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Marion Seaton Annan, Crombie & Mechan, Annan, Ian Lowe Glasgow, Jackie Wishart Kirkcaldy, John Cosgrove & son Lesmahagow, Stuart Mullan of Port Glasgow, John Anderson of Dundee, Mr& Mrs Chris Little East Riggs Annan Jim Smith of Polmont and Barry McCrindle & Son Glasgow Our second AGM was held on the 10 th of February 2007 in Loanhead Edinburgh when around, 80 staunch members were present. The officials elected for 2007 were the President George Wilson, Senior Vice president Ken Buchanan, Junior vice president John Baillie, Secretary Jessie Keir, their were 6 committee members not seeking re-election and the following new committee members were elected, Ian Ross of Glasgow, Chris Little of Annan, Grant Caird of Monifeith, Stuart Bowman of Cowdenbeath, Robert Reid of Beith, and John Gray of Falkirk. Elected for a third term were 13 of the original committee. Our second presentation function was held on the 17 th of February and 180 guests were present, our top table guests were Mr & Mrs Peter Bryant the Manager of the RPRA and Mr & Mrs Steve Richards the Editor of the British Homing World, once again the evening was a great success with Wilf Flockart receiving the John Fairbairn memorial Shield from Johns Daughters and Jimmy Hamilton being made an Honorary member of the SNRPC with most winners being present to collect their Medals this in no small way made the evening special. The race programme for 2007 was Wanstead Flats the Inland National on the 2 nd of June, our Premier Gold Medal race from Reims on the 22 nd of June our longer channel race from Tours on the 2 nd of July, with Arras our final channel race on the 20 th of July and the young bird open to be flown from Leicester on the 8 th of September and finally our extreme distance race from Saintes on the 21 st of July. The entries for our 4 old bird races were Wanstead Flats 1110 from 200 members The Gold Medal Race from Reims 575 birds from 150 members Tours with 109 entries and Portsmouth due to no racing from France from the 3 rd of July with 877 birds from 136 members. The last race was our young bird open from Leicester on the 9 th of September had some 700 entries. 2007 was to be plagued with vagrant weather conditions, Northerly winds and rain and once again bird flu on the continent. The havoc caused to pigeon racing by these problems in general is disastrous to say the least and the stress placed on the officials from all quarters of the fancy and the powers that be are immense. However experience and nerves of steel came to the fore and the SNRPC officials managed to complete our race programme of 5 races with adjustments and a reasonable measure of success. The First race was from Wanstead Flats, this was a new liberation site on the outskirts of London and Matthew Boyle our convoyer liberated 1110 entries at 7 am on Saturday the 2 nd of June. It must have been a difficult call for our race controllers Barney Kenny and Willy Gass under the weather conditions prevalent that day but the race turned out to be very successful with a great spread of open winners in all sections. 1 st open went to section E to Dan Mitchell and son of Plains near Airdrie timed at 13.08 velocity 1642 flying 340 miles. 2nd open was to JT Airnes of Clackmannan section D timed at 13.21 velocity 1613 flying 349 miles. 3 rd Open went to Peter
Virtue of Cockburnspath in section B timing his entry at 12.54 flying 317 miles with a velocity of 1579. Peter was also 28 th , 35 th , 61 st and 77 th open. 4 th open went to J D Armour in Leven Fife in section C, flying 343 miles on velocity of 1573. 5 th open went to Section A Mr & Mrs Jimmy Graham timed at 12.12 velocity of 1566 flying 278 miles. Sitting at 12 th open and 1 st section F, was F & W Doonon of Campsie a great open win for section F velocity 1540 for 350 miles. 6 th open went to Denis Dall section C, 7 th open went to Bert Sharp section D 8 th open Mr & Mrs D Skelton section A, 9 th open Micheal Welsh of section B, 10 th open was John Proctor of Kirkcaldy section C. Every section was represented in the first 12 open positions and good returns were reported, a fast race and successful one for the first of the season On Wednesday the 20 th of June 575 pigeons were entered by the SNRPC members for our Gold medal Premier distance race with distances from 504 miles to 595 miles being flown. The period before the liberation of our birds was one of the worst that has been seen for a few years, North winds with heavy rain serious flooding and bird flu found in the east of France. On Tuesday the 26 th of June at 11.35 am the decision was taken after much consultation to liberate and not one person was in any delusion that a very hard race would ensue. The convoy had spent 6 days in the baskets before liberation and would have to face a brisk North West wind on liberation becoming stronger over the channel and the wind remaining Northerly en-route with the added prospects of heavy rain showers. The birds would certainly have to spend one night out and due to the forecast maybe a second. Under normal circumstances one would have expected pigeons around 10 or 11am but the first 3 birds reported were in Chirnside to Tim Hall at 12.58 Tim was flying 525 miles then Jim Benvie at Ladybank timed at 13.28 flying 572 miles and Peter Virtue at Cockburnspath at 13.42 flying 536 miles. 49 Gallant pigeons were timed on that Wednesday and a further 37 pigeons were recorded in race time on the Thursday, 9 of these were early morning pigeons with the last one in race time being timed around 16.00 hrs with a 401 yard velocity to be 83 rd on the sheet, at that point in time a number of other pigeons were reported home but it was obvious that the weather conditions had taken its toll and some good pigeons were missing. Jim Benvie of LADYBANK Fife confirmed that the pigeon he had timed was “Kingdom Boy” his 2 year old cock that had been first Open from Lessay in 2006, it was to be 1 st open Reims wining the Gold Medal and setting another record for the SNRPC. 2 nd open and 1 st section B was Tim Hall of Chirnside and 3 rd open was to Peter Virtue of Cockburnspath Peter had 7 pigeons on the result and 2 more recorded on the 3 rd day 9 out of 10 he was 5 th , 7 th , 19 th , 36 th , 46 th and 56 th open a outdatnding result for Peter. 4 th open went to Dennis Dall of Ladybank timing his 4 year old chequer hen at 15.03 flying 570 miles one Mr Dalls special distance winning family Dennis was also 29 th open and 52 nd open. Tam Currie of Darsie Fife timed at 15.41 to be 6 th open and 3 rd section C flying 375 miles 8 th open 4 th section C was well known distance fancier Jocky King of Kirkcaldy flying 565 miles timing his 3 year old Mealy hen at 15.57, On 9 th open was Billy Davidson and Son being 1 st section E flying 553 miles this partnership was also 37 th , 71 st and 75 th open his 9 th open was timed at 15.31. 10 th open and 2 nd section E went to Vincent Smith of Carluke timing at 15.54 flying 559 miles. 11 th open was Kerr Stainthrope of Lesmahagow and 3 rd section E, Kerr also was 25 th open and a 3rd pigeon on the third day 11.06 In section D John
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