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UK’s Paul Smith enjoys successful racing pigeon career

Edward · Mar 21, 2019 · Leave a Comment

PAUL SMITH is currently the UNITED KINGDOM RACE TEAM RACE CO-ORDINATOR & SHIPPER and he has held this prominent position since the first race took place way back in 1997. Paul Smith was certainly one of the most successful racing pigeon fanciers in the United Kingdom during his racing career, winning literally hundreds of top positions in Mid-Week, Club, Open, Federation, Amalgamation, Combine and National Races, plus he also won numerous top RPRA REGIONAL & NATIONAL AWARDS. He then went on and formed the world renowned “REGENCY LOFTS RACING & BREEDING STUD” with his two great friends, namely Bruce McAllister and Michael Boulton. This great international stud supplied top class racing and breeding pigeons to pigeon fanciers literally all over the world. Paul bred and raced many great pigeons in his time, but CHAMPION REGENCY ROCKET was one of his best pigeons, he won 14 x 1sts, 5 x RPRA AWARDS and also a LONDON REGION GOLD MEDAL plus he also won an OLYMPIAD GOLD MEDAL. Paul Smith holding his winning pigeon named STANSTED EXPRESS just after she was clocked and won 9th OPEN and a Platinum Medal in the Final Race in The 20th South African Million Dollar Pigeon Race series, on the 6th February 2016 from 541km (336 miles) when 35 different countries sent 2,161 pigeons. STANSTED EXPRESS was bred by by the late Jimmy Richards from Laindon, Essex.

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