BRITAIN’S Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro produced a spectacular double-gold medal winning performance at the European championships in Aachen, adding to the European gold the pair won in the 2013 Europeans at Herning in Denmark.

Dujardin and her super-star Valegro clinched the Grand Prix Special gold last Saturday, setting a new European championship record score of 87.577, overtaking the 85.699 they set in Herning two years before. There was plenty for the host nation to celebrate too when Germany’s Kristina Bröring-Sprehe took silver with Desperados FRH, while The Netherlands’ Hans Peter Minderhoud and Glock’s Johnson TN took bronze. However it was bitter-sweet for the Dutchman, as team-mate, Edward Gal, who lifted The Netherlands to team gold on Thursday, was eliminated when last into the arena with Glock’s Undercover.