Strong wind blows birds home

RIVERPARK Pigeon Club’s Winburg races 3 and 4 on Saturday were completely different to the week before due to the fairly strong south westerly wind which basically blew the birds home.

Members had two to three birds arriving at the same time and 30 old birds (two years and older) were clocked at the various lofts within two minutes and 25 seconds. The young birds’ (yearlings) 30 positions were clocked within four minutes and 30 seconds.

Flip van Staden won the young bird race with a four-second margin from Sky Lofts’ Corrie Möller. Fred van Rensburg won the old bird race with an eight-second margin from Tallies Lofts’ Tallie Taljaard.

The final results for the young birds were:

Flip van Staden 1st, 9th, 10th & 30th; Sky Lofts 2nd and 15th; Doves Nest Guest House 3rd, 4th, 5th, 23rd and 26th; Tallies Lofts 6th, 7th and 14th; Holtzhausen Hokke 8th; Albert Neilson 11th and 12th; G & E Lofts 13th; Fred van Rensburg 16th; Koos Botha 17th and 29th; Reinhold Brichta 18th, 20th, 27th and 28th; Nollie de Villiers 19th and 24th; Hilton Pitout 21st, 22nd and 25th.

Old bird results:

Fred van Rensburg 1st; Tallies Loft 2nd, 5th, 10th, 11th and 24th; Reinhold Brichta 3rd, 7th, 14th, 19th, and 23rd; Pieter van den Broeck 4th; Albert Neilson 6th, 13th, 27th, 28th and 30th; Connie Coertse 8th; Holtzhausen Hokke 9th; Knoesen Lofts 12th, 22nd and 25th; Sky Lofts 15th and 16th; Blackie Swart 17th and 18th; Pine Pienaar 20th and 21st; Nollie de Villiers 26th; Doves Nest Guest House 29th.

This coming weekend the liberation point is in Bloemfontein.