Benny Steveninck (Hamme) : 2019 became the next top season in a row !

Hamme: The high-class of the Steveninck pigeons is emerging internationally. This was proven again a few months ago in far away China where the internationally known "Pioneer Club" from Beijing organized their final race. The winner of this final race has as father a direct Benny Steveninck bird. "Yue Ping" (B13-4096874) is the name of the father of the winner. "Yue Ping" is a half-brother of the famous "Gueret", who won in Hamme following national top performances: 31st National Gueret 11.894d. - 31st Nat. Argenton 9,228d. and 41st National Jarnac 9,462b. . Again the proof that the Steveninck pigeons are one "winning family".

A little bit of history.
The Steveninck colony knew his start in 1998…pigeon sport wasn’t a strange thing to Benny as also father Raymond was a driven pigeon fancier. When Benny married his lovely wife Carine, he was already racing for several years in tandem with his father. Carine felt that he was spending too much time as his parental house on the lofts and suggested to start racing pigeons from their own garden. Said and done and a miracle later Carine was hit by the pigeon germ as well and became a very driven and enthusiastic fancier. Benny, who worked for years as a train driver for our National rail roads had very irregular working hours and had to work also very often by night. Without the help of Carine the colony wouldn’t be what it is now. Benny has retired since a few years now and can fully concentrate on his favourite waste of time : pigeon sport !

The phenomenon “Chipo”!
Benny decided at the contrary to many other fanciers who start of first on the short distance races to go immediately onto the middle distance races. He went to visit the West-Flemish top fancier Willy Van Houtte from Wevelgem and put about 10 youngsters in his basket. Benny and Carine had rather quick success with these Van Houtte-pigeons and during the coming years he bought dozen other pigeons from this loft. These Van Houtte-pigeons got the reinforcement of other different strains.

They had their fair share of prizes but everything started to snowball in 2003 when the top pigeon ‘Chipo’ was born. This fantastic cock won as a youngster 1st Dourdan 571 b.,1st Dourdan 375b., 2nd Dourdan 1,316b., 9th Dourdan 1,268b., 9th Dourdan 339b., 10th Dourdan 964b. and so on…and made it to 1st Provincial Ace bird East-Flanders. This top bird is at fathers’ side a pigeon from Sylvain Verstraete x a daughter out of the 1st Nat. La Souterraine (Eddy Leutenez)... on mothers’ side it is a Jozef Vandamme- Dendermonde. Many professional buyers made an offer to be able to put his golden cock in their basket. Benny declined resolute every offer and later that season he basketed ‘Chipo’ again. A golden move apparently as also as a year bird he showed his class! He won a.o. 1st Dourdan 614b., 1st Dourdan 213b., 1st Dourdan 101b., 41st Bourges 2,306., 17th Dourdan 848b., 14th Dourdan 425b., 24th Dourdan 555b., and so on…Every normal fancier would send this top pigeon after two successful season to their breeding loft, but not Benny. We write the year 2005 and ‘Chipo’ was there again 3rd Dourdan 217b., 7th Toury 427b., 5th Dourdan 194b., 9th Noyon 199b., and so on. In the meantime offspring of this top pigeon were to be found at the loft and seemed that his sons could win prizes of honour as well. More than once they made it home before their father and that’s why Benny finally decided to put him on the breeding loft. Coupled to B03-4328989 (a pure Michel Hautekiet- hen) they became the parents of many top pigeons who dominated the national pigeon sport the past few years !

Underneath an overview but we might forget a crack pigeon….the list with references is that long :

“Chipo” is father to:

“Chihaut 100”: 6 National Ace bird KBDB Middle distance 2005
5 x 1st prize

“De Crack”: 1 Provincial Ace bird KBDB Middle distance 2007
3 National Ace bird KBDB Middle distance 2007
3 Provincial Ace bird KBDB Middle distance 2006
1 Provincial Bourges 1.687b.
11 National Bourges 12.898b.
1 Dourdan 782b.
1 Dourdan 394b.

