At this time, we are not planning on having a 2012 Lexington Futurity. Check back in 2013 to see if we plan to re-instate the race.

We wish you the best in your 2012 races!

David Stephenson
President, Lexington Racing Pigeon Club

We will post a race schedule when it becomes firm. We expect old bird racing to begin in mid-April with two 100-mile races.

The LRPC 2011 Futurity bird auction has begun. We are auctioning the six birds that clocked in all four races. The auctions will end Sunday night, Oct. 30 at 9 p.m.

This is your chance to buy some proven race birds that have shown they have what it takes to home consistently and from distances as far as 280 miles as young birds.

Please use the widget on the right side of this page to view the details on the birds and to place bids.

Please note that Proxy bidding may be in effect. You may place a maximum bid and the auction system will bid for you up to but not beyond that price. If you make a bid and are immediately outbid, then someone else has placed a proxy bid and the auction system is placing the bid for them.

Shipping via USPS is $50 for one bird, plus $10 extra per bird up to four birds. Local buyers can contact David Stephenson for payment and pickup options.

If you have a bird remaining in the loft, but it is not one of the auction birds, please contact me if you want it returned.

Good luck bidding everyone!

For those who are interested, we will be flying a 100-mile OB race (Oneida) June 25. John will drive the race.

On the following weekend, July 2, we will fly a 150-mile race from a new race station: Crossville, Tn. David and Bob will drive this race.

We will meet to crate birds at John James’ house on Friday nights at 7pm. Each race will cost $20 per flyer. Juniors free.

If you think you may race or come to John’s, please let me know so we know to expect you.

Our handlers, Bob Zerkle (46 birds) and John James (34 birds), are reporting that all but the youngest of birds are out and loft flying. As we begin training, we will start posting more frequent updates.

We have some great looking birds from some very good flyers around the state and country. We want to thank everyone for sending birds and we look forward to an exciting race series this fall.

Don’t forget to deliver you futurity birds if you have any! Deadline is only three weeks away. Also, I will be meeting Dustin Baker on Sunday, May 15, and we will exchange futurity birds. If you have any birds you would like to enter in the MVS Futurity or the Buckeye Challenge One Loft, please contact David soon.

This 14-year-old gent came to me as a found bird near Morehead this week. He's a great-looking bird and will find a girlfriend waiting for him in Bob's loft before making a visit to David's loft later in the year.

We had a nice meeting at John James’ house Friday. Many thanks to John and his wife Whitney who prepared a table-full of goodies which we all enjoyed. It was nice to see Tony there as well and his birds and loft appear to be progressing well! Bob, once again, was able to enlighten us on some pigeon lore (who knew a pigeon’s altimeter couldn’t work over open water?) and some medication advice.

We had one guest, George Bryant from Lexington, and we did our best not to scare him away! Unfortunately, bad weather may have kept some of our other guests from making it and cut the meeting a bit short. As we departed John’s, we headed straight into the approaching squall line and threat of tornadoes – very unnerving!

I had three guests at my loft Friday before the meeting: Nathan Briggs and his brother Peter and a college friend of Nathan’s. They are trying to finish up their loft in the coming weeks and they will be ready for birds soon. They seemed to enjoy watching my birds fly around the neighborhood and they got to see the different stages of babies in the nest. I wish them well in their efforts. So far, they have built their small 4 x 4 loft entirely with recycled and scavenged material. They may be looking for some metal roofing material, 2×2′s and 1×4′s if anyone has any to give them. We will also looking for some members to donate some squeakers to them sometime in May.

If you still want to come visit John’s lofts and meet some club members, we have another shot at it this coming Friday evening, April 29. The long range forecast looks favorable! We will attempt a 100-mile race from Oneida on Saturday and I will drive the birds.

Weather has been a big issue for those of us trying to train birds and the first two races of the season have now been pushed back for us and the Frankfort club. I hope to hear soon about the Louisville’s club plans regarding their schedule and how it may affect ours. When I hear anything I will post an update. I am quite sure that the current OB schedule will be changing.

Futurity update: We are still getting birds in for the futurity and in fact, three good looking birds arrived yesterday from Thunderbird Lofts (Joel Sampang) from Texas. I’m hearing from many others that their birds will be ready soon so I expect another influx of birds in the coming weeks.

They will continue to ship with the Louisville Club Friday nights and racing on Saturdays.

The first race will be a short “trainer” that they will haul themselves on April 16. Regular OB racing and shipping via Louisville will begin with a 150 on April 23.

April 30 150 mile Franklin
May 07   200 mile Columbia
May 14 250 mile Decatur
May 21 300 mile Arkadelphia (white bird race $5/bird)
May 28 500 mile Atmore
June 04  250 mile Decatur
June 11 200 mile Columbia
June 18 200 mile  Columbia
June 25 400 mile Montgomery
July 02   300 mile Arkadelphia

Additionally, a couple of trophies were handed out to junior members. Below is a fairly excited young lady with a fairly large trophy.

In other business, Tory Stephenson was awarded a 1st place diploma and a trophy for first place junior member for the 2010 Young Bird season. Amber Barrow received the second place trophy.

Check it out here or click on the link at the top of this page.