Bohemian’s First Outing Since Sale to Korean Dong Seon Kim is Wellington’s Nations Cup

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Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour and Bohemian at the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany last year. © 2022 Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com

WELLINGTON, Florida, Feb. 20, 2022–Bohemian, the Tokyo Olympic horse for Denmark’s Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour, will have the first international outing with new owner Korea’s Dong Seon Kim in the Wellington Nations Cup this week.

The 13-year-old Westfalen gelding has the prefix Galleria’s added to Bohemian since the sale three weeks ago and will be competed by Kim as an individual in the Stillpoint Farm CDIO3* at the Global Dressage Festival beginning with the Grand Prix Thursday and the Special Friday.

Cathrine, a respected top sport rider, admitted the sale of the “one in a million horse” was with a “bleeding heart.”

In addition to the Olympics, Cathrine and Bohemian earned individual silver and bronze medals as well as team bronze at the 2021 European Championships.

Dong Seon Kim, known in the horse world as “Peter,” is the heir of a wealthy South Korean family and owns an equestrian center named Sportpferde Galleria in Germany.

A political science graduate of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, he has competed extensively in the United States and at the Olympics in 2016 and 2021.

CORRECTION: An earlier version stated that Cathrine was an owner of Bohemian. That was an error.