Tikkanen (foaled 1991 in Pennsylvania) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse who competed internationally. He was owned and bred by American George W. Strawbridge, Jr., an avid ice hockey fan and a shareholder and Director of the National Hockey League's Buffalo Sabres who named the foal for the Finnish player, Esa Tikkanen. From a family involved in steeplechase and flat racing, George W. Strawbridge, Jr. maintained racing stables in France and th...
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Tikkanen (foaled 1991 in Pennsylvania) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse who competed internationally. He was owned and bred by American George W. Strawbridge, Jr., an avid ice hockey fan and a shareholder and Director of the National Hockey League's Buffalo Sabres who named the foal for the Finnish player, Esa Tikkanen. From a family involved in steeplechase and flat racing, George W. Strawbridge, Jr. maintained racing stables in France and the United States.
Prepared for racing by Chantilly-based trainer Jonathan Pease, Tikkanen raced twice at age two earning a win plus a third-place finish in the Critérium de Saint-Cloud. At age three, he won the Group 2 Prix Greffulhe, then run at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris where he also ran third in the Group 1 Prix Lupin and fourth in the Prix du Jockey Club. In 1994, Tikkanen also competed in Ireland, Italy, and in Germany where he earned his best result with a third place finish in the Group 3 Fürstenberg-Rennen at Baden-Baden.
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