Last season, a number of 101 youngsters competed so well that they managed to rank 10 out of 10 competitions, thus fulfilling the norm of the Speed Ace ​​category. The 1st National place was won in Suceava County, an area less known for the national top results in the short distance categories, while the next two national trophies reach Sălaj County. Therefore, Moldova and the West dominated, in the 2020 season, the Speed ace Youngsters category.

As a peculiarity, in the 2020 season, this category folded well on teams fanciers. Brothers Ioan and Constantin Ionesi, from Vicovu de Sus, are the national champions, winning more than detached this trophy, at a difference of 108 penalty points from the second place, occupied by the tandem Cărăbuș + Micloș, from Sălaj County. Also from Sălaj is the team Fekete + Lucaciu, which occupies the third place of the national podium.

The Ionesi brothers, national champions at Speed ace Youngsters

Five of the 101 young birds that achieved this ​​category belong to the Ionesi brothers, who occupy the 1st, 19th, 35th, 37th and 48th places in the National Catalog. The champion of the category is a young hen, with the series 2017216/2020, wearing a Gold ring. In the 10 races she ranked in 2020, all in the season dedicated to the youngsters and with a distance between 187 and 387 km, the champion of the Ionesi brothers accumulated a coefficient of 176.91 penalty points. It is important to mention that 9 of the 10 scores were counted from the general rankings of the stages, and some of its best rankings were 22nd out of 6,711 pigeons (239 km) and 40th out of 5,645 pigeons (187 km). “We started the younsters season with a batch of 100 pigeons, which stayed in the dark for 10 weeks, from the end of April until the beginning of July. In the dark, they stayed for about 14 hours a day, that is, from 20:00, until the next day at 10:00. For the youngsters, we used three types of food, namely Gerry, from Versele Laga, and the Sport Galaxy Light and Energy mixtures, from Beyers. Every two weeks I treated the pigeons for trichomoniasis, respiratory problems and adeno-coli, and the recovery after races was made with electrolytes. The national champion is a pigeon of Janssen origins and is the granddaughter of two Olympic pigeons and a national champion. Her nest sister occupies, in the same category, the 19th National place “, said Constantin Ionesi.

The Cărăbuș + Micloș (SJ) team occupies the second place

The second place of the national podium is also occupied by a team, this time formed by pigeon fanciers Marius Cărăbuș and Adrian Micloș, both from Sălaj County. Their vice-champion has the series 0505327/2020 and has accumulated a coefficient of 284.59 penalty points. Apart from ranking 2nd National, the team Cărăbuș + Micloș is also found four more times in the National Catalog of this category. Among the very good rankings of the national vice-champion, we mention the 7th place out of 1,497 pigeons and the 8th place out of 1,537 pigeons, both at a distance of 194 km. “For the 2020 season we had a batch of 140 yougsters, which we competed in all ten official races of the competition plan. As an origin, the vice-champion is a young bird purchased from the team Tatar + Rogoz. We competed them using natural method, and during the season we used the competition mixture produced by Mr. Ioan Feștilă’s company, from Neamț. As supplements, We used Electrolit, from CEST Pharma, and BT-Amin, from Rohnfried. In order to always be prepared for races, the youngsters were taken twice a week, between stages, to a 45 km training session”, explained Adrian Micloș.

A team also in the 3^rd place

Last season, the well-known team Fekete + Lucaciu, also from the Sălaj Association, formed by the pigeon fanciers Robert Fekete and Florin Lucaciu, ranked 3rd in the National Speed ace Youngsters ​​category. The young bird with the series 0183208/2020 brought to the two fanciers this national trophy with a coefficient of 335.82 penalty points, and besides the 3rd National place, the same pigeon also won the 2nd county place in the Short distance ​​category. “His father is a hen from my friend Ionuț Strava, from Brașov, and his mother is a good pigeon from our loft, county champion in the Speed Ace ​​category. She also reproduced other very good pigeons, including a county champion also for this ​​category. As it is known, we compete with youngsters using natural method, that is, without approaching a specific method, such as darkness. All puppies must fly 10 races, and after the season we select only the pigeons that have ranked at least eight of them, at least one with very low penalty points. For youngsters we do not use a recuperator, because they does not fly long distances, nor conditioning supplements “, mentioned Robert Fekete.