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Coming home after this event, intensive That means for our Sloughis, who, because
training on the race track stood on our of the poor number of participants, used to
schedule. Now we were in the preparation run only twice, preliminary round and
phase for our greatest event of the year: final, that they had to run 3 times –
the FCI World Racing Championship in deciding which 6 fastest of them reached
Awans, Belgium. the final after the 1st and 2nd run.
The grass track of Awans was a dream –
To everyone’s surprise in 2015, Ganoosh the turf just like a carpet and it seemed
had won the FCI European Racing that every blade of grass had the same
Championship as an absolute newcomer length as if they had been cut with nail
during his 1st sport season out of 10 scissors.
Sloughi males.
I was so terribly nervous, my hands and
In 2016, he became World Racing knees were shaking…of course, really
Champion in Toulouse, France, and in the nothing in one’s life is depending on how
year 2017 his brother Ghanem won the title such a race ends but I think that a good
of European Racing Champion in Hungary portion of stage fright always belongs to it.
– unbelievable these brothers! From previous races, I knew the Sloughis
from Germany and Belgium and I have
So this year we were training for the World been able to more or less assess them. But
Racing Championship. Ten Sloughis from I knew nearly nothing about those from
Finland, Germany, Belgium and France out Finland and France. Very exciting!
of 7!!! different kennels were participating.
