MNFC Midland National Flying Club

Our 2-year-old blue chequer cock, flown on our Chaos system, has been a model of consistency and determination over the past two seasons, continually proving his class against top competition.

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2025 Season Highlights

This year he has once again excelled, with a series of outstanding results including:
• 2nd National – Vire
• 1st Open Federation
• 17th Open Fed – Stoney Cross
• 12th Open Fed – Stoney Cross
• 1st Club, 6th Open Fed – Upper Heyford

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2024 Season Performances

As a yearling he was equally impressive, showing early signs of his quality and reliability with:
• 9th Open Fed – Stoney Cross
• 3rd Open Fed – Bradford (beaten only by two loftmates)
• 5th Open Fed – Stoney Cross

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Pedigree

This cock’s bloodlines are steeped in proven winners. He is bred from a cock obtained from Ace Lofts, a son of “Milo”, the exceptional Verkirk pigeon who has sired multiple top national performers. The dam of the sire is “Ruby”, the famous 1st National BICC winner, and one of Ace most influential hens.

On the dam’s side, he is out of our good racing hen “26”, herself a triple Federation winner with numerous other top performances to her name. She too carries the Ruby bloodline, being a granddaughter of Ruby—bringing the winning genes from both sides of the pedigree together in this outstanding cock.


Trevor and I both felt he was in exceptional condition going into the Fougères race—if anything, even better than before Vire—and we were confident he would put up another big result. Unfortunately, fate had other plans. He failed to make it home on the day, and when he did return the following morning, it was clear he had survived a serious peregrine strike, coming back with half a wing missing.

While that injury has ended his season, it also showed his unbelievable heart and determination to still make it home despite the damage.


This blue chequer cock embodies everything we value in a racer: speed, consistency, heart, and pedigree. With bloodlines directly linking back to Milo and Ruby of Aesop’s, and out of our proven hen 26, his performances have fully justified the class in his breeding. A truly exceptional pigeon and one we are proud to have in our loft.

Sincere congratulations to the winner and all who timed, on a testing day. I was delighted to see my well-fancied yearling hen arrive. She has been first back to the loft on three occasions this year. She is raced on a celibacy system, and she is a very rank hen - always dropping her tail when someone enters the loft! Her breeding is Kittel P&D lines, on the sire’s side and J Hay & Sons, Van Herck lines on the dam’s side.

Firstly congratulations to Mr Pether on winning the Vire MNFC National, my 4th Open 4th Section is a 5 year old hen bred from pigeons gifted to us in 2016 when I moved from Bristol from good friends Joe Thompson, Matt & Richard Lee. In 2021 in a Midshires any age race my Cheq Hen had highest velocity. She has also performed well in NFC 8th Section, and MNFC old hens 2nd SE Section. She has also bred a winner for Venky Reo of Didcot being 1st Club 2nd BBO Fed. Venky also had 2 youngsters from her for 2025 season

1st NW section against a fantastic turn out of 902 birds and 13th Open is the Fowler Family of Leek. The winning bird is a 6 year old Widowhood cock, a previous winner including 25th Open National at 528 Miles, arriving early next morning having been hawked the previous day. The winning bird was quickly followed by subsequent timings to take provisionally 1st, 3rd and 4th section. The partnership would like to take the opportunity to thank Nathan Foulkes and his superb team for the excellent in providing a marking station at Stoke.