WACKY RACERS

Wacky Racers gives a unique insight into one of Britan’s most popular and addictive pastimes- pigeon racing.

Taff and Kelly are a couple who are ‘mad for it!  “I don’t have any children so they’re my babies,”-Kelly. “I kiss the birds before each race and one sleeps in my bed.” The cameras follow Taff and Kelly through the highs and lows of a racing season. In their first race, they lose 74 Pigeons, a complete disaster. But they fight on to bigger and better things. Chris is an experienced flyer. Breeding and motivating the highest quality birds. He has no time for slackers. “If a pigeon can’t keep up, it gets disposed of. I have no time for rubbish!”-Chris Jeff is an older racer, he suffers from a rare lung problem caused by the bloom from the pigeon’s feathers. “I was told if I didn’t give them up it would kill me,” Jeff.” They will have to go before  I do.”

Selective breeding, training, and understanding all play a part in creating a champion pigeon some of which can race 500 miles home in a single day. Filmed in and around Bristol, the film explores the lives of these committed and obsessive racers.

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