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News and Updates
Oct-15-2022
RACE 3

The birds were basketed for Race 3, set for tomorrow Saturday October 15th.  We are set for an 8:00 am CST release.  The weather tomorrow looks to be a slight head/shoulder wind at release with it turning to a side wind around the 125-mile mark.  We have been monitoring the weather all week and have watched it change every few hours.  Sunday is calling for a 10-20 mph west wind and Monday is a 10-20 NW wind, with rain both Monday & Tuesday.  Our conclusion was that tomorrow is the better of the days without going into the later part of next week.  

There are prizes on tomorrow's race by clocking order:
1st Place - $5000
2nd - 35th Place $1000 each

Good Luck Everyone

Oct-11-2022
OCTOBER 11TH UPDATE

There were 63 birds on the drop yesterday for the 2nd Hoosier Classic Race.  
Congratulations to Dani Cicio for having the 1st Bird in the clock.  Dani  has been flying with us since our 1st year back in 2013.  He is also a top flyer in Chicago, dominating the Windy City Race in 2021.  Hopefully, he will have room for some of our birds at his new loft for the 2023 season.  
While we are talking about Chicago fanciers, Congratulations to Rico LLamzon, winner of Sunday's Windy City Classic Race!

Also, if anyone is talking to Tom Schilling, can you please remind him that there is NOT a trophy for 4th place on the 165 mile race..

Birds are still coming in and all from the north.  We have rain for a few days coming in.  We should be able to train by Thursday.  We will continue to update throughout the week. 

Oct-10-2022
RACE 2 UPDATE

The birds arrived much faster than anticipated today.  We watched the forecast closely for a week and it forecasted southwest winds 5-10 mph.  We have had wind gusts well over 15 mph today.  First groups of birds came right on line. After 450-500 birds having arrived home, the birds started to come out of the north, which is an overfly.  Winds are still strong here.  Birds would not have raced if they were unhealthy.  They looked and felt good.  We are disappointed with the returns as we are sure some of you are.  We feel confident with the health of the birds that we will see many more return.  

We will update again in a day or 2. 

Thanks,

Jim

Oct-10-2022
RACE 2

The birds have been basketed for Race 2 - 165 miles, for tomorrow Monday 10/10. 
We are scheduled for an 8:00 am CST release.  Should be a beautiful sunny day tomorrow with very light wind. 

Best of Luck to everyone!

Oct-07-2022
OCTOBER 7TH UPDATE

The birds have been loft flown yesterday and again today.  We were expected to have rain today which is about to come through soon.  Wind today is about 14 mph out of the north and we have seen about a 15 degree temperature drop from yesterday to today. 

Our plan is to road train tomorrow, and allow the birds to rest Sunday, and race on Monday.  The weather looks to be the best on Monday with sunny skies and very little wind.  

There have been a few payments returned from fanciers for activation payments.  If any outstanding payments are not resolved before Sunday we will sell the birds.

Oct-07-2022
OCTOBER 5TH UPDATE

Congratulations to High Flight Farm and McLaughlin Lofts for having the 1st bird in the clock and to all the breeders on the 1st drop.

We had perfect weather for the 1st race yesterday, with the majority of the birds coming right on line.  There were only a few groups that came back from the north.  

Moving forward, the next 2 days we will have 15/20 mph winds from the South on Thursday and then switching to the North on Friday. If this holds, we will train on Saturday and plan to race again on Monday.  Hopefully wind will not be so strong Friday and we can train that day as well. 

The Knockout Competition has begun with the 1st race.  The top 33% of birds that have returned will stay in the Knockout, the rest will be eliminated.  The top 33% will be calculated based on what was shipped to the first race.  Based on our calculations, the top 732 birds will stay in the competition. 


Oct-01-2022
OCTOBER 1ST UPDATE
As of today, "Saturday October 1st," there are still around 75 breeders that have not paid the activation fees.  We will be in the office this morning from 8:30 - 12:00 to process payments over the phone or PayPal.  

It Is To Late To Mail A Check!  Payments needed to be made by yesterday 9/30.  We do have tracking numbers from several fanciers that mailed payments and they have just not arrived yet, which is the fault of the Post Office. 

ALL birds need to be paid for before the first race.  If you have not paid yet, please call today to do so.  If you are not going to activate your birds please call and let us know, they will be offered For Sale.  
If you see a friend's birds have not been paid for yet, please remind them.  

If your birds are not paid by the first race, we will begin to list them For Sale.  If birds are sold for activation fees, you will lose all rights to the bird(s), and any prize money that may be won. 

If you have a Green Dot (or a check mark on results page) next to your name on the Birds list your payment is here and the birds have been marked paid.  

Office - 219-733-0011
Sep-26-2022
ACTIVATION NOW DUE

There were quite a few birds that were waiting for us this morning when we went out to the loft around 8:00 am.  These birds have been trapped into a separate section to allow for evaluation.  In total there were 28 birds that returned today.  The weather today was a mix of what seemed like 3 seasons with cloudy skies and light rain this morning, the sun coming out late morning and temperature warming a bit, only for the wind to pick up and the clouds to return this afternoon. 

As of now the activation fees are due.  Activations will be due by Friday 9/30.  It is highly suggested that if you are mailing a payment, that it be mailed using a tracking service such as Priority Mail (2-3 days service, $9.00 for Flat Rate Envelope), Priority Mail Express, UPS 2nd Day Air, UPS Next Day Air.  

