The RPM ~ One Loft Race Series
Cancelled for 2003

Join some of the toughest competitors in America (Mike Ganus, Waldo Slie, John Sampson, Crazy Al, Phil Calerich, Frank McLaughlin, John Lucchese and many others) fly one of the most challenging race courses in America.

Are you up to the challenge?

Fees:

The fees are due in two parts dependent on the trainers capabilities to prepare your birds for the race series.

Part 1:

$ 100 ~ Due at time of shipping birds to the loft
Covers all expenses for the 150 mile and 200 mile races:

Part 2:

We believe that we should earn the Perch Fee, by not losing your birds and by properly training your birds out to a distance that enables them to successfully compete in the 350-mile race. Therefore, only half of the perch fee is due when shipping the birds and the other half becomes due after your birds have successfully completed the 150-mile race (still present in the loft).

Also, you will note that one third of the entry fee ($50.00) is due when shipping the birds and the other two thirds ($100.00) is due when the birds have successfully completed the 150-mile race and are still present in the loft. The first entry fee of $ 50.00 funds the capital prize payouts for the 150 and 200-mile races. The second entry fee of $ 100.00 funds the capital prize payouts for the 350-mile race and will be refunded if for any reason your bird is not shipped to the 200-mile race.

Express Mail birds: March 21st – May 3rd

The tenative dates for the three races are as follows:

The 350-mile racecourse, starts in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon, with the birds heading north for 100 miles then negotiating the Columbia River Basin, near Portland. Further north the birds will navigate the 120-mile long Puget Sound, often crossing inlets, bays and straits before ending their journey just a few miles south of the Canadian Border. ( See Map Here! )

The length of the race course is sometimes prone to overcast conditions, haze, occasional fog, Pacific weather fronts, rain and inversion layers which trap the humid hot air along the flight path of the bird’s return. However, we also have some of the clearest skies and fastest race conditions found anywhere. So, on any given day a race might range between 1700 – 1000 YPM with the majority of races in the 1200 - 1400 YPM range.