Anne Troensegaard's Delizia Sold to Danish Grand Prix Rider

Dressage

Denmark

Anne Troensegaard's 2018 WCYH participant Delizia has been sold and retained for Denmark. Ridehesten reported that the 12-year old mare will continue her sport career with Jeanette Larsen.

Delizia is a Danish warmblood mare by Furstenball out of Duchesse Petit (by De Noir x Schwadroneur). She is bred by Lotte Liv Kulle.

Anne Troensegaard

The beautiful black mare went to the Danish elite mare show and when she was four a half share of the ownership sold to Danish Grand Prix rider Anne Rosleff Troensegaard.

Troensegaard trained and competed the mare up to MB-level.

They made their show debut in Denmark in the 4-year old young horse classes in June 2017. They competed at the 2017 Danish Young Horse Championships and were 35th in the preliminary round with 75.8 points. In 2018 they represented Denmark at the World Young Horse Championships in Ermelo, where they finished 22nd in the 5-year old consolation finals with 72.600 points. Two months later they were 11th in the finals of the 2018 Danish Young Horse Championships.

At the 2018 World Young Horse Championships

Troensegaard showed the mare once in 2018, once in 2020 and then had a 2.5-year old break from competition. In this period she was bred by Iron and produced the now yearling "Isn't it Ironic". Delizia returned to the national arena with her in January 2023 at MB-level, winning two classes.

Anne-Mette Strandby

In the early summer of 2023 breeder Lotte Live Kulle wanted to sell her share and Delizia moved into the training of Anne-Mette Strandby Hansen to be sold, first at Helgstrand Dressage and then at Stutteri EVO where Strandby is now based

Anne-Mette debuted the mare at national level in October 2023 at M-level and did their first Prix St Georges test in March 2024. They did their first and only CDI in Aalborgn in May 2024, placing second in the PSG (70.196%) and fourth in the Inter I (68.294%).

Strandby rode her in a first Inter II test in January 2025, scoring 70.307%. On 30 March 2025 they did their last show, their first Grand Prix test to earn 69.367%.

Jeanette Larsen

Delizia has now been sold to Danish Grand Prix rider Jeanette Larsen.

Larsen on Skjoldsgaard Rubial-VO in 2018

The 48-year old Larsen was based with Daniel and Doris Ramseier in Switzerland in the mids 2000s when she made her international show debut on Laser III, a 1995 born Holsteiner by Lario x Santos x Intendant, bred by Synke Lahr and competed up to small tour level by German Michael Bücherl until 2004.

She first competed him internationally at small tour level in 2005 and 2006 and at Grand Prix level in 2007. They ranked 10th at the 2007 Swiss Dressage Championships. Larsen then sold Laser III to Swiss young rider Sophie Aiko Müller, who rode him at the 2009 and 2010 European Junior/Young Riders Championships until 2012. In 2013 she competed once in U25 level with Wolkenstein's Junior (by Wolkenstein II x Lungau) also previously shown by Larsen) after which Müller quit CDI sport Sophie still competes nationally to this day. She works as a lawyer in Switzerland and remains involved in horse sport through show jumper Dirk Heiner Strobel.

For Larsen a 11-year break (!) from international showing followed between 207 and 2018 as she moved back to Denmark in 2015. She first leased boxes in Broholm, before buying her own table in Årslev. She returned to the CDI stage in May 2018 at the CDI-AM Uggerhalne. She rode two horses: Sheila N (by Showtime x Donnerschlag) and Skjoldsgaard Rubial-VO (by Romanov x Schwadroneur).

Since then Larsen only competed nationally in Denmark. Both Rubial-VO and Sheila N sold into American ownership: Rubial VO to Blake Goodwin in 2019 and Sheila N to Megan McIsaac n 2024. Jeanette is now competing Don Delias (by Don Bolero x Looping) at national Grand Prix level.