{"id":1026,"date":"2022-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/2022\/05\/15\/back-of-the-neck-sager-nej-till-elitloppet-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-05-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T00:00:00","slug":"back-of-the-neck-sager-nej-till-elitloppet-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2022\/05\/15\/back-of-the-neck-sager-nej-till-elitloppet-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"BACK OF THE NECK SAYS NO TO THE ELITE RACE IN 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Twelve horses have become eleven for the Elitloppet in 2022.<br \/>This after American Back of the Neck was forced to withdraw and will not come to Solvalla on the last Sunday in May.<br \/>- \u00c5ke Svanstedt does not think the horse is in the right shape to be competitive in Elitloppet and they therefore choose to stay home, says Solvalla's sports manager Anders Malmrot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Five-year-old Back of the Neck finished third in the USA's biggest race for three-year-old horses in 2020 when he claimed bronze in The Hambletonian Stakes and in 2021 he won the Dayton Trotting Derby and was supposed to visit Sweden and Solvalla for the first time, but that will not happen.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Back of the Neck underperformed in his last start and after a qualifying race on Saturday where the horse tested his form, they were not completely satisfied and have now taken the decision to turn down Elitloppet 2022. The number of horses ready for this year's edition is thus eleven.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Elitloppet is the main attraction during the Elitlopp weekend, which will be held at Solvalla in Stockholm on May 27-29, 2022. Elitloppet is an invitational race where 16 horses compete in two different trials with eight horses in each. The top four in each trial meet in a final where the winner receives five million SEK.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Invited horses for Elitloppet 2022: Don Fanucci Zet (Sweden), Etonnant (France), Vivid Wise As (Italy), Extreme (Denmark), Perfetto (Canada), Vernissage Grif (Italy), \u00d6nas Prince (Sweden), Cokstile (Italy), Admiral As (Sweden), Snowstorm Hanover (Sweden), Who's Who (Sweden),<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>For more information:<\/em><br \/>Anders Malmrot, Sports Director Solvalla<br \/>Tel: +46 70 636 00 58<br \/>Email: <a href=\"mailto:anders.malmrot@solvalla.travsport.se\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"mailto:anders.malmrot@solvalla.\">anders.malmrot@solvalla.<\/a><wbr>travsport.se<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolv h\u00e4star har blivit elva till Elitloppet 2022.Detta sedan amerikanske Back of the Neck tvingats backa ur och inte kommer till Solvalla sista s\u00f6ndagen i maj.\u2013 \u00c5ke Svanstedt tycker inte att h\u00e4sten \u00e4r i r\u00e4tt form f\u00f6r att g\u00f6ra sig konkurrenskraftig i Elitloppet och man v\u00e4ljer d\u00e4rf\u00f6r att stanna hemma, s\u00e4ger Solvallas sportchef Anders Malmrot. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}