{"id":6492,"date":"2026-05-10T18:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2026-05-10T18:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:29:49","slug":"gocciadoros-toppsto-till-elitloppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2026\/05\/10\/gocciadoros-toppsto-till-elitloppet\/","title":{"rendered":"Gocciadoros top boot to 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>She claims to be the best mare in the world. Last year she was second in the World Cup. This year she has won the C Th Ericsson Memorial and Finlandia Ajo. In the latter race, a pink ticket was waiting in the winner's circle.<\/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\">- Alessandro Gocciadoro has been clear that Diva Ek is his Elitlopp horse for 2026. \"She has shown her toughness time and time again and she is well worth her place in the Elitloppet,\" says Solvalla's sports manager Ola Lern\u00e5.<\/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\">Diva Ek was already on an international adventure last year. She sprinted furiously to second place in the Yonkers International, the \u201dWorld Cup race\u201d behind Lexus Kody.<br>- She is absolutely amazing. I had a long-term plan to match her a bit carefully, but to start in Finlandia Ajo and get the ticket for Elitloppet. Of course it feels good that it worked out,\" says Alessandro Gocciadoro.<\/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\">In Finlandia Ajo it looked to be a long way from fourth on the outside, but via nice backs around the final turn, Diva Ek's speed bit best.<br>- It was probably a little safer than it looked. I didn't snatch the Norwegian main team, so we've saved something for the last weekend in May,\" said Alessandro Gocciadoro, cracking a smile.<\/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 Diva Oak<\/strong><br>Age: 7 years<br>Gender: Sto<br>Father: Trixton<br>Mother: Nike Ek<br>Result: 45: 23-5-1<br>Earned: 674,721 euros<br>Record: 1.09,9 autostart (1609m)<br>Owner: Antonio Nucera &amp; Effebi SRL, Italy<br>Coach: Alessandro Gocciadoro<br>Nurse: Anu Niskanen<br>Breeder: Az Agr Caprani Edy Graziano<br>Nationality: Italian<\/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 29-31, 2026. Elitloppet is an invitational race where 16 horses compete in two different heats with eight horses in each. The top four in each trial meet in a final where the winner receives five million SEK.<br>Horses invited to Elitloppet 2026: Go On Boy (France), Inexess Bleu (France), Jobspost (Sweden), A Fair Day (Sweden), Allegiant (Sweden), Idao de Tillard (France), Massimo Hoist (Finland), Jabalpur (Italy), Borups Victory (Sweden), Dream Mine (Sweden), Diva Ek (Italy).<\/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 2026 - Diva Oak!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PqcOANHePkc?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>Hon g\u00f6r anspr\u00e5k p\u00e5 att vara v\u00e4rldens b\u00e4sta sto. I fjol var hon tv\u00e5a i VM. I \u00e5r har hon vunnit C Th Ericssons Memorial och Finlandia Ajo. I det sistn\u00e4mnda loppet v\u00e4ntade en rosa biljett i vinnarcirkeln. \u2013 Alessandro Gocciadoro har varit tydlig med att Diva Ek \u00e4r hans Elitloppsh\u00e4st 2026. Hon har g\u00e5ng [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6492","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\/6492","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=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6494,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions\/6494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}