In the Yearlings Short distance ​​category, the 2020 season was dominated by Dâmbovița and Vâlcea associations. Even if they are not the strongest centers for the short races in Romania, the two associations are the ones that give the occupants of the national podium of the ​​category above this year. Victoraș + Răzvan Manole from Dâmbovița, the occupants of the 1st national place, the team Șițoiu + Tudoran from Vâlcea, who ranked second, and Team Catrinescu, also from Vâlcea, who wins the 3rd national Yearlings Short disance 2020. The norm of the category is made after the classification of five races with distances between 95 and 420 km.

With the 4.11 penalty points obtained by the cock RO-19-0723138, the team Victoraș + Răzvan Manole secured their position of national champion. The team Șițoiu + Tudoran ranks second in the national hierarchy, with 10.46 penalty points, thanks to the hen RO-19-0240919. The third place is occupied by Team Catrinescu, with the hen RO-19-0241027, who, in the five short distance races, accumulated 13.19 penalty points.

Victoraș + Răzvan Manole (DB) and the cock RO-19-0723138, national champions for Yearlings Short distance 2020

After this season, the team Victoraș + Răzvan Manole can boast an extraordinary pigeon. The cock RO-19-0723138 is not a national champion only for the category mentioned above. Being 1st place in 3 different races in the 2020 season, plus other very good rankings, the young pigeon of the two fanciers from Dâmbovița wins three trophies of the 1st place nationally this season: 1st National Yearlings Short distance, 1st National Yearlings Middle distance and 1st National Yearlings, G category. Ranking 1st out of 5,444 pigeons (375 km), 1st place out of 2,112 pigeons (373 km), 1st place out of 2,222 pigeons (373 km), 4th place out of 2,195 pigeons (373 km) and 12th place out of 9,925 (183 km), the cock of the Dâmbovița tandem managed to be one of the best pigeons in Romania. “The cock has the same father with our hen who last year was the 1st National Yearlings Middle distance, being a good exponent of the family we managed to create, and his mother is an original hen of Dirk van den Bulck. We competed him using the widowhood method, so it was very easy for us to motivate him. We used several means of motivation, the cock found his hen in the breeding box when he came from training, we also used jealousy, but, as a rule, the motivation took place the day before basketing, to send him calmly to the competition. For feeding we used the Gino Clique mixture from Vanrobaeys “, said Victoraș Manole.

The Șițoiu + Tudoran team wins the 2nd place National Yearlings Short distance

The hen RO-19-0240919, of the team Șițoiu + Tudoran, “predicted” since the beginning of the competitive year that 2020 will be a special season. In the fourth race, she won the first place out of 12,068 pigeons, so that at the end of the season she would be ranked 1st National Ace Speed ​​Yearlings, 2nd place National Short distance Yearlings, 2nd place National Category G Yearlings and 4th place National Middle distance Yearlings. “The hen comes from Cătălin Ariciu and has Drapa, Gunter Prange and Van Dyck pigeons in her origins. She was competed using widowhood method, like all our pigeons, being separated 10 days after laying the eggs. At first we didn’t pay much attention to her, but then, when we noticed that she had very good performances, we stopped competing her cock, so that helped alot with the motivation. During the season we used three types of food, from Vanrobaeys. After the races, the pigeons received a diet food, then they were fed the 029 mixture, and at the end of the week they received the Top Energy mixture. Apart from the trainings around the loft, once or twice a week we took them by car, about 40 km “, explained Cosmin Tudoran.

Team Catrinescu ranks 3rd in the National Yearlings Short distance

The national podium of the Yearlings Short distance ​​category is completed by Team Catrinescu, also from the Vâlcea Association. Although she competed including Long distance races, the hen of the Catrinescu loft managed to get a very good score also for Short distance category, winning the 3rd place National Yearlings Short distance, among others, ranking 9th National Category G Yearlings and 13th National Yearlings Allround category. “The hen is the daughter of a good breeder of our loft, with Van Loon and Van de Pasch origins, and her mother is the double inbreed niece of Jan Hooymans’ best pigeon, the famous” Harry “. She competed in widowhood method, without reproducing before the season, because we didn’t know when we would start and we didn’t want to take any chances. We used food from Vanrobaeys, all season, based on the Gino Clique mixture, and to train them, we took them by car once a week to 50 km, and when returning home from these trainingd we let them see their pair”, said Ionuț Manu , the manager of the Catrinescu farm.