Saxon Valley Transporter Fund

The SVCC committee voted in favour to start raising funds towards a new transporter,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Thames North Fed have voted to sell their Geraldy backed transporter, with some keen and clever knowhow, we have managed to agree a figure from them to sell it to the SVCC, however this just needs to go to their AGM at the end of Nov. 

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The transporter will cost £20,000. The funds will be a mixture of our savings and interest free loans from SVCC members, the members who are loaning the money are the following. 

(The loan has been drawn up by a solicitor)

SVCC Savings £7500

James Boyd £2500

Daniel Whatling £2500

Ray Chapman £2500

Dean Carter £2500

Kris Mulley £2500

= £20,000

(The savings figure may alter as fundraising is already ongoing.)​

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There will be a number of fundraising events going on.

The first one has now finished, which was an online auction which can be found on the 

Whitby Stray Centre Facebook page.
 

LOT 1 - SOLD FOR £700 TO JD PIGEONS

Lot 1, Mark Gilbert ( Southfield lofts ) has been very kindly donated to the Saxon Valley transport fund by Mark Gilbert of Southfield lofts.

Mark does not need any introduction to anyone, we all know Mark's achievements in the sport.

The pigeon he has donated is a 2024 pigeon and has one flight left to throw. The pigeon is from his marathon pigeon lines from Barcelona 2024.

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LOT2 - SOLD FOR £70 TO ALAN PARKER

Lot 2, is from Kirk Bullen who has kindly donated a pair of Young birds.

Here are his best achievements:

1st NFC Dax 5th international

1st pau BICC 1st international

1st BICC Poitiers

1st BICC Fougeres

Kirk is also a very keen club racer; you can see his performance on his wife’s YouTube channel. Youtube.com/Bullenloft2.0

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LOT 3 - SOLD FOR £100 TO K&D CARTER 

This is a young bird from Leon Prince. 

This bird will be bred from his stock team.

This year Leon had had a number of accomplishments with 5 fed 1st's out of up to 3800 birds in North Staffordshire federation.

Combined average and highest points 2024.

Midlands National section averages 2024.

Leon needs no introduction, this young bird will be a great addition to your team!

This bird will be ready in May 2025.

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LOT4 - SOLD FOR £100 TO DAN WHATLING

LOT 4 Is a pair of young birds from Tony Calver of Ipswich, who is without a doubt a great sprint racer in the Saxon Valley. The pair that Tony has offered will be from his Van Den Bulck x Pitbull family,

This is what Tony has achieved this year which speaks for itself.

1st club x12

2nd club x12

1st Fed x3

2nd Fed x 11

He won his club old bird averages which he has done for many years. The pair will be ready in the early Part of next year in the breeding season.
 

LOT 5 - SOLD FOR £500 TO STEVE ONEAL

LOT 5 Is a pair of young birds from Lee Fribbins

Is A direct pair of young birds from GWP MACALONEY.

They are offered by Lee Fribbins who recently purchased them from Macaloneys total loft sale.

Lee bought the very best they had to offer.

The pair will be available this coming breeding season

The pair that Lee has donated to this auction will be bred the same way as the ones that were auctioned off by Les Green on Saturday at Doncaster, making an average of £450 each.

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LOT 6 - SOLD FOR £195 TO JULIE BLUNT

Lot 6 is a pair of young birds from Sam and Bill Davis,

 Who have dominated the Colchester invitation club in the 2024 season. This is a very competitive club with some other great fanciers in it. This season alone, they have one.

13 x 1st club

14 x 2nd club

15 x 3rd club

7 x 4th club

And have topped the Thames North a number of times in the 2024 season.

The pair will be two 2025 young birds bred from their very best breeding pair, Lambrecht, Leo Herman, Gert Haylen blood, very successful sprint lines for them. This pair are responsible for many multiple winners, this season their best yearling cock was a direct son and could’ve won 3 races if he hit the timing pad first. And their Thames winner this season was also a son of this pair. It's a Super pair 💥💥💥 They will be grandchildren of world-famous racer and breeder splendid bolt.

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LOT 7 - SOLD FOR £80 TO ALAN PARKER

LOT 7 is a young bird from D. Wilton & Son 

This young bird will be ready early next year, it'll be the buyer's choice of either short or long distance.

The Wilton trio dominates from both distances as you can see from this year’s performances.

2024

32x1st clubs in 2024 flying in the Tilbury south road and the Chadwell St Mary FC on the north road

1st section P 91st open NFC Messac 270 miles 4,700 Birds

1st section J 13th open BBC Messac 270 miles 1,882 Birds

2nd section J 2nd open BBC young bird Fougeres 579 Birds

2nd section E 4th open BICC young bird Fougeres 1,375 Birds

2nd section E 3rd open BICC old bird Fougeres

Two best London north road combine performances where 1st London north road combine 2nd section | 27th open NRCC Lerwick flying 603 miles on the day against 806 birds

They were the longest flying loft in the whole NRCC that day.

