One of the stages of this season, in which an impressive number of pigeons participated in the launch, was organized on 13.06.2022 in Przemysl, Poland, a stage where the counties of Ilfov, Dâmbovița, Prahova, Giurgiu and Bucharest lined up at the start 25,374 pigeons. Basically, the competition was extraordinary, even if we take into account the 1,279 fanciers from the five counties who basketed for this race.

Cornel Isăcilă

In the pigeon section of rankings, the pigeon fanciers from Prahova county dominated the competition and occupied the first three places. The winner was the hen with the series 0862515-2020, which belongs to Adrian Mândricel from Baba Ana locality, Prahova county. Due to the fact that Adrian is away from home for a while, his good friend and hobby partner, Cornel Isăcilă, took care of the pigeons. Their champion arrived home at 14:36:07, and is recorded by the ranking program that she covered the 603 aerial kilometers with an average speed of 1,245.75 m / min. The father of this hen is an original Marcel Cadariu cock, with Desmet-Matthys blood, and his mother is a hen reproduced from a common pairing of Isăcilă’s pigeons with Mândricel’s pigeons, Janssen and Gaby Vandenabeele’s blood pigeons. The flight method was natural.

Valentin Toma

The 2nd place on the launch in this stage, in the pigeon category, was occupied by the cock with the series 0952001-2019 of the Prahova team Paraschiv Justin + Toma Valentin from Cireșanu, a team formed by two good friends, who support each other in this wonderful hobby, their goal in pigeon-hobby being high-level performance. The cock with the series 0952001-2019 is one of the pigeons in which the team from Prahova has great confidence, he was nominated for the team at this stage, and arrived on the 2nd place with a tiny difference from the 1st place, practically the two pigeons on the 1st place and 2 developed the same airspeed, the difference being only hundreds. This pigeon achieved an average speed of 1,245.07 m / min, and had a distance of 603 kilometers. He was also flown using the widow’s method. The father of the pigeon is a cock with Louis van Loon origins, from a line that proved in time that he performed to various lofts, and his mother is an original Marcel Wouters hen. On 25.06.2022, at the Przemysl 2 stage, in the provisional ranking, 0952001-2019 seems to repeat the same beautiful figure.

Cosmin Olteanu`s pigeon

3rd place was mastered by the fastest and strongest yearling of this stage, the hen with the series 2023666-2021, owned by the multiple national champion Cosmin Olteanu from Urlați, Prahova. The bird was not nominated for the team, but when there are high value pigeons in the group, there are always yearlings capable of producing very nice surprises. The young hen had to cover a distance of 593 kilometers to the aviary and managed to develop an average speed of 1,231.42 m / min in the air. She was widowed after laying two batches of eggs in the spring, for 10 days each, without being allowed to lay chicks, and her partner waited for her at home at the arrival of the race. As origins, her father is the provincial champion in the category Long distance ace Yearlings 2017, the cock with the series 16139-2016, and her mother is the hen with the series 20871-2020, she being a good sister with 17578-2017, another cock who occupied more top places in Long distance competitions.

Prahova and Bucharest win podium to the fanciers ranking

Vasile Iacob

Vasile Iacob from Mizil, Prahova, has the fastest team of the stage and occupies the 1st place in the general rankings of the fanciers category with the following three pigeons: the hen with the series 0953532-2019, which occupies the 15th place on the launch, the cock with the series 0861605-2020, positioned on the 23rd place in the general ranking and the cock series 2010864-2018, which occupies the 40th place. These three pigeons arrived and the first three in the aviary from this stage, they covered the distance of 598 kilometers. As origins, the pigeons come from the lines of the powerful pigeons by Gerard Koopman. Vasile Iacob basketed for this stage a batch of 18 pigeons and managed to rank 10 of them. The method by which he prepared them for this stage is widowhood.

Alexandru Cazacu

From Bucharest, on the podium in the general ranking of the fanciers category at this stage, the great investor and multiple pigeon fancier champion Alexandru Cazacu, who engaged a group of 90 pigeons at this stage and ranked 35 of them. The first three pigeons that arrived are the ones nominated for the team, which demonstrates the value and the fine spirit of observation of the fancier, who, out of a group of 90 engaged pigeons, somehow manages to “guess” the first three pigeons that will step on the hatch. The hen with the series 0002417-2019 arrives first in the loft, she occupies the 22nd place on the launch and the 2nd place in the Bucharest ranking. As origins, she carries in her blood the lines of Gaby Vandenabeele pigeons. His father, as well as his mother, bred several of the capital’s top pigeons. The second pigeon arrived is also a hen, she has the series 0000392-2020, in the general ranking managing to be ranked 65th, and as origins being a combination of pigeons by Jan Hooyman and pigeons by Gaby Vandenabeele, the mother of this hen being a large breeding in Alexander’s loft. The pigeon number three in the team has the series 0067056-2020, arrived at 16:13:10 minutes, with a speed of 1,113.52 m / min. and ranked 107th at launch. Originally, this cock has several “bloody” champions, Gaby Vandenabeele.

