Dorothee Schneider and her 12 year old gelding by Fürst Romancier / Day Dream makes the double at CDI4* in Fritzens Austria this weekend.

Winning both the Grand Prix 75,413% Friday (VIDEO) and the Grand Prix Special today (VIDEO) 76,617%, together with the Prix St. Georg victory Friday with Dante´s Hit OLD (VIDEO) 72,206%.

For both the Grand Prix and the Special Victoria Max Theurer and Birkhof´s Topas came 2nd while Saphira Royal and Nicole Wego Engelmeyer were placed 3rd both days.

Overall picture of Topas and Max-Theurer is technical correct, but look like a bit to much leg mover not clearly supple over the back as he most of the time also becomes a bit behind the vertical. Saphira Royal is a very light footed mover and shows great stability and expression for the entire test, only tiny thing is the piaffe tours still missing to stay a the spot as Nicole still needs to keep them in forward trend.

Spanish combinations

For the Spanish combinations at Fritzens this weekend it was their final observation before World Championships in Herning and here the new international combination Romero De Trujillo with Teia Hernandez Vila look like the biggest contender for a team spot, as they were placed 5th with 70,978% in the Grand Prix and also placed 5th in the Special with 70,894%, showing two good tests with a few minor technical issues. The rest of the Spanish field did unfortunately not deliver this weekend.

From H2R point of view the 🇪🇸Spanish World Championship team look like: