Mauro Moioli with the Nerone II spinone won the Angelo Massimino Trophy. There dog show now in its thirtieth edition, it took place from Friday 14 to Monday 17 December on the land ofBorghetto Wildlife Farm of Civita Castella, in the province of Viterbo and (Saturday 15) in those of the Settevene Faunistic Company. Four days of hunting tests, recognized by the Enci, with and without killed wild, reserved for the Italian continentals, for the organization of the Cisp Lazio delegation, led by Sandrino Piacentini, in collaboration with the Viterbo dog group and the technical sponsor Mister Mix. A lot of participation and quality as the judges Sergio Bianconi, Claudio Lombardi, Sergio Marchetti, Luca Massimino and Raffaele Pozzi underlined in their reports.
Elbow to elbow dresseur, owners, enthusiasts. A healthy competition but also an important zootechnical verification to evaluate the status of the two Italian pointing breeds. At the end of a hunting season it is really pleasant to observe beams and spinoni being tested. The dogs show a strong "sense of the wild" and the action is consequently energetic, determined in search of the winning scent. And then he stops her, the fledging, the retrieve. A scene that was repeated often during the event, with more or less class, with more or less style.
At the end the rankings see the victory of Moioli and those of Antonielli, in the Sauro del Cigliolo Trophy (best Italian bracco on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16), with Arturo and in the Ferentum Omero Trophy (best spinone of the four days) with Treo dell'Adige . The best young player was Achille, spinone, by Sandrino Piacentini. For Treo dell'Adige also the conquest of the Capitoline Dog Group Trophy as the best continental of the event. Qualifications and significant performances also for the dogs of Stuart Griffin, Dario Berna, Fabio Angelini, Massimiliano Biagini and Marco Ciarafoni.
This year, as happens every five years, the gatherings of Italian bracchi and spinoni were also held. The best of breed were Taro dell'Adige, spinone (owner Maria Grazia Poli) and Polvecera's Lapo, Italian bracco (owner Marco Roffia)
The combined expo-tests (handsome and good) were won by Sanjika Scirocco, spinone of Stuart Griffin and by Arturo, Italian bracco of Leonardo Antonielli. The rehearsals were attended by Marco Lozza, president of Cisp (together with vice president Maria Grazia Poli and councilors Lucio Iacobelli and Luca Maffioli) and Cesare Manganelli, president of Sabi.