{"id":4806,"date":"2025-05-04T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/2025\/05\/04\/mellby-jinx-klar-for-elitloppet-efter-sylvass-spurt-i-finland\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:56:25","slug":"mellby-jinx-klar-for-elitloppet-efter-sylvass-spurt-i-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2025\/05\/04\/mellby-jinx-klar-for-elitloppet-efter-sylvass-spurt-i-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Mellby Jinx ready for Elitloppet - after a strong sprint in Finland"},"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>It was a thrilling duel, but Mellby Jinx drew the longest straw. Daniel W\u00e4jersten's star won Finlandia Ajo at Vermo and thus secured a direct place to Elitloppet 2025.<br><\/strong><strong>- He finished very strong over the finish line and it was really strong of him to get to the victory, says Solvalla's 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\">As in previous years, the coveted pink ticket awaited the winner of the Finlandia Ajo at the finish line - with \u20ac100,000 as the first prize. The race was fast from the start and Mellby Jinx looked to have a long way ahead when the field turned into the run-up. But via a very sharp finish he managed to win in 1.09,9 over 1620 meters autostart.<\/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\">- It felt like we were very far ahead, but the horse finished extremely fast the last 400 meters. I am very happy that he got a big race victory as an older horse. Mellby Jinx was already good as a young horse and now he got to put the icing on the cake, said trainer and driver Daniel W\u00e4jersten in the winner's circle.<\/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 was the biggest triumph of his career for Mellby Jinx, who had previously distinguished himself as a two-year-old with victory in the Breeders Course final. He was also second in Svensk Uppf\u00f6dningsl\u00f6pning 2020 and third in Svenskt Trav-Kriterium the following 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\">He is trained by Daniel W\u00e4jersten, who now has two horses ready for Elitloppet - last year's runner-up Borups Victory has also been invited. In addition, the owner and breeder Mellby G\u00e5rd AB already has Mellby Knekt ready for Elitloppet.<\/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 Mellby Jinx<br><\/strong>Age: 7 years<br>Sex: Gelding<br>Father: Ready Cash<br>Mother: Heaven's Door<br>Starts\/Result: 48 (11-12-8)<br>Earned: SEK 8 044 526<br>Record: 1.08,7 autostart (1609 meters)<br>Owner: Mellby G\u00e5rd AB<br>Coach: Daniel W\u00e4jersten<br>Nurse: Ida Edin<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), Mellby Jinx (Daniel W\u00e4jersten)<\/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 Jinx!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ce98OsRzm9k?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>Det blev en rafflande upploppsduell, men Mellby Jinx drog det l\u00e4ngsta str\u00e5et. Daniel W\u00e4jerstens stj\u00e4rna segrade i Finlandia Ajo p\u00e5 Vermo och s\u00e4krade d\u00e4rmed en direktplats till Elitloppet 2025.\u2013 Han avslutade sylvasst \u00f6ver upploppet och det var verkligen starkt av honom att hinna fram till seger, s\u00e4ger Solvallas Elitloppschef Anders Malmrot. Liksom tidigare \u00e5r v\u00e4ntade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4806","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\/4806","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=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}