![]() ![]() This led him to concentrate briefly in his Football and he played semi-professionally for a while. He first raced pigeons as a lad in the 1980’s in Worcester but in 1995 a Fox got in his loft and killed them all. Known to his close friends as “Dixie” he decided to ask the local farmer if he would allow him to place a loft on a piece of grazing land to the rear of his small garden, to which he readily agreed, and a 24 foot loft was acquired from Tranter Lofts which is all that Dixie needed to continue his successes of previous years. The overall winner was Dean Cartmel of Stoullton in Worcestershire who had recently returned to his love of pigeon racing in 2016 after extensively renovating his new home three years ago. ![]() The convoyer reported that the pigeons cleared the area immediately and that the forecast for the channel showed good conditions with the winds around 8-11 mph. The first race of the season for the Midlands National Flying Club which took place from Carentan, France, was kindly sponsored by Bamfords Top Flight UK and total of 4442b were entered by 441 lofts which were liberated into a light north west wind at 7:45am. ![]()
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