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CAFIB - Fila Brasileiro Improvement Club, since its foundation in 1978, has already appraised thousands of dogs in more than 400 Analyses of Phenotype and Temperature and followed Exhibitions – many nationwide – in practically all Brazilian States and in countries of North America and Europe. Now, closing the year of 2015 and crowning this marathon to rescue from extinction, select and genetically improve the breed, on Sunday, November 29, CAFIB commemorated the 100th National Exhibition of Fila Brasileiro and 30th Exhibition of Fila Brasileiro of Guaratinguetá. The city was not chosen by chance, but in result of a meticulous programming, initiated two years, ago for having been the one that more hosted CAFIB exhibitions in the course of these 37 years of uninterrupted work, in addition to counting on excellent installations: stalls closed to dogs and huge covered pavilions forming great track of trial, at the shelter of the strong sunshine and rain and, also, shaded parking for cars of exhibitors and visitors. Another advantage of the city is its privileged location, at the edges of the Highway President Dutra, between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in addition to near the South of Minas Gerais, cradle of the Fila Brasileiro.

The historic paulista municipality of Guaratingueta, the oldest in the Paraíba Valley - whose settlement began in 1600 - owes its name to the large amount of herons existing there, because etymologically its name in the Tupi language means "many white birds" (gûyrá - bird, tinga - white and etá - many). Throughout its existence, the city received many nicknames, such as “Garça do Vale”, “Capital do Fundo do Vale”, “Atenas do Vale do Paraíba” and “Capital Mariana da Fé”. And this region was the scenario of one of most traditional histories of Brazilian Catholicism.

The stories say that, in 1717, the population of the Villa de Guaratinguetá decided to promote a commemoration in homage to the visit of the entourage of Pedro Miguel de Almeida Portugal e Vasconcelos, Count of Assumar and governor of the huge Captainship of São Paulo and Minas de Ouro (that included the current states of Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Goiás and Mato Grosso). To supply the menu of the party, the fishermen of the village loaded their canoes and followed through Rio Paraíba do Sul to throw their nets, but, as they were not in the fishing season, they prayed to God and to the Virgin Mary. After having collected its nets several times from the waters, without catching any fish one of them, almost giving up, made a last attempt and brought in the nets an image of the body of Our Lady, but without the head. When throwing the net again, he “fished” the missing head, dark, grimy with silt and, from then on, the riparians caught such volume of fish that the weight of the collection threatened to sink the canoes. Throughout the following years, the saint “appeared” in the waters was kept in the house of one of these fishermen, turning the place into the focus of peregrination of many devotees from the region where the fame of miracles operated and spread throughout Brazil. It is worth remembering that this “Black Madonna” - symbol of the racial mixture that makes up the Brazilian population - appeared at the time of the height of slavery in Brazil.

As the number of visitors increased, the image was transferred to an oratory and, later, to a chapel which, according to a few reports, was visited even by the then Ruling Prince of Brazil, Dom Pedro I. Actually, the enormous impact of the miracles of Our Lady da Conceição Aparecida took from São Pedro de Alcântara the title of “Patron of Brazil”, granted by Pope Leão XII at the request of the emperor, homonym of the saint. The saint, crowned on behalf of Pope Pious X, by decree of the Holy See in 1904, was proclaimed “Queen of Brazil” in 1930, by decree of Pope Pious XI. The following year, the then-President of the Republic, Getúlio Vargas, officially declared her “Patron Saint of Brazil”.

Returning to the 19th century, the amount of pilgrims was increasing so much that it became necessary to build a large church, today called “Basilica Old”, inaugurated in 1888 and visited two times by Princess Isabel, who took Our Lady of. Aparecida an embroidered mantle and a gold crown, decorated with precious rocks. In 1928, the village around the church was emancipated from Guaratinguetá and started to constitute the city of Aparecida. In the second half of the 20th century, the increasing number of devotees led to the construction of the New Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida, a gigantic building in the shape of a Greek cross, designed by architect Benedict Calixto, capable to shelter 45 thousand people, having, on the side, a parking for 4 thousand buses and 6 thousand automobiles, and that welcomes more than 12 million pilgrims per year. These devotees arrive from the most different places of origin, to the biggest center of religious peregrination of Latin America, covering great distances on foot, by horse, by bicycle, bus, train and automobile.

