A huge Sunday is in prospect at Bro Park. Four big races, a shade over SEK 3.7 million shared between them, and Danish horses and Danish colours in every single one. The first race of the day is off at 11.50.
First of the big ones on the card is the ITM Amacitalöpning, worth SEK 250,000 over 1200 metres for two-year-old fillies – and a field of six in which the two market leaders come from a Danish connection apiece.
Kohira (Kodi Bear) got off the mark at Klampenborg on 15 August by five lengths for Lulu Tøpholm’s L.T. Racing and Patrick Wilson, and she has Oliver Wilson in the saddle.
Ice And Fire (Oasis Dream) did likewise at Øvrevoll two days earlier, when she won on her debut by seven and a half lengths from Bourbon Blaze.
She was bred by Lokalebasen.dk and is the first foal out of Margrethe – Jakob Dalhoff’s very first horse and the winner of the Sceptre Stakes in 2017. She is owned by Jakob Dalhoff and Maria Stetsyk’s Stald Chasing Dreams and trained by Niels Petersen.
L.T. Racing also have Mist At Dawn (Inns Of Court) in the race.
At 12.43 comes the Breeders’ Trophy Juvenile (Tommy Gustafsson Memorial), worth SEK 800,000 over 1400 metres and with 15 runners.
Here the eye is drawn to Voix Du Maitre (Appel Au Maitre), who passed up the Norsk Kriterium at Øvrevoll on Sunday in order to go for the big money here.
Stall Perlen’s homebred colt won on his debut at Øvrevoll on 23 July and looks the one to beat. There is a neat twist to the story: his dam Voix d’Amie won this very race in 2020 – also in Stall Perlen’s colours. Among his rivals is Chariot (Barocci), whom Voix Du Maitre beat on debut.
The biggest danger may well prove to be Niels Petersen-trained I Got Lucky (Juniper Tree), who was a runaway winner on his debut on Klampenborg’s Derby day.
Airborne Racing’s I Got Lucky is the first foal out of the Swedish Oaks winner Alwaysonmymind (Appel Au Maitre) and represents an in-form Niels Petersen.
The Breeders’ Trophy Mile is likewise run for a total of SEK 800,000, but over 1600 metres for the four-year-olds, and with Grab The Moment (Go Go Gadget) as the highest-rated in the field.
The Danish Derby winner took the Dansk Breeders’ Cup in June and has won five of his eight career starts, passing SEK 2.2 million for Stall Trick or Treat and Niels Petersen.
But at Bro Park in particular he has twice had to bow to No Surrender (Giant Sandman), who last year won both the Jockeyklubbens 2000 Guineas and the Breeders’ Trophy Classic at the track, as well as the Breeders’ Prize Sprint at Øvrevoll.
Bent Olsen-trained No Surrender has passed SEK 2.1 million himself. The 13-strong field also includes Cathrine Erichsen’s A Million Dreams (Moohaajim) and Lea Olsen’s Zarina (Appel Au Maitre).
The biggest contest of the day is the Breeders’ Trophy Classic, worth a colossal SEK 1,856,880 over 1750 metres for the three-year-olds, of which SEK 928,440 goes to the winner.
Doc Holliday (Appel Au Maitre) lines up as the Swedish Derby winner after a nine-length success from Missing at Jägersro and with the highest rating in the field, but he has something to put right: in the Bucherer Danish Derby at Klampenborg his race was over a long way from home on his first start on turf.
Turf awaits again, only over a completely new trip.
Niels Petersen has two stable companions in the line-up, and both arrive with something in the book. Sporty (Moohaajim) won the Drømmemilen at Øvrevoll on Sunday, and Bruce Almighty (Appel Au Maitre) was last time out second behind Taifuu (Japan) in the Larch Ærespræmie at Klampenborg – and he won the Breeders’ Trophy Juvenile at Bro Park a year ago.
Among the other 13 are also Stald Klampenborg’s Danish Derby runner-up King To Be and Investia Group’s Swedish Derby runner-up Missing (Red Cactus). Both are trained by Bettina Andersen at Klampenborg.