2nd London north road young bird combine Blaydon 225 miles 400 birds

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LOT 8 - SOLD FOR £110 TO STEPHEN BURTON

LOT 8 is from John O’Brien of the Saxon Valley. He has kindly offered 4 Young birds for next year's racing.

John fly’s the Soontjen x Van den Bulck which he does very well with over the last 2 years he’s dominated his club and is more than often the in the top half of the fed

In 2023 he had 12x first club & topped the Fed twice

In 2024 he had 13x first club & topped the fed twice. All this on a T3 clock.

A great opportunity for 4 Young Birds to add to your next year's team.

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LOT 9 -  SOLD FOR £180 TO JAMES WOODS

LOT 9 is a pair of young birds from one of the best long distance small team flyers in the country, Jonathan Palmer. He has won BICC Pau this year flying 615 miles.

Below is what Jonathan has achieved in the last two years

•1 BICC Pau

•17th open 1st section H NFC Tarbes 2024 620 miles

•16th open 1st section H NFC Tarbes 2023

•1st section 9th open BICC Saint-Maixent-l'École 2023 only section bird on day 401 miles, he took first 6 in his section.

•24th open 3rd section NFC Tarbes 23 & 24.

•2nd section Nort-sur-Erdre 24 346 miles

•3rd section BICC St Philbert 23

•2nd section BICC Bordeaux 24 500 miles.

The pair will be ready around the end of March 25.

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LOT 10 -  SOLD FOR £100 TO JOHN BURTON

Lot 10 is from Russ Skinner who has a very strong National pedigree.

Russ has won.

1st King’s cup Lerwick 2023 

1st Thurso 2012 & 2006

1st Perth 2004

Russ has kindly offered a young cock (2023) He is from "Maggie" who has a very impressive history scoring 7 times in the top 100 in the BICC & NRCC. She is from a granddaughter of Jellema’s "Zwart Goud".

This cock’s father is a son of "National Beauty" 1st Open NFC

Fougeres when paired with a son of Verstraetes "Topstar" & "Diva".
 

LOT 11 - SOLD FOR £105 TO STEPHEN BURTON

LOT 11 Is a pair of young birds from S I & S Wallis of Maldon, Essex. The pair is from the very best of Leo Herrmans, here are the Sire & Dam to the pair of young birds on offer in this lot is;

Sire is a full brother to better than bolt

Dam is a granddaughter to Leo’s famous 003

This pair is responsible for 4 first Feds this year

The Wallis are fantastic fanciers, this is what they have achieved this year.

18x first Club out of 23 races

9x first Feds

The pair of young birds will be from their 3rd round so they will be ready later in the breeding season.

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LOT 12 - SOLD FOR £60 TO PAUL BROWN

LOT 12 is from Kyle Douglass 2X2025 , Whitby

Ready around February/ March. Time

From a staff Van Reet cock from Phil Masters which will be paired with a new stock Hen purchased this year from Stewart Knowles.

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​LOT 13 - SOLD FOR £160 TO ROBERT RUSSELL

LOT 13 Kyle Douglass , 1X2025 , Whitby . This will be from the third round , so ready around April / May

Sire is the Blue pied cock which was purchased in Martyn Dawson clearance sale paired to " Halibut " which is bred from Darren Clement . Halibut won us over £10,000 in prize money at the Cotswold Valley one loft race , winning the final and also the semi final .

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LOT 14 - SOLD FOR £150 TO ALAN PARKER

LOT 13 is a pair of young birds offered by Brian Garnham of Boston. The pair will be from this stock loft, and they will be ready in April 25.

Brian has been one of the top fanciers in the NRCC, he has won the legendary Kings Cup from Lerwick and Dunbar YB His favourite race is Lerwick, and over the last couple of years he has timed 10/10 in 2023 and 11/12 in 2024 .

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LOT15 - SOLD FOR £265 TO JOHN O'BRIEN

Lot 14 is from Jeremy Nicholson, he has kindly donated a kit of 6 x 2025 Young birds, they will be from his stock birds, and they will be from the Van den Bulck family.

They will be available from early March 2025.

Jeremy has had a great lot of success with them, this is a good opportunity for someone.

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LOT 16 - SOLD FOR £280 TO PAUL ABLETT

LOT 15 is from Terry Winterton of Holbeach which will be sold by Kris Mulley of the Saxon Valley.

I have been fortunate to acquire a team of pigeons from top NRCC flyer Terry Winterton of Holbeach. 

