Prix Greffulhe
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.