Ridgeback`s have already gone bigger. Most of the ridgeback males are over 85 pounds here in Finland and all over the Europe and Russia. Here in Finland, if you take a ridgeback male under 85 pounds to the show ring, it will not be succeed. Judges want bigger and stronger dogs. Even my 92 pounds male is too skinny for some judges. And I dont`t realy think that the size has grown only in Europe and Russia because most of the bloodlines in here are from USA and Australia. We also have imported dogs from US, Australia and Australia and they as big as ours. Rhodesian Ridgeback has become a showdog. Judges and breeders desire dogs with size, dark brown color ang showdog movements. That is sad but true.