{"id":4961,"date":"2025-05-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2025-05-18T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T10:03:20","slug":"charron-ar-norges-hopp-i-elitloppet-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2025\/05\/18\/charron-ar-norges-hopp-i-elitloppet-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Charron is Norway's hope 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>There will be a Norwegian flag in this year's edition of Elitloppet.<br><\/strong><strong>This is through five-year-old Charron who takes the penultimate place.<br><\/strong><strong>- He looked brilliant at the victory last time and there is wonderful development in the horse. Gundersens has once again produced a top horse,\" 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\">Charron sprinted home the Norwegian Derby final last year which is the biggest triumph of his career and also won the Jarlsberg Grand Prix and Axel Jensens Minneslopp. In his last start, he visited \u00c5bytravet and impressed when he was the best in the Lyon Grand Prix 2025 in a strong way from the outside leader. Now it is clear that there will be a new visit to Sweden with a view to Solvalla next weekend for the Norwegian talent.<\/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\">Charron has received the fifteenth Elitloppet ticket and will be Norway's representative in the world's biggest sprint race, as announced by Solvalla's Anders Malmrot on Sunday morning.<br>- It is a dream for all trainers to get an invitation and in my mind the Elitloppet is the biggest race you can be in. I feel we have a super exciting horse that is both fast and strong and we are very happy about the invitation, says trainer Geir Vegard Gundersen whose son Magnus Teien Gundersen will drive Charron in the 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\">The draw for the two Elitloppet trials will take place on TV12 at 17:30 on Sunday.<\/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 Charron<br><\/strong>Age: 5 years<br>Sex: Stallion<br>Father: Code Bon<br>Mother: Golden Feline<br>Starter\/Result: 22 (10-5-2)<br>Earned: SEK 2 574 384<br>Record: 1.10,6 autostart (2140 meters)<br>Owner: Morten Langli<br>Coach: Geir Vegard Gundersen<br>Nurse: Lise Alme<br>Breeder: Morten Langli<br>Nationality: Norwegian<\/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), Cobra Killer Gar (Italy), Hussard du Landret (France), Charron (Norway)<\/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 - Charron!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-T8dVp1ZTkM?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 blir norsk flagg i \u00e5rets upplaga av Elitloppet.Detta genom fem\u00e5rige Charron som tar den n\u00e4st sista platsen.\u2013 Han s\u00e5g str\u00e5lande ut vid segern senast och det finns h\u00e4rlig utveckling i h\u00e4sten. Gundersens har \u00e5ter f\u00e5tt fram en topph\u00e4st, s\u00e4ger Solvallas Elitloppschef Anders Malmrot. Charron spurtade hem den norska Derbyfinalen ifjol vilket \u00e4r karri\u00e4rens st\u00f6rsta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4961","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\/4961","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=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}