“Chihaut 98” 2 Provincial Ace bird KBDB Middle distance 2008
3 National Ace bird KBDB Middle distance 2008
4 Provincial Ace bird KBDB Middle distance 2009
7 Provincial Ace bird KBDB Middle distance 2007
1 Angerville 797b.
1 Noyon 539b.
1 Dourdan 517b.
1 Angerville 344b.
1 Dourdan 342b.
1 Dourdan 320b.
1 Dourdan 227b.
1 Dourdan 226b.
1 Noyon 181b.

“Vierzonneke” : 1 Provincial Vierzon 2,003d.
1 Provincial Argenton 2,007d.
2 Interprov. Vierzon 5,076d.

“Chihaut 99”: 1 Dourdan 496b.
45 National Argenton 4,782b.
46 National (z) Poitiers 2,488b.
64 National Gueret 12,592b.

“New 98” 1 Vierzon 1,743b.
1 Dourdan 254b.
1 Noyon 162b.
36 National Bourges 19,655b.

“Bont Genopte New 100”
37 National Bourges 24,651b.
72 National Bourges 9,639b.
90 National Argenton 19,816b.

“Chipo” is grandfather to:

“Nationaal”: 1 National Limoges (at Geerinckx)

“Sun”: 1st National Ace bird KBDB youngsters 2013
1st provincial Ace bird KBDB 2013
3 Provincial Argenton 3,942b.
22 National La Souterraine 13,089b.
44 National Bourges 18,478b
118 National Chateauroux 12,071b.

“Bolt”: 2 x 1st prize

“Nestmaat Lucky 13”: 2 x 1st prize

“Hilde”: 15 Nat. Ace bird GMD KBDB’13

“Lucky 13”: 4 x 1e prijs

“ Miss Lucky”: 1 provincial La Souterraine 3,823b.

And so on…

“LUCKY 80” … 5th NATIONAL ACE BIRD KBDB GREATER MIDDLE DISTANCE OLD 2019
The national KBDB ace bird championships are known since a while now and also now we see the name Benny Steveninck at the top of the results. The pure proof that the Steveninck pigeons are born out of pure class.
This year it was hen “Lucky 80” who magically classified herself amongst the national KBDB ace pigeons.

ALSO THE YOUNGSTERS IMPRESS WITH 1ST AND 2ND PROVINCIAL CHATEAUROUX AGAINST 5,165 YOUNG BIRDS

On Saturday the 10th of August we had the 2nd national race for young pigeon scheduled. In East-Flanders there were 5,165 young pigeons basketed on provincial level and the Steveninck pigeons didn’t know where to leave their power and took the 1st and 2nd provincial spot onto their account. Also here we see the golden breeding line from ‘Chipo’ :

2019 … THE NEXT TOP SEASON IN A ROW…THE RESULTS

29/04 Noyon
101 Old 1-3-4-6-17-23-34 7/13
137 Year birds 2-8-11-18-28-35-40-55 8/12

12/05 Etampes 24/37
855 old 1-5-19-21-48-54-83-84-91-111-136-140-166-168-183-193-193-209-224247-257-282-328
456 year birds 1-2-3-22-35-74-75-85-89-89-95-108-112142-161 15/22

12/05 Etampes
241 old 2-6-7-10-14-15-17-20-25-33-39-45-50 13/13
1096 old 6-8-9-17-18-40-54-55-66-81-83-90-102-138-141-170-177-196-232-251-328 21/28284 year birds 3-4-5-7-9-21-27-60-85 9/15
594 year birds 3-4-5-8-16-62-79-150 8/15

