{"id":1042,"date":"2022-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/2022\/05\/01\/cokstile-tog-direktbiljett-till-elitloppet-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-05-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T00:00:00","slug":"cokstile-tog-direktbiljett-till-elitloppet-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2022\/05\/01\/cokstile-tog-direktbiljett-till-elitloppet-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"COKSTILE TOOK A DIRECT TICKET TO THE 2022 ELITE RACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday's win in Finlandia Ajo means it will be Elitloppet for the fourth time.<br \/>Cokstile is horse number nine to be ready for the last Sunday in May.<br \/>- He won Elitloppet 2020 and showed today that he is back at the highest level again, says Solvalla's sports director Anders Malmrot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cokstile was knocked out in the 2018 trial and last year he was unplaced after qualifying for the final, but in 2020 it was he who took home the final victory and the win in Elitloppet. Cokstile first won his trial race in impressive fashion and then did a fantastic race in the final as well. There he ran to the finish line as the runner-up, but after the runner-up was disqualified, it was Cokstile who became the winner of Elitloppet 2020 at Solvalla.<\/p>\n<p>His other achievements include winning the Norwegian Trotting Derby as a four-year-old and the Gran Premio delle Nazioni in his current home country of Italy. After the Elitlopp victory in 2020, Cokstile was also second in the big race Hugo \u00c5bergs Memorial at J\u00e4gersro and last year we saw him win the Kalmarsund Cup in his new record 1.09,1 over sprinter distance and earlier this year he won the Prix de Bourgogne at Vincennes.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday's victory in Finlandia Ajo at Vermo trotting track with 110,000 euros to the winner means a direct place to Elitloppet 2022 for Cokstile and the circle around the horse has chosen to accept his fourth visit to Solvalla.<\/p>\n<p>- Cokstile is a very tough horse who will try to take his second victory in Elitloppet and now nine out of sixteen horses have received a pink ticket, says Anders Malmrot.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Facts about Cokstile<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Age: 9 years<br \/>Sex: Stallion<br \/>Father: Quite Easy U.S.<br \/>Mother: Joystile<br \/>Starts\/Results: 68 (25-13-7)<br \/>Earned: EUR 1 263 086<br \/>Record: 1.09,1 autostart (1640m)<br \/>Owner: Scuderia Santese SRL<br \/>Coach: Erik Bondo<br \/>Nurse: Anu Intonen<br \/>Breeder: Per Erik Hagen<br \/>Nationality: Italian<\/p>\n<p>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>Invited horses for Elitloppet 2022: Don Fanucci Zet (Sweden), Etonnant (France), Vivid Wise As (Italy), Back Of The Neck (USA), Extreme (Denmark), Perfetto (Canada), Vernissage Grif (Italy), \u00d6nas Prince (Sweden), Cokstile (Italy).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00f6ndagens seger i Finlandia Ajo inneb\u00e4r att det blir Elitloppet f\u00f6r fj\u00e4rde g\u00e5ngen.Cokstile \u00e4r h\u00e4st nummer nio att bli klar f\u00f6r sista s\u00f6ndagen i maj.\u2013 Han vann Elitloppet 2020 och visade idag att han \u00e4r tillbaka p\u00e5 h\u00f6gsta niv\u00e5 igen, s\u00e4ger Solvallas sportchef Anders Malmrot. Cokstile slogs ut i f\u00f6rs\u00f6ket 2018 och ifjol blev han [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","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\/1042","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=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}