In 1980, still in construction, the Basilica was consecrated by the Pope João Paulo II, same year when the Federative Republic of Brazil decreed October 12 as national holiday, officially dedicated to the devotion of Our Lady of Conceição Aparecida, date on which more than 160 thousand devotees usually visit. And the Sanctuary has already received two times the “Golden Rose”, one of the oldest papal commendations, granted by Paulo VI, in 1967, and by Bento XVI, in 2007, in addition to having been also visited by Pope Francisco, in 2013. And still in the religious scope, it is worth pointing out that in 1739, it was born, in Guaratinguetá, the first Brazilian catholic saint, Frey Galvão, canonized in 2007. In the cultural aspect, the highlights of the city in the second half of the 19th century was the launching of newspaper “O Mosáico”, the first one of Vale do Paraíba, and the inauguration of the Theater Carlos Gomes, current headquarters of City Hall. From the years 1950, the growth of the industrial and economic activity gained momentum with the creation of the School of Aeronautical Experts – one of the most important aviation centers of Brazil – and the opening of the Highway President Dutra – whose architectural landmark is the Hotel Clube dos 500, project designed by Oscar Niemeyer and urban plan of Prestes Maia in addition to hearing in its restaurant a great fresco of Di Cavalcanti.

Guaratinguetá - city that today holds the largest chemical complex of Latin America, BASF, and that was already one of the main producing cities of coffee and sugar and, later, milk of Brazil, in addition to its important participation in the gold cycle of gold of Minas Gerais -, along with its neighbors Aparecida and Cachoeira Paulista, to expand its religious tourist sector, developed, in partnership with the SEBRAE, the package called Circuit of Faith, with visits to tourist points of these three cities. Moreover, Guaratinguetá, land of the first Brazilian catholic saint and cradle of the Patron Saint of Brazil, has also stood out for the cult to the first national canine breed to be recognized officially in worldwide range: the Fila Brasileiro.

In this commemoration for the 100th National Exhibition of CAFIB, it is important to make a retrospective, recollecting the beginning of our work when, between 1978 and 1982, the Fila Brasileiro breed led the record number issued by the BKC-FCI, coming to exceed the 8,000 mark of pedigrees per year. Such a success fascinated the traders of puppies, who did not care about the genetic improvement of the breed, but with mass production of “filas” of different shapes and exotic coat colors, as if they were several “models” to please the different personal tastes of the large consumers’ market. They were produced from crossings, mainly with the Mastiff, the Neapolitan Mastiff and the Great Dane, but registered with deceitful genealogies as if they were pure specimens of the Fila Brasileiro breed. BKC closed its eyes for the fraud and acted as a notary's office, eagerly collecting the high payment of the taxes derived from the issuance of those thousands of pedigrees. But the scandalous heterogeneity of types presented in the exhibitions - when specimens of different sizes, shapes, colors and coat types were enrolled as if they belonged to a single breed - started to surprise foreign judges, guests to judge in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which arrived curious to know Brazilian Line closely. Fearing that the international comments on the lack of homogeneity of the breed ended up to lead to the disability of their recognition by FCI - International Canine Federation, CAFIB - Commission of Improvement of the Fila Brasileiro – was established to discipline chaos. This initiative resulted in a round table at the headquarters of the newspaper “O Estado de São Paulo”, summoned by journalist Antônio Carvalho Mendes, editor of the column “Cinofilia” and who counted on the presence of several breeders, in addition to the then President of the CBKC - Confederation Brazil Kennel Club (successor of old BKC), Colonel Ayrton Schaeffer. But, opposing the official canine mentality, the members of the Commission, since the beginning, started to work with absolute seriousness and implacable severity, headed by lawyer Pablo Santos Cruz, “all rounder” judge of CBKC and considered the “Father of the Fila Brasileiro Breed”. The return of this great dog lover to active work, after a leave period, is due mainly to the insistence of carioca Francisco Peltier de Queiroz, infuriated with the crossbreeding and the fake of pedigrees in the Fila Brasileiro Breed. In recognition to its untiring work, we homage Chico Peltier with the heading of “Father of CAFIB”.

