We will sort birds the 2nd and 3rd of December and start shipping birds Monday 4 December. This will give us time to identify those birds being returned and those not, it also gives those of you who will be sending checks for shipping time to get your checks here no later than 1 December.
We will ship birds back to the breeders who won prize money first and deduct shipping from winnings, the others will follow. Our goal is to have all birds returned before Christmas!
IF SENDING A CHECK FOR SHIPPING, IT MUST BE HERE BY 1 DECEMBER, NO EXCEPTIONS. THIS MEANS NOT IN THE MAIL, NO PICTURES OF CHECKS SENT, THIS MEANS DELIVERED. IT IS HIGHLY ADVISABLE IF SENDING THROUGH THE MAIL TO SEND IT WITH TRACKING. THE PREFERED WAY OF PAYING FOR SHIPPING WOULD BE TO USE PayPal, THAT WAY YOU MAKE SURE WE GET IT AS SOON AS YOU CLICK SEND.
Birds will be mailed back to the address on Wincompanion that is associated with your account, make sure the address and phone number is 100% correct. Please do not ask us to ship birds back to multiple individuals within a syndicate, all birds will be mailed back to one individual whose address is listed on Wincompanion under your Loft Name.
We use brand new 3 bird boxes from Horizon, they have dividers so the birds do not fight on their way home. Price is $85 per box, if you have more than 3 birds then add on another box for 4-6, another box for 7-9 and so on.
Olga will activate the PayPal link for shipping in the next day or two. We held off on having it active so breeders would not pay right after the race when they still have others returning, this happens every year and then we have to get breeders to send another transaction or check.
If you won money, do not send us shipping fees, shipping fees will be deducted from your winnings.
We require a new W-9 before any prize money can be issued if you won $600 or more.
We will not break up prize money, check is issued to one individual and that individual is required to provide a W-9.
Local birds will not be available for pick up until 4 December.
1-3 birds $85
4-6 birds $170
7-9 birds $255
10-12 birds $340
Make checks payable to:
Apple Cup
PO Box 313
Moxee, WA 98936
If you have a question or need clarification please text us at 254-247-9504, identify yourself by loft name.
Everyone have a great Thanksgiving!
Rick & Olga
Congratulations to all of the winners today! It was supposed to be a day that was filled with sun and patchy clouds, it turned to sun at release, then overcast most of the way home with some sun at the loft which quickly turned to overcast. Here in the Pacific NW this time of the year weather can change at a moment's notice, it did not fail today! We were able to get over 400 birds on the day and if you had one on the day, be damn proud of them!
Congratulations to Espo Loft for having the first bird through the trap, great job Frank!
Congrats to our AVG Speed winners as follows:
1st Aziz Loft 40605
2nd Galvan's Loft 2611
3rd Spoiled Sa Amo 11258
4th Evergreen Loft 109
5th Crooked River Challenge 1507
Congrats also to our Silver and Gold winners!
Olga will look over the assigned prizes before they become official!
If you won $600 or more send us a new W-9, make sure you print it and it is legible.
Thanks everyone for your continued support!
Stay tuned for return shipping instructions, we need to see how many birds return the next few days before we decide how we are going to tackle that. We will not be shipping birds next week, we need to have time for late arrivals to recouperate and to sort birds.
The final race is Friday as long as the weather holds. If attending show up at 1 PM, bring a comfortable chair, warm clothes, and your appetite! My brother Jeff is cooking briskit for lunch, lots of fixins to go along with as well as deserts!
Makes no difference if you are in the race or not, if you live in the PNW and are curious about the Apple Cup race then make the trip!
If attending send us a text at 254-247-9504 letting us know how many you are coming with. Our physical address is as follows:
12074 Mieras Rd
Yakima, WA 98901
Never use the above address for payments or shipping birds, only use the PO Box address listed all over our site.
The birds were trained today, their last trainer for the year. It is cool and overcast and some birds continue to fly so don't get too terribly excited if your birds trap late today, in fact keep an eye on these birds who continue to fly on the final!
We will start shipping birds back the following week after Friday, this will give the late arrivals a chance to recouperate before shipping. Make sure your address on Wincompanion is up to date as well as your phone number, this is the information we use to ship birds back.
Below is the expected payout on the final race.
As per our rules, we will payout the top 10% of the birds shipped to the final race. There are roughly 1,000 birds currently, if some are lost in training leading up to the final race we will make adjustments.
There were 135 entered in the Silver, 78 in the Gold. There are currently 62 birds remaining in the Silver, 42 in the Gold. This means that for now, 6 birds will earn prizes in the Silver and 4 in the Gold. We will count the remaining birds up before the final and make adjustments if there are less in each category.
Olga will look this over before it becomes official, however this is what we are looking at based purely upon how many birds are left in the Bronze, Silver, and lastly the Gold.
$13,000 was paid out between the 250 and 300.
$62,000 will be paid in AVG Speed.
We rounded up to $200,000 in the Bronze which is the final race.
We rounded up to $29,000 in the Silver, and we rounded up to $17,000 in the Gold.
