MNFC Midland National Flying Club

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.