3. 1606   IF 06 SCHO  BC   C   328 Pts  5 race(s) 1789 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     4.   78   IF 06 SCHO  GRIZ C   252 Pts  4 race(s) 1370 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     5. 4297   IF 05 ACC   GRIZ C   252 Pts  4 race(s) 1037 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     6. 6145   IF 06 ACC   BB   C   252 Pts  4 race(s) 1250 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     7. 3536   IF 05 SCHO  BC   C   240 Pts  5 race(s) 1575 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     9.  100   IF 06 SCHO  BB   C   224 Pts  4 race(s)  902 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     12.  62   IF 06 SCHO  BB   C   188 Pts  3 race(s)  617 Miles WALSH LOFT         

    17. 6143   IF 06 ACC   BB   C   180 Pts  2 race(s)  625 Miles WALSH LOFT          

    21.   88   IF 06 SCHO  DC   C   156 Pts  3 race(s)  871 Miles WALSH LOFT         

    30.  135   IF 06 MRC   BLUE H   100 Pts  1 race(s)  206 Miles WALSH LOFT         

    35. 3597   IF 05 SCHO  BB   C    96 Pts  1 race(s)  460 Miles WALSH LOFT         

2006 GNCC CONCOURSE OLD BIRDS

FIRST OVERALL AVERAGE SPEED 2006

 My first old bird season here on the southeast Coast of North Carolina met with moderate success when compared to my past performance with the birds.  With everything taken in to consideration I am quite pleased with my old bird team of nothing but yearlings and them flying against larger teams and  many older birds with considerably more experience.  You also have to realize that I started concourse racing with twenty-nine birds and sent every one of them to the races week after week.  They came banging in time after time and demonstrating their great form, with the widowhood cocks strutting and cooing to their mates as they immediately trapped.  Just watching them it was hard to believe they had flown the distances that they had. 

Every week this team was competing against odds of members shipping fifty birds as that is the Concourse limit.  There were some members that, like myself, believed in sending quality instead of quantity which has always been my practice.  I was beaten in two races by a total of 1/2 second in one race and five seconds in the other.  The birds did their thing and in one of these races  at 200 miles I got greedy and tried to get all five through the traps instead of concentrating on the first one to hit the landing board.  That cost me the win losing by 1/2 a second,  but I still had second through six in the concourse. I won the 300 taking 1,2,3,4,& 5 . On the first 400 I was 4,7,8,9 the second 400 I was 1,2,5,& 6 here is the races below,