These are steeped with lines that have been timed from NRCC races predominately Perth – Lerwick including a cock that had won 1st Open NRCC from Perth 2018 being a grandson of Pure Pleasure, the lines of Lady Margaret (4 x Lerwick 2nd, 6th, 17th & 27th Open Lerwick winning certificate of merit and not many of these issued in the history of the NRCC, flows through these pigeons!!! I had brought these pigeons in to focus on the middle to longer races. However, I am currently focussed on sprint racing, therefore these are surplus to my requirements and would like them to go together as one lot to keep together the good work Terry has done in building this family that go back 30/40 years and beyond with lines from the Northeast, Kirkpatrick, Jan Arden, Vanbruane Jannsen and Soontjen. A family of performance pigeons that score consistently in the NRCC.

In the group of 14 pigeons, there are 7 cocks and 7 hens. These were Terrys Stock Pigeons, so include:

GB16x – Blue Cock – 1st NRCC Perth 2018

GB18 Blue Cheq Cock – son of Lady Margaret 4 x Lerwick

GB19 Blue Cheq Cock – bred for stock - pure pleasure x Lady Margaret lines

GB21x Blue Cheq Cock - son of Top Boy 1st Open NRCC Thurso 2020

GB21x Granddaughter Lady Margaret

GB18x Ivan Rich lines to cross into family

GB17x 11th open NRCC Thurso

GB21 – Granddaughter pure pleasure

GB17 – Granddaughter Lady Margaret 

These are a credit to Terry and am sure they will do someone some good.

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LOT 17 - SOLD FOR £90 TO TONY LYONS

LOT 16 is a pair of young birds from Steve boss Farragher that will be available this coming breeding season.

The pair will be from his extensive stock collection from some of the finest birds in the country.

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LOT 18 - SOLD FOR £65 TO KYLE DOUGLASS

Lot 17 is a 2025 Youngbird from Tom Burkill.

This will be available in March 2025. This will be from his race team as he sold all his stock in Jan 2024, both parents of the youngbird will have topped a fed at least once each. 

Tom is a phenomenal flyer in his own right and has won the NRCC, club and fed championships, Norfolk and Suffolk premier league last year. Spent a small fortune on the base of his race team.

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LOT 19 - SOLD FOR £100 TO DAVE CLOVER

LOT 18 is a pair of young birds for the 2025 season from David Hicks of Norfolk.

This pair is from the Herman Ceusters family.

In the last few years David has won a range races,

In 2023 he won the NRCC futurity race.

He won the Saxon Valley Gold Ring race in 2023

He topped the Norwich fed x7 in 2023 and 5x in 2024.

The pair will be ready in April/May 2025

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LOT 20 - SOLD FOR £75 TO DAN WHATLING

LOT 19 is a pair of young birds from Frank Rosa( Elite Wings) of the Saxon Valley.

This pair of pigeons is bred from his family of Van den Bulck x Herman Ceusters.

This year he has won 22 fed cards and is a very competitive racer in the Saxon valley, and always high up the fed result.
 

LOT 21 - SOLD FOR £70 TO GARY HOYLES

LOT 20 is a young bird from James Messenger of Boston.

James races in the Peterborough district federation which on average send 2000 birds a week.

James has won multiple times in the last few years and has won the Fed in every wind.

The young bird will be from his fed topping cock bird and will be sure to be a great addition to anybody's 2025 team.

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LOT 22 -  SOLD FOR £120 TO LEE LAWTON

LOT 21 is an Avery from D&D Aviaries and the picture of it will be in the comments below, sizes are as follows

2 feet deep

34”high at the back

20”high at front

18” wide

Collection from Cirencester Gloucestershire.

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LOT 23 - SOLD FOR £150 TO KRIS MULLEY 

Lot 23 is from Justin at Bosliven Lofts it is a 2022/2021 stock cock that has not been bred from as of yet. he is a full brother to the NFC Guernsey winner (5800 pigeons)

Sire of this pigeon is an inbred double grandson of Rossi bred here at Bosliven lofts from our son and daughter of Rossi, our son of Rossi is also the sire of top gun kittel

Dam

Is an inbred double granddaughter of den euro again bred here at Bosliven lofts she is dam to many winners

Penzance Cornwall

LOT 24 - SOLD FOR £90 TO RYAN CARTER

Lot 24 is from Mark Johnson who has kindly donated a pair of 2025 from his racers.

Mark has just had a very successful sale at Doncaster show.

West Bromwich

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TOTAL SALE RAISED £3915 (10% WILL GO TO WHITBY STRAY CENTRE)

MASSIVE THANKYOU TO EVERYONE WHO PURCHASED PIGEONS AND DONATED PIGEONS.