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Andre' Coeckelberghs
and family
















The winner
1st national Bourges
 

































Michel Vanlint


















"Bea"
2105478/04

Georges Lenaerts

"Ronaldo"
The national
Brive winner

2005 was a year for hard competition. Here are the national and international race winners.

05-28-2005 BOURGES
(distance Brussels: 450km)

This was 2005's first national race in Belgium, with 26,340 old and 21,796 yearbirds. Bourges had 5000 birds more in the basket than last year. The birds were released at 7 a.m., and had a very good race. But the top birds were found in the east side of the country.

26,340 old birds:
1. Andre Coeckelberghs - Binkom 1442.23 m/m
2. Jean and Gerry Conaert - Dilsen 1426.36 m/m
3. Andre and Toon Veulemans - Vissenaken 1425.96 m/m
4. Maurits Vandevelde - Scherpenheuvel 1420.01 m/m
5. Michel Bourguet - Andrimont 1413.85 m/m




ANDRE COECKELBERGHS WINS WITH A TOPBIRD

The family Coeckelberghs are not "big" fanciers. Every year they have about 29 widowers, 20 breeding pairs, and about 100 youngbirds. The first birds came from some friends but beginning in the '90s, they bought pigeons from Louis Van Loon, Maurits Voets and Gust Cristiaens (through Hubert Laporte). Later they bought pigeons from Theo De Windt, Debecker-Guelinckx , Vinckx-Ceusters and Stockx Bros. In recent years they went to Lambrechts-Lismont, Swa Everaerts, Dirk Bonte, and Maurice Vandersmissen.

These fanciers concentrate on the middle- and long-distance races, and every year they participate also for Barcelona. But now we visited them to congratulate them for the national victory for Bourges. We can say that a real top bird wins the Bourges national, and that is always very nice to see. We're talking here about the "Bourges" (2203055/03) who was last season (2004) the 5th provincial ace-pigeon middle distance. Here are his results: 1st Toury 174b. - 2nd Soissons 1135b. - 3rd Orleans 200b. - 5th Toury 478b. - 5th Soissons 311b. - 5th Nanteuil 248b. - 5th Soissons 102b. - 6th Toury 1222b. - 7th Soissons 832b. - 8th Toury 1204b. and then the first national Bourges and also the fastest against 48,136 birds.

His father is the "2047635/99" bought by the loft Debecker-Guelinckx (strain Verberck Van Hove X Lambrechts Lismont)
Mother is "Gesteke" (2254810/01), who won as a youngbird 13 x prize with 1st-5th-6th-9th-9th-12th etc.



MICHEL VANLINT WITH A WORLD RESULT

21,796 yearbirds:
1. Michel Vanlint - Zoutleeuw 1430.81 m/m
2. Guido Loockx - Tessenderlo 1421.15 m/m
3. Visschers en zoon - Maasmechelen 1416.68 m/m
4. Michel Vanlint - Zoutleeuw 1413.25 m/m
5. Maarten Wolfs - Beringen 1412.41 m/m

You can still read the report on Siegel's Website made about the Michel Vanlint loft, which was posted a few months before this world result. We can certainly talk about a world result because against 21,796 yearbirds we find the name Vanlint on these places: 1-4-6-9-11. Provincial, against more then 2700 yearbirds he won 1-2-3-4-5. Unbelievable for Belgian results! Is this the pigeon sport of another planet? As already mentioned, to know more details about his racing method, I suggest that you surf back to the report about this loft on the Siegel's website.

The national winner is a hen named "Bea." "Bea" (2105478/04) won before this a national victory-the 13th Toury against 1191 yearbirds.
Her father is "2327028/99" and comes from the loft of Maurice Vandevelde (Scherpenheuvel) where he won the 16th national Bourges against 22,581 birds and the 151st Chateauroux against 10,295 birds.
The mother of "Bea" is "Het Favorietje" (NL98-1616920) and comes directly from the loft of Jacq Wolters (Halen).



06-01-2005 BRIVE
(distance Brussels: 650 km)

20,327 old birds:
1. Georges Lenaerts - St Georges Sur Meuse 1447.40 m/m
2. Leekens-Hermans - As 1421.44 m/m
3. Sylvain D'Hondt - Semmerzake 1420.60 m/m
4. Donne Meers - Riemst 1419.68 m/m
5-6. Andre en Patrick Desmet - Semmerzake 1419.51 m/m - 1419.20 m/m


Georges Lenaerts started with the pigeon sport in 1989. Before this time he bred birds, but he stopped totally with this hobby. When he started racing pigeons he bought birds from Pierre Daenen (Awans) and Constant Rahier (Stockay - pigeons from Grondelaers and Persoons). The season of 2003 was really super, with 27 first prizes. In 2004 Georges had not so good a season, due to some personal health problems. But all these problems are a thing of the past, and the season 2005 is tops again. He started the season with 34 widowers, 80 youngbirds and about 15 breeding couples. The widowers were coupled at the beginning of December and the middle of March. After a five-day nesting in March, they went on widowhood. The winner is a very nice chequer cock who is named after the world-famous soccer player "Ronaldo." "Ronaldo" (1048409/00) has as father "1061364/99," who comes from Daenen and Son. His father is the "Flori 74" who won 1st Soissons 120b. - 1st Vervins 493b. - 2nd Crepy 538b.
Mother of "Ronaldo" is 1061354/99.

