Aalborg closed its thoroughbred season on Saturday afternoon on fine, soft autumn ground, and the four races brought every championship at the track to a conclusion. Evelina Rönnlund won three of them for Tina Mortensen and rose from eighth place to the title of the track’s champion jockey, while Big Hunter secured Aalborg Horse of the Year in the Birte Sørensen Memorial.
Three wins from four starts
Rönnlund began with Maziyah (Giant Sandman), who took the opening race by a neck from Liberian Girl (Wilshire Boulevard), with a further short head back to Dream On Sally (Girolamo).
The three-year-old filly now has three wins and a second from four starts for Kjell Ivar Brekstad and Tina Mortensen.
She was bred by Karsten and Hans J. Johansen and Stine Johansen, and she is the first foal to race out of Mariyna, third in the Opdrætningsløb — a half-sister to Malekha (Juniper Tree), third in the Derby, who won the Danish Oaks in 2020 and the Danish Breeders’ Cup the following year.
Through her dam line Maziyah is also a “cousin” of the two-year-old Mallee Sand (Footstepsinthesand), who this year has been second in both the Danish Kriterium and the Svealandlöpning and third in the Goffs Futurity Stakes for Søren Jensen, and a “niece” of the three-year-old Majidah (Juniper Tree), who shed her maiden tag at the first attempt on 14 October at Jägersro for Lennart Reuterskiöld Jr.
Call Me Al for the sixth time this year
In the day’s feature, the Kop og Kande Aalborg Store Handicap, Call Me Al (Al Shemali) carried all of 65 kilos and still won by a neck from Makaveli (Sands Of Mali).
It was the sixth win in 10 starts this year for the Tina Mortensen-trained gelding, and the first prize of 25,000 kroner was the day’s biggest.
Call Me Al is owned by Sussi Hald and was bred by Berner Olsen. The son of Al Shemali, out of the Breeders’ queen Golden Memory (Dexterity) and a grandson of Golden Line (Gabitat), winner of the Mowerinaløb and a dual Golden Mile winner, began 2026 on a handicap mark of 66, and he now ends it above 80.
The hat-trick completed with Mercur
Rönnlund and Mortensen completed the day with Mercur (Sir Wilberfourse) in the weight-for-age handicap, where the eight-year-old gelding won by a head from the strong-finishing debutant Sligo (Go Go Gadget).
It was Mercur‘s first win of the year, and he is a home-bred of Lis Lentz Jensen, who owns him together with Martin Jensen.
Big Hunter became Aalborg Horse of the Year 2026
The one race Tina and Evelina did not win turned into the day’s show of strength. Big Hunter (Juniper Tree) won the Birte Sørensen Memorial by six lengths from Camar (Advertise), and with it he secured Aalborg Horse of the Year on 78 points.
Tullamore (Al Shemali) was third, a short head away.
Jytte Løgtved’s gelding is both owned and trained by her and was ridden by Stine Bukballe. He was bred by York Stutteri and is a full brother to Two Eyed Jack, who won the Swedish Kriterium as a two-year-old in 2018 ahead of Queen Rouge (Lord Of England).
Lea Olsen had already secured the trainers’ championship with 138,040 kroner before the final day, but Tina Mortensen’s three wins lifted her to 116,840 and a commanding second place. Ann-Charlotte K. Wedsgaard was third with 90,440, ahead of Maria Løgtved’s 80,220.
Ann-Charlotte took the day’s second title in return. Cloudy Sky‘s (Cloth Of Stars) third place in the Aalborg Store Handicap brought the ownership of Else and Birgitte Nielsen and Ann-Charlotte K. Wedsgaard up to 64,840 kroner and past Karin Salling’s 60,000.
And the mare, whom Ann-Charlotte trains and part-owns herself, was at the same time the year’s highest-earning horse at the track on the very same figure.
Aalborg Horse of the Year 2026
Aalborg Galop · final standings after the closing day, Saturday 24 October
Juniper Tree – Gift From The Sea (Bernstein)
five-year-old brown gelding, bred in Denmark
Unsold yearling at the Scandinavian Open Yearling Sale 2022, lot 84
Go Go Gadget – Parbold Hill (Exceed And Excel)
five-year-old brown mare, bred in Denmark
Unsold yearling at the Scandinavian Open Yearling Sale 2022, lot 21
Cloth Of Stars – Banafsheh (Hard Spun)
five-year-old grey mare, bred in France
Wilshire Boulevard – La Petite Chinoise (Dr Fong)
seven-year-old brown mare, bred in Denmark
Appel Au Maitre – Totally Invincible (Invincible Spirit)
nine-year-old brown gelding, bred in Denmark
A win scores 21 points, second place 10 points and third place 5 points. In addition, one point is awarded per start.
