{"id":4902,"date":"2025-05-14T20:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2025-05-14T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:03:46","slug":"vinnaren-fran-2023-gor-comeback-i-elitloppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2025\/05\/14\/vinnaren-fran-2023-gor-comeback-i-elitloppet\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2023 winner makes a comeback in Elitloppet"},"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>Hohneck becomes the twelfth horse to be invited to the world's biggest sprint race.<br><\/strong><strong>- He is back in top form, and we know what this technician can achieve at Solvalla as a former winner of 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\">Owner and trainer Philippe Allaire chose to travel to Sweden and Solvalla as he had a strong feeling that Hohneck would fit perfectly on a Swedish thousand meter track - the rest is trotting history.<\/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\">Hohneck won the 2023 Elitlopp final in dazzling style from the lead in a time of 1.08,9. He is part of the French trio, along with Etonnant and Horsy Dream, that has given France three straight victories in the Elitloppet up 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\">Elitloppet wasn't the only time Hohneck got to parade in front of the Solvalla crowd in 2023. In October of that year, he came back and took the second biggest win of his career - the UET Elite Circuit Finale (Gr I, Int), also known as King Carl XVI Gustaf's Silver Horse.<\/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\">Hohneck finished fifth in the Elitloppet in 2024, and after a third-place finish in the Prix des Ducs de Normandie in 2025 - run last Saturday in Caen, France - it is now clear that he will return to Solvalla.<br>- I'm very happy to come with Hohneck to Solvalla once again and to meet the fantastic audience. Right now we are drinking water - but we are coming to Sweden to drink champagne,\" says Philippe Allaire.<\/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\">Elitlopp manager Anders Malmrot revealed the invitation in V86 Direkt on TV12 on Wednesday evening. Now only four horses remain before the starting field for Elitloppet 2025 is complete. Three invitations remain, as well as a direct place to the winner of Saturday's race H.R.H. Prince Daniel's race - V\u00e4gen till Elitloppet - STL Gulddivisionen Final at G\u00e4vletravet.<\/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 Hohneck<br><\/strong>Age: 8 years<br>Sex: Stallion<br>Father: Royal Dream<br>Mother: Caranca<br>Starts\/Result: 73 (24-17-14)<br>Earned: EUR 2 563 895<br>Record: 1.08,8 autostart (1609m)<br>Owner: Philippe Allaire<br>Coach: Philippe Allaire<br>Attendant: R\u00e9my Menoret<br>Breeder: Jean Pierre Guay<br>Nationality: French<\/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), Always Ek (Italy), Hohneck (France)<\/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 - Hohneck!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZx-EDmDOS4?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>Hohneck blir den tolfte h\u00e4sten att bjudas in till v\u00e4rldens st\u00f6rsta sprinterlopp.\ufeff\ufeff\u2013 Han \u00e4r tillbaka i toppform, och vi vet vad den h\u00e4r teknikern kan prestera p\u00e5 Solvalla som tidigare vinnare av Elitloppet, s\u00e4ger Anders Malmrot. \u00c4garen och tr\u00e4naren Philippe Allaire valde att resa till Sverige och Solvalla d\u00e5 han hade en stark k\u00e4nsla av [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4902","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\/4902","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=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4906,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/4906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}