{"id":1224,"date":"2019-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/2019\/04\/13\/guldbjorken-dramatiskt-for-propulsion\/"},"modified":"2019-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T00:00:00","slug":"guldbjorken-dramatiskt-for-propulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2019\/04\/13\/guldbjorken-dramatiskt-for-propulsion\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Birch: Dramatic for Propulsion"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the best drivers in the world. Behind a trotter top three in the world. <\/strong>
It went as it went in Guldbj\u00f6rken at Um\u00e5ker on Saturday - victory for Propulsion on a new course record after a heavy run. <\/strong>
- I know how tough he is in the final stretch and I was never worried,\" said \u00d6rjan Kihlstr\u00f6m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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5,925 people watched the sunny races<\/strong> at Um\u00e5ker on Saturday and the duel in the selection race for the Olympic race.
Daniel Red\u00e9n had not started his star since fifth place in the Prix d'Amerique in January and it was a rusty world performer who entered the track in Ume\u00e5.
There was drama before the race when Propulsion backed up for the water truck and stepped off a shoe in the warm-up and another shoe was lost in the test starts before the race.
Coach Daniel Red\u00e9n had to work in the forge and time was running out, which meant that Robert Bergh changed tactics for the race.
Bergh stubbornly answered the lead with Muscle Hustle when the favorite came rushing 1500 meters from the finish. The first 1000 was passed in a fast 1.11,4 and Bergh pulled hard and tough during the final lap.
\u00d6rjan Kihlstr\u00f6m took it easy on the outside<\/strong> and took his time going down the leader's back through the last curve with world star Propulsion.
- No, I guess I never thought we would lose. But he is a bit phlegmatic in the race and Robban's horse looks like he is jogging at that speed. So if I had never run Propulsion before, I might have been worried,\" said \u00d6rjan Kihlstr\u00f6m after winning the new course record in Ume\u00e5, 1.11,3 over 2140 meters with autostart.
Muscle Hustle clear second and strong against the overpower after a fun bet by Robert Bergh.<\/p>\n

Propulsion becomes a big favorite in the Olympic race<\/strong> at \u00c5by last Saturday in April. The horse is also invited to Elitloppet in May at Solvalla.
Daniel Red\u00e9n was primarily a farrier this Saturday in Ume\u00e5.
- So damn nice. Try and stand there and put the shoe on the horse and you have almost nothing to nail in, and then there's a team inspector saying one minute to go. There's no way he's going to win that race! What a damn horse it is, cheered Daniel Red\u00e9n.
But there was never any talk of cutting Propulsion, the coach said.
- He needed this race to be in the Olympic race. It would have been a disaster otherwise. It's his last season and I've been training a lot harder and need to get him to lift even more. Sure...the style may not have been flawless today but it will be much better,\" said Daniel Red\u00e9n.
Daniel Red\u00e9n and \u00d6rjan Kihlstr\u00f6m won the two biggest races at Um\u00e5ker. In the second biggest race of the day Berth Johansson's Memorial won Son Of God <\/strong>without having to show the bottom.<\/p>\n

Bj\u00f6rn Karlsson is a coach at the neighboring track<\/strong> Sol\u00e4nget twelve miles south of Ume\u00e5 and has been aiming for the elite coldblood race Elitkampen for a couple of years with Tangen Haap.<\/strong>
The situation was the worst imaginable in V\u00e5rbj\u00f6rken over 1640 meters but there was no talk. Karlsson found third on the outside early on with Tangen Haap and turned on the third track through the last curve with the horse owned by the ice hockey twins Sedin.
A sweep in the higher education sector.
- As it feels now, M\u00e5nprinsen A.M. and Lome Brage will have to watch out over 1600 meters. I hope I get an invitation now to Elitkampen, said Bj\u00f6rn Karlsson.<\/p>\n

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Mikael Wikner, Kanal75<\/p>\n

Photo: Leif Norberg, ALN\/TR Image<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

En av v\u00e4rldens b\u00e4sta kuskar. Bakom en travare topp tre i v\u00e4rlden. Det gick som det gick i Guldbj\u00f6rken p\u00e5 Um\u00e5ker p\u00e5 l\u00f6rdagen \u2013 seger f\u00f6r Propulsion p\u00e5 nytt banrekord efter en tung l\u00f6pning. – Jag vet ju hur tuff han \u00e4r sista biten och var aldrig orolig, sa \u00d6rjan Kihlstr\u00f6m.   5 925 personer s\u00e5g […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","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\/1224","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=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}