Mistral Højris
Factfile
DOB: 4 April 1995
BREEDING: Michellino x Ibsen
STUDBOOK: Danish Warmblood
HEIGHT: 17hh
BREEDER: Betty Rasmussen
OWNERS: the Bechtolsheimer family
RIDER: Laura Tomlinson (née Bechtolsheimer)
Medals timeline
2009 European Championships, Windsor – team silver, individual bronze
2010 World Equestrian Games, Kentucky – team silver, double individual silver
2011 European Championships, Rotterdam – team gold, individual bronze
2012 Olympic Games, London – team gold, individual bronze
WHEN a 19-year-old Laura Bechtolsheimer (now Tomlinson) first sat on an imposing nine-year-old chestnut gelding in Denmark, she instantly knew he was special. What she couldn’t have known, back then, was the impact that Mistral Højris would have, not just on her own career, but on British dressage as a whole.
The sport has seen remarkable transformation over the past 12 years, its British riders rising from middle ranking also-rans to the very best in the world. The great Valegro is widely credited as the catalyst
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