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(AUCTIONEER SPEAKING IN CHINESE)
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"As far as you're concerned,
this pigeon may be one of those
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cooing nuisances that blights
city streets,
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but to thousands of people all over
the world, he's a lot more."
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With pigeon racing,
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you have this little bird that has
a brain the size of a pea.
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You take 600km away from home - how
does a pigeon know where home is?
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It's a mystery.
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"It's the sport of kings and queens,
millionaires and movie stars,
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of presidents and peasants.
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That's the real attraction and the
secret of the sport's popularity.
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It's classless."
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(BIRDS WHISTLING)
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Wayno.
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You're in... Yeah, you're in for the
rest of the week, pal. Yeah.
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You're in for the rest of the week.
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Sweet, sweet.
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Right, I'm flat out, so...
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I'll let you go and I'll see you
in there tomorrow.
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John O'Brien.
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I work for a company and I do
deliveries, collections.
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Fix this, break that.
Whatever they want, it gets done.
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One day it's mad and the next day
it's not.
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I just go with the flow, you know
what I mean.
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I'm always looking for a flow state.
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I have two kids!
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And 60 pigeons.
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(SCRAPING SOUNDS)
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A shaman guy that I know said to me
that they were going to
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the Hill of Tara to do a few
mushrooms. I was, like, "Let's go."
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We took the DMT first.
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That was... crazy.
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Leonardo da Vinci came to me as the
Vitruvian Man.
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Once I started looking up and
finding out that he had pigeons,
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there were so many connections
that I had with Leonardo da Vinci.
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It was like... It was like he told
me that I'm on the right path now.
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There is no wrong path,
it's just the path that you're on.
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I'll show you Big Balls.
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He's an absolute beast to go.
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His feathers are all perfect.
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This fella has a belly
like a baby's arse.
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It's a nice pigeon. Nice and soft.
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Most big towns will have a racing pigeon club.
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The old typical pigeon fancier in the UK in the early days
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was a cloth cap guy.
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You train your pigeons to your own
loft.
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You take them down the road - 5, 10, 15 miles.
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Then at the weekend, you take them
to the club
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and the club will basket them.
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(JOHN) They say it's an old man's
sport.
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I'm very young in pigeons.
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And hopefully I can win this year.
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Anything is possible.
Everything is possible.
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(STAN) They get picked up on the transporter,
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taken to the liberation point.
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"Get ready! Ready! Pull!"
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(PAUL) 80 miles from Dublin here.
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Probably an hour and 10, an hour and 15 minutes.
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Birds were liberated at 10:45.
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Birds are out, buddy. Birds are out.
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So when the pigeons land right
here, we're in.
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When you're throwing a knee, block
your face.
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So they don't see the knee coming.
Look at my hands.
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See? You didn't even see the knee
coming.
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Yeah, but I can't do it because I'm in a dress.
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-Hello! -Oh yeah, sorry.
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What's happening, bud?
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How's the hair style going?
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It has a bit of an Elvis look about
it there now. See that?
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It's their first race.
Are they good enough?
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That top cock, Big Balls,
he should come home.
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But we'll see.
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Come on.
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Where are yis?
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Could be any minute.
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The feeling you get when a bird
comes in, the excitement.
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I'm on a buzz out there.
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I'd love for everyone to be into it
the way I'm into it.
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My hearts racing.
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There's so much research into how does a pigeon know where home is.
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By geomagnetic forces, by the position of the sun,
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by the sound of the wind going through the loft.
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Come on the boys.
(Rattles)
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(MICHAEL) There are so many theories
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but nobody can say this is why.
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There's a batch right there, look.
There's the first batch.
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That's into Mick.
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There's pigeons coming everywhere
now. There's batches there.
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We're well out lads.
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(WHISTLES)
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(WHISTLES)
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Big Balls' son.
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The problem is pigeon racing is old, from the old school.
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We lost our youth to technology.
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Our average age for our sport is probably in their 40s, 50s.
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Mostly older.
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Hey everybody.
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First place, D andamp; C McGuirk!
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(LOUD CHEER)
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-Over the bridge again. -Get up outta that!
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At the current time,
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there isn't a lot of youngsters coming into the sport.
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A lot of clubs have fallen by the wayside
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because of loss of membership.
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This is the trouble. If you've got
no youth, you've got no future.
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That's where one loft racing has picked up.
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(CROWD MURMURING)
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There's lots to eat and drink here,
isn't there.
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Pigeon fanciers are attracted
to the shows they have
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all over Europe, all over the world.
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They come to see what everybody
is doing.
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They come to say, "Hey, if I come
to your race next year,
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how does it work, how can I get my
birds to you?"
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Yeah, exciting.
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My name is Sara Blackshaw
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and I'm the MD of the South African
Million Dollar Pigeon Race.
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I'm very pleased to be with you
today to meet you all
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and explain what we do down in
Africa.
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In 1996, a colleague of mine rang me
and he said,
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"I have a client who wants to look
at setting up a world pigeon race."
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He's the pigeon whisperer.
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We had a lovely lunch. We had a few
bottles of wine as well.
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And the Million Dollar was born.
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Real name is Alexander.
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Zandy, they call him Zandy. Zandy Meyer.
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An excellent, intelligent person. You can't believe.
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Zandy was one of the most famous
pigeon fanciers
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throughout the world.
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And this race was his vision.
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Take pigeons from all over the
world, bring them into one loft.
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One loft racing is a beautiful thing.
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All the birds come to one central spot.
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One guy's place. One guy does the training. One guy does the feeding.
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One loft racing - you send your pigeons to the race.
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They manage the pigeons, they train
the pigeons.
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They're all fed the same, trained the same. It's equal.
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Where in a club race, you might have five miles longer than me
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or ten miles shorter.
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Allows everyone to sort of play fair.
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It's easy to teach the birds if you know the way.
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Each creature talks to you.
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The birds that arrived here are a minimum, about a half year old.
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We train them to land there on that
ramp where the traps are.
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And the first bird that runs in wins the race.
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If you win here, or make it here, you can make it anywhere.
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It sounds easy. You bring pigeons in, get them orientated,
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train them and race them.
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By training, you go out a little
way
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and then you let them go and they
fly back to the loft.
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(MAN CALLING OUT)
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(MAN CALLING OUT)
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Treat them as athletes.
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Race horses, greyhounds train every day.
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That's how you build the muscle up
on them.
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So take a mile, two, three times.
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And then five miles, and then you just keep going farther and farther
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and they work their way out.
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Pigeons, it has become my life.
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We started on it in 1996. I was 20 years old at the time.
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I am the race director.
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You have clients right across the world.
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You have to be available 18/19 hours a day.
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Sara jokes of me that I send her emails at 3am
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but that's what time I'm awake!
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-You've got five in this one. -Yeah.
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-You've got six in this one here. -Okay, mate.
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I hope you've got a winner there.
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Good, good, good. Come on.
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I'm the UK race shipper and co-ordinator.
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I've held that position from the first race way back 24 years ago.
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I'm involved from the beginning.
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Sara come here to my house and ask me if I want to do it.
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I've known Sara basically since the
race started.
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A lot of people have a lot of respect for her.
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She's a very shrewd business person, there's no doubt about it.
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When you sit somebody down and say,
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"We're gonna race for a million
dollars", they go, "Are you stupid?"
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There was nothing like it in the world.
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The 1,000 dollars per pigeon, it's not cheap to enter.
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When we set up the Million Dollar,
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I don't think we made a penny
for about 10 years.
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But we got there.
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Over 9,000 pigeons,