At 8:37am On Thursday 6th June Kingsmead School clocked in from the Agen National / International race. The pigeon Timed in was a gift bird from a local fanciers Paul Sims and George Fowell she was raced by the partnership as a young bird and the pupils at Kingsmead managed to break the pigeon in to the school loft. As a Yearling Kingsmead sent her to the MNFC Bordeaux 553 miles and timing her in as a to come 19th SW section 83rd open this being only her 2nd ever race over the water 1st being as a Young Bird.

 

This this season in January it was decided that she would be prepared especially for this race. She was sent in preparation to the National Flying Club Messac  that turned out to be a very bad race however she returned 1 week after and she was in great condition. The students then paired her up and raced her on the natural system, she was sitting 14 day old eggs on the day of basking and returned on Thursday morning over a week later to continue to sit and be reunited with her Cock who was himself 20th I Section from the National Flying Club Tarbes race on Tuesday 4th July and was also a pigeon that was broken in from Paul and George. This pair have been paid up all season and 2 of their Young Birds have been sent to the South Africa Million Dollar Pigeon Race for the 2018 race so fingers crossed they can perform on the same level as their parents.