Willy Steenaerts

Willy Steenaerts is absolutely one of the superstars of Belgium Pigeonsport!
But he is a simple and relaxed man who thinks mostly about his pigeons – and not so much about publicity, social medias and promotion.
Therefore there will be readers who dont know the name Willy Steenaerts – so lets try to write a little bit about his fantastic performances!

Willy Steenaerts has fantastic results on the sprint-races and has been in the national top-10 with acepigeons several times. How ever his pigeons are also performing on the middledistances and longdistances – and as you can see from the results, he has topresults on sprint, middledistance and longdistance!

Results the last decade:
We visited Willy Steenaerts for the first time 3 years ago and we were amazed about the fantastic results!

Championships in 2022:

Provincial:
1. Provincial Chateauroux 339 p. (3. National Chateauroux 1.936 p.)
5. Champion Old Birds Limburgse Fondclub
8. Provincial Champion Old Birds Short Middledistance
10. Provincial Champion Old Birds Long Middledistance

West Limburg – 15 clubs (547 lofts):
1. General Champion West – all races from 84-469 km
1. Champion Old Birds West
1. Champion Old Birds + Yearlings West
8. Champion Youngsters West
12. Champion Yearlings West
7 x 1. prizes

In the club of Lummen – (76 members, 46.000 pigeons in 2022!)
1. General Champion 1+2
1. Champion Old Birds Sprint
1. Champion Old Birds + Yearlings Sprint
1. Champion Old Birds Middledistance
1. Champion “Most prizes”
1. Kermis Champion Young Birds
2. Acepigeon Old Birds + Yearlings Middledistance
3. Acepigeon Yearlings Middledistance
4. Champion Young Birds Sprint
5. Champion Young Birds Middledistance

2. Acepigeon Old Birds (5028117/20)
2. Acepigeon Old Birds + Yearlings (5028118/20)
3. Acepigeon Yearlings Middledistance (5010006/21)
3. Acepigeon Old Birds Middledistance (5040613/18)
4. Acepigeon Old Birds Middledistance (5050140/19)
5. Acepigeon Old Birds + Yearlings Middledistance (5040613/18)

45 x 1. prizes !!

 

Championships in 2021:
10. World Best Pigeon Allround (5125547/17 DONKER BEST)
24. World Best Pigeon Sprint (5028118/20 BLITS)

Provincial:
2. Provincial Champion Old Birds Great Middledistance
3. Champion Old Birds Limburgse Fondclub
3. Provincial Champion Yearlings Sprint
3. Provincial Acepigeon Sprint Yearlings (5012118/20 BLITS)
8. Provincial Champion Old Birds Short Middledistance
9. Provincial Champion Old Birds Sprint
1. Provincial Melun against 3.382 p. 314 km (mother a daughter of MISTER KASSEL)
1. Provincial Sens against 1.360 p. (fastest of 5.028 p.) 339 km (father a brother to 555)
1. Provincial Sourdun 1.718 p. (fastest of +8.000 p.) 302 km (daughter to RODE AS)
4. Provincial Souillac 4.144 p. 731 km (daughter of MISTER KASSEL)
20 times Top 10 Provincial!

West Limburg – 15 clubs:
1. Champion Old Birds 84-410 km
3. Champion Yearlings
11 x 1. prizes

In the club of Lummen – (66 members, 34.000 pigeons in 2020!)
1. Champion Old Birds + Yearlings + Youngsters Midweek
1. Champion Old Birds Sprint
2. Acepigeon Old Birds Sprint
1. Champion Yearlings Sprint
1. + 2. + 3. Acepigeon Yearlings Sprint
1. Champion Old Birds + Yearlings Sprint
1. + 2. + 3. + 4. Acepigeon Old Birds + Yearlings Middledistance
1. Champion Old Birds Middledistance
1. + 2. + 3. + 5. Acepigeon Old Birds Middledistance
1. Champion “Most Prizes” 1410
2. Champion Old Birds Great Middledistance
1. Acepigeon Old Birds Great Middledistance (5125547/17 DONKER BEST)
82 x 1. prizes with 25 different birds 84-731 km!!