Nicolae Onea

Onea Nicolae from Baba Ana, Prahova County, occupies the 3rd place in the general rankings of the fancier category, he basketed 48 pigeons for this stage and ranked 24 of them. The three pigeons that completed the team that propelled this fancier on the podium are two cocks and one hen and have the following series: 0866917-2020, 0951344-2019, 0951314-2019, and, in the order of arrivals, they occupy the following places in the ranking: 117, 178 and 282. The father of the cock with the series 0866917-2020 is a combination of Louis Van Loon and Win Muller pigeons, and his mother is a combination of the same Louis Van Loon pigeons with Freddy Vandenheede. The cock with the series 0951344-2019 has as father a cock with Marcel Desmet origins, brought from Florin Căpățînă, and his mother holds the 131st county place in the Ace Marathon category in 2021, she being an original Adrian Crăciunescu hen. The hen with series 0951314-2019 is the pigeon with number three arrived at the team obtained the 15th county place in the Long distance 2 years rankings category, her father being a cock by Gaby Vandenabeele, crossed with the pigeons by Desmet-Matthys, also brought from the well-known Adrian Crăciunescu, and the mother , a Louis Van Loon combination with Freddy Vandenheede.

Radu, “king” over Bucharest

Constantin Radu

In the ranking of Bucharest county, the 1st place was won by the pigeon fancier Constantin Radu with his cock series 2000579-2019. The pigeon was also nominated for the team, a sign that it is a representative bird for Radu. This cock arrived in the capital at 15:42:12 minutes and managed to develop a speed of 1,181.34 m / in a distance of 649 km that he had to travel home. As origins, he is the son of the national champion in the Long distance old birds category since 2018, and his mother is an original Joel Verschoot hen. Also in the capital, the 3rd county place is occupied by the hen series 0727798-2019 of the pigeon fancier Constantin Manea. This hen covered the 652 kilometers with an average speed of 1,144.79 m / min.

Octavian Dobre

The hen 0890004-2020, of Octavian Dobre, defeated all the competition of Dâmbovița County and managed to develop an average speed of 1,156.61 m / min in the 620 kilometers. She competed in widowhood and is the daughter of 382070-2017, who was the national vice-champion in the Marathon ace category at the U.C.P.R. Her father is a cock brought from Gheorghe Nedelcu’s aviary, being a combination of the Jan Aarden x Janssen lines and is half-brother with 1940-20-2018, who, at one of the national marathons organized in Kharkov, took 2nd place in the county. The 2nd place and the 3rd place in this county are occupied by the pigeons with the series 2004205-2021, 0287979-2020 belonging to the team Manole Victoraș + Răzvan from Movila (Niculești) and Năstase Ilie + Viorel from Brezoaele.

Mincu’s experience, resonant effect for this stage

Vasile Mincu

The 67 years old fancier Vasile Mincu, from Joița locality, Giurgiu county, basketed for this stage a number of 10 pigeons and manages, with one of them, more precisely with the cock series 0002582-2020, to surpass 1299 pigeons and to occupy 1st place in the pigeon category in the ranking of the county it belongs to. This cock arrived at the loft at 15:56:14 minutes and managed to cover the 632,246 air kilometers developing in flight an average speed of 1,120.54 m / min. Vasile Mincu prepared his pigeons from the flight group using the natural method. He prefers the Middle distance and Long distance flight categories, and his winning pigeon is his own creation, the result of successive pairing from old Long distance / Marathon lines, “touched” well by the Van Hasten bloodline. Vasile Mincu prefers to keep a small group of pigeons (both in the breeding and flight compartment), which he can keep well under control, which this time he managed. On the 2nd place in the ranking of Giurgiu county is installed Iulian Dincă from Poenari locality, with his hen with series 0255409-2019, and the third county place at this stage belongs to Aurică Stancu, whose yearling hen, series 0206877-2021, made a nice surprise by her ranking on the county podium.