There are races where the result itself is only half the story. Schamyl (Appel Au Maitre) won the Stockholm Cup International (Gr.3)
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
No one was allowed to threaten the Swedish sprint throne on Sunday afternoon. Lamborghini BF (Holy Roman Emperor) took the Bro Park
The last feature of Stockholm Cup day went to the youngest in the field. Mehmas Air Force (Mehmas) won the Lanwades Stud
It was a good Sunday for Danish colours at Bro Park. Mufid (Lope De Vega) won the Herbert Sachs Memorial over 2100
It was a British victory in the Tattersalls Nickes Minneslöpning (L). After a battle up the straight with the home hope Grandpa’s
It took a million on the line before Flamboyant won her first race. The Patrick Wahl-trained filly came to the Magic Million
Tobias Hellgren and Anna Pilroth laid claim to both jumps races as Bro Park’s Stockholm Cup day got under way on Sunday
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.
Sunday’s V64 pool at Jägersro opens with a three-year-old handicap over 2,200 metres, where the top weight of 62 kilos is carried by Fredrik Reuterskiöld’s Ferrari BF. Also in the field are Bettina Andersen’s Svenskt Derby runner-up Missing and Lennart J:r Reuterskiöld’s Svenskt Derby Consolation winner Icefall.
Roy Arne Kvisla’s American-bred Beeorenottobee won Göteborg’s two-year-old maiden on Sunday on his very first start. The win was Per-Anders Gråberg’s third of the day.
Bruce Almighty won Sunday’s Breeders’ Trophy Classic at Bro Park by six lengths from King To Be. Stall Trick Or Treat and Niels Petersen collected the SEK 928,440 first prize – and with King To Be second and Doc Holliday fourth, Stutteri Hjortebo once again had three of the top four in a Swedish feature race.
Niels Petersen won three of the four feature races, Stall Trick Or Treat collected SEK 1,328,440 in the space of an hour, and Danish breeding accounted for 2.6 million of the day’s prize money. Here is Breeders’ Trophy day at Bro Park in numbers – plus a run-through of the races staged away from the features.
Last year’s Danish Derby winner Grab The Moment won Sunday’s Breeders’ Trophy Mile at Bro Park by five lengths from A Million Dreams. It was a fourth straight win for Stall Trick Or Treat’s Go Go Gadget gelding, who has now passed SEK 2.6 million in earnings.
Stall Perlen’s Voix Du Maitre won Sunday’s Breeders’ Trophy Juvenile at Bro Park by a length from the Danish-bred I Got Lucky. The Appel Au Maitre colt thereby followed in the footsteps of his dam Voix d’Amie, who won the same race in 2020 – and Niels Petersen filled second and third.
Stald Chasing Dreams’ Ice And Fire won Sunday’s ITM Amacitalöpning at Bro Park by two lengths from Rayray. It was a second win from as many starts for the Danish-bred Oasis Dream filly, the first foal out of Margrethe.
Saturday at Jägersro turned into a Francisco Castro show on the trainer’s home track: He won the day’s biggest race, the Roussica Mile, with Civilon and extended his remarkable juvenile streak with Matteusinthejungle. Birgitte Nielsen’s Jazoo provided a Danish win in dominant style.
Sweden’s Derby and Oaks series will be run on turf in 2028. That much is now certain, as racing at Jägersro comes to an end during 2028. Skånska Fältrittklubben, which owns the Svenskt Derby ‘trademark’, wants the entire series to move to Gothenburg – and the board of Svensk Galopp will now take that wish further.
Bro Park stages this year’s Breeders’ Trophy day on Sunday 30 August with four big races and a shade over SEK 3.7 million in the pot. Danish horses are central to all of them – from two Danish-owned two-year-old fillies in the ITM Amacitalöpning to Swedish Derby winner Doc Holliday, who in the Breeders’ Trophy Classic meets Bruce Almighty and King To Be among others.
Catharina Vång is both trainer and part-owner of Lamnol, who carried 52 kilos to victory in Friday’s 7 Furlong Challenge at Bro Park. Niels Petersen and Carlos Lopez took two of the evening’s three Class 1 handicaps.
Francisco Castro and Elione Chaves won Jägersro’s two-year-old maiden race for the second time in a row, this time with the Cotai Glory gelding Jack Dawson. Behind him came Roy Arne Kvisla’s Noble Joker, while Veronika Jandová’s two Klampenborg-trained juveniles took third and fourth.
Former Danish St. Leger winner New York Strip remains unbeaten over jumps. On Tuesday evening at Bro Park, Tobias Hellgren’s seven-year-old Danish-bred gelding took the Calvados Memorial over 3450 metres for the second year running, and his winning run is now up to nine.