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.
The Sensommer Cup – the evening’s Class 1 handicap over 1,600 metres – had drawn just five runners, but five of the very best.
As the 1.64 favourite, Silver Legend (Dark Angel) won under Oliver Wilson by just under two lengths from Karin Salling and Lea Olsen’s Sir Jeffrey (Hunter’s Light), with Kajsa Lindsjø-trained Chianti (Zarak) a further three lengths away in third. Flemming Velin’s Wapeka (Dubawi) had to settle for fourth this time.
Silver Legend thereby turned the tables on the result of the Tattersalls Golden Mile (L) in May, when both Wapeka and Sir Jeffrey finished ahead of him. Light Valley Stud’s grey gelding went into the contest with the field’s highest rating of 91 and collected a first prize of DKK 36,500.
The Class 3 final – with DKK 120,000 in prize money and the evening’s biggest field of 15 runners – became a very personal triumph for Sweden’s Max W. Friberg:
He owns, trains and rode Codify (Lawman) himself, and the seven-year-old scored by just under two lengths from Søren Jensen’s Anchorage (Moohaajim), following up his win in the Class 3 handicap at the same track on 15 August. Rikke Rohbach Bonde-trained Flying Diamond (Tamayuz) came home third.
The Class 5 final turned into the tightest contest of the evening. Go Get Happy (Go Go Gadget) shouldered top weight of a full 68 kilos, but held on under Nicolaj Stott by half a length from Isaynomore (Giant Sandman), with Bent Olsen-trained Miss Twenty (Appel Au Maitre) a short head further back in third.
The winner, owned by Get Sound AB and bred by Stutteri Thorskovgaard, is trained by Swedish amateur trainer Jonna Larsson – so the first prize of DKK 32,800 also crossed the bridge.
In the Class 4 final, fellow amateur Martin Persson repeated his result from 18 July to the letter:
Lifestyle (Moohaajim) won under Jules Mobian ahead of stablemate Nevercantell (Appel Au Maitre) and Jacob Johansen – both owned by Persson himself.
This time just over a length separated the pair, and with DKK 45,000 to the winner and DKK 25,000 to the runner-up – on top of Isaynomore’s second place in the previous race – it was a highly profitable evening for the Swede.
Sweden also took the Novis Løb, where Jessica Long-trained Iyan (Bated Breath) and Jacob Johansen were a length too good for King (Al Shemali) – a Galoppens Venner homebred – with Vincenzo (Juniper Tree) in third.
Iyan began the season as one of the more trusted names for both the Svenskt and Dansk Derby, but the younger brother of Swedish Derby winner Ayani (Starspangledbanner) and Sceptre Stakes winner Iyana (Mastercraftsman) had to wait until the very end of August for his first win of the season.
(Photos of Iyan to follow)
In the Class 2 handicap, Ricardo Ramallo-trained Makenzie (Mustajeeb) took the win under Maikel Narvaez Bravo by half a length from Lea Olsen’s Giovanni Torkdahl (Lope De Vega), while Bettina Andersen’s Lucien (Hurricane Red) finished third under 64 kilos.
That meant five of the evening’s seven winners were trained in Sweden.
The two-year-old race, the Scandinavian Open Yearling Sale Ærespræmie, gave Jules Mobian the first of his two wins on the evening: Young Eagle (Gleneagles) scored by two comfortable lengths for L.T. Racing and Veronika Jandová – and along with the trophy, the owner received a DKK 10,000 voucher for the Scandinavian Open Yearling Sale in September.
Young Eagle was bought for €19,000 at last year’s October sale in Baden-Baden, and he is impeccably bred as a son of the Italian Group 3 winner Nouvelle Noblesse (Singspiel).
Nouvelle Noblesse is already the dam of 12 winners, the best of them Noble Moon (Sea The Moon), who was champion two-year-old in Germany in 2018 and counted the Preis des Winterfavoriten (Gr.3) among his wins.
Nouvelle Noblesse has also produced the Listed winners Noble Alpha (Shamardal) and Schwesterherz (Areion), plus three other Listed-placed performers.
Annika Delinder-trained Nimble Feet (Footstepsinthesand) – also owned by L.T. Racing – recorded yet another second place and has now finished second or third in all three of his starts, while the debutante Kir Royale (Go Go Gadget) came home third for Stald Kabo and Rikke Rohbach Bonde.
