2004 Swedish Dressage Championships

Swedish Title, Icing on the Cake for Vilhelmson

Tinne Vilhelmson, 37, won her second Swedish Championship on November 7th, this time with Just Mickey. She got her first gold medal in 1993, riding the Holsteiner mare Caprice. Just Mickey won all three starts in Helsingborg; the Grand Prix with 69,96 percent, the Grand Prix Special with 69,20 percent and the Grand Prix kur to music with 73,35 percent.

The pair did a very good kur ride to music from the movie Grease. "This kur was actually made for my old Grand Prix horse Cezar, years ago. Right now we are working on a new kur for him though," Tinne said.

Just Mickey is a 13-year-old Dutch bred gelding by the Trakehner Elite stallion Michelangelo (Pasteur xx – Matador) out of the highly graded (keur, pref, prest) mare Dolly by Ulster (by Nimmerdor).

"His strengths are more or less that he does not really have any weak points. He is also very soft and smooth," Tinne explained.

It has been a quite good year for Tinne and her international Grand Prix horses Just Mickey and Solos Carex. Winning the national title was, therefore, the icing on the cake. Just Mickey has been placed in Amsterdam, Neumunster, Dusseldorf, Wiesbaden, Aachen and won in Falsterbo. He was also Tinne’s mount at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, where they were the second best Swedish pair. Solos Carex has been placed in Nörten-Hardenberg, Falsterbo and Aachen. Due to an infection, Solos Carex did not start in Helsingborg.

Tinne also showed the youngster Weltman 975 in the small tour with a 5th place in the Prix St Georges, the pair was just outside the placings in the other classes. Weltman is a 9-year-old licensed stallion by Weltruhm – Ecuador xx, bred in Hannover and as Just Mickey and Solos Carex owned by Lövsta Stuteri in Sweden.

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