Will take place on Sunday, 29 November 2026 under ENCI/FCI Judges, Fabrizio Caira and Maria Cristina Sanguinetti. Details of this exciting event will follow shortly.
LRCGB Truffle Test - 30 November 2025
In November 2025 we held a very special event in the LRCGB calendar, we organised the first of what we hope in future will be an annual truffle competition. This year’s Truffle “Working Test” was designed to be a steppingstone towards the LRCGB’s first official Truffle Trial planned for our Anniversary year (29th November 2026) to be judged by ENCI/ FCI Judges. We closely aligned the Test to the FCI/ ENCI working standard in preparation for next year’s event.
An ENORMOUS thank you to our wonderful Judge Sig Daniele Noris who drove to the UK from Belgium on the Friday (his birthday!) before spending Saturday training 18 dogs and their handlers, then judging 20 dogs at the Working Test on Sunday! Daniele has years of experience training and working his truffle dogs with whom he competes in trials all over Europe, so we were hugely privileged to be able to share in his experience, knowledge and enthusiasm. This event really wouldn’t have happened without Daniele’s kindness and generosity, we are hugely grateful to him and I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed his company!
We had wondered whether the strict Working Standard rules, to which the competitors had to conform, might prove intimidating and off putting to our members, many of whom have no experience of Truffle trials, but none of us could have imagined that we’d witness the quality of work that we saw that day! I was stewarding alongside Daniele all day and on numerous occasions my jaw dropped in awe at the natural talent of our dogs, I was SO, SO proud of them all!
We were hugely grateful to have Lagotto owner and photographer Charlotte Dale who was with us all day taking photographs to document the event. I hope you enjoy these beautiful images, they capture the wonderful atmosphere, light and setting in which our dogs worked. We have included some of her wonderful images, and the whole gallery can be viewed online https://bycharlottedale.pic-time.com/-lrcgbtruffletest30112025/gallery (access code: Truffle25)
Our winners are listed below and attached. Congratulations all and a massive thank you to those of you who took part and supported us! See you all at our Trial in 2026!
Louise Ferguson
Sybil (Mizani Diorbe of Vienna) owned by Lyn and Jeff Monk and handled by Lyn, has been entering a few Truffle Trials in Italy and doing well!
October 2023
At the Club Italiano Lagotto truffle trial in Bagno di Romagna Sybil, Mizani Diorbe of Vienna, owned by Lyn and Jeff Monk, was placed 3rd in the Open truffle trial class, a first for a UK dog!
October 2022
Louise Ferguson entered Dario Della Caveja (Dario) and his son Truffalusa November Moon From Mizani (Sage) in the Open class at the Club Italiano Lagotto’s Truffle Trial. Dario was graded Excellent and Sage was graded Good.
October 2019
Julie Nelson and Ricco (Gaesten Zippy Zingo at Nelbekio ShCM RL4) competed in the Open Class of Club Italiano Lagotto (CIL) truffle trials Working Test in Bagno di Romagna.
