Nothing went according to plan - but that mattered less. Platon Face was still the strongest in this year's edition of Harper Hanovers and secured Lutfi Kolgjini's second triumph in the big race at Solvalla on Saturday.<\/p>\n
- It is the second biggest race of the weekend<\/strong> and a great race to win,\" Kolgjini said after the ride.<\/p>\n Elitlopphe weather was there and attracted many to the capital's racetrack on Saturday to warm up for what was to come. The Stoelite offered a thrilling riot duel. The V75 round started with a favorite fall.<\/strong> Disco Volante lost the action a bit before the start car left, and the fastest away was instead Knifetown Winner. But Kaj Widell charged and took over the lead with Magic Gwin <\/strong>which outpaced its competitors in the race. The tussars left behind also had<\/strong> Gina Schermer <\/strong>which easily disarmed Digital Perfomer in the Class II final. In the Class I final, it was a close finish. Atupem challenged the favorite, who on the run-up lost the action a few steps, until the last. The judge ruled that there was no canter and awarded Volnik du Kras<\/strong> and Alessandro Gocciadoro the victor. Gina S\u00f6derlund, Kanal75<\/p>\n Photo: Maria Holm\u00e9n\/TR Media<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inget gick enligt plan \u2013 men det spelade mindre roll. Platon Face var \u00e4nd\u00e5 starkast i \u00e5rets upplaga av Harper Hanovers och s\u00e4krade Lutfi Kolgjinis andra triumf i storloppet p\u00e5 Solvalla under l\u00f6rdagen. – Det \u00e4r helgens n\u00e4st st\u00f6rsta lopp och ett fantastiskt lopp att vinna, sade Kolgjini efter \u00e5kturen. Elitloppsv\u00e4dret var p\u00e5 plats och lockade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","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\/1272","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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Harper Hanover's race - the highlight of the day - concluded the V75 round.
It is rare that horses in the front flight have won Harper Hanover's race, yet Lutfi Kolgjini stuck his neck out before the race and said that's what would happen this year. As true as it was said. On the other hand, neither the race nor the tactics turned out as planned.
Platon Face started with a gallop<\/strong> while Candian Rolls took the lead and, as expected, Tesio took over the baton soon after.
Just over a lap from the finish, Kolgjini let his horse slip up the outside leader and half a lap from the finish they pushed to the lead.
\u00d6rjan Kihlstr\u00f6m behind Call Me Keeper tried to shrink the gap over the run-up but Platon Face was able to take a comfortable victory in the end.
- He is a fantastic horse, he is willing to run, strong as few and went 1.13,1 with gallop, said the trainer and driver and developed:
- I did not get a place at the start<\/strong> and I couldn't get him off like I was supposed to. In addition, he collapsed and galloped. Then it became violent driving so I went forward in the dead to get control. It's important to have the right tactics in these long races.<\/p>\n
Peace Of Mind took the lead while Double Exposure<\/strong> had to do all the work himself outside the leader. But \u00d6rjan Kihlstr\u00f6m was cool and measured safely in the round's biggest favorite before a cheering audience. The winning time was 1.09,6.
- It was very strong of her to succeed in deciding even though she had to go to the outside of such a good horse at that pace, said the victorious driver who was only 50 meters left was sure that it would go well.
\u00d6rjan Kihlstr\u00f6m continued his winning streak<\/strong> in the final of the Diamond Award.
Together with Rita C.D.<\/strong> he found the gap and the four-percenter settled convincingly. <\/strong>The four-year-old's third career victory left his coach emotional.
- It's fantastic, I'm so happy. I own half the horse too. And \u00d6rjan as a driver is not bad either. People ask why you don't drive yourself, but \u00d6rjan was free, so what the hell do you do, said a happy Hans R Str\u00f6mberg.<\/p>\n
- We didn't need to use the buses we had. Today I would say that he was better than ever, I could have driven for a while longer. He has an extraordinary potential,\" said Kaj Widell after the victory with Magic Gwin, trained by Mona Winkvist.<\/p>\n
Rick Ebbinge drove cautiously until the last 700 meters before he steered his Dutch into third. From there, Gina Schermer had a show as she took her second straight win in Sweden. Jeroen W.M. Engwerda is training.
- The first lap could have been a bit faster but we had a good position so I waited until we could catch them on the run-up. She did a fantastic race,\" said Rick Ebbinge in the winner's circle.<\/p>\n
- The horse was shying away from something on the infield both the first and second lap, it was not a regular gallop so I was relieved when the message came that we had won, said the Italian driver and trainer.
Favorite victory was also in the silver division final where Coktail Fortuna <\/strong>extended its winning streak.
Robert Bergh had to steer and set in the lead and although several horses challenged in the end, the nine-year-old kept away safely.
- There was a bit of a buzz<\/strong> that we thought about Elitloppet with him after \u00c5by but he had no chance of winning there and that was probably what took a little bit. You want to be there to compete and win, not just participate, it's more fun to stand here in the winner's circle, said the driver and trainer.
Seven rights on the V75 paid out 44 047 crowns, six rights gave 272 crowns and five rights 32 crowns.<\/p>\n