquiring the bloodlines of the best each had to offer. Kens hen was bred from Herons Pride the Peter Titmus Golden Cock when paired back to Charville Kayleigh BBC Palamos Merit Winner 4 times over 700 miles. the brothers also aknowledge that when this game pigeon ariived he was in also a fantastic condition and clearlly had a few more miles in him
their was to be one more bit of good news before night fall and that was to indicate that the partnership of john and rosemary humphreys and son
the hard working secretaries of the wnrf from beaufort near ebbw vale had also timed in their solo entry at 19.02 to record a velocity of 778.87. to claim 3rd centre section 3rd open, their arrival was 3yr old jan arden cheq pied hen which is a grand daughter of the partnerships earls palace national winner ,which still remains a foundation for this loft at the grand old age of seventeen and now enjoys her days out and about with the youngsters ,The grandparents, originated from Louella Lofts and Anuerin Williams of Maerdy ,prior to this event she had been raced weekly through to Ramsgate 200 miles this year and then trained single up from every direction which john`s work criteria allows, for this race she was then . Sent sitting overdue eggs then prior to basketing a youngster was placed under her the day before basketing
mr & mrs j humphrys&son
3rd section 3rd open tarbes
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3rd centre section 3rd open tarbes 2013
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as you could imagine the news and success of these three gallent pigeons by nightfall ,on the winning day along side other organisations ,was the best news that we as an organisation could of hoped for on our first experience from this distance on this southerly route ,and raised all xpectations of even more arrivals the following morning
tuesday
the first download on our lib line service at midday indicated a further three more arrivals ,the first and second of which at 06.04 and 08.19 with velocities of 634 and 587 both these were a third and forth arrival arrival for the winnng loft of the dave and vince padfield of cwmtillery the first in the clock being a 2yr old cheq pied hen .The Sire of which is a Son of Old 89 and the Dam is the T ring hen the Mother of FFion their last years Barcelona Winner. Which is Full of national winning bloodlines. the next was yet another 2yr old cheq cock which incidently was thought to have been the partnerships fancy from tours 350 miles (approx ) just a few weeks ago ,when the brothers thought they had him pooled all the way through to £10.. only to find they had wrote the numbers down wrong order on thier entry sheet resulting in thier loss someone elses finacial gain ,His Sire and Dam were Dale Newcombe bloodlines that we obtained from Andrew Loveday of pontypool when he decided to pack in the birds a few years ago.
with the partnership timing in thier fifth arrival out of their original eight entries just after midday this rounded off an amazing overall performance for both fanciers and family of pigeons to obtain the highlighted performace from such an extreme distances with the following positions of 1st 2nd 4th 5th and 7th centre secton and open wnfc
tuesday
the first download on our lib line service at midday indicated a further three more arrivals ,the first and second of which at 06.04 and 08.19 with velocities of 634 and 587 both these were a third and forth arrival arrival for the winnng loft of the dave and vince padfield of cwmtillery the first in the clock being a 2yr old cheq pied hen .The Sire of which is a Son of Old 89 and the Dam is the T ring hen the Mother of FFion their last years Barcelona Winner. Which is Full of national winning bloodlines. the next was yet another 2yr old cheq cock which incidently was thought to have been the partnerships fancy from tours 350 miles (approx ) just a few weeks ago ,when the brothers thought they had him pooled all the way through to £10.. only to find they had wrote the numbers down wrong order on thier entry sheet resulting in thier loss someone elses finacial gain ,His Sire and Dam were Dale Newcombe bloodlines that we obtained from Andrew Loveday of pontypool when he decided to pack in the birds a few years ago.
with the partnership timing in thier fifth arrival out of their original eight entries just after midday this rounded off an amazing overall performance for both fanciers and family of pigeons to obtain the highlighted performace from such an extreme distances with the following positions of 1st 2nd 4th 5th and 7th centre secton and open wnfc
davies & haines
6th section 6th open tarbes 2013
dividing the padfields 2nd day arrivals was an entry by one of our workers jeff davies and haines who oversee`s the marking proceedures at the pontlainfraith club near blackwood this partnership timed in thier arrival at 08.09,with a vel of 586.65, jeff informs me that this pigeon is bred through the lefebre dheaneans that he has blended together over after many years in the sport ,in preparation for this event he was repaired
and sent standing over his hens first egg on basketing night and ironically upon his return he was to find out that his hen had since repaired to a yearling cock, who not only stole his box and his hen he was also sitting his eggs ,not the best way to return after a 600 mile trek .
