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Located in the Northwest corner of Orange County, California, and on the long end of the Los Angeles Basin, The AWOL Futurity Race Series, offers the best location for a futurity race in Southern California.

For each of the three series races, the futurity birds will be released within a Federation race of thousands of birds heading to all parts of the San Fernando Valley and Greater Los Angeles / Orange County area. This means that the futurity birds will be fairly well broken up before they arrive in the metro areas.

As the Federation release birds come through the mountains they will enter the San Fernando Valley and fan out in several directions. About 1/3rd of the Federation birds will be dropping out, heading towards their Frenando valley home lofts, About 20 miles later, the remaining birds will need to pass through or over the foothills which seperate the Fernando Valley from the Greater LA Basin. The birds may choose any of three passes between the San Fernando Valley and the LA Basin (also called the Greater Valley) or the birds might remain very high in the sky and fly right over this range of foothills.

Once the birds enter the Greater LA Basin, they have about 35 - 40 miles of flat terrain, over which to fly before reaching your handler's loft. All along the way, Federation race birds will spreading out across the basin and heading towards their home lofts, but the AWOL Futurity birds will continue on, as they are the long end of the Federation race.

Whether the birds come out of the mountains high in the sky or lower, whether they go through the passes or over the foothills, whether they swing towards the ocean, or towards the desert doesn't much matter as the AWOL Futurity lofts are tightly situated right in the middle on the extreme long end of the race course.

It is highly unlikely, that the birds will come in a group. There are just to many geographic variables at play and to many birds breaking off along the way. Birds that are followers will lose minutes to birds that can keep their orientation for home and not be pulled off course by flocks and smaller groups of race birds heading towards the many other clubs within the Federation race. Being on the extreme long end of this maze of choices, birds that home early in the AWOL Futurity race series, will need to possess strength, determination and superior orientation skills. Isn't that what we breed for?

The race boundaries for the AWOL Futurity lofts, have been chosen to create as fair a race as possible. All the lofts (except one) are within a 5 1/2 mile square. With three races in the series, no one loft has an advantage. Wind direction (onshore / offshore / northernly / southernly) varies from week to week and with the close proximity of the lofts, this is about as fair a race series as one can possibly find.

The AWOL Futurity Three Race Series, is the perfect venue to test your birds against the best competition in America today! Isn't that why you send your birds out to races, to test them and to learn about your breeding program, in competitions that clearly define which are the top birds? There is no race or race series in the USA today, that offers a more definitive answer to how well do your birds size up against the competition. One lucky race settles nothing here. This race series will clearly answer, who has the best breeding in America today. That is what you pay for and that is what you will get!

When you look at it that way, the AWOL Futurity Race Series, is the best value for your investment. You need answers, this is the competitive venue that gives you those answers.

Unlike the 2006 AU Convention Race, which was one race of only convention birds all heading to the same 25 x 20 mile area. The AWOL Futurity Series, is a three race series of 300, 350 and 400 miles. The birds must fly through a 60 mile deep front, where Federation birds are breaking off along the whole San Fernando Valley and Greater LA Basin area. And, the AWOL Futurity handlers are not spread out across a 25 mile front, but are tightly clustered within a 5 1/2 mile square "hot zone", on the extreme long end of the Federation race course.