At a film festival in Venice in 1988, I saw for the first time the bracco italiano, and took an interest in the breed, but it took some time to get my first bracco. I was lucky and got a very beautiful, strongly built bitch, N Ch Olympos Isola Bella from the Olympos kennels in Denmark. The breeders, Gitte and John Finnich Pedersen, also have many years in bassets, and have had great success with their braccos both in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe, including the country of origin; Italy with World Winner 2000 in Milan; Multi Ch Olympos La Mia Lotteria.

In 1999 I mated my bitch to the Olympos' big winner, Multi Ch Olympos Felice Anno Nuovo and had a litter of 4 beatiful pups.

Sadly summer 2005 Donna is no longer with us.