Dear Readers

Before all, I seize the opportunity of this very first e-newsletter of the year 2016 to wish you a healthy and happy year 2016.

As usual, this year will be full of thrilling events which we all long for! The FCI World Dog Show will take place in Moscow and the different FCI Section Shows will be held in Brussels (FCI European Section Show), Bogota (FCI Americas and Caribbean Section Show) and Jakarta (FCI Asia and Pacific Section Show).

Beauty, conformation events are of course essential. However, let’s do not forget how important sporting/hunting/working/racing events are too for our dogs to keep their working abilities.

Our working dogs will also be in the highlights on different prestigious occasions: the FCI European Cup for British Pointers will be organised by Switzerland in Serbia; that country will also host the FCI European Cup for Continental Pointers. The sighthounds will have a great chance to show their capacities on the occasion of the FCI World Racing Championship in Toulouse (France) and FCI European Coursing Championship organised by our Slovak friends in Vel’ké Pole. In addition, the Earth dogs will perform on the occasion of the FCI European Cup-Multiple Trials Event in Czech Republic. Let’s do not forget the Utility dogs! They will also be given the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in different fields: the FCI IPO World Championship for Tracking Dogs will be held in Mukacheve (Ukraine) and spectators will be welcome to attend also the FCI IPO World Championship for Utility Dogs in Nova Gorica (Slovenia). The first ever FCI-recognised World Mondioring will be organised in Belgium, in Herve. Finally, the much appreciated FCI Agility World Championship will be conducted in Zaragoza (Spain) while the FCI Obedience World Championship will be run in Moscow.

As you can see, a heavy sporting and showing season is ahead of us and we look forward to welcoming you and/or your dogs to these competitions, as well as at all our international shows and trials.

All details are available on our website, http://www.fci.be or on the different organisers’ website.

Best regards,

Yves De Clercq
FCI Executive Director