Norwegian Grand Prix dressage champion Lillan Jebsen has announced that she will retire her Grand Prix horse Pro Set from competition sport after the 2014 World Equestrian Games. The 17-year old Dutch warmblood concluded his national career with gold at last weekend's 2014 Norwegian Championships.
Pro Set (by Jetset x Flemmingh) will return to Carl Hester's yard in Great Britain where he will continue his life as a stallion. Hester trained Pro Set to Grand Prix level and showed the horse in the small tour in 2005 and moved him up to Grand Prix in 2007. In 2008 Maria Eilberg successfully took over the ride on Pro Set, but lost it in 2009, so he could be sold.
Jebsen and Pro Set were one of Norway's strongest Grand Prix pairs. They started their career in 2009 in the Under 25 division and competed at the inaugural CDIO Aachen Under 25 competition in 2010. Two months later they were the best Norwegian duo at the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Kentucky.
They became the 2012 and 2014 Norwegian Grand Prix Champions. In 2013 the pair caused some commotion when they received a wirld card to compete at the 2013 World Cup Finals by-passing Pia Fortmuller from Canada. The duo represented Norway at the 2011 and 2013 European Dressage Championships, the 2010, 2012 and 2014 Nordic Baltic Championships
A special, national retirement ceremony was held at the National Championships in Drammen on Sunday 3 August 2014, where Ellen Birgitte Farbrot read out all of Pro Set's accomplishment in public.
Photo © Dressur Sa Klart
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