FINAL RACE (BRONZE)
1ST 20,000
2ND 18,000
3RD 16,000
4TH 14,000
5TH 12,000
6TH 11,000
7TH 10,000
8TH 9,000
9TH 8,000
10TH 7,000
11-20 2,500 ea
21-50 1,000 ea
51-100 400 ea
SILVER
1st 9,000
2nd 6,000
3rd 5,000
4th 4,000
5th 3,000
6th 2,000
GOLD
1st 6,000
2nd 5,000
3rd 4,000
4th 2,000
Again, this is unofficial until Olga can take a look at it making sure yours truly did not make any mistakes.
We will continue to train as the weather allows for, looking at the 16th or 17th next race for the final. We do not have a definite date, it is all up to the weather.
FINALLY we got some nice weather to have our 300 mile race! Congratulations to KT Loft for having the first bird through the trap today.
There was some ground fog at release with the sun shining through, the rest of the course was blue sky with no clouds and very calm winds. We are hoping for a few more birds tonight and invariably will get a few in the morning.
Game plan is to study weather forecasts looking for a nice day for the final race at 350 miles, we will get at least 2 more trainers in before the final.
If you had birds return today be proud of them, this is a tough course and each and every one of them is a true warrior in my book and I am proud of what they did today!
We had planned to have a 45 mile toss this morning however early morning ground fog brought us back to 25 miles. At the time of posting this most are in however several are still playing around outside due to the nice cool conditions and them not burning off many calories today.
Tomorrow it is supposed to rain early AM and then stop, we hope to get a 45 mile toss in tomorrow late AM after the rain.
All weather reports show Wednesday the 8th as being the next decent day for the 300 miler. If that forecast stays the same we will head down south Tuesday evening and make our second attempt at getting the next race at 300 in before the final 350 hopefully about a week later.
Everyone enjoy your Sunday and hopefully your favorite team wins today!
At release there was heavy fog, it was not forecasted to burn off until around 1000-1030. I went Facebook live to show what it looked like down there and again on the way home. From the release headed home the first 100 miles had heavy fog, the last 200 miles was sunny with patchy clouds and very little wind. I did not want to wait until 1000-1030 to release them even if the fog burned off because the forecast was calling for heavy overcast as the birds would of got close to the loft. The birds were released in 6 groups just about a minute apart just to get them broke up a bit to decrease injuries from wires from 45 miles at Satus Pass, looks like all of them are in the loft.
It is supposed to rain for several days starting tomorrow. All we can do at this point is to train when we can and look for another day that is acceptable to have the 300 mile race. After the 300 we will train the birds again to get them ready for the final at 350 miles.
Really would of liked to of got the 300 in today, it just was not in the cards as they say.
Happy Halloween everyone!
The last race at 250 miles was on the 23rd of October. Since the last race we have trained the birds 45 miles on the 27th, 29th, and today the 31st of October trying to keep the birds sharp for the next race at 300 miles. The birds look great, they look ready, unfortunately weather is not cooperating.
This time of year if we are to get rain along this course which is typically dry it is going to be now, that is exactly what the forecast is showing. Weather reports show a day with partial sun followed by a couple days of rain, or partial sun at release and rain at one point along their path home. We are not looking for a perfect day, however we are looking for a nice day for a race with no rain followed by a day for late arrivals to make it home on at least a decent day.
In a nutshell, we are studying several different weather reports for the next acceptable day to hold the 300 mile race. Again, not looking for the perfect sunny blue bird day with little to no wind, but we are looking for a day where it is fair to the birds where there should be no excuse for the predominance of the birds to make it home on the day.
As soon as we identify a decent day to hold the next race we will let y'all know here in the updates, hopefully it will be this week!
First off, congrats to the winners today! The first 10 positions earned prizes today and it will be this way on the next race as well.
This morning there was some ground fog, waited a hour until the sun completely burned it off so we had a 0830 release instead of 0730 as originally planned. Clear blue skies the whole way home, hardly any clouds, very light variable wind for the first 150 miles. As I approached the Columbia River on the OR side there was a very strong west wind, weather forecast called for no more than 10 mph however it was over 20. This continued as I crossed the river, white caps on the river and the wind kept up like this on the WA side for about 20 miles until I hit the forest. Up in the mountains it was almost dead calm, and it was this way the rest of the way home.
So in a nutshell, first 150 miles it was calm and clear with light wind, next 50 miles a unforecasted 20 mph west wind, the last 50 miles hardly any wind at all and it was sunny and clear all day. Obviously the strong west wind screwed some birds up, hopefully we get a bunch pour in this evening and tomorrow morning.
Congratulations to everyone who had birds in other races today, seems it was a tough one for several of us for some reason.
Congratulations to BTS Syndicate for having the first bird through the trap on the last race, and to everyone who had birds on the day!
We had a good toss this morning, plan on training tomorrow, next race Monday. The weather is starting to get unpredictable as winter approaches so we are looking for decent days to race, looks like the next best day will be Monday with a bit of a headwind.
The next race at 250 and the one after at 300 will pay out the following.
1st $1,000
2nd $900
3rd $800
4th $700
5th $600
6th-10th $500 ea
The final race pays out the top 10% of the birds shipped to that race, we will post the payout before the final race after we know how many will be competing.
This is a 6 race series this year, we have 3 more races for you to enjoy and to test your birds at.
We will not be offering a optional 400, the roads are starting to get icy the further south we go and snow and freezing rain is in the forecast.
Thanks for everyone's support this year and your mostly favorable comments. We are doing our best to get as many of these birds as possible through the entire series, more birds in the final race means more potential breeders for you!
Everyone have a great day!
