Bettina Andersen and Oliver Wilson took both of Saturday’s feature races on very soft autumn ground at Klampenborg. King To Be got his classic win at the last attempt in the Danish St. Leger, and My Fortune defended his title in the Stutteri Stork Skandinavisk Grand Prix. Both were bred at Stutteri Hjortebo.
Scandinavia’s last classic of the year was run for the 90th time, and it went to the horse who had waited longest for it.
King To Be (Moohaajim) won easily by five lengths from Red Moondancer (Appel Au Maitre), and from there it was a further six lengths back to Konnichiwa (Japan) in third.
Iyan (Bated Breath) was fourth ahead of Icefall (Juniper Tree). Call The Chief was withdrawn, so ten horses went to post over the 2800 metres.
The season has been one long chase for exactly this
King To Be was second in the Bucherer Danish Derby, beaten half a length; second by the absolute minimum in Jockeyklubbens 2000 Guineas at Bro Park; third in the Danish 2000 Guineas; and second in the Breeders’ Trophy Classic.
Four times in the very biggest races without winning one of them — and then the classic came at the very last opportunity, in his 11th career start.
He now has three wins and is close to a million kroner in total earnings.
King To Be, who was in fact a late entry for the Danish St. Leger, runs for Stald Klampenborg, the syndicate with more than two hundred shareholders.
For Bettina Andersen it was a second St. Leger of her career after My Fortune in 2024, and Oliver Wilson now has three wins in the race.
Stutteri Hjortebo had their sixth St. Leger winner and so equal Chess Racing’s record as the race’s most successful breeder.
The mares, on the other hand, had to wait another year: Red Moondancer became the latest in a line of mares who did not quite get there, and the most recent winning mare in the race is still Inaya in 2014. Inaya, who happens to be the dam of this year’s fourth horse, Iyan.
Skandinavisk Grand Prix: a double no horse has had before
Two hours later it was My Fortune (Appel Au Maitre) who finished the job. He won in a sheer show of strength by ten lengths from Silver Wings (Appel Au Maitre), while The Patriot (Primatico) was third by a short head and Sir Jeffrey (Hunter’s Light) fourth.
Grab The Moment (Go Go Gadget) was withdrawn, so only four went to post.
That leaves My Fortune somewhere no horse has been before. Five horses have won both the Danish St. Leger and the Skandinavisk Grand Prix — Opus One, Django, Inaya, Steinway and himself — but none of them had two Grand Prix wins.
Monte Carlo‘s three wins in 2016, 2018 and 2019 remain the record in the new millennium.
At five, My Fortune has ten wins from 24 starts and more than 1.7 million kroner in total prize money.
It is a fourth straight running of the Skandinavisk Grand Prix for Appel Au Maitre (Starborough) as a sire, and his fifth in all.
He is also the damsire of King To Be.
For Bettina Andersen the double was historic in itself: she is the fifth trainer to take both races in the same year, after Caroline Strömberg in 2006, Bent Olsen in 2013, Jessica Long in 2015 and Søren Jensen in 2019.
Oliver Wilson, on the other hand, is the first jockey to do it twice. He won both races in 2024 as well, that time with My Fortune in the classic and Good Fortune in the Grand Prix.
Moohaajim’s day
Saturday belonged to one stallion. Moohaajim had nine of his offspring on the card and won three races.
Besides King To Be he was behind Mumbo Jumbo (Moohaajim) in Handicap Class 2 and Bianca (Moohaajim) in Autumn Handicap Class 5 — and in the latter he took both the winner and the runner-up, as Hockey Carlras (Moohaajim) followed three lengths back. In the two-year-old race Othello Torkdahl (Moohaajim) was second.
Two of his winners are in fact full siblings. King To Be and Bianca are both by Moohaajim and out of the Breeders’ Trophy Juvenile winner Baltic Exchange, and both were bred at Stutteri Hjortebo.
The stud had three winners and five horses in the money on the day.
Dejgaard’s small stable keeps going
Bianca og Finn Ind Forever (Juniper Tree) gave Inge Mette Dejgaard a training double, both ridden by Carlos Lopez, and the numbers behind them deserve a look.
“Sisse” has had five horses in action at Klampenborg this year. Between them they have 36 starts and ten wins — a strike rate of just under 28 per cent, and more than half of the starts in the money.
Four of Sisse’s five horses have won, three of them more than once, and the partnership with Lopez now stands at six wins from 12 rides.
Finn Ind Forever won by a length from Worres Wiggo (Juniper Tree) ahead of Bartholdi (Justify), while Bianca had three lengths to spare over Hockey Carlras.
1,790 kroner between Lea and Niels
The trainers’ championship at Klampenborg has changed leader before the final day. Lea Olsen started the day 47,570 kroner behind Niels Petersen and picked up 98,360 against his 49,000.
She now leads with 1,656,630 kroner to 1,654,840 — 1,790 kroner between them with one race day to go.
Bettina Andersen is third with 1,365,330 after the day’s 225,000.
In the jockeys’ championship, which is decided on wins, Carlos Lopez won the day’s private duel 3-2 over Oliver Wilson. The standing is 27-23, so Wilson needs four winners on the final day on 31 October without Carlitos winning any.
The rest of the day
Saturday at Klampenborg opened with Familien Trocks Ærespræmie, where Dorte and Keld Moe Jacobsen’s Biot (City Light) won by half a length from Lucien (Hurricane Red) and took his fourth win at the track this year, all of them with Per-Anders Gråberg in the irons.
