In my viewpoint, if all young bird schedules consisted of two 75 mile events, two more from 100 miles and two from 150, I thinks that less youngsters would be lost and for that matter, less old ones also. However, the trend is the other way. More, and more long young bird races are being scheduled all the time. More and more fanciers, who cannot seem to learn to do well with old birds, are concentrating on their young birds ...
Taken from Widowhood Flying
by Mark Gordon