12/05 Noyon
321 year birds 4-15-18-27-33-39 6/9
2126 year birds 18-65-72-140-189

18/5 Vierzon Nat.
155 old 1-2-4-6-10-11-14-15-16-17-21-22-23-27-33-34-48 18/25
879 old 4-11-25-33-40-55-58-73-74-80-82-101-108-113-147-194-195 17/25
111 year birds 1-2-5-9-11-16-18-26-29-32-34-35 12/31
717 year birds 1-11-27-49-55-86-92-167-187 9/31

25/05 Bourges Nat.
507 old 5-13-24-33-40-65-83-90-106-110-121-128-129-131 14/24
427 year birds 7-23-30-37-72-82-85-125 8/25

01/06 Issoudun Prov.
191 old 1-2-4-6-7-9-10-10-29-43
613 old 4-5-18-29-42-47-56-56-18 9/12
117 year birds 2-7-8-14-17-19-23-26-33 9/19
650 year birds 7-27-30-81-91-113-133-139-180 9/19

08/06 Chateauroux nat.
366 old 15-18-26-43-44-46-52-61-80-89-95-96-105-118 14/23
481 year birds 1-6-17-40-47-49-53-61-71-72-73-77-86-99-115-121-127-134 18/29

15/06 Argenton Prov.
383 old 2-3-8-10-11-12-13-16-17-18-28-32-33-40-48-51-54-58-61-62-69-70-76-
82-84-97-98-99-103-107-110-117-118-120-124-125 38/58
502 year birds 2-3-8-11-13-14-18-28-35-39-45-50-56-63-70-75-82-86-99-102-105-125-135-160-161-162 26/36

22/06 Argenton Nat.
192 old 1-5-8-11-12-27-38-51-58-59-60 11/21
320 year birds 3-7-13-15-19-23-29-32-34-35-40-48-55-61-64-72-81-85-97 19/31
3079 old Prov. 1-49-87-151-152-367-504-597-691-738-751 11/21
15235 old Nat. 12-217-377-619-623-1444-2018-2463-2947-3106-3138 11/21

05/07 Limoges Nat.
97 old 4-7-16 3/3
2200 Prov. 98-138-206
2658 Nat. Zone 60-86-192 3/3

06/07 Montlucon Nat.
186 old 4-5-6-9-11-28-30-34 8/18
259 year birds 8-14-16-31-48-50-66-71-75-83-84 11/29
1814 old Prov. 16-22-31-36-44-148-153-182 8/18
2542 year birds Prov.31-53-60-176-313-320-433-450-179-564-565-602-622 13/29
9857 old Nat. 68-89-100-115-156-746-760-902 8/18

06/07 Chevrainvilliers
329 jong 1-5-9-17-24-46-47-49-50-52-58-64-65-70-72-77-87-91-96-98-113-126-129 23/47

13/07 Chevrainvilliers
262 jonge 6-7-8-11-13-14-18-20-21-22-24-26-30-31-3545-60-75-80-83-94 21/46

13/07 Argenton Prov.
119 old 1-2-4-6-7-10-12-13-15-17-18-22-29-36-38-39 16/21
182 year birds 1-2-4-6-8-14-20-44-57 9/111494 old Prov. 4-5-13-23-28-72-105-108-114-126-150-216-267-317-333-344 16/21
1947 year birds Prov. 5-23-59-89-102-176-253- 7/11

21/07 Issoudun Nat.
110 old 1—814-15-16-18-26-29-31- 9/16
146 year birds 3-4-7-10-17-18-23-24-29-32-34-37-45-49 14/21
3079 old Prov. 1-49-87-151-152-367-504-597-691-738-751 11/21
8248 old Nat. 21-326-712-732-884-982-1322-1530-1546-1797-2038 11/21
11465 year birds Nat. 39-47-135-382-604-716-1131-1140-1293-1453-1557-1709-2138-2263-2372-2473 16/21
2509 old Nat.Zone 9-122-266-315-356-461-527-537-624 10/16
3942 year birds Nat. Zone 25-29-78-178-269-312-492-494-546-595-639-688-870-916-962 15/21
1485 old Prov. 2-30-78-81-95-112-178-219-226-285-341 11/16
2223 year birds Prov. 3-5-12-36-70-84-143-146-176-208-223-259-368-407-424-444 16 /21