the final arrival for today, taking our current tally to eight was recorded at our highly profiled father and son partnership of mathew and joseph hughes of treharris timing in t 15.07 33 v.477.27 their arrival is a 2yr old jan arden cheq hen which is bred down from pigeons obtained from lance boswell of Merthyr crossed roy harding of tarpolly in preparation to this race this hen was sent to tours 350 where she was also 19th open wnfc
with eight arrivals confirmed, we moved onto our third day and with all the arrivals being recorded in the centre section, the honour of winning the south section was still outstanding and any prospects of this being fulfilled were slowlly drifting away as the day went on ,until yet another new member hadden and sons from newport verified their old faithful eight year old blue cock at 14 56 51 to not only record a velocity of 317.17, but to also claim the honour of 1st south section 9th open in their first race since joining ,
and sent standing over his hens first egg on basketing night and ironically upon his return he was to find out that his hen had since repaired to a yearling cock, who not only stole his box and his hen he was also sitting his eggs ,not the best way to return after a 600 mile trek .
the final arrival for today, taking our current tally to eight was recorded at our highly profiled father and son partnership of mathew and joseph hughes of treharris timing in t 15.07 33 v.477.27 their arrival is a 2yr old jan arden cheq hen which is bred down from pigeons obtained from lance boswell of Merthyr crossed roy harding of tarpolly in preparation to this race this hen was sent to tours 350 where she was also 19th open wnfc
with eight arrivals confirmed, we moved onto our third day and with all the arrivals being recorded in the centre section, the honour of winning the south section was still outstanding and any prospects of this being fulfilled were slowlly drifting away as the day went on ,until yet another new member hadden and sons from newport verified their old faithful eight year old blue cock at 14 56 51 to not only record a velocity of 317.17, but to also claim the honour of 1st south section 9th open in their first race since joining ,
m& j hughes
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hadden & sons 1st south section
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with continuous warm weather and after three days in the air it was thought that dehydration would now dampen any more hopes of verifying any more arrivals, as the gaps between each pigeon widened but there was to be one most twist in the race, when we had confirmation of our tenth and final gallent entrant ,to yet another new member martin .burridge &sons from tredegar who verified there old lefebre dheanen direct from "superstud" from graham coopers lerwick cock via john "the body " watkins crossed with john dethie pigeons from dundee scotland this 2yr old cheq cock was one of four entries and timed in at 19.15. to claim 9th section 10th open with a velocity of 301. the partnership would like to thank their fellow club members for the phone calls congratulating them on timing in from such a great distance and for all their help since starting up in 2010
m burridge& sons 9th section 10th open tarbes
the partnership l to r
gareth, johnathan ,martyn holding "oscar 600" ,and andrew
well that is it, ten gallent entries had made a couragous effort in covering the 600 miles over the three days, and we as a committee pass on our congratulations to the members that not only timed in from this race but also to those who were couragous enough to come forward and have a go at this extreme distance event
with the formalities brought to a close ,we can finally reflect on the past few days not only did these game pigeons give themselves and their owners recognition for their efforts but also highlighted the standards that our organisation is currently achieving
so where do we go from here? ,after such an exciting experience and a week of fulfilled expectations we head back across the water to bergerac an average distance of 500 miles where once again we aim to supply our members with yet another enjoyable experience ,just a reminder on finishing that once again the birds are to be race marked on mon 8th july ,a day earlier than advertised to liase with our convoying organisation on the tuesday ,the cost for this event is £3 per entry ,
on finishing we would like to pass on our thanks to our official photographer mr chris Sutton for visiting the leading lofts in this week`s report
and result and to everyone behind the scenes in the wnrf and cscfc, who`s hard work paid off not only in getting the birds to the liberation site but there welfare and ensuring them a safe passage home
tom harris
with the formalities brought to a close ,we can finally reflect on the past few days not only did these game pigeons give themselves and their owners recognition for their efforts but also highlighted the standards that our organisation is currently achieving
so where do we go from here? ,after such an exciting experience and a week of fulfilled expectations we head back across the water to bergerac an average distance of 500 miles where once again we aim to supply our members with yet another enjoyable experience ,just a reminder on finishing that once again the birds are to be race marked on mon 8th july ,a day earlier than advertised to liase with our convoying organisation on the tuesday ,the cost for this event is £3 per entry ,
on finishing we would like to pass on our thanks to our official photographer mr chris Sutton for visiting the leading lofts in this week`s report
and result and to everyone behind the scenes in the wnrf and cscfc, who`s hard work paid off not only in getting the birds to the liberation site but there welfare and ensuring them a safe passage home
tom harris
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