{"id":3224,"date":"2024-05-18T15:03:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T15:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2024-05-18T15:03:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T15:03:57","slug":"decision-maker-till-elitloppet-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2024\/05\/18\/decision-maker-till-elitloppet-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision Maker 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>Another mare takes her place among the sixteen.<br>Decision Maker is ready for the last Sunday in May and Elitloppet 2024.<br>- She is a victory machine that has developed enormously and is now taking the step into the highest elite, says Solvalla's sports manager Anders Malmrot.<\/strong><br><br>Decision Maker has competed extensively in vintage races both as a three and four-year-old. She qualified for the short E3 final in 2022 and in 2023 she won both the trial race and the semi-final of the Breeders Crown.<br><br>As a four-year-old she won Margaretas Tidiga Ungh\u00e4stserie at Solvalla and during that summer she was also second in Prix Diana Zet 2023 behind the already Elitlopp-invited Joviality. She then finished the year by winning the final of the STL-Stoeliten at Solvalla's Boxing Day race.<br><br>She now has ten wins in her last twelve starts and after winning Lovely Godivas Minne at \u00c5bytravet in her last start, Decision Maker now faces the Elitloppet for the first time. Trainer Stefan Melander has won the world's biggest sprint race both with Iceland in 2010 and Nuncio in 2016 and now has a new opportunity.<br><br>- I really like her and I don't know how good she is,\" says coach Stefan Melander.<br><br>Decision Maker is the fourteenth horse in Elitloppet 2024 and now two places remain, one of which goes to the winner of HRH Prince Daniel's race at 18.20 at G\u00e4vletravet today, Saturday.<\/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 Decision Maker<\/strong><br>Age: 5 years<br>Gender: Sto<br>Father: Nuncio<br>Mother: Full Authority<br>Starts\/Results: 38 (14-7-1)<br>Earned: SEK 2 735 250<br>Record: 1.10,2 autostart (1640 meters)<br>Owner: Stall T.Z. (Stefan Melander)<br>Trainer: Stefan Melander<br>Attendant: Sanna Ljungberg<br>Breeder: Stefan T.Z. Melander HB<br>Nationality: Swedish<\/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), Gaspar de Brion (France), Decision Maker (Sweden).<\/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 - Decision Maker\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-V1-h9Q9wbI?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>Ytterligare ett sto tar plats bland de sexton.Decision Maker \u00e4r klar f\u00f6r sista s\u00f6ndagen i maj och Elitloppet 2024.\u2013 Hon \u00e4r en segermaskin som har utvecklats enormt och nu tar steget in i den h\u00f6gsta eliten, s\u00e4ger Solvallas sportchef Anders Malmrot. Decision Maker har t\u00e4vlat mycket i \u00e5rg\u00e5ngsloppen b\u00e5de som tre- och fyra\u00e5ring. Hon kvalade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3224","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\/3224","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=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}