I’m pleased to be able to tell you that our proposed combine met with no opposition and has now been affiliated to the Southern Region. This will give Solent Federation members the opportunity to race formally with the Dorset, Southampton and Sussex NR federations and provide results (down to 100th place), prize cards (first 20) and trophies to the lucky winners !

I have attached a copy of the Combine rules and ask that you make your members aware by providing them with a copy. We used the Solent fed rules as a template to work on and adapted to the combine so much of it may be familiar to you and your members. One important point to note is that there is no restriction on the number of birds clocked by an individual to count in the combine result.

As there is no prize money to be won we would be most grateful if you could ask amongst your members to see if anyone would like to donate or sponsor a prize/s, open to all members of the combine, for the any of the 3 races Hexham, Kelso and Perth. To start the ball rolling Dave Mitchell has kindly offered a single bird nomination prize of £50 on each of the three races and I am sponsoring a £50 prize, or trophy to the value of, for the best average velocity of a single bird clocked in over the three races.

Finished loading at 22:30. Arrived at 24:00 watered birds. Call Tony at 07:00 weather on site not good, overcast with a strong sw wind. we both decided to hold on as the weather is improving. Topped up waters. Call Tony at 10:00 all good onsite and the route home.

Liberated at 10:15 into a strong sw wind all cleared well

Having made his enquiries with regard to the weather situation this weekend, your race controller has advised that there is very little possibility that it will suitable to liberate our birds either Saturday or Sunday.

I have spoken to the executive committee and, taking in to consideration the need to advise the RPRA and also the booking requirements for the  Stratford lib site, rather than cancel the race altogether we will basket on Sunday for a race on Monday, basketing times as usual.

Kind regards

Lee