Even though we had to race in the middle of the week, we still had a nice group show up. We met at Roma’s Italian Restaurant in Sallisaw Oklahoma and had some great food. Then we returned to wait for the birds. Each team received a free bag of Des Moines feed. We had a contest to see who could guess the arrival time. Charlie Mayfield was very close and won another bag of Des Moines feed. We had a drawing and gave away 4 prizes of 25 ETS bands each to 4 lucky people.
The birds have just been released and are on their way home. It’s a great day for racing pigeons.
The birds are about to be released from the Troy Texas High School. They will be flying 325 miles back to the home loft. It is a nice day. Very good for pigeon racing.
The race birds are being watered before being released for our final race. They are at Troy Texas, south of Waco. They arrived the evening before and had a good rest.
This is AU 17 CENL 7142. This bird belongs to Marvin Carter from Louisiana. 7142 was 1st through the trap from 225 miles flying 1296 ypm. There were 17 birds on the 1st drop. Marvin had another bird in the 1st drop also. Congratulations Marvin and 7142!
We were happy to have spectators for our 100 mile race. Left to right is Christian Messina, his father Tony Messina, Chuck Kuehl who was last years 300 mile winner, Loretta and Bob Merritt.