 







Jean and Rene'
Coenen

"Montelimar"
The 1st national
winner

Kees Bosua and
his supporters
celebrate







"Kerkduifje"
Winner of
1st national
Le Mans








Bosua at his loft






Keys to the prize
automobile

"Muggie"
Winner of
2nd National
Le Mans




Bosua and the media
after his huge win

Hugo Van Moer



"The Montauban"
1st national winner











































Guy Flandrin
winner of
1st international Pau

"Ourasi"
F01/480040

The bird who won the 2nd national Le Mans is also a hen and is named "Muggie" (NL04-2061938) again a top hen of the Bosua loft. When we received a list with her racing results, we read the following top prizes: 2nd national Le Mans 96,230b. - 1st Hensies 1756b. - 20th Peronne 1718b. - 23rd Blois 3281b. - 48th Strombeek 1817b. - 49th Chantilly 2484b. - 57th Harchies 3499b. - 59th Niergies 5902b., etc.
Her father is "De Bels" (B99-3151680), directly from the Belgian top loft Valeer and Eddy Vandepoele.
The mother of "Muggie" is "Tosca" (NL 01-5150294), a full sister of "Teletubbie."



06-18-2005 CAHORS
(distance Brussels: 770km)

9270 old birds:
1. De Vuyst-Gysens - Lokeren 1075.39 m/m
2. Etienne Cecherf - Vlissegem 1067.14 m/m
3. Armand + Hans Claus - Wortegem Petegem 1067.05 m/m
4. Stanislas Holivoet - Torhout 1066.37 m/m
5. Denys Michel - Handzame 1063.58 m/m

Cahors is a well-known national race in Belgium. Also the Taiwanese fanciers are more than interested in the winner of this race, because more than once they have had a good breeding out of these winning birds. To buy the winner, the buyers had to go to Lokeren, and more specifically to Norbert De Vuyst. Norbert has 43 widowers and about 70 youngsters. Only the long- and very long-distance races are the favourite distances. To be successful in this category, he went to buy pigeons from well known long-distance racers like Verhaegen (Eksaarde), Albert Derweduwen (Zingem), Georges Carteus (Ronse), Luc van Coppenolle (Ouwegem), Miel Denijs (Tielt), Jos Joosen (Brecht), Silvere Toye (Otegem), Devooght Gaston (De Haan) and some middle distance from Deleus Louis and Van Dijck Dirk.

The national winner is called "Rode Pater" (B4430679/03), and before winning national Cahors he won 34th Chateauroux 3933b. - 160th Chateauroux 4485b. - 181st Chateauroux 3430b. - 773rd national Bourges 19,606b.
His father is "Rode Luc" 4572872/97 - directly Luc Van Coppenolle, Ouwegem. Mother is "Plastronduivin" (4526896/98), 50% Emiel Denijs - Zulte.



06-22-2005 MONTAUBAN
(distance Brussels: 780 km)

The national race from Montauban, which replaced the national Bordeaux race from last year, had about the same number of participants (7313 birds). It was a hard race because only 106 birds were clocked on liberation day.

7313 old birds:
1. Hugo Van Moer - Beveren 1064.05 m/m
2. Pierre and Vincent Schroeder - Aywaille 1060.64 m/m
3. Daniel Pousart - Bourlers 1058.36 m/m
4. Hubert Debaene - Beernem 1056.03 m/m
5. Verstichele Godfried - Pittem 1052.83 m/m


Hugo Van Moer started the racing season with 24 widowers, 40 youngsters and 15 breeding couples. In 2004 Hugo didn't race a lot. The reason was pox, although he vaccinated with the combinationvaccine. At the end of July the racing season was stopped. The widowers could breed a round of youngsters and were then separated till the middle of March. With one youngster in the nest they started the 2005 racing season. About Hugo, there is only one big secret in the pigeon sport-namely an extremely hard selection. At the moment of our visit there were already eight widowers selected out "and tomorrow another one will follow," said Hugo.
And then the "Montauban" (4246472/02) had thrown one wing feather at the moment of his top result and before his national victory he won 607th Vierzon 14,073 b. - 71st national Brive against 20,327 birds or, in other words, a very good long-distance bird. It is no wonder that fanciers from Taiwan were more interested in this "Crack."

The father of "The Montauban" is "De Carteus" (4224462/00) - directly from Georges Carteus of Ronse. He comes from a grandson of the "Limoges" coupled with a granddaughter of the "Limoges."

The mother is "Dochter Ierlander" (4186840/00) - directly from Legiest Romain from Oostakker.


06-25-2005 PAU INTERNATIONAL

8421 old birds:
1. Guy Flandrin - Helfaut (France) 1101.91 m/m
2. Robert Pernel - Etaples (France) 1089.93 m/m
3. Rene Guche - Rety (France) 1065.59 m/m
4. Germain Vandermaas - Brugge (Belgium) 1058.11 m/m
5. Lucien Staelens - Wevelgem (Belgium) 1052.15 m/m

Due to the very bad weather in southern France, the pigeons had to stay seven nights in the basket. Due to this and the very hard weather, Pau was more than just a very long-distance race.

The international winner is Guy Flandrin from Helfaut, so after the international winners 2004 Duquesnoy Brothers ( Outreau), we had to go again to the district Pas-De-Calais. Tuesday evening at 19.29 h. and at 1101.91 m/m velocity Guy clocked his "Ourasi" (F01/480040). After all the birds were stolen in 1988, Guy Flandrin made a new start in the pigeon sport and concentrated on the very long-distance races. His base-pigeons were bought by Hétru (Baisieux - France). In total, Guy has 50 widowers and those are prepared for the racing season the same way as by a lot of other fanciers.

Germain Vandermaes
winner of
1st national Pau

"Bak 3"
winner of 1st national Pau for Belgium