HOMING NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2928, 27 April 1910, Page 58

HOMING NOTES.

By Maosta Mealy. The first young-bird race for this season was flown on Saturday from Qamn.ru—an air-line distance of 60 mike. The weather was fine, with a strong south-east wind against the pigeons. The birds were liberated by Mr Clark at 12.30 p.m. One hundred and twenty-six pigeons competed, representing 25 lofts. The race resulted as follows: J. Riaeh's Firefly (time, lhr 50smin; velocity, 923yds 2ft sin) 1 J. Knowles's Flying Fox (time, lhr 51min; velocity, 923yds Oft Bin) 2 P. Clark's Miss Jean G. (time, lhr 54imin; velocity, 920yds 2ft 6in) 3 T. Veitch's Theresa V. II (time, lhr 56|min; velocity, 916yds Ift sin) 4 A. Stone's Jerome II ttime, lhr 56min; velocity; 916yds Oft 7in) 5 B. J. Finnegan's Lady Soffle (time, lhr 54min; velocity, 915yds Ift, Sin) 6 A. Hunt's bird (time, lhr 56$min; velocity, 913yds 2ft Bin) 7 R. Umbers's bird (time, lhr 51gmin; velocity, 910yds Oft llin) 8 Firefly, the winner of last Saturday's race., is by Fireworks 11, by Fireworks, ex Lady Butts; dam by Bonne Blue, ex Miss Edmonc'son. Flying Fox, the second bird, is by Didcot Lad, by Jeah Gerardy, ex Lady Didcoc, dam Nancy Jane. Miss Jane C?.; the'third bird, "is by Jean Gerardy lit, ex La Gxiselda. . Thereto V fi. is by Strath* avon 11, ex No Name, by Scotchman, ex Wahine. Jerome II is from a pair of imported Duerincks from Belgium. Lady Soffle is by Mons. Soffle, ex Lad> Delmotte: The. rase was . very : close .considering the strong head wind. . The placed birds we-Ai in fine .racing condition: Some of the young members' pigeons were late in arriving; through the owners fiot being sufficiently conversant .with, conditioning « pigeon—a matter which., is gained by fjxperiehoo: Nowadays it does not matter'.how vr-Jl n bird is must be well trained to have a chance of wioiiksw "out.ueii/ici; beinsr so keen. ™

In Reply to " Rangiova."— th flock races all tho hampers are opened at the same time and all the pigeons liberated together. Interval Racing.—The owners draw for pen numbers, and each pen, commencing with No. 1 pen, is liberated at intervals of five minutes or more as requested. To be successful in interval racing it is necessary to have your bird or bird'i tossed prev.ously from the race point unless the pigeon ia an* experienced one and has been raced from the same pla.ee. It will then leave the town immediately it is released. In flock-racing you need not go to the race point, as there are always some experienced birds to give the novices a lead. Several old fanciers never send their birds to where the race is from, but jump them. in; but these birds have a lot of flying around the loft.