“Rose of Sharon” wins the 2013 Portland Combine |
| by admin in Racing News on 22/01/2014 - 23:29:56 |
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The 2013 combine winner from Portland was “Rose of Sharon” which was also the East Down Combine winner at the same race. The Portland race saw 1136 fanciers sending 3546 birds from the following federations
 The first ever combine result to be released in 2010 included all of the Irish Combines & Federations racing from the race-point in France, generally held on the first Friday in June. The EDC, NIPA ,UF, EC, ISRF and IHUNFC were at St Malo on June 28th 2013 - all Irish organisations. The weather was unsuitable for a liberation and the birds were held over until Sunday when the decision was made to move the birds back into England to Portland with the hope of a race on Monday the 1st of July. The birds got away on Monday morning into a westerly wind. The top combine velocity of the day went to the Dundonald partnership of Stephen Brown & Sons, with a velocity of 1190.736. They timed their two year blue hen “Rose of Sharon” at 4.42pm to win the Combine from Portland. This bird also won the East Down Combine and the “Millar Gold Cup” for the best bird in the IHU from this event. The combine race was to prove a difficult race with just 338 birds home in the three days. “Rose of Sharon” was one of few young birds that Stephen bought in 2011 from Mamwell Bros of Louth in Lincolnshire who race in the NRCC. She is a small pigeon and as a yearling she flew Penzance for Stephen and is described by Stephen as a " steady racer". She was selected at the start of the 2013 season for the Old Bird St. Mallow race in 2014 and went to the race on a semi-widowhood roundabout system as she was sharing a cock with another hen. Congratulations to the Browns on another outstanding performance and winning the combine trophy sponsored by Pigeonlink.com. The trophy and framed certificate will be presented to Stephen over the coming week.  pigeonlink.com Portland Combine 2013 trophy and certificate The first 10 combine positions are listed below and the full list are available on the web site pigeonlink.com. 1 1 S.Brown & Sons ED C Dundonald HPS 1190.736 2 1 J Brush NIPA Banbridge Social GB 11 K 19638 1142.55 3 2 G Benson NIPA Lisburn & District GB 11 L 6825 1140.77 4 3 J Douglas & Son NIPA Lurgan Social GB 9 C 11135 1133.96 5 2 L & H Fields ED C Hillfoot HPS 1128.314 6 4 Kerri Hagans NIPA Horse Shoe Hps GB 11 H 14149 1127.18 7 5 C & H Beattie NIPA Gilford GB 12 H 3632 1126.6 8 3 J. McGreevy ED C Crossgar HPS 1121.676 9 6 J C Reid NIPA Ballycarry GB 10 B 18840 1121.47 10 1 T Kearney UF 1121 Runners up were J Brush NIPA Banbridge NIPA . The two largest organisations are the NIPA and the ISRF with 482 of the NIPA membership sending 1697 birds and 307 members of the ISRF sending 829 birds In the first 100 the different federations had the following members in the result NIPA - 71 fanciers EDC - 11 fanciers UF - 8 fanciers ISRF - 5 fanciers EC - 3 fanciers EC+IHUNFC - 1 fancier IHUNFC - 1 fancier The top 4 fanciers with more than one pigeon in the combine result were :
St Malo/Portland is the blue ribbon and longest race of the season for all the organisations being liberated. This is the forth year that a combine result has been made and trophy awarded for the fastest bird in to Ireland from St Malo/Porland. 2013 Combine winner partnership of Stephen Brown & Sons, Dundonald ,velocity 1190.736. Stephen was also the winner of the Miller gold cup from Portland  2012 Combine winner M. Wilkinson NIPA ,Wilton Cross Velocity 1455 Where 1001 fanciers sent 3095 birds, also topping Section “E” E. & J. McCambley Cup from St. Malo. The 2012 Combine trophy was sponsored by Pigeonlink.com. M. Wilkinson NIPA ,Wilton Cross is also 2013 INFC National Champion.  Anthony McDonnell & Sid Collins with the 2013 INFC National Champion Maurice Wilkinson, Wilton Cross. 2011 Combine winner Kelly - Newman & sons Ballymun ISRF where 1190 fanciers sent 3430 birds . Also winner of miller gold cup and I S R F open. The 2011 Combine trophy was sponsored by Seamus Lehan IHU southern region secretary  2010 Combine winner George Cully ISRF of Dublin was the first combine winner from the St Malo competition also A MILLER GOLD Cup and I S R F open winner. The 2010 Combine trophy was sponsored and presented by E Fitzgerald IHU and INFC President.  The Pigeonlink.com website is sponsoring prize money of 500 Euro for the first fancier who is a member of a federation in good standing with the fastest velocity into Ireland from the St. Mallow (France) race in 2014. All 800 members of the ISRF are now fully subscribed members of Pigeonlink.com. Any fanciers, clubs or federations who will race from St. Malo to Ireland, and are PigeonLink.com subscribers, will be entitled to compete for the 500 euro prize money in 2014. Pigeonlink.com enables secretaries to display club and federation race results on the internet as soon as they are entered, and from these results federation and combine results are automatically generated. Fanciers can also view liberation videos and read news articles supplied by club and federation members. All fanciers can join Pigeonlink.com free to avail of these facilities - "Fliers go free !!". In the 2014 season Pigeonlink.com will provide weekly averages for subscribing clubs or federations displaying the Top 10 fanciers, clubs and pigeons in your club or federation. This will mean that all members of clubs or federations in good standing with Pigeonlink.com will be able to track their position and points within their clubs and federations on a weekly basis. If your club or federation has a web site, this information can be embedded on your website on a weekly bases also. It is also planned that at the end of the season each fancier will be able to print off all their own federation, section and club positions for the racing year 2014 - provided their club or federation have submitted the results every week to Pigeonlink.com. So make your secretarie's life easier - Clubs and Federations can subscribe their members at a low cost 1 euro per member per year. For further information visit Pigeonlink.com or e-mail info@pigeonlink.com. M Roche PRO I.S.R.F |
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