Portugal’s Maria Caetano & Fenix de Tineo Win Jerez CDI3* Grand Prix Freestyle on Personal Best Score

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Maria Caetano of Portugal and Fenix de Tineo. © Lily Forado

JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, Spain, Mar. 12, 2023–Portugal’s Maria Caetano and her Tokyo Olympic partner Fenix de Tineo won the CDI3* Grand Prix Freestyle on a personal best score Sunday.

Maria and 13-year-old Lusitano stallion scored 75.050% for the first Big Tour musical performance victory in four years at international Grand Prix. In addition to the Tokyo Games, the pair competed at last summer’s world championships.

Alisa Glinka and the 12-year-old Oldenburg gelding Aachen was runner-up on 73.9905. The pair won the Grand Prix a day earlier in the last show for the Moldova rider before heading to Omaha for her second World Cup Final.

Spain’s Claudio Castilla Ruiz and Lario de Adama de Susa, a 12-year-old Hanoverian gelding, was third on 73.120%.

Results:

CDI3* Grand Prix Freestyle

1) Maria Caetano, POR – FENIX DE TINEO 75.050%
2) Alisa Glinka, MDA – AACHEN 73.990%
3) Claudio Castilla Ruiz, ESP – HI-RICO DO SOBRAL 73.120%
4) Alejandro Asencio Mendez, ESP – FOCUS 72.750%
5) Cristina Wagemans Rovira, ESP – ELLINGTON 72.465%
6) Remy Bastings, NED – GLAMOURALINE 71.240%
7) Javier Breton Perez, ESP – BARROCA 68.625%