Under the direction of journalist Luiz Antônio Maciel, CAFIB began, in 1978, to publish its monthly newsletter “O Fila”, containing news, interviews, regulations, schedules and results of exhibitions, classes on the dog’s anatomy, the gallery of the best specimens and technical articles about the breed. Analyses of Phonotype and Temperament were instituted with the objective to evaluate, with seriousness, the qualities and defects of the existing stock, and, as a result of this evaluation, to approve or disapprove the specimens analyzed, in addition to scheduling mating. As the number of crossbred was enormous, the index of disapproved specimens was very high; e this lack of flexibility adopted by CAFIB generated disagreements and the commission ended up by proclaiming its independence in 1979. Judges Pablo Santos Cruz, Airton Campbell, Américo Cardoso Santos Jr, Marília Maruyama and Roberto Maruyama were expelled from the Board of Judges of the Brasil Kennel Clube, which also granted to Francisco Peltier de Queiroz the curious title of “persona non grata”. When braking bonds with the BKC the Commission was transformed into CAFIB - Club of Improvement of the Fila Brasileiro that, under the orientation of experienced dog expert Pablo Santos Cruz, wrote its By-Laws, the new Standard of the Breed and its Regulations of Breeding and Exhibition, in addition to reopening the Initial Register - R.I.(Registro Inicial). It is important to stand out the strong support, throughout those years, provided by journalist Antonio Carvalho Mendes in his traditional column “Cinofilia”, published weekly for the newspaper “O Estado de São Paulo”. It is also worth highlighting the work of CAFIB (still as a Commission), in 1978, when we received the support from an important ally in the fight against the crossbreeding and the fake of pedigrees: the Club Für Molosser e. V., of Germany, through its director and head of judges of Fila Brasileiro judges, Christofer Habig, who wrote us demonstrating his solidarity and positioning himself fully favorable to the reopening of the R.I., measure already approved by the German entity for improvement of its breeding stock. In 1979, the then young and promising artist, architect, publicist and brand designer Newton Mesquita, based on the Visual Standard of the Fila Brasileiro, designed by Marilda Mallet under Paulo Santos Cruz guidance, created the official symbol that CAFIB boasts for almost 40 years: the full-body silhouette of a pure Fila Brasileiro, in profile, inserted into a rectangle of plated color.

At the beginning of that work we had not yet promoted Exhibitions and we carried out only the Analyses of Phenotype and Temperament, but, to stimulate the breeders and owners, we started to award with trophies the Best Male and the Best Female of the Analysis in the several regions visited. On August 26, 1979, we carried out a large Analysis of Phenotype and Temperament, as always, opened for dogs with and without pedigree, gathering animals coming from several points of Brazil, on Avenida Eliseu de Almeida, 765, in the São Paulo capital. The event was a success, with the participation of 113 specimens. Also in that year, Francisco Peltier de Queiroz opens the first section of CAFIB in Rio de Janeiro and the Clube Mineiro de Criadores of Fila Brasileiro, infuriated with the official situation of the breed, also leaves CBKC.

On June 8, 1980, we promoted our first National Exhibition of the Breed Fila Brasileiro, with enrollments open for all specimens approved in the various Analyses of Phenotype and Temperament, including held that same day and place: the Park Fernando Costa, known as Parque da Água Branca, in the São Paulo capital, with the judgment in charge of Paulo Santos Cruz. The Best Male, Parque da Água Branca, and the Best Female, Iurá da Restinga Verde, took, respectively, the trophies “O Estado de São Paulo” and “Jornal da Tarde”. On April 28, 1980, the Federal Official Daily Gazette published the official document of the Ministry of Agriculture, with the decision of the temporary minister Higino Antônio Baptiston, who makes CAFIB the only responsible entity for the register of the Fila Brasileiro in the entire national territory. A little over one month later, President João Baptista Figueiredo, out of respect to the Minister of Agriculture, Ângelo Amaury Stabile, approved the decree that withdrew the breeding of dogs from the scope of the Ministry of Agriculture, under the allegation that the canine species did not have economic interest (although Brazil counted on 11 million dogs and the numbers of the sector, involving mainly the manufacture of dog food and the movement of “pet-shops” were already sky-high). But one knows that the curious decision was made after a conversation between the then Vice-President of BKC, José Maurício Machline (son of the President of Grupo Sharp), and Minister Amaury Stabile (as a coincidence, former-Vice-President of Sharp).

