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                        TARBES 2013
                                                          SPONSORED BY 
           
THE WELSH NORTH ROAD FEDERATION

                               1st centre section 1st open   
                                    FLYING 607 MILES
                            PADFIELD FAMILY 
                                            (cwmtillery)

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dave & vince padfield wnfc winners of 1st & 2nd section 1st & 2nd open tarbes 607 miles
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1st section 1st open tarbes 2013
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2nd section 2nd open tarbes 2013
                                                                                             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


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mr & mrs j humphrys&son 3rd section 3rd open tarbes
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3rd centre section 3rd open tarbes 2013
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

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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 ,
 

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m& j hughes
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hadden & sons 1st south section
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
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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 

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1ST CENTRE SECTION      1ST OPEN        PADFIELD FAMILY                           v 831.87                  MON 17.24.14
2ND CENTRE SECTION    2ND OPEN      PADFIELDFAMLY                              v800 .76                 MON 18.14.08
3RD  CENTRE SECTION    3RD OPEN      MR & MRS J HUMPHRYS &SON   v778.87                  MON 19.01.35
4TH CENTRE SECTION    4TH OPEN       PADFIELD FAMILY                           v634.22                 TUES 06.04.19
5TH CENTRE SECTION     5TH OPEN      PADFIELD FAMILY                           V587.31                 TUES 08.18.59
6TH CENTRE SECTION     6TH OPEN      DAVIES & HAINES                             v586.65                TUES 08.07.10
7TH CENTRE SECTION      7TH OPEN      PADFIELD FAMILY                           v 496.17                TUES 13.53.07
8TH CENTRE SECTION     8TH OPEN      M & J HUGHES                                   v477.26                 TUES 15.07.33
1ST SOUTH SECTION         9TH OPEN      HADDEN &SON                                  v317.170                WED   14.56.51
9TH CENTRE SECTION     10TH OPEN    M BURRIDGE&SON                           V301.24                WED 19.15.19

                                 
                                                          RACE CLOSED
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day by day account


MONDAY ,RACE UPDATE AT 2.45  NO BIRDS RECORDED AS YET



1st pigeon recorded   padfield family 17.24.14          centre
                                       padfield family 18.14.08 2nd arrival   centre
                        mr mrs j humphrys &son 19.01.35      centre


congratulations to the leading three pigeons and respected fanciers  we are hoping for  a few more tomorrow 

tuesday 0930 update

padfield family   06.04.19  centre
davies & haines  08.07.10    centre
padfield family   08.18.59   centre
padfield family    13.53.0 centre
m& j hughes        15.07.33 centre



next update 22.30
no more arrivals today ,another day tomorrow !!!!!

wednesday 15.30
hadden &son 14.56.51 south section

latest update at 6pm shows just the one arrival today
next update at 22.30

M BURRIDGE & SON 19.15.19 CENTRE SECTION


UNFORTUNATELY THE RACE WILL CLOSE AT  220 YPM GOOD LUCK TO THOSE STILL LOOKING OUT FOR AN ARRIVAL

remember the hours of darkness 22.30 till 04.30  

it has been approved that the 1 hr rule has been  waivered for tarbes due to fanciers working and all arrivals are to  be  verified by 6pm on the day of clocking with no exceptions!!!!!!! birds after 6pm come under the 1hr rule

                       
TARBES
   THE next UPDATE REGARDING TOMORROWS  LIBERATION WILL BE @ 8 AM

friday  birds heldover


rain at liberation site continuing
up as far as bordeaux    

saturday update 0800
birds heldover
however there is a very good chance of a liberation tomorrow next
update

08.30 sunday
next update at midday .weather on site is not good
with rain and poor visibility at present ,also line of flight isnt too
good....
12
noon
disscutions are taking place at the moment regarding
current weather conditions a further update willl be announced at 1.30
pm
birds are liberated
at 2pm light southerly winds
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verification
it has been approved that the 1 hr rule has been
waivered for tarbes due to fanciers working and all arrivals are to  be
verified by 6pm on the day of clocking with no exceptions!!!!!!!

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