{"id":4722,"date":"2025-04-26T18:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=4722"},"modified":"2025-04-26T18:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:57:04","slug":"mellby-knekt-tar-plats-bakom-startbilen-i-elitloppet-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2025\/04\/26\/mellby-knekt-tar-plats-bakom-startbilen-i-elitloppet-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Mellby Knekt takes place behind the starting car 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>He likes to win trotting races and after the brilliant performance last time, the biggest task of his career is now waiting around the corner. Mellby Knekt is ready for the last Sunday in May at Solvalla.<br><\/strong><strong>- He has developed incredibly and I was very impressed by how easily he ran a top time last time, mostly in second lane with saved energy. With eight consecutive wins, Mellby Knekt will be a great joker in Elitloppet, says Elitloppet 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\">His racing career began with a win and since then the six-year-old gelding has become a familiar sight in the winner's circle. Mellby Knekt has won twelve of his eighteen starts so far, often as the favorite on the V75 coupon. He has won two STL finals and his biggest triumph came on Boxing Day at Solvalla when he won the Silver Division final.<\/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 the last start at Solvalla he offered an incomparable performance. Despite a race all the way to the outside of the leader, he crossed the finish line in 1.09,6 over 1640 meters autostart - with strength left according to driver Magnus A Djuse, who then showered praise on the horse. It was the eighth straight victory for Mellby Knekt.<\/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\">During Saturday's broadcast of V75 Direkt on TV4, Solvalla's Elitloppet manager Anders Malmrot announced that Mellby Knekt has been invited to Elitloppet 2025 and thus Solvalla trainer Timo Nurmos has the chance to take his first Elitlopp victory.<br>- I like the horse very much, he has both strength and great speed. It's extra fun that he is after Mellby Viking with whom we have won Harper Hanover's race. Mellby Knekt will run really fast and I am very much looking forward to start in Elitloppet, says Timo Nurmos.<\/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 pink ticket also means that half of the starting field is now ready - eight out of sixteen horses are invited to this year's edition.<\/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 Mellby Knekt<\/strong><br>Age: 6 years<br>Sex: Gelding<br>Father: Mellby Viking<br>Mother: Dont Wear PJS<br>Starts\/Results: 18 (12-2-0)<br>Earned: SEK 1 556 500<br>Record: 1.09,6 autostart (1640 meters)<br>Owner: Mellby G\u00e5rd AB<br>Coach: Timo Nurmos<br>Attendant: Selma Lindberg<br>Breeder: Mellby G\u00e5rd AB<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 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), Francesco Zet (Sweden), Etonnant (France), A Fair Day (Sweden), Mellby Knekt (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 2025 - Mellby Knekt!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJgYPkZ0wGY?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>Han gillar att vinna travlopp och efter den str\u00e5lande insatsen senast v\u00e4ntar nu karri\u00e4rens st\u00f6rsta uppgift runt h\u00f6rnet. Mellby Knekt \u00e4r klar f\u00f6r sista s\u00f6ndagen i maj p\u00e5 Solvalla.\u2013 Han har utvecklats otroligt och jag blev v\u00e4ldigt imponerad av hur enkelt han sprang en topptid senast, mestadels i andrasp\u00e5r med sparade krafter. Med \u00e5tta segrar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4722","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\/4722","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=4722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4749,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions\/4749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}