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The Show Racer
As well as being a world-renowned breeder and international judge at various competitions, he has been collecting and researching the history of these birds for most of his life.
And what an interesting history it is! Support from the Royal Family, European intrigue, hints of substitute birds winning races for distances they never flew!
Ah, Poirot, where were you when we needed you?
And what has this to do with the BoomeRanger animals, you may ask? Well, so far, not a lot, I agree. But everything has a kernel of a great plot line lurking there somewhere, just as in my second book, 'The Taranaki Oracle', it was the giant sulphur crested cockatoo Kaar who truly believed he and millions of his tribe were solely responsible for the complete fiery destruction of the Fellers' secret base, The Gap.
But we readers (and Boomer) know that things were a little bit different don't we?
So birds have power to change things. Maybe, as in the Alfred Hitchcock movie 'The Birds', they might do stuff that's a little bit scary. Terrifying, actually, though I did enjoy the film at the time and loved the Mad Magazine spoof which made fun of the huge posters that simply said 'The Birds' is Coming!' In their cartoon there were two birds sitting on a power line talking, and one says 'The Birds' is Coming!' to which the other one replied, 'Yes, and good grammar in advertising has went!'
So. Show Racer pigeons, eh? What kind of derring-do could they get up to in the Outback? In a world where one computer controls everything and the earth's magnetic field has reversed? How would you send secret messages over long distances? Could a McClary Blue save the day?
Watch this space...
In Australia Doug's latest book is available at $30 plus postage either direct from him or via Amazon.
douglasmcclary@bigpond.com
http://www.amazon.com/History-Racer-British-Pigeon-Showing/dp/1479246506/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350344317&sr=8-1&keywords=A+History+of+the+Show+Racer+in+British+Pigeon+Showing
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