THE RACING PIGEON.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 15

THE RACING PIGEON.

CONSISTENT WINNING.

IOVG-DIITAirCS FORM.

TOPICAL CLUB JOTTINGS.

One of the features to be noted each racing season is the consistent winning of a particular loft, and though thei fancier concerned may be a novice or an old hand there are one or two birds in the loft which score heavily. It may be considered that these are super-racers, or birds of a particular strain, or that the loft position is one giving an undue advantage owing to prevailing winds, but it might safely be put down to the condition of the birds. Here and there the experienced fancier finds among hia team of racers a bird which excels in condition, . and for a period of two months, during the peak of perfect condition, this racer may stand out as a wonderful performer. Judicious racing and light breeding may not have brought certain birds forward into perfect racing trim, or they may have been late arrivals in, the first few races, and therefore trapped in leisurely, without fusp or handling, and so. as the weeks pass by, they slowly but surely reach a stage of physical and mental timing which brings them out at the longer stages as extra good racers. This happens often in the case of a fancier racing a fairly large team, where he is unable to attend to the trapping in of every arrival, and Clocks in only a matter of one or two birds each race day. If a few birds have been uumated during the first few races and only commence to breed in. the month of October they put on racing, condition very quickly due to the fact that they are mating at the natural time. The weather is ■' by then more equable, the days are more sunny, and everything tends to develop them much quicker than the birds that have been attending to their second pair of youngsters. r The writer's advice to any fanejej'dfsirous of achieving success over the very long distances races is to re&ip ;:,i»e or two pairs uumated until October, and jto race them very sparingly i»: tha old bird series. With trailing togfjf- Wgplarly arranged from distances of 40 miles every, week,', and final' races ;irom To Kuitl, ObakUri? and yille, the latter |o,be on the Week of training, >liere ol<|*TOj:dß Have in previous years flown the South Island races, they should be tossed straight into' thei Christohurch race; back into two or three North Island ragefe, and tSey will!ftill heiri-peak condition: .for th? second Cbriitchurcb race, jsich is usually the championship eup *»ce. Fanciers cannot expect racing pigeons to retain speed and cpndltloil" for a period of nearly three months, When feeding and looking after two rounds of strong youngsters.- Thg slightest error in ration weight, or the least deviation in the usual daily routine of feeding, will be sufficient to put a feeding racer back iu condition. It is not good practice to race any young ones;oily »tew "days old. It may or may not indiice extra speed; personally, the writer considers it does not, but in any caso ? it' creates mental anxiety, and. musi affect the progeny when their jpft is withheld. As the Pfogeuy tfce y#ar% racing team «>f yearlings thig practice cannot be supported. The Racing Club's attempt at the difficult InyfsrcargiH race will be held on December 1 } aijd nominations at #1 per bird will phortly cloqf with the honorary secretary, Mr. N, WaddfU, Douglas {Street, Ponsonby. Though two attempts have been made to fly from Ipverpftrgill, they have proved' a failureThe actual flying distance, considering the course thg birds will have to take, Will be almost JQOO mile?. A system of measurement advocated by _T. J£Thpmpson, the Aucklap4 authority op survey work, and who" assisted AucMands clubs for yeftrs with their measurements, is to measure to Wellington, and from that point to 4iekland. To strike a line from ißygrcargill to Auckland fey direct air-line may "be correct from point to poipt, but is by no means accurate from a flight angle. .. Tfris problem will shortly 'cogftront fhe chief racing club in Auckland, ]but Until such time as the membership increases auother flfty per cept. the writer \% of opinion th&t ft?tual results wi}l ppt waTrapt the adoption of sectional flying. Undoubtedly tjiere may bo individual fanciers on the extreme east gad WC§t sides of Auckland city who jpsy score yfith. the prevailing wind, but if is well to fepiember those fanciers V wh° have bepn flying for years into thg apex of a triaglfs (as, for example, those lofts situated, in the Heme Bay end ©I Ponsonby), have little to complain of in the present system. The writer scored heavily iu the long «*«e* tp that centre, but did not forget to allot a certam amount of credit to fte positiqp and to overfly, with its corresponding time all°wanee ? whieh in the 500 miles races occasionally amounted to a win without effort, y , .

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