No Wetherby on Sunday.

[Buster121]

I know what you mean Andy and I have never set much store on what my youngsters have done as I've also lost plenty that have won as youngsters and on the other hand have won with old birds that were useless as youngsters. Having said that I have always had a decent record in the longest young bird race and have always enjoyed racing it just as I have the longest old bird race. The point is though that I'm getting a bit pissxx off that the distance fanciers are continually over looked these days, our race programme had 13 old bird races and 8 young bird races with only 5 of them over 200 miles !! Out of those 5 we ended up racing only 2 of them if the sprint men don't want to race them then don't send, but don't stop those that want to race them from being able too we voted on a race programme back in the closed season so stick to it !!!

Whilst I agree should stick to what was voted on sometimes things have to change for the welfare of the birds as in this case they think going to be hot and don't want babies to suffer, note the word ''babies'', even in saying that I know when temps have been high they have got them up early so as to give them a chance and even though mornings are darker they should have considered this option

I would agree with you Buster if it was down to pigeon welfare but unfortunately I don't think it has anything to do with this decision, this is purely down to money as this is our breeder buyer race and federation averages. If they'd really looked at the weather they'd have seen that Sunday is going to be cooler with more cloud cover. Sadly it's the sprint men calling the shots again

That does put a different perspective on things and yes I agree with your initial comments knowing that