Steve Gilbert as flown pigeons since he can remember and has been no stranger to success throughout his racing career I thought it was time to put pen to paper as I’m sure you’ll agree once you’ve read this small article. Steve Gilbert as flown with Barnoldswick prem since 2006 after being refused membership in clubs nearer to home.
Steve outside his lofts
Looking at the photo it’s a good job he can fly a good pigeon as I told him I were coming to take a photo of him at his lofts.
One would have thought he’d of put his Sunday best on so here you have the Terminator, nothing special here you might say well most will agree but Steve’s name is the most talked about here in the pennines flying in the North East Lancashire Fed, some words and rumors are not so nice as you can imagine when one is a successful fancier there is bound to be jealousy, and each year there are rumors of Steve doing this and that to win only recently he was randomly drug tested in 2009 and is now a proud owner of a negative certificate.
Now a little about Steve’s lofts and birds as you may think he’s a massive set up and all mod cons well by looking at the photo I’m pretty sure Steve would agree that he needs to get the paint brush out.
There must be something right about the lofts as these lofts hold multiple fed winners not a loft full of your average Joe pigeons but a team of widow cocks that win and win almost every week not just dominating the club positions but also the fed week in week out.
Steve only races cocks and prefers to race inland only saying he feels channel racing to him now is boring, young birds are trained and raced the first few weeks but after a couple of races Steve is quite happy to shut up shop and have a break ( I believe this is to keep the wife happy shopping ).
Now onto some of the recent performances by the terminator no results from yesteryear but one’s I feel needed to be put down on paper to the fancier out there.
Results:
Here is a small selection of Steve Gilbert’s results from 2006 to 2009:
- Fed results only:
- Out of 40 races entered
- 34 x the 1st fed
- 21 x the 2nd fed
- 26x the 3rd fed
- 20x the 4th fed
- 101 xs in the first 4 in 40 races
- 1,2,3 Amal Swainswick 184m 3241 bids
I don’t like to read boring long lists of results myself so I won’t bore you.
I would just like to finish on the last result 1,2,3rd Amal as this was something special flying in the North East Lancs Fed as part of the Border Amal we are not expected to even figure in the top 20 result due to terrain i.e. : flying over the pennine hills and some 20 miles further than most Border Amal flyers.
With results like these and flyers like Steve we have some of the best sprint flyers, fanciers here in the U.K. How much would you be expected to pay for young of fanciers from Belgium? Holland etc?
I would like to thank you all for reading this my first article on a fancier that is on top his game today and if anyone else locally feels they would like a article doing contact me on:
Paul Taylor 07815322886 or email: gr1ngo@hotmail.co.uk