In 1981, the German magazine “Molosser Magazin” and “Koiramme”, official entity of the Finnish Kennel Club, published articles criticizing uncontrolled crossbreeding of the Fila Brasileiro in Brazil and supporting CAFIB’s work. In the following year, Club Für Molosser and the Kennel Club of West Germany (VDH) rejected the request made by the President of Brazil Kennel Club, Eugênio Henrique Pereira de Lucena, so that those two entities did not recognize pedigrees issued by CAFIB. Walt Weisse, President of the Club of the Molossos, declared that CAFIB bred the best Filas of Brasil and that the constant genealogies of their Registers of Origin were purer and more improved than those included in the pedigrees of BKC. In October of that year, Tax Lawyer and Professor of Law in São Paulo (SP) and Recife (PE) Dr. José Souto Maior Borges, founder and president of CAFIB Recife, started to publish the newspaper “O Fibra - Bulletin of CAFIB Recife”, which came to its 27th number in 1985.

In 1982, the head of the newspaper “O Estado de São Paulo” and journalist Antônio Carvalho Mendes received a group from directors of CAFIB Brasil, CAFIB Bahia, CAFIB Recife, CAFIB Baixada Santista and CAFIB Campinas, for an informal debate on the situation of the Fila Brasileiro breed and cynophilia in general, in a balance of the conquests and activities of the Club. In that same year, CAFIB started to evaluate the performance of kennels from the sum of scores of the specimens derived from each breeder attending the exhibitions throughout the year, a practice that originated the Breeder’s Trophy of the Year. In 1982, the “Better Breeder” was Canil Fazenda Malota, of Bernadete Soares de Oliveira (Jundiaí, SP), while the second placed was Canil Fazenda Malota, of Luciano José de Almeida Gavião (at the time, in Campinas, SP). In 1983, Christofer Habig traveled from Germany to Brazil in order to follow CAFIB’s work closely and watch an Analysis of Phenotype and Temperament followed by an Exhibition. In that same year, the veterinarian Vicente Costa, one of most traditional “all rounder” judges of BKC, unconsoled with the forgery of pedigrees and the lack of discipline in the said breeding official of the Fila Brasileiro, asked to be disconnected from the board of judges of the so-called “mater entity” of Brazilian cynophilia and joined CAFIB. That former-judge of Santos Kennel Club, Exposition of the Brazilian Race inaugurated on our tracks when he judged the 8th Exhibition of the Fila Brasileiro Breed, promoted at Liceu Pasteur, in the São Paulo capital.

In 1984, in celebration to the first exportation of a Fila Brasileiro to Germany, lawyer Paulo Santos Cruz, then President of CAFIB Brazil, in the company of engineer Antônio Silva Lima, also judge of CAFIB, travels for the region of Frankfurt. There he made a lecture, followed by debates, throughout more than eight hours, on anatomy of the Fila Brasileiro, genetics and the problems resulting from of the crossbreeding.

In that decade of 1980, when the Fila Brasileiro was the most numerous breed in the Country, CAFIB got to hold 17 exhibitions per year. Later, mainly in virtue of the discredit resulting from crossbreeding and the consequent loss of the typical temperament, the popularity of the breed entered in downright decline, many breeders started to prefer the Rottweiler and in the turn of the century the number of Filas had already been drastically reduced. In view of this scenario, CAFIB’s Board, when planning its calendar for 2014 and 2015, stipulated the accomplishment of 5 annual Exhibitions, of which 3 were National ones: those of opening and closing of the year, plus one, intercalated. At these National Exhibitions, the score of the dogs during the judgment has higher value for the annual Championship count and they traditionally have been held alternatively in the cities that promote them.

