Locals compete at Clonmel

Around Coleraine the Hanson & Harper team are the loft to beat and record the best bird in the Coleraine Triangle doing velocity 1210.

Next best in the Coleraine Premier the Diamond Bros had a super card, 6 birds in the club Top 10. Terence McCrudden was back at the top in the County Derry (1195) and Ernie Christie had the all pool winner in the Windsor Social (1148) flying in Sect B.

N.I.P.A. Section B:

Ballymoney Hps 29/854 - 1st&2nd D Dixon 1215,1190, 3rd&4th A&M Boyle 1179,1179, 5th G Holmes 1162, 6th B&I Srewart 1161, 7th C Henry 1160, 8th&9th D&H Stuart 1159,1158, 10th B&I Stewart 1158. D Dixon clocks a yearling cock to chalk up his second win of the season from Clonmel.

Rasharkin & Dist 14/254 - 1st Lucas McNeill 1206, 2nd Milliken & Barkley 1190, 3rd Steele&McNeill 1173, 4th Milliken&Barkley 1172, 5th H Cubitt 1151, 6th Steele&McNeill 1149, 7th Lucas McNeill 1145, 8th W McFetridge 1140, 9th A C&T Tweed 1128, 10th J Robinson&Son 1126. First win of the season for young fancier Lucas McNeill, Milliken&Barkley second Steele&McNeill third. Nom Lucas McNeill DTW Lucas McNeill. D Dixon 1215,1190,1181,1169,1165,1165 race kindly sponsored by J F Car Sales Ballymoney.

Dervock RPS 10/349 - 1st&2nd A&M Boyle 1179,1179, 3rd&4th D&H Stuart 1159,1158, 5th D&G McMullan 1138, 6th&7th J Hutchinson&Son 1135,1135, 8th D&G McMullan 1131, 9th J Walker 1128, 10th D Devenney 1123.

Ballymoney West Combine 9/301 - 1st B&I Stewart 1161, 2nd C Henry 1160, 3rd W Blair 1150, 4th RJ Elliott 1144, 5th D Laverty 1138, 6th D Gage 1137, 7th J Hutchinson&Son 1135, 8th L Neill 1124, 9th J McDowell&Sons 1099. B&I Stewart win their first race of the season with a Van Reet cock flying on roundabout.

On a different day it was another super race for the NIPA birds back at Clonmel for the fifth race of the old bird programme. Liberation was at 10.15am in a NE wind which was fairly strong in Southern Ireland. Although not as fast as the week previous the birds still made very good time and the best bird locally was timed again by Danny Dixon who has made a fantastic start to the season. He had 1st Club in Ballymoney doing velocity 1215 and tops the Mid Antrim Combine for the third time this year. He had already won 1st, 3rd & 5th MAC in the Tullamore (1) race on the opening day and followed that up a fortnight later with 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th MAC Roscrea. His winner this week, a Blue Ch yearling cock racing widowhood was timed at 2.50pm flying 190 miles. Bloodlines are his latest introduction of Jean Willams he had four of those in the first five to the loft. The winner was one of the Magnificent Eight, the day he had the top eight in the Mid Antrim Combine.

Mid Antrim Combine Clonmel (2) 125/2,834 – D Dixon Rasharkin 1215, H Smyth & Son Broughshane 1214, H Boyd Kells 1207, L McNeill Rasharkin 1206, J & N Simpson Broughshane 1204, W & J Smyth Ballymena 1203, Scott & Clements Kells 1202, Scott & Clements 1202, Scott & Clements 1201, Young McManus & Sons Ahoghill 1201, H Boyd Kells 1198, T & M Morrow Kells 1195, J & N Simpson 1194, G Connolly Broughshane 1194, Young McManus & Sons 1194, A McBride Harryville 1193, R McFall & Son New Antrim 1192, J Millar Randalstown 1192, H Boyd Kells 1191, K & K Kernohan & Sons Harryville 1190, D Dixon 1190, H & R McCloy Cullybackey 1190, T & M Morrow 1190, Milliken & Barkley 1190, Blair & Rankin Ballymena 1189, McFall & McManus New Antrim 1188, C Magill New Antrim 1188, G Connolly 1187, Russell Bros Cullybackey 1187, S Millar Randalstown 1187.