{"id":3234,"date":"2024-05-19T10:08:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T10:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2024-05-19T14:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:10:40","slug":"denver-gio-till-elitloppet-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2024\/05\/19\/denver-gio-till-elitloppet-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Gio 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>There will be more Italian in seat number fifteen.<br><\/strong><strong>Denver Gio is ready for Elitloppet and now only one place remains for this year's edition.<br><\/strong><strong>- He looked brilliant at the trial victory in Lotterian and is a fast and interesting five-year-old under strong development, 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\">As a four-year-old Denver Gio earned over 1,7 million SEK and even though he has mostly raced in his home country Italy, we got to see him win races from north to south on Swedish soil when he won in Boden, Sol\u00e4nget and at J\u00e4gersro 2023. The latter win was in Prix Cagnes-sur-Mer and is the biggest victory of his career so far. In Finland he won the Glenn Kosmos Memorial at Vermo racecourse in 2023 and he was also second at the end of the year in Italy in the Premio Unione Europea.<\/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\">This year he won one of the trial races for the Gran Premio Lotteria in Italy in early May where he defeated, among others, already Elitloppinvited Capital Mail - in the final he finished fourth which was only the third start of the year for 2024.<\/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 am so grateful to have Denver Gio in this year's Elitlopp. He is a very good and very fast horse that comes with very good form to Solvalla, says 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\">Only one place remains for the world's biggest sprint race which will be announced later on Sunday - the track draw for the two trial races of Elitloppet 2024 will take place on TV12 at 17:30.<\/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 Denver Gio<br><\/strong>Age: 5 years<br>Sex: Stallion<br>Father: Southwind Frank<br>Mother: Swan Wise As<br>Starts\/Results: 33 (14-2-3)<br>Earned: SEK 3 253 621<br>Record: 1.10,3 autostart (1600 meters)<br>Owner: Francesco Licciardi<br>Coach: Alessandro Gocciadoro<br>Attendant: Kaino Sade Laine<br>Breeders: Nicolas de Mitri and Antonio Somma<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\">Horses invited to 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), Denver Gio (Italy)<\/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\">Stoletheshow won Saturday's battle in HRH Prince Daniel's race at G\u00e4vletravet, which gives a direct place to Elitloppet, but just like after winning Finlandia Ajo, where there is also a direct place to compete for, the circle around the horse has chosen to decline the pink ticket.<\/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 Denver Gio\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TGK4NanLtHA?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>\ufeffDet blir mer italienskt p\u00e5 plats nummer femton.Denver Gio \u00e4r klar f\u00f6r Elitloppet och nu \u00e5terst\u00e5r endast en plats till \u00e5rets upplaga.\u2013 Han s\u00e5g str\u00e5lande ut vid f\u00f6rs\u00f6kssegern i Lotterian och \u00e4r en startsnabb och intressant fem\u00e5ring under stark utveckling, s\u00e4ger Solvallas sportchef Anders Malmrot. Som fyra\u00e5ring sprang Denver Gio in \u00f6ver 1,7 miljoner kronor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3234","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\/3234","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=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3244,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}