The world elite in dressage will meet at 25th Manfred and Hilde Swarovski Memorial Show in Fritzens, Austria, on 28 - 30 June 2019. This year the CDI Fritzens celebrates its 25th edition of the 4* CDI Memorial Show at the Schindlhof in the Tyrolean Alps with the coming of Olympic, World and European champions.
"Schindlhof always provides a very relaxed, familiar atmosphere for people and horses. Hosts Evelyn and Klaus provide optimal conditions. Every year I come here with pleasure," said Isabell Werth who is the number one dressage rider in the world aside from being a six time Olympic, nine time World Championship and seventeen time European Championship gold medalist.
Isabell Werth is bringing three horses to Fritzens: her World Champion Bella Rose, her brand new German Kur Champion Emilio and her soon to be retired Don Johnson FRH.
German Team trainer Monica Theodorescu will accompany her as well as German WEG team gold medalist Dorothee Schneider, who trains hostess Evelyn Haim-Swarovski. Furthermore from Germany riders such as Ingrid Klimke and Lisa Müller, wife of Bayern Munchen soccer star Thomas Müller, will be there.
No less than 46 riders from 14 nations are coming with 68 horses to compete in three tours and seven tests. For many European team candidates Fritzens is an important step and selection trial towards the 2019 European Championships in Rotterdam in August. This is also the case for Austrian team candidates. Austrian Champion Belinda Weinbauer and reserve champion Astrid Neumayer will attend together with Karoline Valenta and Christian Schumach.
All entrance fees and voluntary donations will benefit in equal measure both therapeutic riding and vaulting & riding for handicapped persons, as well as the organisation “Tugende Together“. Even though you may have free admission, we request that you make a small donation, because every Euro counts.
Friday 28 June 2019
- 08h30: #1 Prix St Georges
- 13h30: #2 FEI Grand Prix – qualifier for the Grand Prix Special
Saturday 29 June 2019
- 08h30: #3 FEI Intermédiaire I
- 11h45: Show program freedom dressage with Francois Pignon
- 13h30: #4 FEI Grand Prix– qualifier for the Kur to Music
Sunday 30 June 2019
- 07h30: #5 Grand Prix Consolation
- 09h00: #6 Grand Prix Special (top 15 from #2)
- Award ceremony hat contest, moderated by Mirjam Weichselbraun
- 14h30: #7 Grand Prix Kur to Music (top 15 from #4)
Winners Manfred & Hilde Swarovski Challenge Trophy:
1995 Bianca Kasselmann, GER
1996 Austrian Championships Dressage– no CDI
1997 Bianca Kasselmann, GER
1998 Christilot Boylen, CAN
1999 Markus Gribbe, GER
2000 Thorsten Dietz, GER
2001 Günther Seidel, USA
2002 Austrian Championships Dressage– no CDI
2003 Anja Plönzke, GER
2004 Rafael Soto Andrade, ESP
2005 Silvia Iklé, SUI
2007 Victoria Max-Theurer, AUT
2008 no overall winner; Music Freestyle was cancelled due to bad weather
2009 Austrian Championships Dressage– no CDI
2010 Ulla Salzgeber, GER 2011 Carl Hester, GBR
2012 Carl Hester, GBR
2013 Valentina Truppa, ITA
2014 Victoria Max-Theurer, AUT
2015 Victoria Max-Theurer, AUT with Augustin OLD
2016 Isabell Werth, GER
2017 Isabell Werth, GER
2018 Isabell Werth, GER
The Manfred & Hilde Swarovski Challenge Trophy will be presented to the most successful pair (percentages from GP and GP Special respectively GP and GP Freestyle will be added; the highest score from the Special Tour respectively Freestyle Tour wins) of the CDI4* Schindlhof. The winner may keep the valuable Swarovski crystal trophy for a year. A rider is only allowed to keep it for good after she/he has managed to win three times with the same horse. In 2014, now 13-time Austrian State champion Victoria Max-Theurer was the first rider to achieve this, in 2018 Isabell Werth won the Challenge Trophy after three consecutive wins.
For more information, visit www.schindlhof.at
Related Link
Eurodressage Coverage of the 2019 CDI Fritzens