NRCC

Races Dunbar Saturday May 18th Basket Friday Perth Saturday June 1st Basket Thursday Fraserburgh June 15th Basket Thursday Lerwick Saturday 29th June Basket Wednesday Thurso Saturday July 13th Basket Thursday YB Dunbar Saturday September 14th Basket Friday Old Hens Saturday September 14th Basket Friday (Independent Liberation) Dunbar Young Bird Futurity September 21st Basket Friday

An introduction from Ian Bellamy; Just a few words for the Dunbar YB & OH race. There were 1077 YB birds entered by 92 members for the 2023 NRCC Dunbar race. The race is sponsored by the NRCC to the tune of £500 to the race winner, this prize money is generated by the sale

With mother nature again dictating in her usual unpredictable way the unsettled conditions that swept the country over the weekend of the race meant that convoyer Darren Shepherd had to call two holdovers for the Saturday and Sunday with an eventual liberation on Monday 17th July at 8:45 in to a West, North West wind.

The prestigious and biggest race on the NRCC calendar, the Lerwick Kings cup race sponsored by Aviform, did not disappoint in its stubbornness weather-wise and rather than mother nature allowing a nice, straight forward liberation from the beautiful Island of Lerwick on its calendared race day, it decided to make the fanciers wait and while

The third NRCC race saw a liberation from glorious Fraserburgh and with East in the wind again for the third of the NRCC races, it did again favour the inland flyer and with the Calverton marking station hosting the previous two NRCC open winners, it was all eyes on the verification website to see who

The second race point on the program for the NRCC saw convoyer, Darren Shepherd, transporting the members pigeons on a two-day stayaway journey up to Perth. With marking taking place on the Thursday, the members arrived at the Wyberton marking station early and, like the Dunbar race two weeks previously, the line of fanciers and

The build-up and anticipation for the first NRCC race of the season did not disappoint. With the marking stations filling up from the moment the doors opened the stage was certainly set and the buzz of conversations between those waiting patiently in line focused mainly on what the thoughts were on the impending race. The