This trophy was won by Ian Bellringer, a New Plymouth local, in 1946, 1948 and 1949, when he was a member of the Taranaki Poultry and Pigeon Club. This club began in 1890, and members breed a variety of purebred show pigeons. From the early 1900s the club was amalgamated with the Taranaki A&P Association, and the club used their hall for meetings and at their peak ran breed shows in Hawera, Stratford, Inglewood, Opunake and Waitara, as well as in New Plymouth. This trophy, however, was not specifically from this club, but instead was awarded to Ian for racing his pigeons between Timaru and New Plymouth.