21/07 Libourne Nat.
60 old 1-2-5-8 4/6
2200 Prov. 98-138-206
1255 Nat. Zone 18-19-84-136 4/6
4605 Nat. 123-124-419-645 4/6
990 Prov. 42-43-119-192 4/6

21/07 Orleans
427 youngsters 2-8-21-22-33-38-74-75-81-91-125 11/18

21/07 Chevrainvilliers
288 youngsters 1-5-6-7-26-43-48-49-79-89-90 9/26
644 youngsters 1-10-11-12-48-94-102-106-169-186-187 11/26

03/08 Bourges Nat.
122 old 1-3-4-17-20-29-39-40 8/13
207 year birds 4-5-17-30-31-32-59 7/15
603 youngsters 8-22-22-51-58-88-90-124-152-158-174-189-193 13/24
1124 old Prov. 10-21-26-85-104-159-238-261 8/13
1915 year birds Prov. 28-32-94-218-225-237 5/15
5968 youngsters Prov. 119-220-221-444-515-774-829-1136-1473 9/24
2181 old Nat.Zone 16-34-52-181-220-322-463-507 8/13
7253 old Nat. 53-93-127-505-630-989-1376-1509 8/13

03/08 Tulle Nat.
85 old 7-8-14-23 4/6
1381 Prov. 94-110-237 3/6
1729 Nat. Zone 56-69-160-376 4/6
81 year birds 5-6-12-15-21 5/6
1381 Prov 94-110-237 3/6
2085 Nat. Zone 161-191-267-380 4/6

3/08 Eccouen
320 youngsters 1-2-3-5-10-11-16-19-20-21-25-28-29-30-32-37-39-40-41-43-65-66-69-95-100-100-109-119-127 29/48
811 youngsters 1-3-7-11-29-30-45-55-57-58-61-78-87-88-94-111-119-121-124-127-174-175-184-236-352-252-265 27/48

10/08 Toury
638 youngsters 1-11-19-33-36-42-55-153-197-198 10/32
227 youngsters 1-5-8-13-15-19-24-56-73-73-80 11/32

10/08 Chateauroux Nat.
82 old 3-4-7-11-16-20-21-25-26 9/18
120 year birds 4-5-6-13-19-20-21-28-34- 9/15
469 youngsters 1-2-20-27-39-40-41-48-49-68-69-82-87-99-130-138-143 18/40
529 old Prov. 3-4-6-15-39-48-49-73-75-103 9/18
1042 year birds Prov. 18-19-20-51-117-131-136-163-238 9/15
5165 youngsters Prov. 1-2-115-266-353-355-360-458-493-675-678-798-860-976-1250 15 /40

19/08 Toury 358 km.
Lok. 275 jonge 1-2-3-4-5-5-13-14-15-16-17-19-20-30-38-46-49-48-49-71-72-73-80-82-90-91-94-96-101-101   29/42
Verbond 673 jonge 9-10-13-14-15-15-39-40-41-50-51-71-75-76-101-125-145-149-151-215-216-217     21/42

24/08 Toury 358 km.
Lok. 372 jonge 1-2-3-5-6-7-8-11-12-16-17-23-28-35-54-55-60-62-73-78-102-137-138  24/27
Verbond 696 jonge 2-3-5-11-15-19-20-26-32-44-46-56-66-82-145-159-192-200 20/27

31/08 Toury  358 km
Verbond 372 jonge :1-2-3-4-8-10-12-14-18-24-27-31-34-43-71-86-95      17/25
Club  219 Jonge : 1-2-3-4-6-7-9-10-14-17-20-22-23-27-40-46-52                 17/25