Source: Aalborg Galop race programme and official results
Mark Larsen reported sick in the morning, which meant that Keld Chr. Karlsen’s Onyx (Royal Experiment) was withdrawn, while Mikkel Johansen took over the ride on Evan (Evasive).
Aalborg Galop
The day in numbers
The figure of the day
Evelina Rönnlund
She won three of the day’s four races for Tina Mortensen — on Maziyah, Call Me Al and Mercur — and rose from eighth place to the track’s champion jockey title.
4rides
3wins
DKK 55,240earned
Evelina Rönnlund finished the year with four wins from seven rides at the track. Tina Mortensen trained all three winners and ended as runner-up in the trainers’ championship with DKK 116,840 behind Lea Olsen’s DKK 138,040.
Trainerstop 8 by prize money won
| 1 | Tina Mortensen | 3 wins | DKK 55,240 | |
| 2 | Maria Løgtved | 0 wins | DKK 19,300 | |
| 3 | Jytte Løgtved | 1 win | DKK 14,000 | |
| 4 | Kaj Sørensen | 0 wins | DKK 12,500 | |
| 5 | Birgitte Nielsen | 0 wins | DKK 10,960 | |
| 6 | Mikkel Johansen | 0 wins | DKK 7,840 | |
| 7 | Ann-Charlotte K. Wedsgaard | 0 wins | DKK 6,000 | |
| 8 | Karsten Johansen | 0 wins | DKK 4,400 |
Jockeystop 8 by prize money won
| 1 | Evelina Rönnlund | 3 wins | DKK 55,240 | |
| 2 | Dayversom De Barros | 0 wins | DKK 23,460 | |
| 3 | Mathilde Lund Johansen | 0 wins | DKK 16,000 | |
| 4 | Stine Bukballe | 1 win | DKK 14,000 | |
| 5 | Antonio Ferreira Matos | 0 wins | DKK 12,300 | |
| 6 | Anna Pilroth | 0 wins | DKK 5,400 | |
| 7 | Mikkel Johansen | 0 wins | DKK 5,040 | |
| 8 | Melissa Vesterholm | 0 wins | DKK 2,560 |
Ownerstop 8 by prize money won
| 1 |  Sussi Hald | 1 win | DKK 25,000 | |
| 2 |  Kjell Ivar Brekstad & Tina Mortensen | 1 win | DKK 16,000 | |
| 3 |  Jytte Løgtved | 1 win | DKK 14,000 | |
| 4 |  Galoppens Venner | 0 wins | DKK 12,500 | |
| 5 |  Martin Jensen & Lis Lentz Jensen | 1 win | DKK 12,000 | |
| 6 |  Hans Bundgaard | 0 wins | DKK 9,360 | |
| 7 |  Karen Grethe & Poul Erik Jensen | 0 wins | DKK 8,000 | |
| 8 |  Maria Løgtved | 0 wins | DKK 7,000 |
Sirestop 8 by prize money won
| 1 | Al Shemali (GB) | 1 win | DKK 28,360 | |
| 2 | Giant Sandman (IRE) | 1 win | DKK 20,360 | |
| 3 | Juniper Tree (IRE) | 1 win | DKK 14,000 | |
| 4 | Sands Of Mali (FR) | 0 wins | DKK 12,500 | |
| 5 | Sir Wilberfourse (DEN) | 1 win | DKK 12,000 | |
| 6 | Wilshire Boulevard (IRE) | 0 wins | DKK 8,000 | |
| 7 | Advertise (GB) | 0 wins | DKK 7,000 | |
| 8 | Appel Au Maitre (FR) | 0 wins | DKK 6,640 |
Breederstop 8 by prize money won
| 1 | Berner Olsen | 1 win | DKK 29,960 | |
| 2 | Karsten & Hans J. Johansen & Stine Johansen | 1 win | DKK 16,000 | |
| 3 | York Stutteri | 1 win | DKK 14,000 | |
| 4 | Canice Farrell | 0 wins | DKK 12,500 | |
| 5 | Lis Lentz Jensen | 1 win | DKK 12,000 | |
| 6 | York Stutteri & Jan Johansson | 0 wins | DKK 8,000 | |
| 7 | Silfield Bloodstock | 0 wins | DKK 7,000 | |
| 8 | Malene Birk Mortensen | 0 wins | DKK 6,000 | |
| 8 | Werner Neumann | 0 wins | DKK 6,000 |
All four races pay five places, so 20 placings count. Onyx and Sophie Lane did not come to post. The going was soft in all four races.
Top 8 per category by prize money won. The three breeders left with a country name in the Danish system have been named: Camar (Silfield Bloodstock), Makaveli (Canice Farrell) and Sugar Crust (AB Ascot). No country categories remain.
Breeders shows more than eight names, because the amounts share a place – nobody drops out on a tie.
GalopSport.dkSource: Aalborg Galop’s official results and race programme