In the two-year-old race the Niels Petersen-trained Centurion Bling (Twirling Candy) won by a length and a half on his second start and his first on turf, ahead of Othello Torkdahl and Happytobealive (Appel Au Maitre).
Autumn Handicap Class 4 drew a field of thirteen and was won by the Swedish Wolis Hamoriko (Girolamo) by a neck from Go Get Happy (Go Go Gadget) — the biggest outsider of the day among the winners.
In Handicap Class 2 Jessica Long’s Mumbo Jumbo won by just under three lengths from Spinwell (Make Believe), while Karin Salling’s Garlic (Outstrip) was fourth.
Klampenborg closes the season with the final day on Saturday 31 October.
Klampenborg Racecourse
The day in numbers
The figure of the day
Bettina Andersen
She trained both of the day’s feature winners. King To Be took the Danish St. Leger, and two hours later My Fortune defended his title in the Stutteri Stork Skandinavisk Grand Prix.
4runners
2wins
DKK 225,000earned
Bettina Andersen is the fifth trainer to take both races in the same year, after Caroline Strömberg in 2006, Bent Olsen in 2013, Jessica Long in 2015 and Søren Jensen in 2019. The day’s DKK 225,000 is the third-highest at Klampenborg this year.
Trainerstop 8 by prize money won
| 1 | Bettina Andersen | 2 wins | DKK 225,000 | |
| 2 | Tina Mortensen | 0 wins | DKK 131,240 | |
| 3 | Lea Olsen | 1 win | DKK 98,360 | |
| 4 | Inge Mette Dejgaard | 2 wins | DKK 71,230 | |
| 5 | Jessica Long | 1 win | DKK 52,500 | |
| 6 | Niels Petersen | 1 win | DKK 49,000 | |
| 7 | Bent Olsen | 0 wins | DKK 42,520 | |
| 8 | Helen Nilsson | 1 win | DKK 24,600 |
Jockeystop 8 by prize money won
| 1 | Oliver Wilson | 2 wins | DKK 253,200 | |
| 2 | Carlos Lopez | 3 wins | DKK 132,230 | |
| 3 | Lorenzo Putzulu | 1 win | DKK 97,480 | |
| 4 | Per-Anders Gråberg | 1 win | DKK 90,600 | |
| 5 | Evelina Rönnlund | 0 wins | DKK 89,040 | |
| 6 | Jacob Johansen | 1 win | DKK 64,100 | |
| 7 | Josefin Landgren | 0 wins | DKK 26,200 | |
| 8 | Nicolaj Stott | 0 wins | DKK 19,920 |
Ownerstop 8 by prize money won
| 1 |  Lokalebasen.dk A/S | 0 wins | DKK 100,000 | |
| 1 |  My Stable, Kirk, Tom, Hanne & Bettina | 1 win | DKK 100,000 | |
| 1 |  Stald Klampenborg | 1 win | DKK 100,000 | |
| 4 |  Dorte & Keld Moe Jacobsen | 1 win | DKK 50,000 | |
| 5 |  Fully Motivated | 1 win | DKK 37,500 | |
| 6 |  Inge Mette Dejgaard, Hansen & Larsen | 1 win | DKK 32,800 | |
| 7 |  Lone & Kaj Nielsens Fond | 1 win | DKK 30,080 | |
| 8 |  Carlsen, Fielden, Andersen, vi6org | 0 wins | DKK 25,000 | |
| 8 |  Peter Johansen | 0 wins | DKK 25,000 | |
| 8 |  Stald Sotto | 0 wins | DKK 25,000 |
Sirestop 8 by prize money won
| 1 | Appel Au Maitre (FR) | 1 win | DKK 213,680 | |
| 2 | Moohaajim (IRE) | 3 wins | DKK 190,460 | |
| 3 | Juniper Tree (IRE) | 1 win | DKK 63,600 | |
| 4 | City Light (FR) | 1 win | DKK 50,000 | |
| 5 | Hurricane Red (IRE) | 0 wins | DKK 25,000 | |
| 5 | Japan (GB) | 0 wins | DKK 25,000 | |
| 5 | Primatico (USA) | 0 wins | DKK 25,000 | |
| 8 | Girolamo (GER) | 1 win | DKK 24,600 |
Breederstop 8 by prize money won
| 1 | Stutteri Hjortebo | 3 wins | DKK 230,240 | |
| 2 | Stald Jupiter | 2 wins | DKK 82,800 | |
| 3 | Pernilla Nilsson | 0 wins | DKK 62,000 | |
| 4 | Lokalebasen.dk A/S | 0 wins | DKK 50,000 | |
| 5 | Julie Malmros | 1 win | DKK 37,500 | |
| 6 | Stutteri Stork | 0 wins | DKK 27,480 | |
| 7 | Buck Racing AB | 0 wins | DKK 27,400 | |
| 8 | Healthy Horse Stud | 0 wins | DKK 25,000 | |
| 8 | Keld Chr. Karlsen & Peter Johansen | 0 wins | DKK 25,000 |
Five races pay five places and three pay seven, so 45 placings count. Call The Chief, Good To Go and Grab The Moment were withdrawn. The fifth prize in the Grand Prix was not paid out, as only four horses came to post.
Top 8 per category by prize money won. All twenty-two breeders left with a country name in the Danish system have been named – twenty through Svensk Galopp’s horse register, the last two by GalopSport.
Owners, Breeders shows more than eight names, because the amounts share a place – nobody drops out on a tie.
GalopSport.dkSource: Dansk Galop’s sports system and Svensk Galopp’s horse register
