Second overnight race of the season
On Saturday the birds will be released from Richmond in the Northern Cape
GAUTENG Pigeon Union liberated the pigeons for two races from Colesberg in the Easter Cape on Saturday, which is an average distance of 595km for Riverpark Pigeon Club members.
The winds were blowing strong south-easterly from the liberation point all the way towards Bloemfontein, which would have helped the birds with a relatively good flying velocity. Unfortunately, once the birds got to Bloemfontein, the winds had changed to be either north-westerly or north-north-westerly, which meant they were flying into a head-wind of 4-8 meters a second (14-28km/h).
Because of these strong head winds there were not enough birds home from the second race to strike-out, therefore the union hours of darkness came into effect and these middle distance races became overnight races.
In the first race it took 2 hours 25 minutes and 39 seconds to fill the top 30 positions on the result sheet. Blackie Swart of G & E Lofts (also 13th, 16th and 18th) recorded his seventh win of the season.
The rest of the results were:
Pieter van den Broeck 3rd, 10th and 24th; Holtzhausen Hokke 4th, 9th, 21st, 22nd, 25th, 26th and 29th; Tallies Loft 5th and 15th; Doves Nest Guest House 6th, 11th, 12th, 23rd, 27th and 30th; Albert Neilson 7th, 14th and 20th; Reinhold Brichta 8th and 17th: Pine Pienaar 19th and Nollie de Villiers 28th.
The 30 positions on the result sheet for second race from Colesberg took 2 hours 40 minutes and 38 seconds to fill and for the third week in a row, Rheinhold Brichta (also 14th, 26th and 28th) was the winner by only 47 seconds from Holtzhausen Hokke (also 6th and 8th).
The rest of the results were:
Doves Nest Guest House 3rd, 4th, 10th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 23rd and 27th; Tallies Loft 5th and 19th; Blackie Swart 7th and 22nd; Nollie de Villiers 9th, 13th, 18th, 20th and21st; Pieter van den Broeck 11th and 25th; Fred van Rensburg 24th and 29th and Connie Coertse 30th.
On Saturday the birds will be released from Richmond in the Northern Cape.
Kosmos Pigeon Club’s results:
KOSMOS Pigeon Club’s race results from Colesberg on Saturday were:
Colesberg 3: Van Heerden Hokke 1st, 4th, 30th; Hans De Noon 2nd, 7th, 14th, 20th, 25th; Hannes Maree 3rd, 9th, 15th, 22nd, 23rd, 26th, 28th, 29th; Lucas Klopper 5th, 27th; BAC Flight 6th; Macdee Lofts 8th; Tielie Kotze 10th; Jaco v/d Westhuizen 11th, 16th; AM Wilken 12th, 17th, 21st; Stander Lofts 13th, 19th; Panorama Lofts 18th, 24th.
Colesberg 4: Essie’s Lofts 1st, 26th; Stander Lofts 2nd, 16th, 20th; Jaco v/d Westhuizen 3rd, 5th, 8th, 18th; Panorama Lofts 4th, 30th; Macdee Lofts 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th, 24th, 28th, 29th; Van Heerden Hokke 9th, 15th, 25th; Hannes Maree 10th, 17th, 19th, 27th; AM Wilken 11th, 21st; Hans De Noon 22nd; Tielie Kotze 12th, 23rd.
