Category: Denmark

Friday’s celebration of the handicappers at Klampenborg produced exactly the headline it had promised: In the Sensommer Cup, Bettina Andersen’s Silver Legend delivered as the red-hot favourite and put in their place the very rivals who finished ahead of him in the Golden Mile (L) in May. The evening’s three richly endowed handicap finals all went to Sweden, while the two-year-old race was won by Young Eagle for L.T. Racing and Veronika Jandová.

Former trainer Desmond Scarlett, who passed away on 19 August, will be laid to rest on Friday 28 August at 12.00 at Sankt Knud Lavard Kirke in Kgs. Lyngby.

GalopSport has received the sad news that the former jockey and Derby-winning trainer Desmond Scarlett has passed away. “Des” came to Norway from England in 1967, and two years later he moved on to Denmark, where he will be remembered above all for his many big-race successes as a trainer at Klampenborg.

Patrick Wilson-trained Kohira got off the mark at the second time of asking on Saturday afternoon and, together with Veronika Jandová’s debutant Space Memory, gave Lulu Tøpholm a one-two. Later in the afternoon Reine d’Allure also won in the light blue colours.

Exactly two weeks on from Derby day, Klampenborg stages a seven-race card on Saturday afternoon, with the first off at 12.45. Highlights include three qualifying heats of Klampenborg’s popular Handicap

After more than a century of chasing in vain, the Lauritzen family finally won the Danish Derby as Cosmopolitan triumphed for Stald Shaker – handing Søren Jensen his fifth Derby victory and Jules Mobian a win in his very first Derby ride.

Elkær Stutteri’s Irish import Romanov won Derby Day’s big two-year-old contest, the Goffs Futurity Stakes, as favourite – confirming the impressive impression left by his winning debut at Øvrevoll. Expectations

Niels Petersen and Carlos Lopez opened Derby Day with a commanding favourite’s win, as Airborne Racing’s I Got Lucky took the Stald Klampenborg two-year-old maiden series by five lengths –

Michael Jakobsen and Peter Rasmussen’s fantastic Taifuu finally made her comeback after a lengthy injury break and beat the red-hot favourite Bruce Almighty in Derby Day’s Bet25 Larch Ærespræmie –

Half an hour after the Derby triumph, Søren Jensen and Jules Mobian also won the Bucherer Derby Consolation with Nevermore. It was the Jensen stable’s third win on a historic

The anniversary edition of Klampenborg’s venerable Pokalløb turned into a pure show of strength, as Mount Kilimanjaro won by five lengths for Niels Petersen and Carlos Lopez. The Lanwades Stud

The Zawawi Sprint Cup (L), worth DKK 300,000, gathered the sprinting elite on Derby Day – but at the line there was no doubt: the Bent Olsen-trained Great Wish (Night

Niels Petersen and Carlos Lopez continued their remarkable Derby Day as Easywithme won the Elkær Stutteri Fawzia Stakes – the pair’s fourth shared win of the day. There was something

The Søren Jensen-trained Cosmopolitan and Jules Mobian emerged victorious from Saturday evening’s Bucherer Danish Derby 2026. After a furious finish, last season’s Criterium winner swept safely past Bettina Andersen’s King To Be, who carried the hopes of the entire Stald Klampenborg syndicate.

Derby Day was hit by an unfortunate withdrawal on Friday afternoon. Niels Petersen has confirmed to GalopSport that the unbeaten ante-post favourite Lord Of The Moon is not on the

116 editions, 116 winners – and a wealth of stories. GalopSport has trawled through the complete statistics from 1910 to 2025 and brought out the records, the dynasties and the

The first offspring out of the former two-year-old queen My Jamil landed the year’s first big two-year-old race at Klampenborg, the Stutteri Hjortebo Produce Stakes, on Saturday evening. The Appel