Norwegian Grand Prix team rider Trude Hestengen has sold her number one Grand Prix horse Tobajo Pik Disney to Sweden. The 10-year old stallion will be ridden by Sofie Lexner who is sponsored by Jenny Linden Umes of Christinelund Dressage.
Tobajo Pik Disney is a Norwegian warmblood stallion by Tobajo Picez out of What's Up (by Walt Disney I). He is bred by Tormod Bakke Johnsen and was owned by Ann-Cathrin Ottosson and Connie Mjoelneroed before switching ownership to the Hestengen family in 2010.
"We've had many offers on him the past few years, but now the right rider came along and the time was right to hand over the reins," Hestengen told the Danish equestrian magazine Ridehesten.
Hestengen and Tobajo Pik Disney represented Norway at last week's 2015 European Dressage Championships in Aachen where they finished 24th in the Grand Prix Special. They also represented Norway at the 2011 World Young Horse Championships and at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Caen, where they were 56th. They were the 2013 and 2015 Norwegian Grand Prix champions.
In 2010 the horse won the 2010 Norwegian Warmblood Stallion Licensing, scoring 7 and 8,5 for conformation, 6,5 for walk, 9,5 for trot and 8,5 for canter. In his stallion performance test he received 7,5 for walk, 9,5 for trot, 9 for canter and 8,5 for rideability.
Photo © Astrid Appels
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