{"id":3059,"date":"2024-05-12T16:04:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2024-05-12T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:05:13","slug":"3059","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2024\/05\/12\/3059\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengurion Jet to Elitloppet 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content-block content-block--core content-block--paragraph\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The 2023 Sweden Cup winner is ready for Elitloppet.<br>Bengurion Jet takes its place in this year's star-studded field.<br>- Bengurion Jet has from last year been high on my wish list and after the races this year he will compete at the top in Elitloppet, says Solvalla's sports manager Anders Malmrot<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"content-block content-block--core content-block--paragraph\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bengurion Jet has been a talking point since he visited Sweden for the first time as a four-year-old and won Prix Cagnes-sur-Mer at J\u00e4gersro in 2021 - which he did in a new Swedish record for foreign stallions \/ geldings in a time of 1.08,8 over sprint distance. Since then he has competed in the highest Elite both in Sweden and abroad and is probably best known from the final victory of the Sweden Cup, also called Lilla Elitloppet, after a powerful finish last year.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"content-block content-block--core content-block--paragraph\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In total he earned over 3.6 million SEK in 2023, where he was also second in \u00c5bys Stora Pris at \u00c5bytravet and third in the World Cup race at Yonkers Racecourse in the USA, which is his best season so far.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"content-block content-block--core content-block--paragraph\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">- I have been aiming for Elitloppet since he won the Sweden Cup last year and it's a great honor to be part of it, says coach Alessandro Gocciadoro<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"content-block content-block--core content-block--paragraph\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bengurion Jet is the second Italian horse in this year's Elitlopp field where twelve out of sixteen places are now filled. The field should be complete on Sunday May 19.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"content-block content-block--core content-block--paragraph\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Facts about Bengurion Jet<br><\/strong>Age: 7 years<br>Sex: Stallion<br>Father: Maharajah<br>Mother: Love Me Tender IT<br>Starts\/Result: 61 (16-11-9)<br>Earned: SEK 8 622 501<br>Record: 1.08,7 autostart (1609 meters)<br>Owner: Le Siepi Horse Racing S.R.L.S<br>Coach: Alessandro Gocciadoro<br>Attendant: Hannah Gustavsson<br>Breeder: Az. Agr. Toniatti Giacometti S.S., and others<br>Nationality: Italian<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"content-block content-block--core content-block--paragraph\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elitloppet is the main attraction during the Elitlopp weekend, which will be held at Solvalla in Stockholm on May 24-26, 2024. 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<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"content-block content-block--core content-block--paragraph\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Invited horses for Elitloppet 2024: Idao de Tillard (France), Francesco Zet (Sweden), Joviality (Sweden), Hohneck (France), A Fair Day (Sweden), Go On Boy (France), Horsy Dream (France), Don Fanucci Zet (Sweden), \u00d6nas Prince (Sweden), Capital Mail (Italy), Borups Victory (Sweden), Bengurion Jet (Italy).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-fsb-flexible-spacer fsb-flexible-spacer\"><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--lg\" style=\"height:15px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--md\" style=\"height:15px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--sm\" style=\"height:15px\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-block content-block--core content-block--embed\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Welcome to Elitloppet 2024 Bengurion Jet\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ol8SUZT_I48?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden Cup-segraren 2023 \u00e4r klar f\u00f6r Elitloppet.Bengurion Jet tar plats i \u00e5rets stj\u00e4rnsp\u00e4ckade f\u00e4lt.\u2013 Bengurion Jet har fr\u00e5n f\u00f6rra \u00e5ret varit h\u00f6gt p\u00e5 min \u00f6nskelista och efter loppen i \u00e5r kommer han att t\u00e4vla p\u00e5 topp i Elitloppet, s\u00e4ger Solvallas sportchef Anders Malmrot Bengurion Jet har varit en snackis sedan han som fyra\u00e5ring bes\u00f6kte Sverige [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","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\/3059","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}