Some references:
– 1. German VB – JUNGTIERMEISTERSCHAFT 2020 – SG Richter/Lipski
(son PROVINCIAAL – brother 555 – sister MISTER KASSEL)

– 1. Final Race OLR AVIRINGS Derby 518 km Slovenia 2021 – SG Richter/Lipski
(mother is a sister to MISTER KASSEL)

– 1. Final Race OLR BORGHOFRENNEN 356 Km KROSIGK 2021 + 2. ACE ROLF ZIEGLER
(mother is a daughter of ROOD ASKE 506/12)

– 1. Final Derby OLR HALKIDIKI FINAL RACE 400 km GREECE 2020 – VASILIS PISLINAS
(mother is a granddaughter of 555)

– 1. and 2. against 18.895 pigeons Afdeling 10 Holland – J. STROOTMAN BOURTANGE
(Brother and sister – father is a son of 555 – mother is a daughter of KANNIBAAL 51)

– 1/1.273 Youngsters WEISSACH – Dieter WÖHR
(father is a son of 555)

– 1. and 2. against 1.724 youngsters CHIMAY (9 clubs) STILLE KEMPEN BELGIE – Geert SMETS
(father is a son of DE PROVINCIAAL and mother is sister to MISTER KASSEL)

– 7. National Acepigeon KBDB 2021 Extra Longdistance Yearlings 700-900 km – Luc DECABOOTER
(father is a grandson of RODE AS 038/06)

– Martin BORKENFELD DORSTEN
– 134/20: 2 x 1. Prizes +1.000 pigeons
– Sister 135/20: 1. and 4. Prizes
– Brother 818/19: 1., 3. and 4. Prizes
– Sister 776/19: 1. Prize in Zone 5 724 km
(All from the same mother – daughter of 555)

– Guido BONSEMEIER TUGGEN (CH) vader = broer “555”
– CH-21-00336 2 x 1. Prizes +700 pigeons
– Brother CH-21-15364 1 x 1. Prize + 6. Acepigeon
(Same father – brother to 555)

– 1. Provincial Old Bird from SENS 2020 339 km (5004416/17) – Jean HULSHAGEN
(mother is a sister to MISTER KASSEL)

– Wilfried COENEN
– 5002222/17: 4 x 1. prizes and 8 x 2. prizes! (Mother a daughter of KANNIBAAL 51)
– 5044231/18: 6 x 2. Prizes and 4 x 3. Prizes (Mother a daughter of CAPRIO 685/16)

Championships in 2020:
8. National Acepigeon KBDB Old Birds Sprint (5002426/17 DONKER TRIPLE AS)
9. Acepigeon Olympic Hope Cat. A (5002426/17 DONKER TRIPLE AS)
8. Acepigen Olympic Hope Cat. D (5040613/18)
11. Acepigeon Olympic Hope Cat. B (5040613/18)
15. Acepigeon Olympic Hope Cat. G (5050020/19)
21. National Champion KBDB Old Birds + Yearlings Sprint

Provincial:
1. Provincial Champion Old Birds Sprint
1. Provincial Acepigeon Old Birds Sprint (5002426/17 DONKER TRIPLE AS)
5. Provincial Champion Limburgse Fondclub Old Birds
1. Champion WEST Old Birds Sprint and Middledistance
6. Champion WEST Yearlings Sprint and Middledistance

In the club of Lummen – 66 members, 34.000 pigeons in 2020!
1. Champion Old Birds Sprint
1. + 4. Acepigeon Old Birds Sprint
1. Champion Old Birds + Yearlings Sprint
1. + 2. Acepigeon Old Birds Middledistance
1. Champion “Most Prizes 1070”
2. General Champion
3. Champion Yearlings Sprint
4. Champion Old Birds Middledistance
5. Champion Yearlings Middledistance
61 x 1. prizes!!
11 of these 1. prizes in the section WEST with 447 members!!