For the disclosure of this 100th National Exhibition, a logo was designed linked on CAFIB site and Face Book, in posters, folders, magazines, invitations, t-shirts, goblets and trophies. During the event, in the award of the various categories, the exhibitors received statuettes with the figure of a Fila Brasileiro, shaped by our Disclosure Director, Cíntia Junqueira de Barros, with the help of the breeder Giovani Éder Carvalho.

On the eve of the Exhibition, Saturday, November 28, Jonas Tadeu Iacovantuono coordinated the recordings of depositions for TV CAFIB, started by Américo Cardoso dos Santos Jr. and Francisco Peltier de Queiroz and concluded by Luciano José de Almeida Gavião and Ivan Rousseff.

In the opening speeches, made by judges of CAFIB Luciano Gavião (President of CAFIB Brazil) and Jonas Iacovantuono (of CAFIB Guaratinguetá), the judge, breeder, director of CAFIB, founder and president of CAFIB Recife, publisher of the newspaper “O FIBRA”, lawyer and professor Dr. José Souto Maior Borges and the journalist, breeder, handler and author of the excellent book “Fila Brasileiro - A gift from the stars”, Pablo Roberto Godinho, were honored. To these two important honored gentlemen, both absent for health reasons, statuettes of Fila Brasileiro were sent.

An interesting innovation in this Exhibition was the judgment made by eight judges from the Board of Judges of CAFIB - that relies on 24 members in Brazil and two abroad: Jaime Perez Marhuenda, in Spain, and Beth Cepil, in the United States. Of the eight that have acted in this 100th National Exhibition, some of the oldest members participated, such as Airton Campbell and Américo Cardoso dos Santos Jr, as well as some of the newest, such as Francisco Peltier de Queiroz and Paulo Augusto Monteiro de Moura, followed by the current president Luciano Gavião, Jonas Tadeu Iacovantuano, Pedro Carlos Borotti and Mariana Campbell.

Another novelty was the institution of the Cafibra Trophy, designed by Chico Peltier, with the name of his old kennel, to award the Best Striped of the Exhibition in two categories: with less than 1 year and more than 1 year of age. The goal is to stimulate the breeding of Filas with this coat coloration, fairly rare on the tracks these days.

And the third innovation was the form of choosing the Best Temperament of the Exhibition. The seven pre-selected Filas for this test were again submitted to a test, carried out by two experiments: the handler Kristian Carlos Silva and the breeder Carlos Augusto Mansur, of Canil do Carlão, in Monte Mor (SP). This evaluation was made by only seven judges, because eighth, Pedro Borotti, had his dog in the competition. And the appraisers, individually, wrote down on their board the grade (from 1 to 10) for each one of the competitors. At the end of the test, the sheets were collected by the Secretary for the sum of grades and, for the first time, the judges themselves were looking forward to know who the winner would be. The score difference was small e the prize was won by Baiúca do Balacobaco, of Flávio Pires, from Canil Palmares (Jacareí, SP).

This closing event of the activities of CAFIB in 2015, as usual, was preceded by an Analysis of Phenotype and Temperament to which 11 dogs were submitted, being 10 approved and one rejected due to disqualifying reaction in the temperament test. The Exhibition featured 56 specimens from 17 cities of the States of São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Goiás. And the winners of the several classes were:

MALE INCENTIVE PUPPIES – Judge: Luciano José de Almeida Gavião
1st) Togo do Aiuruoca, of Fausto Roger de Frias – Canil Aiuruoca (Aiuruoca, Minas Gerais)

FEMALE INCENTIVE PUPPIES – Judge: Luciano José de Almeida Gavião
1st) Bailarina do Boca Negra, de Felipe Medeiros - Canil Boca Negra (Cruzeiro, São Paulo)

MALE ADULTS - Judge: Jonas Tadeu Iacovantuono
1st) Galã do Embaré, of Pedro Carlos Borotti – Canil Embaré (Porto Ferreira, São Paulo)

FEMALE ADULTS - Judge: Airton Campbell
1st) Baiúca do Balacobaco, of Flávio Pires – Canil Palmares (Jacareí, São Paulo)

