Saunders Loft 2003 Young Bird Season:

Club Results:
Champion Loft with 11,190 points (2nd place loft had 6007 points)
Winner of Average Speed by 48:43 minutes
Champion Bird winning the top 5 positions and 13 of the top 15
Winner of the One Bird Derby

2003 Racing Pigeon Digest Awards:

Overall Ace Young Bird (Division 4)

1st    Overall National Ace Pigeon
2nd   Overall National Ace Pigeon
3rd    Overall National Ace Pigeon
4th    Overall National Ace Pigeon
5th    Overall National Ace Pigeon
8th    Overall National Ace Pigeon 

Along with many other Digest Young Bird Awards

Saunders Loft 2004 Young Bird Season:

Club Results :

Champion Loft with 18418 points (2nd place loft had 7920 points)

Winner of Average Speed by 51:34 minutes
Champion bird with the top 10 birds

National Awards:

1st National Ace Pigeon 2004 ARPU

National Young Bird Hall Of Fame 2004 (21-30 lofts) ARPU

1st place - AU 04 WFA 2750 “True Love”
3rd place - AU 04 RMR 4498
5th place - AU 04 RMR 4548
16th place - AU 04 WFA 2744
18th place - AU 04 WFA 2734
25th place - AU 04 WFA 2714
32nd place - AU 04 WFA 2761
34th place - AU 04 WFA 2746
36th place - AU 04 WFA 2779
38th place - AU 04 WFA 2756
39th place - AU 04 WFA 2739
43rd place - AU 04 WFA 2702
45th place - AU 04 WFA 2732
94th place - AU 04 WFA 2797
                

2004 Racing Pigeon Digest Awards: (Division 3)

1st National Ace Young Bird Loft

RPD Overall Ace Young Birds

2nd   National Ace Pigeon

3rd   National Ace Pigeon

13th National Ace Pigeon

16th National Ace Pigeon

Along with many other Digest Young Bird Awards

Saunders Loft 2005 Young Bird Season:

My birds did great in 2005, with 5 on the ARPU national database, and because of the success of my birds on the local level in my first couple of years racing, I wanted to see how they would do in One Loft Races and began to move my focus in that direction.

I sent some birds to the Vegas Connection Race which was a 3 race series. A full sister to True Love, 1st National Ace Pigeon YB 2004, was 1st in the 150 mile race. The next week, on the 200 mile race, I looked up the results on the internet. At first, I thought I was looking at the 150 mile race results again, because the race sheet showed the same bird in 1st place. I was excited to learn that she had also won 1st place in the 200 mile race.

I decided to travel to Vegas for the 300 mile race. As I was handed the bird, just before she was basketed, my knees just about buckled. She had a broken keel bone!!

Her broken chest bone caught me by so much surprise that without thinking, I handed her back to the person basketing the birds and before I knew it, she was basketed and on her way to the 300 mile race.

That night I could not sleep. I realized this was a special bird and I had just sent her to a race she did not have a chance to win. What worried me even more was the probability that I would never see her again. With a good 1/4" split in her keel bone, the chances of her making it back from the 300 mile race were very slim.

She did not win the 300 mile race, but to my great surprise, she was one of only 12 day birds. I named her Vegas Hearts, because she truly is a bird with "heart", convincing me even more that my Adam & Eve breeders, are indeed, amazing producers!!

Saunders Loft 2006 Young Bird Season:

2006 was a bitter, sweet year for me. I had recently purchased many new breeders and was excited to see how they would match up to my proven pairs. But it was not to be. At the time, I was on the top of the club results, but because of an unexpected business challenge, I was forced to stop racing in the middle of the young bird season.

Earlier in the season, I had sent birds to different One Loft Races, so I still had something to look forward to.

Here are the results of those races:

1st Place - 323 mile Ohio Breeders Classic (ahead of the 2nd place bird by 2.46 minutes)

Equal 1st (2 birds) - 150 mile Ohio Breeders Classic (One bird entered the clock at exactly the same time with the 1st place bird, 0:00 to win)

Equal 1st - Vegas Classic Race (winning $9,000)

Equal 1st - Four Winds Classic

14th Overall Ace Pigeon - Spirit of Colorado

2 birds in the money - AU Convention Race (from different lofts)

These birds win races!!!