Svensk Galopp’s delegate assembly, the “fullmäktige”, voted down on Saturday by 18 votes to 17 the outsourcing agreement that was to have secured the sport a new racecourse at Bara in Skåne.
Missing has earned more than any other horse in the field, and on Wednesday afternoon Bettina Andersen’s three-year-old colt carries 60 kilos in the three-year-old handicap over 1600 metres at Jägersro.
Maria Williamson won two of Wednesday’s six races, while Annika Sjökvist’s owners finished third in four of them
Stall Perlen’s St. Leger winner from last year beat the defending champion by a neck in Sunday’s biggest race
Three feature races for Niels Petersen and Carlos Lopez on an afternoon when two defending champions held firm
The Supremacy colt took his fifth win in seven Swedish starts
Unbeaten in two starts, and this time by nine lengths — Francisco Castro ended the day with another two-year-old winner
A Danish-owned one-two-three in the classic on Göteborg’s final day — and three championships settled in one afternoon
From Ulriksdal via Åby and Täby to Göteborg — one hundred runnings of the Swedish classic
Two Listed races, two defending champions and 1.5 million kronor in one afternoon
Per-Anders Gråberg rode three winners in the rain at Bro Park and settled the day’s best-paid race by the minimum on the back of the Patrick Wahl-trained Green Exceed. Kajsa Svensson Holmsten was behind the only training double on the card, and Niels Petersen’s Bullet Bling won the three-year-old race by seven lengths.
Wednesday at Jägersro was a women’s day. Female riders won six of the seven contests, Alina Öhgren opened with a double, and Nathalie Johnsson trained two winners, riding one of them herself. Zidane took the Class 2 handicap, and the two-year-old race went to Inns Of Magic.
Svensk Galopp’s chairman, Björn Nilsson, chose over the weekend to step down with immediate effect. He leaves both the chairmanship and his seats on the boards of Svensk Galopp and Svensk Galopp AB.
There are races where the result itself is only half the story. Schamyl (Appel Au Maitre) won the Stockholm Cup International (Gr.3) over 2400 metres in convincing style on Sunday
Scandinavia’s most talked-about two-year-old did it again, and he did it without being asked a serious question. Romanov (Starspangledbanner) won the Appel Au Maitre Svealandlöpning by five lengths and is
No one was allowed to threaten the Swedish sprint throne on Sunday afternoon. Lamborghini BF (Holy Roman Emperor) took the Bro Park Sprint Championship (L) over 1200 metres for the
The last feature of Stockholm Cup day went to the youngest in the field. Mehmas Air Force (Mehmas) won the Lanwades Stud Stakes (L) over 1600 metres by a length.
It was a good Sunday for Danish colours at Bro Park. Mufid (Lope De Vega) won the Herbert Sachs Memorial over 2100 metres by just under two lengths for Lulu
It was a British victory in the Tattersalls Nickes Minneslöpning (L). After a battle up the straight with the home hope Grandpa’s Prince (Oasis Dream), Jane Chapple-Hyam-trained Crown Board (Lope
It took a million on the line before Flamboyant won her first race. The Patrick Wahl-trained filly came to the Magic Million with two placings in maidens and a sixth
Tobias Hellgren and Anna Pilroth laid claim to both jumps races as Bro Park’s Stockholm Cup day got under way on Sunday afternoon. New York Strip took H.M. Drottningens Pris
The Stockholm Cup International (Gr.3), worth SEK 1,000,000, brings together nine horses at Bro Park on Sunday. Defending champion Nastaria meets the recent Marit Sveaas winner War Socks, the Danish-bred dual Derby winner Schamyl and the 10-year-old Espen Hill, who won the race in 2023.
Lulu Tøpholm’s L.T. Racing rounded off a magical long weekend on Sunday with two wins at Jägersro, as both the 2-year-old Persuade Me and the 7-year-old Moon String bookended the card. Tøpholm has thus been able to celebrate five wins in four different countries in just three days.
Jacob Kvisla and Annika Sjökvist were behind both of the big handicap wins at Bro Park’s midday meeting, while Caroline Malmborg’s Irish-bred Humble Vibes won the two-year-old race on her very first start.