MALE YOUNG - Judge: Américo Cardoso dos Santos Jr.
1st) Logan do Embaré, of Pedro Carlos Borotti – Canil Embaré (Porto Ferreira, São Paulo)

FEMALE YOUNG - Judge: Pedro Carlos Borotti
1st) Bela do Itanhandu, of Cíntia and Gerson Junqueira de Barros – Canil Itanhandu (Itanhandu,, Minas Gerais)

NEW MALE - Judge: Américo Cardoso dos Santos Jr.
1st) Nero do Embaré, of Pedro Carlos Borotti – Canil Embaré (Porto Ferreira, São Paulo)

NEW FEMALE - Judge: Pedro Carlos Borotti
1st) Jóia Guardiães do Caracu, of Cristiano Gonçalves Vieira – Canil Instinto Atravessado (São Bernardo do Campo, SP)

MALE PUPPIES - Judge: Paulo Augusto Monteiro de Moura
1st) Pacari do Itanhandu, of Cíntia and Gerson Junqueira de Barros – Canil Itanhandu (Itanhandu, Minas Gerais)

FEMALE PUPPIES - Judge: Paulo Augusto Monteiro de Moura
1st) Aija Guardiões da Praia, of Waidson Bolpetti (São Paulo, SP)

STRIPED - Judges: Mariana Campbell and Francisco Peltier de Queiroz
Less than 1 year old 1st) Alcapone do Boca Negra, of Cíntia and Gerson Junqueira de Barros – Canil Itanhandu (Itanhandu, Minas Gerais). Above 1 year old 1st) Marabá III da Santa Luzia, of Newton Filizola – Canil Itaipu (São Carlos, SP)

BEST MALE OF THE EXHIBITION - Judge: Jonas Tadeu Iacovantuono
Galã do Embaré, of Pedro Carlos Borotti – Canil Embaré (Porto Ferreira, São Paulo)

BEST FEMALE OF THE EXHIBITION - Judge: Airton Campbell
Baiúca do Balacobaco, of Flávio Pires – Canil Palmares (Jacareí, São Paulo)

BEST HEAD OF THE EXHIBITION - Judge: Américo Cardoso dos Santos Jr.
Marabá III da Santa Luzia, of Newton Filizola – Canil Itaipu (São Carlos, SP)

BEST TEMPERAMENT OF THE EXHIBITION - 7 judges
1st) Baiúca do Balacobaco, of Flávio Pires – Canil Palmares (Jacareí, São Paulo)

The trophies of Guaratinguetá Exhibitions traditionally receive the name of the late breeder, leader and judge of CAFIB Sebastião Pereira Monteiro Jr. And this year, as usual, we were honored with the presence of his two sons, Domingos and Emilio, who, thrilled, presented the awards to the winners.

At the Exhibition that closes the annual calendar of CAFIB the scores obtained over the period are added up and the Brazilian Championship trophies are delivered to the dogs, breeders and exhibitors who stood out in 2015:

BREEDER OF THE YEAR
Canil Itanhandu (Itanhandu, MG)

EXHIBITOR OF THE YEAR
Cintia and Gerson Junqueira de Barros

BRAZILIAN MALE CHAMPION
Cipó do Itanhandu, of Cíntia and Gerson Junqueira de Barros – Canil Itanhandu (Itanhandu, MG)

BRAZILIAN FEMALE CHAMPION
Baiúca do Balacobaco, of Flávio Pires – Canil Palmares (Jacareí, SP)

TEMPERAMENT OF THE YEAR
Baiúca do Balacobaco, of Flávio Pires – Canil Palmares (Jacareí, SP)

MALE BREEDER OF THE YEAR
Umiri do Itanhandu, of Cíntia and Gerson Junqueira de Barros – Canil Itanhandu (Itanhandu, MG)

FEMALE BREEDER OF THE YEAR
Xuxa do Itanhandu, of Cíntia and Gerson Junqueira de Barros – Canil Itanhandu (Itanhandu, MG)

On this record, one must list the names of all those who in some way contributed to the accomplishment and success of this great event that closed the 2015 Calendar:

ORGANIZERS: Jonas Tadeu Iacovantuono, Cíntia and Gerson Junqueira de Barros, Giovani Éder Carvalho, Fabiano Nunes, Nelson Fernandes and Benedito José de Lima Neto.

