Fasine (Fürst Romancier / Sir Donnerhall I) and Isabel Bache. Winners of the Six-Year-Old Finals at the 2015 Bundeschampionships.
Fasine is an example of the new breed of Warmblood – the modern young horse specialist. Her sire, Fürst Romancier’s career peaked as a five-year-old, with fourths at the World Young Horse Champs and the Bundeschampionate.
Fasine, an example of the modern warmblood
His sire, Fürst Heinrich won a World Young Dressage Horse Championship in 2003, and died two years later… Fasine’s dam sire, Sir Donnerhall is by the original Young Dressage Horse Specialist sire,
Fasine, plenty of Young Horse winning blood lines…
Sandro Hit who set the trend of winning young horse classes then retiring to stud. Sir Donnerhall himself won at the Bundeschampionate in 2006, and was second in the World Championships for five-year-old horses, that same year. He too quit the competition scene after his young horse triumphs. He ranks well as a sire in the 2021 Hanoverian Breeding Values. https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2021/02/2021-hanoverian-breeding-values/
It did pour at the end of the Final round – Stefanie Wolf and Saphira Royale (San Amour / Monteverdi) copped the worst of it, and still came fourth…
Update on Saphira Royale – a different career pathway…
A little over 12 months since her former Grand Prix ride, Desperados died, Kristina Bröring-Sprehe made her Grand Prix debut with Saphira Royale. Kristina tells us on her FaceBook page:
“Yesterday Saphira Royal and I rode our first Grand Prix together in Vechta. She is very ambitious and always wants to do everything right. Yesterday she made me feel great and we were able to finish second with 74.13 % – but there’s still air up and I’m really looking forward to the next tournaments.”
Kristina and her first Grand Prix star, the stallion, Desperados