Yearling National coming up this weekend
Riverpark will also send its “hat draw” nominations
ON Saturday, Gauteng Pigeon Union (GPU) liberated the pigeons from Gariep Dam, which is an average distance of 560km for Riverpark Pigeon Club (RPC) members.
Riverpark had 14 members flying 195 birds in the young bird race and 17 members flying 272 birds in the open race.
When the pigeons were liberated there were clear skies and no wind. The old birds managed to narrow the 45 minutes between the liberation times by 20 minutes as the winning old bird had a net flying time of six hours 43 minutes one second, compared to the winning young birds’ net flying time of seven hours three minutes 35 seconds.
This race saw Hilton Pitout beating Tallies Loft (Jan Taljaard) by a margin of 30 seconds in the young bird race and novice flyer, Bakgat Lofts (Danalien Snyman) was fourth.
Young bird results:
Hilton Pitout 1st, 16th, 20th; Tallies Lofts (Jan Taljaard) 2nd, 3rd, 12th, 19th; Bakgat Lofts (Danalien Snyman) 4th; Pieter van den Broeck 5th, 6th, 18th, 27th; Doves Nest Guest House 7th, 8th, 25th, 28th; Fred van Rensburg 9th; Reinhold Brichta 10th, 11th, 13th, 21st; Blackie Swart 14th, 30th; Le Roux Lofts (Pieter le Roux) 15th; Albert Neilson 17th; Sky Lofts (Corrie Moller) 22nd, 24th, 26th; Knoesen Lofts (Attie Knoesen) 23rd and G&E Lofts (Graham Cheary & Elaine Russell) 29th.
Old bird results:
With the old bird race, Beano Daschner was placed second this week by a margin of 48s by Pine Pienaar.
Pine Pienaar 1st, 8th,19th; Beano Daschner 2nd, 22nd; Le Roux Lofts (Pieter le Roux) 3rd, 23rd; Doves Nest Guest House (Gawie Botha) 4th, 17th, 18th, 28th; Hilton Pitout 5th, 10th, 30th; Henry Mostert 6th; Tallies Lofts (Jan Taljaard) 7th, 11th; Sky Lofts (Corrie Moller) 9th; Knoesen Lofts (Attie Knoesen) 12th; Reinhold Brichta 13th, 20th, 27th; Blackie Swart 14th, 24th, 25th, 26th, 29th; Connie Coertse 15th; Fred van Rensburg 16th and Pieter van den Broeck 21st.
Saturday is going to be a very interesting race day as there are two young bird races from Colesberg (no open race), in which fanciers’ R200 ring nominations will compete.
The second race is also the Yearling National and the points scored will be allocated to the open bird scheme.
Riverpark will also send its “hat draw” nominations – three young birds who were nominated on the first night of basketing – to these races.
KOSMOS Pigeon Club’s race results from Gariep Dam on Saturday were:
Young birds: Macdee Lofts 1st, 14th, 27th; Hans de Noon 2nd, 10th, 12th, 29th; Hannes Maree (Team 2) 3rd, 6th, 19th; AM Wilken 4th; Stander Lofts 5th, 7th, 8th, 16th, 28th; Jaco van der Westhuizen 9th, 11th, 13th, 17th, 22nd; K & L Meintjies 15th, 21st; Essie’s Lofts 18th; BAC Flight 20th; Hannes Maree 23rd, 24th; Van Heerden Hokke 25th; JK Lofts 26th, 30th.
Open birds: AM Wilken 1st, 5th, 10th, 20th, 26th, 27th; Tielie Kotze 2nd, 19th, 28th; Stander Lofts 3rd, 7th, 13th, 22nd, 24th; Jaco van der Westhuizen 8th; Hannes Maree 4th, 16th; Van Heerden Hokke 6th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 14th; BAC Flight 15th, 21st; Essie’s Lofts 17th, 23rd, 29th; Macdee Lofts 18th, 25th; Panorama Lofts 30.