We will be looking to have the 1st race by the end of the week.  Any bird(s) not paid for by Friday will be sold and will become property of the Buyer.  Please remember this is an all or nothing activation.  

Addressing a few questions, we have received over the last 2 days:

1. We will not remove birds due to a breeder not wanting to activate.  If you choose not to activate, then the bird will be sold and become property of the buyer.  
2. There are processing fees for paying with a credit card or PayPal.  The Credit Card Fee is 3.7% of whatever your total is (ex: $1200 x 3.7%=$45.00), making your total $1245.00.  Paypal rates are slightly higher.  
3.  PayPal "Friends & Family" has not been working for most people that have tried to use it.  I am assuming PayPal has blocked it due to the account being a business account.  IF you pay PayPal without using the links on the website and select "Goods or Services" as an option it will deduct the fees from your payment making the amount received less than $1200.00.   If this happens the payment will be returned, and you will be asked to pay using the links on the website. 
Paying with a Credit Card or PayPal is convenience offered for breeders and Hoosier Classic is not responsible for any processing fees. 

I will be in the office tomorrow all day starting at 8:00 am Central Standard Time to take payments over the phone for those wishing to pay with credit card.  If you wish to pay over the phone the office number is 219-733-0011.

If you will be sending a payment via the Post Office, UPS, Fedex, please use the following address:

Hoosier Classic
10258 S 1150 W
Wanatah, IN  46390

Again, I cannot stress enough how important it is for payment to be in by Friday, so please, please, use some type of quicker service rather than the regular mail that is unreliable. I know not everyone wants to pay processing fees, so $9.00 with the post office for priority mail service with a tracking number is worth the cost and less expensive than the processing fees. 

Sep-24-2022
ACTIVATION FEES NOW DUE

The birds were released this morning at 7:10 am for the activation race from Crawfordsville, Indiana.  Ron & Josh Deisher found us a great spot down there to release the birds in a wide-open space.  The birds took off well for the most part with one group heading east, then coming back west before leaving out of sight to the Northeast.
The first group of birds arrived to, the loft at a faster time than we expected, with them arriving from the west.  This is troublesome because we fly a South - North course.  After arriving back to the loft, the birds (almost every one of them) would continue to fly for several minutes.  They were very jumpy for some reason.  We did not see any hawks today that would usually cause this behavior, however that doesn't mean they were not around.  We continued to see birds trickle in all day until around 5:30pm and most of them arrived from the Northwest. 
We are confident we will see more birds in the morning.  Our temperatures were very cool today, as they were yesterday which is a big change.  Earlier in the week it was in the mid 80's, so we are hopeful that the cool temperatures will help the birds. As of tonight, we have 1989 birds that have returned.

As of now activation fees are due. As stated before, we do not want to hold up the first race so if everyone could please start to send in activations.  You can pay using the PayPal link on the website, or by credit card. There are fees that apply to both of these options. 
IF you choose to mail a payment, PLEASE send it Priority Mail.  This service will be roughly $9.00 but should be here in 2-3 days and will have a tracking number.  We will be looking to have the 1st race by next week, so please do not wait until the end of next week to mail because it will not be here in time. 

Payment can be mailed to:
Hoosier Classic Race
10258 S 1150 W
Wanatah, IN  46390


Click to Pay Using PayPal Link

Credit Card payments can be made by calling the office at 219-733-0011
Saturday 9/24, someone will be in the office limited hours.  
Regular office hours are Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm CST.

Sep-23-2022
HAND INVENTORY & ACTIVATION

Today a hand inventory was done for all the birds before the activation race tomorrow. 

The following birds were found to have either a non working chip ring or no chip ring:

Linda Loft - 806 LU
Nanez Loft - 7031
Aladdin Loft - 5 ALIF

These birds have had their chip rings corrected however they WILL NOT SHOW on the inventory today. 

For an activation race you do not need a basketing list for wincompanion.  You do need one for Benzing regardless if it is a training or a race.  (This is where it gets complicated).  In order for a Hand Inventory to be live, we had to use an old basketing list from September 2nd.  Because of that, any bird that did not scan on 9/02 will not clock because it was "not on the basketing list."   
The following birds have been found to not be on the basketing list, so they will not show on the inventory today, HOWEVER, they will be manually added to the basketing list to allow them to clock tomorrow should they return from activation. (Let me just say that it is quite difficult to explain how Benzing and Wincompanion work to be compatible and how both systems operate.)  Moving forward for ANY races, the birds will all be basketed by hand and a basketing list uploaded for Benzing & Wincompanion.  Because this activation is not considered a race, we wanted to show a live inventory vs. a private one. 
The following birds are here, healthy, and going to activation tomorrow, but did not show on the inventory today:
KRL - 207
VK - 5949
MOJO - 17
BEKO - 8

We have also made contact with breeders that have had injured birds and will be removed. 

With all of that being said, we are scheduled to have the activation race tomorrow.  Keep your fingers crossed that the weather cooperates and we can finally get this going.   
Again we would like to have the next race within 1 week, so Please, Please Please, be ready to send in activation fees if you are using the mail system.  We will send more information out tomorrow with options for payments.

Best of Luck to everyone, we are excited to get this series moving and with everyone's help of getting payments in on time we will stay on schedule for the final race. 

Jim & Kelly

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