2012 SA SIRES PRODUCE
Expected Prizes of
over $35,000 which includes first prize for flyer of a Motor Vehicle
valued at
$14,000 plus $6,000 to the breeder.
2011 Prizes paid were
more than $34,000 including the Car.
Sale dates : Sunday 4th December, 2011
and
Sunday
5th February, 2012
Race to be held from
Marree 580 kms North of Adelaide
Interstate and
Country Breeders are welcome to send 6 squeakers each.
Interstate birds must have a Bio Security SA
permit to enter SA, please see SAHPA web site to download the permit
application.
New
Option This Year :
6 birds can be put into the Auction from each club.
Breeder receives 40% of all prize money for placings
Additional $300 prize each to the Breeder of highest placed Interstate
and SA country pigeon
Please use Breeder Nomination form which can be downloaded from
www.sahpa.asn.au web page (select Sires Prod button) or send a form
with name, address and phone no. of Breeder with ring numbers when
shipping birds, contact Gavin Harris to arrange pick up at ADL Airport.
Option this year where interstate and country breeders can arrange to
have their birds placed in a SAHPA flyers loft and prepay $50 per bird.
The onus is on the Breeder to make their own arrangement with the SAHPA
Flyer and lodge the Pre-paid forms with Gavin Harris before 4th
February, 2012. These birds will not be Auctioned.
Contact
Gavin Harris
SAHPA
Special Race Committee Mobile
0418 853
111
2011
SA Sires Produce Race from Marree Winner, Michael Shepherdson at Peter
Page
Holden picking up his new Holden Cruze.
SA Sires Classic
2011, by Gavin Harris (Secretary SAHPA Special Races Committee)
The 2011 Marree
Sires Classic was won by Michael Shepherdson of the Centrals
club. Michael has already picked up his new car from our
sponsors "Peter Page Holden", Michael chose to upgrade the
vehicle to a new Holden Cruze. This is the fourth car that has
been won from this very successful event and all South Australian
pigeon flyers should be proud they we can run such special events
highly recognized Nationally, such as the Sires Classic, the Adelaide
$10,000 and the Adelaide Pigeon Racing Club events.
In total the
Sires Produce event paid out in total $34,000 this year.
Phil Thalbourne
was the breeder of the winner and he collected $6,000 to add to the
other prizes he has collected from various special events, not a bad
little retirement plan, breed a few birds in your back yard and place
them in a few races and sit back and collect large cheques every couple
of months.
Young Aaron
Horrocks of the Para Hills club came a very close second place, was
only 32 seconds behind the winner. S Szabo of Campbelltown club
was third only a further 71 seconds behind. Ever reliable Leo
Duits cam fourth and sixth, with his birds being split by Max Taylor in
fifth place. Jim Marafiote had his race team just starting to
come into peak form and came seventh. The very popular Chairman
of the Southern Vales club, Gary and Ivana Cummings came eighth after I
talked him into letting me bid for a couple birds for him so he would
go in the race for the first time. I think he will be a regular
participant now.
Lindsay Smith
was ninth, Alex Hlebnikoff was tenth and twelfth and Mark Bruggemann
was once again highly place at eleventh. Ron Bampton of the Hyde Park
club had two together finishing 13th and 14th, Ross Hocking was also
close up and only just finished out of the money.
In actual fact,
between 4th and 27th there was less than 3 minutes.
We would
encourage everyone to compete in this event next year as the more the
merrier, if you do not want to spend any money, you can still
participate by breeding up to six squeakers for the auction and if they
are placed in the race, you get 40% of the prize money.
The 2012 event
is also scheduled to be held from Marree and will be managed by the new
SA Long Distance Racing Pigeon Club. The sale dates are : Sunday
4th December, 2011 and Sunday 5th February, 2012, present birds 8:30am
to 10am, sale starts at 10am.
Dates to
remember for second sale :
Mate
:
06/12/2011
Lay Eggs
:
16/12/2011
Hatch
:
4/01/2012
31 days at time
of Sale : 5/02/2012.