Two days of dog showing on the 9th and 10th of July.
At the Newport Agricultural Society Open dog show on Saturday Ricco was entered in the AVNSC gundog class as there was no Lagotto class. AVNSC is a class for those breeds that don’t have their own breed class. In this xase the classes were also mixed dogs and bitches. Ricco one his class then Best AVNSC, (best of breed). He then went on to the gundog group to get 2nd place.
This was followed the next day at the East of England Championship Show by first place in class then Best dog and finally Best of Breed. This was his first Best of breed at a championship show.
At the same show Rosa returned to the ring getting a 1st place in her class thus, qualifying for Crufts.