{"id":4543,"date":"2025-03-22T18:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:08:59","slug":"the-locomotive-tavlar-for-australien-i-elitloppet-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2025\/03\/22\/the-locomotive-tavlar-for-australien-i-elitloppet-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Locomotive competes for Australia in Elitloppet 2025"},"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 Australian train goes all the way to Solvalla on the last Sunday in May.<br><\/strong><strong>This year's most distant guest will be the fourth horse invited to Elitloppet 2025.<br><\/strong><strong>- \"The Locomotive is a very fast horse and I think he has shown that he is the best in Australia right now. It will be very interesting to see what he can do in the Elitloppet,\" says 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\">The last time a horse from Australia participated in Elitloppet was in 2023 when Just Believe became a real crowd favorite. Although he galloped in the trial, he charmed the Swedish trotting public when he later finished third in the J\u00e4mtland Grand Prix and second in the Norrbotten Grand Prix.<\/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\">A new Australian horse is coming to Solvalla - five-year-old The Locomotive, trained by Brad Hewitt. He has won Group I races in his home country as a two-, three- and four-year-old and in his career the five-year-old has earned almost 3.5 million SEK. The biggest win of his career came in mid-December when he won the TAB Inter Dominion Trotters Final 2024 at Menangle Park.<\/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\">The Locomotive won nine of the twelve starts he made last year and after four starts this year, his sights are now set on Sweden.<\/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\">The big news was revealed on Saturday's V75 Direkt on TV4 by Elitlopp boss Anders Malmrot.<br>- We are convinced he is the right type of horse because he has the class and speed required for a race like the Elitloppet, and we were really turned on to the idea after a long conversation with Bj\u00f6rn Goop last month,\" said trainer Brad Hewitt.<\/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 The Locomotive<\/strong><br>Age: 6 years<br>Sex: Stallion<br>Father: Muscle Mass<br>Mother: La Coocaracha<br>Starts\/Results: 39 (23-5-2)<br>Earned: AUD 542 588<br>Record: 1.09.4 autostart (1720 meters)<br>Owner: Glenn Holland<br>Coach: Brad Hewitt<br>Attendant: Brad Hewitt<br>Breeder: Yabby Dam Farms Pty Ltd<br>Nationality: Australian<\/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 23-25, 2025. Elitloppet is an invitational race where 16 horses compete in two different trials with eight horses in each. The top four in each trial will meet in a final where the winner will receive 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 2025: Go On Boy (France), Logan Park (Canada), Borups Victory (Sweden), The Locomotive (Australia)<\/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 2025 - The Locomotive!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eQbIfDOjf-0?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 australiensiska t\u00e5get g\u00e5r hela v\u00e4gen till Solvalla sista s\u00f6ndagen i maj.\u00c5rets mest l\u00e5ngv\u00e4ga g\u00e4st blir den fj\u00e4rde inbjudna h\u00e4sten till Elitloppet 2025.\u2013 The Locomotive \u00e4r en v\u00e4ldigt snabb h\u00e4st och jag tycker att han har visat att han \u00e4r b\u00e4st i Australien just nu. Det blir mycket intressant att se vad han kan utr\u00e4tta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","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\/4543","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=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}