{"id":4969,"date":"2025-05-18T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2025-05-18T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:11:21","slug":"hooker-berry-tar-plats-i-elitloppet-2025-startfaltet-spikat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2025\/05\/18\/hooker-berry-tar-plats-i-elitloppet-2025-startfaltet-spikat\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooker Berry takes place in Elitloppet 2025 - the starting field is set"},"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>French rider Hooker Berry will fly to Sweden and take his place behind the starting car in the world's biggest sprint race next Sunday. Thus, the starting field is ready for Elitloppet 2025 at Solvalla<\/strong><strong>- \"Hooker Berry is a horse I've wanted to see at Solvalla for a long time. He showed great form last time and it's great that the former Prix d'Amerique winner will start in the Elitloppet,\" says 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\">Cobra Killer Gar was invited to this year's edition of Elitloppet as recently as Friday, but is now forced to withdraw due to injury. Instead, Hooker Berry steps in - and thus the French team is strengthened with a fifth horse in Elitloppet 2025! It will be Nicolas Bazire who will be entrusted to drive the merited chestnut.<\/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 picture-perfect Hooker Berry delivered a stunning sprint to win the 2023 Prix d'Am\u00e9rique for \u20ac450,000 and has already earned over \u20ac1.8 million in his career. Now he comes to Solvalla to compete on Swedish soil for the very first time.<br>- It's fantastic news that Hooker Berry will be in the Elitloppet! For me, it's a dream to drive in this incredible race. It's a magical weekend and we are already impatient to be there,\" says driver Nicolas Bazire.<\/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 sixteen horses are ready and now awaits the draw of the two trials - this takes place live on TV12 at 17:30.<\/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 Hooker Berry<\/strong><br>Age: 8 years<br>Sex: Stallion<br>Father: Booster Winner<br>Mother: Osaka Berry<br>Starter\/Result: 79 (14-11-15)<br>Earned: EUR 1 818 420<br>Record: 1.08,6 autostart (1609m)<br>Owner: Michel Aladenise<br>Coach: Franck Leblanc<br>Attendant: Nathanael Picard<br>Breeder: Michel Aladenise<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), Hussard du Landret (France), Charron (Norway), Massimo Hoist (Finland) and Hooker Berry (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 - Hooker Berry!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MqqPBrakGiE?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>Franske Hooker Berry flyger till Sverige och tar plats bakom startbilen i v\u00e4rldens st\u00f6rsta sprinterlopp n\u00e4sta s\u00f6ndag. D\u00e4rmed \u00e4r startf\u00e4ltet klart till Elitloppet 2025 p\u00e5 Solvalla\u2013 Hooker Berry \u00e4r en h\u00e4st som jag l\u00e4nge har velat se p\u00e5 Solvalla. Han visade gryende form senast och det \u00e4r v\u00e4ldigt kul att den tidigare Prix d\u2019Amerique-vinnaren startar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4969","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\/4969","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=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4977,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}