Furst Grandios

Always confident wherever he appears, his presence is exceedingly attractive. His conformation is strikingly correct, his sequence of movement in all three gaits is elastic and especially productive and his jumping is simply awesome.Reserve Champion of the 2004 NRW approval and its hottest number afterward. Champion stallion at his 30-day test in Prussendorf with top scores for his gaits and for rideability (9.13) but just as convincing in jumping (8.25). After winning several tests for young riding horses and a qualification for the Bundeschampionat in 2006, he finished his 70-day test in Schlieckau third place overall against very strong competitors with an outstanding dressage index of 132.58 (rideability test 9.25!).
 

Fürst Grandios is from the first crop of the whiz kid, Fürst Heinrich, World Champion of young dressage horses in Verden in 2003, who tragically died much too early. This ideal combination with the living legend, Argentinus, who produces international championship horses not only in jumping (e.g. Anka/M. Ehning or Arko III/N. Skelton) but in dressage as well (e.g. Albano/H. Kemmer). Of particular significance in his pedigree is the Thoroughbred influence that comes from his sport-oriented dam line through the Thoroughbred dressage sire, Barsoi. Two full brothers of the granddam, Condor Boccerini as well as the private stallion, Bajazzo, collect ribbons in tests up to Grand Prix Special. The Grand Prix horse, Millenium, is a half-brother. SPS Griselda's full sister is the dam of two first class S-level dressage horses called Nussini 2 (Inter I) and Teutone. Another of Fürst Grandios' younger full brothers was the Reserve Champion stallion at the Oldenburg approval in 2005.