{"id":4831,"date":"2025-05-07T22:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2025-05-09T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:47:22","slug":"don-fanucci-zet-tog-direktplats-till-elitloppet-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2025\/05\/07\/don-fanucci-zet-tog-direktplats-till-elitloppet-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Fanucci Zet took direct place to 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>Wednesday's victory takes him again to Solvalla on the last Sunday in May.<br><\/strong><strong>Don Fanucci Zet is the tenth horse ready for this year's edition of Elitloppet.<br><\/strong><strong>- It's great that former Elitloppet winner Don Fanucci Zet is in such good shape and it will be great to see what he can do this year, 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\">Don Fanucci Zet won the Elitloppet in 2021 as he sprinted past all competitors after a whirlwind finish, and Wednesday's victory means he will now compete in the world's biggest sprint race for the fifth time in his career.<\/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 fulfilled the big favorite in the Elitloppet qualifier, Meadow Roads race, on Wednesday evening at Solvalla and easily took home the win and secured a direct place to 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\">From the lead, Don Fanucci Zet won in a time of 1.09,8 over 1640 meters with autostart.<br>- He feels fantastic, said driver \u00d6rjan Kihlstr\u00f6m after the race, he can not feel better than he does now.<\/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 nine-year-old stallion is closing in on seventeen million kronor earned so far in his career. In addition to the Elitloppet success in 2021, which is the biggest win of his career, he has taken three more Group I wins: SprinterM\u00e4staren 2020, Norrbottens Stora Pris 2022 and Hugo \u00c5bergs Memorial 2022.<\/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\">Don Fanucci Zet is trainer Daniel Red\u00e9n's second horse in this year's Elitloppet, Francesco Zet has already been invited. There are now six places left for Elitloppet 2025.<\/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 Don Fanucci Zet<\/strong><br>Age: 9 years<br>Sex: Stallion<br>Father: Hard Livin<br>Mother: Kissed By The West<br>Starts\/Results: 58 (29-7-7)<br>Earned: SEK 16 663 913<br>Record: 1.08,7 autostart (1609m)<br>Owner: Stall Zet (Daniel Red\u00e9n)<br>Coach: Daniel Red\u00e9n<br>Attendant: Ellinor Wennebring<br>Breeder: Brixton Medical AB (Daniel Red\u00e9n)<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 (Sweden), Don Fanucci Zet (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 - Don Fanucci Zet!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ifz9DwmQEVc?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>Onsdagens seger tar honom p\u00e5 nytt till Solvalla sista s\u00f6ndagen i maj.\ufeff\ufeffDon Fanucci Zet \u00e4r den tionde h\u00e4sten som \u00e4r klar till \u00e5rets upplaga av Elitloppet.\ufeff\ufeff\u2013 Det \u00e4r fantastiskt att tidigare Elitloppsvinnaren Don Fanucci Zet \u00e4r i s\u00e5dan fin f\u00f6rfattning och det ska bli j\u00e4tteroligt att se vad han kan g\u00f6ra i \u00e5r, s\u00e4ger Anders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","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\/4831","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=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}