PIGEON RACING

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1938, Page 4

PIGEON RACING

. With -Et: 'brisk helping t vwiiid^. fast time's %ere" made in the..■ -Hutt, Valley Pigeon" Club's, recent race fronrHunterville, a distance of 100 miles., ■: . Following are the first' eight: places. W. Walkers Hesitate .(1505. yards per minute), 1; A. Barnes's Rosie (1491), 2;' Masters "and VKeehe's1' Blue • ;_Ace (1487), 3; Woodward and bons Sana (1484), 4; Philp and Leighton's ,:Red Robe (1484.29), 5;: Reid and, Son s- Rob (1477),■ I.?;^Smith;;?K)d / :Spn>s-98;: (14b5), 8 ■■ The' folio wing day- an interval race was held from the same.lpomt, .Mr. G. Shindler, of- Hunteryille,: liberating the first pair at 7 a.m..'The following were the: only members, .to: ■ tune'in, .the ,;two birds on the--day:-rWoodward,, and ■Sons (pair) C1444:/:y;ardS per minute), 1; Reid and /Son's ./^(pairr (1322), lj Smith and Son's (pair) v (1259), 3; J. Hardgrave'stpair). (11^), 4rW, Walker's (746 and -747) (1176); 5;. Masters and Keene' S .(pair) ,(1130),6; Philp and Leighton's (pair):' (848), 7. .The club also held a race from Manunui, a distance OS 170 miles. Following are the first eight places:—A?: Barnes's Shamrock (1366 yards per minute),!; Keene and Masters's Orac (1351), 2;J. Hardg?ave's Waihi (1223), 3; W.: Walkers Tactful (1219), 4; Woodward and Sons War Ban (1217), ,s;^Reidiand .Son's Rin Tin Tin (1213),' 6; D. Andrews's'EbonJ ite (1210 X- 7;; E. Cox> s Blue_ Eagie (1202)" 8; --The result of the- Palmer-1 ston NorthSace (80 miles) was as fpi l--loWs:^-Philp and Leighton's Pink Robe (1393 yards per minute), 1; W. Walker's (HCH 746) (1388),' 2; Woodward5 arid Son's War Time (1387> r 3; (Bold and Son's Wairakei ' U387.2), 4; J. Hardgrave's Eldorado (1386),- 5; A. Barnes's Hasty (1380.8), 6|.Smith and Son's (550); (1380)^ 7; R. Cox's Darky (1376),. 81 .