{"id":4858,"date":"2025-05-09T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=4858"},"modified":"2025-05-09T21:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:37:27","slug":"halva-startfaltet-klart-till-elitkampen-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2025\/05\/09\/halva-startfaltet-klart-till-elitkampen-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Half the starting field ready for Elitkampen 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three invited - two direct qualifiers.
<\/strong>The first five horses are ready for the Elitkampen last Sunday in May at Solvalla, which means that half of the starting field is nailed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Tangen Bork makes his third start in Elitkampen and has a good track record in the cold-blooded sprint showdown. In 2023 he was second in Elitkampen behind Evartti and last year Tangen Bork won Elitkampen in front of the Solvalla crowd and took home the first prize of one million SEK, which is the biggest victory of his career. Tangen Bork won the Norwegian Criterium as a three-year-old and later won both the Norwegian and Swedish Derby Finals as a four-year-old.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Facts about Tangen Bork
<\/strong>Age: 8 years
Sex: Stallion
Father: Bork Odin
Mother: Tangen St\u00f6va
Starts\/Results: 53 (35-9-3)
Earned: SEK 7 538 492
Record: 1.18,6 autostart (1640m)
Owner: Nils Munkhaugen Holding AS
Coach: \u00d6ystein Tjomsland
Attendant: Celine F\u00e5land Hansen
Breeder: J\u00f6rn Gunnar Nilsen
Nationality: Norwegian<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Evartti has won a total of 54 races in his career and is now competing in the Elitkampen for the third time. He won the Elitkampen in 2023, which was an acclaimed victory among the Finnish trotting fans at Solvalla and last year Evartti finished second behind Tangen Bork. Among other major race victories, he has won the Nordic King at home in Finland.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Facts about Evartti
<\/strong>Age: 14 years
Sex: Stallion
Father: K.M.Nopsa
Mother: Emme
Start\/Result: 129 (54-37-12)
Earned: EUR 1 167 035
Record: 1.18,2 autostart (1609m)
Owner: Talli Pajatso
Coach: Antti Ojanper\u00e4
Attendant: Jutta Ihalainen
Breeder: Olli Sippola
Nationality: Finnish<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Oppg\u00e5rdsdr\u00e4ngen is one of two clear Swedish horses trained by Jan-Olov Persson. He has won three of this year's starts where he was second in Bolln\u00e4stravets Elitsprint behind B.W.Sture in the last start. Second in the 2021 Kallblodsderbyt behind Tangen Bork and the biggest victory of his career is from Brimsguttens Minne 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Facts about Oppg\u00e5rdsdr\u00e4ngen
<\/strong>Age: 8 years
Sex: Stallion
Father: Tekno Odin
Mother: Oppg\u00e5rdens Smaragd
Start\/Result: 84 (18-15-5)
Earned: SEK 2 700 412
Record: 1.20,5 autostart (1640m)
Owner: Ingegerd Jansson
Coach: Jan-Olov Persson
Attendant: Emelie Mood
Breeder: Ingegerd Jansson
Nationality: Swedish<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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B.W.Sture took a direct place to the Elitkampen in 2025 by winning the Bolln\u00e4stravets Elitsprint in the last start. He won the Speedracet for coldbloods in front of the Elitlopp crowd in 2024 and is now making his second appearance in Elitkampen. The biggest win of his career is from Nordgubbens Minne in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Facts about B.W.Sture
<\/strong>Age: 12 years
Sex: Stallion
Father: Moe Odin
Mother: Gullan Fax
Starts\/Result: 119 (26-20-12)
Earned: SEK 3 879 000
Record: 1.19,8 autostart (1640m)
Owner: B W Montage AB
Coach: Jan-Olov Persson
Attendant: Chloe Pettersson
Breeder: Birger Wallstr\u00f6m
Nationality: Swedish<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Stallone was second in the Elitkampen in 2022 and is now competing for the third time. He is one of two Finnish horses trained by Antti Ojanper\u00e4. Stallone made it to Elitkampen 2025 by winning Erkon Pokaali in the last start - where the winner was rewarded with a direct place to this year's edition.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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Facts Stallone
<\/strong>Age: 10 years
Sex: Gelding
Father: Frans
Mother: Stellanoora
Starts\/Result: 81 (22-20-8)
Earned: 402 790 Euro
Record: 1.18,9 autostart (1609m)
Owner: Stall Noora
Coach: Antti Ojanper\u00e4
Nurse: Anniina Pekonen
Breeder: Stall Noora
Nationality: Finnish<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tre inbjudna \u2013 tv\u00e5 direktkvalificerade.\ufeff\ufeffDe fem f\u00f6rsta h\u00e4starna \u00e4r klara f\u00f6r Elitkampen sista s\u00f6ndagen i maj p\u00e5 Solvalla vilket inneb\u00e4r att halva startf\u00e4ltet \u00e4r spikat. Tangen Bork g\u00f6r sin tredje start i Elitkampen och har fint facit i kallblodens sprintuppg\u00f6relse. 2023 var han tv\u00e5a i Elitkampen bakom Evartti och ifjol s\u00e5 vann Tangen Bork Elitkampen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4858","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\/4858","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=4858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4862,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions\/4862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}