Danish horse dealer Jørgen Olsen of Dressage Horses Aps has sold the small tour horse NOH's Wizard to Mexican Grand Prix rider Antonio River Galaxa and his sponsor Lourdes Ariza as 2014 World Equestrian Games' hopeful. The Danish warmblood gelding was a highly decorated young horse in Denmark.
N.O.H.'s Wizard is an 11-year old Danish warmblood gelding by White Talisman out of Bellizzi (by Ragazzo x Picandt).
The bright bay gelding with white blaze was initially trained and competed by Astrid Gemal. As a 5-year old the gelding won the silver medal at the 2007 Danish Young Horse Championships. In 2008 the pair qualified for the World Young Horse Championships in Verden, where they finished fourth. They also earned bronze at the Danish Young Horse Championships.
In 2009 the horse competed at M-level in Denmark but got injured in the autumn due to a shoeing problem.
In October 2012 former Danish young rider Carina Nevermann Torup started competing Wizard. She last showed him in the small tour performance classes at the 2013 Danish warmblood stallion licensing in Herning begin March 2013. They scored 70.702% in the Prix St Georges to finish 3rd and 70.00% in the PSG Kur to music to place fifth.
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