UTILITY FEATURES
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CONDITION (25 pts)
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Hard, firmly
muscled. Light in weight for size. Clean and
alert. |
WINGS (12 pts)
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Stress the importance of
secondaries. Broad flexible, overlapping feathers should be present, no
gaps in the wings. Flights should be carried atop the tail, and give every
sign of strength. Top line smooth and without 11sail" or
"sideboards". |
TAIL (6 pts)
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Notably narrow, but
capable of great expansion. Strong but resilient feathers. In entirety,
small and light in weight. |
KEEL (6 pts)
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Shallow and long, for a
Tippler not a Homer. Coming quite close to the "fork" (vent
end). |
FORK (6 pts)
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Firm and close (to each
other and to the keel). |
BACK (6 pts)
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Broad at the
shoulders, it tapers to a trim, strong rump to achieve the
breed's powerful wedge shape. |
CHEST (6 pts)
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Broad and capacious, to
accommodate the heart and lungs of a sporting pigeon. It should be big
from side to side rather than projecting forward. |
CUTTING
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If any of the foregoing
utility features are "cut" to as low as 2/3 of the maximum
number of points that are allowed to them (for example, 16 out of the 25
points for condition) then disqualification is automatic. |
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Total points for Utility Features
(67)
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BEAUTY FEATURES
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HEAD (3 pts)
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Small with refined shape
and appointments. Gracefully rising from the beak, but with no frontal
bulge. Flatness on top permitted. |
NECK (3 pts)
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Medium short,
sharply tapered. Broad at shoulders, narrow at head. Tight and clean in
front, no gullet. |
EYE (3 pts)
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The "white"
("pearl", "gravel", etc.) type rather than the
"color" (yellow, orange, red, etc.) series is desired. |
CERE (3 pts)
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Fine and dark on intense
colored birds, lighter on dilute birds. |
BEAK (3 pts)
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Stout and medium small.
Very dark on intense colored birds, horn colored on dilute birds. |
WATTLE (3 pts)
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Small, smooth and white. |
LEGS (3 pts)
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Short, red, free of
feathers. Fairly wide-set with a rear placement. FEET (3 pts) Small but
strong. Red with dark nails on intense colored birds, horn colored on
dilutes, white permitted on pied birds. |
COLOR AND PATTERN (3 pts)
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In this sporting breed
less importance is attached to this category than to any other. With no
preference given to any color or pattern, credit should be accorded to the
success evident in approaching pattern definition and achieving richness
of color. Tipplers are permitted to any color, pattern or marking. |
STATION (3 pts)
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Pronouncedly
vertical rather than horizontal. Head up and back. More is to be expected
of cocks in this matter. |
EXPRESSION (3 pts)
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Smartness, eagerness, but
not wildness should be dominant with no suggestion of dullness or lack of
interest. |
CUTTING
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Beauty features, having
no great effect upon the working ability of the pigeon, may be cut
severely without disqualification. |
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Total points for Beauty Features
(33).
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