Some topprizes:
1, 2, 6, 13, 15/2.329 p. SOURDUN 303 km (2nd in the Province with more than 17.000 pigeons)
1, 4, 9/1.483 p. SOISSONS 227 km (1st in the province 4.029 p.)
1, 2, 10/2.084 p. MOMIGNIES 228 km
1, 2/744 p. MOMIGNIES 228 km
2, 15/4.664 p. Yearlings Prov. SENS 339 km
3, 21, 29/7.757 p. Prov. SENS 339 km
3/714 p. Prov. ARGENTON 558 km (11. National against 4.606 p.)
8/447 p. Prov. CHATEAUROUX 529 km (25. National against 2.721 p.)
8, 19/6.047 p. Youngsters Prov. SENS 339 km
8/3.746 p. Yearlings Prov. GIEN 410 km
8/3.169 p. Old Birds Prov. GIEN 410 km
11/1.104 p. Prov. ISSOUDUN 505 km (38. National against 10.603 p.)

Championships only in 2019:
1. General Championship Tipes-Brieftauben-Markt 2019
2. Acepigeon Youngsters Tipes-Brieftauben-Markt 2019

4. World Best Pigeon 2019 Sprint (5002498/17 BEST LUCA)

19. National Champion KBDB Old Birds + Yearlings Sprint
20. National Acepigeon KBDB Old Birds (5002498/17 BEST LUCA)

Provincial:
1. Champion WEST Old Birds (WEST is the section with 15 clubs = 447 members) from 84 => 410 km
2. Champion WEST Yearlings
2. Provincial Champion Old Birds Sprint
5. Provincial Champion Limburgse Fondclub Yearlings 340-410 km
6. Provincial Champion Yearlings Middledistance
10. Provincial General Champion
11. Provincial Champion Yearlings Sprint

In the club of Lummen:
1. Champion “Most prizes 1120”
1. Champion Old Birds Sprint (1+2)
2. General Champion All races (1+2)
2. Champion Yearlings Middledistance (1+2)
3. Champion Yearlings Sprint (1+2)
3. Champion Old Birds Middledistance (1+2)
1 + 2 + 5 Acepigeon Old Birds Sprint
2. Acepigeon Yearlings Sprint
2 + 5 Acepigeon Yearlings Middledistance
3. Acepigeon Old Birds Longdistance
1. Acepigeon “Kermiskampioen” Old Birds (5002418/17)
1. Acepigeon “Kermiskampioen” Youngsters (5050130/19)

The pigeons:
The base of pigeons are built from mainly 2 pigeons:

DE JONGE IJZEREN from L-B-J Geerinckx – father of 4 acepigeons and 16 different 1. prize winners. Also grandfather of 1. Prov. , which already is the father of 4 AS pigeons and 16 different 1st prize winners. He is also grandfather of the DE BLAUWE BOURGES that was 9. National Bourges against 14.449 yearlings in 2015.

KANNIBAAL 51 (B07-5100851) from Paul Huls – son of a grandson and a granddaughter of the famous KANNIBAAL, Dirk van Dijck.
He is father of:
084/11 – the mother of 8. and 9. National Acepigeon KBDB Youngsters Sprint 2014 – POU POU and DEN HAVIK.
195/10 TEENTJE KANNIBAAL – 3. Prov. Acepigeon KBDB Old Birds Sprint KBDB 2012 and mother of the superpigeon MISTER KASSEL: 1. Chimay 3.686 pigeons, 1. Chimay 3.400 pigeons, 1. Mettet 1.839 pigeons.
196/10 – 4. Prov. Acepigeon KBDB Yearlings Sprint 2011

He is also grandfather of:
1. National Châteauroux 1,987 p. 2015 by Ivan Stockmans
2. Orléans 2.636 pigeons
10. National Châteauroux of 10.933 pigeons in 2015

These 2 families bred together are the keys to this succesful base at Willy Steenaerts.
The recent years Willy Steenaerts has also purchased pigeons from other topnames to strenghen the family – like Leo Heremans, Peter Kocks, Marina Vandevelde and Dirk Van Den Bulck.

One of the most fantastic pigeons coming from the new families on the loft is the super pigeon DE 555.
He is son of 13-5005034 – a 100% Leo Heremans pigeon from OLYMPIADE 003 lines – and 12-6322920 from Marina Van De Velde – also Heremans origins and GALANTOS from Koopman.