JUDGES: Airton Campbell, Américo Cardoso dos Santos Jr., Francisco Peltier de Queiroz, Jonas Tadeu Iacovantuono, Luciano José de Almeida Gavião, Mariana Campbell, Paulo Augusto Monteiro de Moura and Pedro Carlos Borotti.

TRACK ASSISTANTS: Giovani Éder Carvalho, Fabiano Nunes, Marcus Flávio Villasboas Moreira and Benedito José de Lima Neto.

VETERINARIAN IN CHARGE: Elisiane Borotti.

SECRETARY Mariana Campbell.

SECRETARIAL HELP: Bete Saiury Hino, Brenda Augusta Alves França Queiroz and Elisiane Borotti.

PHOTOGRAPHER OF ANALYSES: Bruna Frias.

RESPONSIBLE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILMING OF THE EVENT: Cíntia Junqueira de Barros.

EXTRAS: Kristian Carlos Silva and Carlos Augusto Mansur.

It is also important to emphasize CAFIB’ thanks to the Municipal City Hall of Guaratinguetá, especially the Secretariat of Tourism, the Park maintenance staff, the Dito Pelé Coffee Shop and Mrs. Henrietta, Clinicão Veterinária, Ita Jewelry, Cachaça Artesanal Guapiara and Special Action Battalion of São José dos Campos, who sent tactical vehicle at the request of Captain Rodrigo dos Santos Iacovantuono.

Upon the closing of the event, a notebook was raffled among the exhibitors and the winner was Pedro Borotti, from Kennel Embaré (Porto Ferreira, SP). The full results of the 100th National Exhibition of Fila Brasileiro and 30th Exhibition of Fila Brasileiro of Guaratingueta will soon be published on CAFIB site.

In this report, on the closing of CAFIB activities in 2015, unfortunately we could not fail to mention the removal of some directors and breeders, led by Fernando Zanetti Coeli and Carlos do Amaral Cintra Filho, the Caíco, both former presidents of the Club. Due to reasons we cannot evaluate, they founded a new entity that apparently also would aim at improving the Fila Brasileiro genetically, a mission that CAFIB has been fulfilling very efficiently and with international recognition for almost 40 years. The newly established AMFIBRA - Associação Mundial de Criadores de Cães da Raça Fila Brasileiro (World Association of Fila Brasileiro Breed Dogs Breeders), in fact, was established with the specific purpose of destroying CAFIB and take its place. But we, from the foundation in 1978, have been accustomed to violent attacks and smear campaigns, of which we have always come out stronger and stronger. These former directors, in addition to seizing illegally various property and assets of the club, who were in their power (site, source registration program and more than 5,000 analyses, results of exhibitions and annual championships, photographs, printed matter, documents, files, bulletin collections "O Fila" etc.), have sought to allure new henchmen to fight CAFIB and are not ashamed to disclose lies. As if it was not enough, brazenly, they had even taken hold of CAFIB’s background information and the numbers of our exhibitions. The traditional breeders of Fila Brasileiro, Marisa and Shoji (“Jorge”) Hino, of Canil Hisama, who have always attended our events, refused the invitation to be honored, with a plate, by AMFIBRA. They said they were deeply saddened and shocked by the betrayal of former comrades of so many years and said they intend to pay a visit to Canil Amparo to request the return of pilfered material. And another old partner of CAFIB that they are not managing to entice is the Spaniard Jaime Pérez Marhuenda, member of our board of judges and founder and President of the CAFIBE - Club de Amigos del Fila Brasileiro en España. AMFIBRA, although newly established, had been disseminating advertising material on its 16th (!?!) Goiás Exhibition, to be judged by Jaime Pérez of Spain. The Spanish judge, in view of the situation between that entity and CAFIB, refused to judge the exhibition.

As always, we move ahead, closing 2015 with a gold key and wishing you all a Happy 2016.

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