{"id":1236,"date":"2019-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/2019\/02\/20\/storsatsning-pa-kallblodens-elitlopp\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:00:00","slug":"storsatsning-pa-kallblodens-elitlopp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2019\/02\/20\/storsatsning-pa-kallblodens-elitlopp\/","title":{"rendered":"Major investment in coldblood Elitlopp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Elitkampen for cold-blooded trotting horses is one of the most popular races of the Elitlopp weekend. Now Solvalla is making a big investment in the race and raising the first prize to as much as SEK 500,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elitkampen at Solvalla was established in 1986 and the first winner was the Norwegian Alm Svarten - trained by Knut Alm and driven by Ulf Thoresen. Alm Svarten also won the next two years and since then we have seen popular winners such as Atom Vinter, Viesker, J\u00e4rvs\u00f6faks, Tekno Odin and Lannem Silje. Now a major investment is being made in the race, which pleases Sweden's most successful cold blood trainer.<\/p>\n<p>- That's great! It was the best news in a long time. This increase gives Elitkampen a really high dignity, says Jan-Olov Persson, who has eight coach victories in the race, including five in a row with J\u00e4rvs\u00f6faks during the years 2002 to 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in prize money, which is over four hundred thousand Swedish crowns, allows the first prize to be increased from three hundred thousand to half a million crowns. A total of SEK 995,000 will be awarded in the race.<\/p>\n<p>- Elitkampen is one of the most appreciated races during the Elitlopp weekend and it is important for both us as organizers and for the Elitlopp audience that the race continues to be of the highest class. That's why we're making this investment,\" says Solvalla's Sports Director Anders Malmrot.<\/p>\n<p>Elitkampen will be held this year on May 26 during the Elitlopp Sunday at Solvalla. The Elitlopp weekend runs May 24-26.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts Elitkampen:<\/strong><br \/>Number of races run: 33<br \/>Most victorious horses: Viesker and J\u00e4rvs\u00f6faks, 5 victories<br \/>Most victorious coach: Jan-Olov Persson, 8 wins<br \/>Most victorious drivers: Kaarlo Ahokas and Jan-Olov Persson, 5 victories<br \/>Fastest horse: Vitter, 1.18,5 1609a, May 29, 2016<br \/>Victories by country: Norway 15, Sweden 10, Finland 8<br \/>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Press release from Solvalla February 20, 2019.&nbsp;<br \/>Photo: Thomas Blomqvist \/ TR Bild<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bElitkampen f\u00f6r kallblodiga travh\u00e4star \u00e4r ett av Elitloppshelgens popul\u00e4raste lopp. Nu g\u00f6r Solvalla en rej\u00e4l satsning p\u00e5 loppet och h\u00f6jer f\u00f6rstapriset till hela 500 000 kronor. Elitkampen p\u00e5 Solvalla instiftades 1986 och den f\u00f6rste segraren var norske Alm Svarten &#8211; tr\u00e4nad av Knut Alm och k\u00f6rd av Ulf Thoresen. Alm Svarten vann \u00e4ven de tv\u00e5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","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\/1236","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=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}