Category: Denmark

75 years after a 16-year-old turned up at Klampenborg, Gert Hansen still goes to work in the stable every day

Huntington won by five lengths, My Fortune by eleven, and Jacob Kvisla took the apprentice title in the very last race of the year

Eleven awards, four undecided championships and 1,790 kroner between Lea Olsen and Niels Petersen

Lea Olsen can win at most 202,260 kroner on finals day, Niels Petersen 201,500 — and 1,790 kroner already separate them.

The entries for Klampenborg’s season finale on 31 October are out, and the two trainers at the top of the championship have entered 27 horses between them.

Bettina Andersen and Oliver Wilson took both of Saturday’s feature races on very soft autumn ground at Klampenborg.

Lise Leth, widow of Klampenborg’s long-serving course commentator Henrik Leth, died at her home on Tuesday 14 October, aged 90.

Klampenborg stages the season’s second-to-last race day on Saturday 17 October, with eight races and DKK 811,000 in prize money.

Huntington led all the way in the Højgård Hestehospital Vinterfavoritternes Ærespræmie worth DKK 250,000

Klampenborg hosts the Højgård Hestehospital Vinterfavoritternes Ærespræmie over 1600 metres on Saturday

Elkær Stutteri Fuldblods Fond gave its name to three of Saturday’s eight races at Klampenborg, and the day’s best paid, the handicap series final, went to Kenneth Hansen and Gitte Wolle’s Classic Blaze. In the Fillies’ and Mares’ race, Derby third Red Moondancer crossed the line as the winner ahead of Sealove.

Saturday at Klampenborg is Elkær Stutteri Fuldblods Fond’s day, with three handicaps run under the foundation’s name – among them the final of the handicap series over 1800 metres, which at 120,000 kroner is the day’s richest race.

Bente and Magne Jordanger turned down a million kroner for Voix Du Maitre at last year’s Scandinavian Open Yearling Sale. On Saturday afternoon the Appel Au Maitre colt brought 300,000 of them home at Klampenborg – and after three starts he is still unbeaten.

The day after this year’s Scandinavian Open Yearling Sale, last year’s yearlings run for Denmark’s best-paid two-year-old race. Fifteen horses are entered for the Dansk Galops Auktionsløb, and the whole of Klampenborg’s Saturday is staged in the name of the French auction house Arqana.