Entries for the 2025 RPRA One Loft Young Birds Race are now being taken. With a 1st prize of £35000 to the winner of the final race, £10000 in prize money across the 4 hotspot races, and £8000 going to the winner of the ace pigeon competition, there has never been a better time to […]
The One Loft Final Race 2024 took place on Saturday from Dunbar (226 miles 610 yards) – the 44 birds were liberated at 08:35am in a South West wind. The top 10 pigeons back were as below – click on the image to see the full provisional result: Our congratulations to Mr & Mrs Gregson, […]
Hot Spot 4 took place today from Alnwick, 176 miles 111 yards. The 43 birds were liberated at 09:30am in a slight west wind. The first 10 back were as below – click the image to see the full result. Click here for the Hot Spot 4 pools and prize results. Click here for the […]
Hot Spot 3 took place today from Blaydon, 146 miles 747 yards. The 50 birds were liberated at 7:45am in a moderate west wind. The first 10 birds back were as below – click on the image to see the full result on the Benzing Live site. Click here for the Hot Spot 3 pools […]
One Loft Hot Spot 2 took place today from Richmond (113m 1257y). The birds were liberated at 07:00am into a light SW wind: The first birds arrived back at 09:42, and the first 10 home are below. Click on the image to see the full result. Click here for the Hot Spot 2 pools and […]
RPRA One Loft Race Hot Spot 1 took place today from Wetherby (77 m 152 yds) – 141 birds were liberated at 8am into a slight south westerly breeze with broken cloud. The first 10 home were as below – click on the image to see the full result on the Benzing Live website. Click […]
Below are the latest updates from the new RPRA One Loft Manager, Jonathan Swift. You can keep up-to-date with developments on Jonathan’s blog on the dedicated One Loft site. ***NB – APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED*** Update 04/05/24 The pigeons will all be injected and ETS rings fitted next weekend (the new rings arrived yesterday) and […]
The RPRA One Loft Final Race took place today from Alnwick (235 miles 898 yards). The 377 birds were liberated at 7:40am into sunshine, with a light SSW headwind moderate on route. They cleared excellently online. Birds not marked were: GB23 V45201, C47383, A64813, N21669, C47382, N55300, Z03093, A90681, D18104; WHU2023 E12088, WHU2023 20076. The […]
Graham Fellows, in the guise of celebrity comedian John Shuttleworth, and antiques expert Paul Laidlaw visited the RPRA One Loft at Tewkesbury to film a piece for an episode of the BBC series Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. In addition to filming various items of historic pigeons in war memorabilia, John also gave a live performance […]
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