The Belgian Mushing Federation accompanies you in these painful moments and wishes, by the following testimony, to assure you of its eternal gratitude for a man who gave everything for his passion for sled dogs.

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"  … The mushing takes up ancestral traditions which allowed the Inuit to survive in the great arctic deserts and represents for the man of the 21st century a particular approach for the rapprochement with nature.

Indeed, this sport combines two essential aspects: the taste of the effort on the one hand and on the other hand the rapprochement with nature, with its most "wild" aspects.  such as mountain, snow and sled dogs.

It is also a school, a school of will, patience and love for dogs and nature with all the lessons that can be learned.  

At the dawn of the 3rd millennium, it is comforting to see that these values are doing well and that there are areas where technology does not take precedence.  

Our goal for all, participants and spectators, is certainly to revive childhood dreams, to give substance to this need for rapprochement with nature, but, finally and above all, our goal is to promote a sport, a sport for all but also a top-level sport, a real sport which deserves to be accepted as such by the highest sporting bodies, a sport where the effort is very real, and especially with animals which cannot cheat.

It's a sport and it's beautiful. So although it comes from the depths of time, I hope this millennium will give it its letters of nobility ...  "

Extracts from a history written by Franco

These fundamental principles have always guided and nourished the FBMF.

It will thus perpetuate this message carried at arm's length by a passionate man who has forever chiseled the letters of nobility of our sport.

Thank you, Mr Franco Mannato.

Françoise REMY,

Secretary of the FBMF

June 15, 2019