{"id":7032,"date":"2026-05-24T17:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/?p=7032"},"modified":"2026-05-24T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:42:25","slug":"kolgjini-lyfter-i-elitloppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/2026\/05\/24\/kolgjini-lyfter-i-elitloppet\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolgjini takes off 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>Named after an airplane during the Second World War.<br>And it is, if not a bombshell, then at least a bang that the last horse in this year's Elitloppet is Luke the Spook.<\/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\">- Luke the Spook has been good, but it still doesn't feel like we've seen his full range. Kolgjinis is also an x-factor that is extra fond of Elitloppet and Solvalla, I am genuinely happy that they have a horse next Sunday, 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\">Luke the Spook raced just below the elite in the US, but won the Liberty Bell and Kentucky Sire Stakes and came to Europe with over a million dollars earned and a 1.09,2 record.<\/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\">With Adrian Kolgjini, the horse has shown great resources and was second in the King's Cup and fourth in the Sprinter's Cup last year. He has shown further development as a five-year-old and on Saturday was stuck in HRH Prince Daniel's race.<br>- Isn't he the most exciting horse to take the last place in the Elitloppet? He is developing rapidly and is not behind anyone else in terms of capacity,\" says Adrian Kolgjini.<\/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\">Who, through the TV series Hela V\u00e4gen this spring, has taken a seat on the TV sofas outside the world of trotting.<br>- This feels so damn good! I am so happy! I think it's been a bit of a mess this spring and it didn't really go our way last Saturday either. But the horse is so worth this ticket, says Adrian Kolgjini.<\/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 Luke the Spook<\/strong><br>Age: 5 years<br>Sex: Stallion<br>Father: Greenshoe<br>Mother: Noblesse Blue Chip<br>Result: 35 pcs: 8-6-5<br>Earned: SEK 2,639,370<br>Record: 1.09,1 autostart (1609m)<br>Owner: Stall Courant AB, Heby<br>Coach: Adrian Kolgjini<br>Attendant: Agnes Carlsson<br>Breeder: AM Bloodstock Inc, USA<br>Nationality: Swedish<\/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.<\/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 2026: Go On Boy (France), Inexess Bleu (France), Jobspost (Sweden), A Fair Day (Sweden), Allegiant (Sweden), Idao de Tillard (France), Jabalpur (Italy), Borups Victory (Sweden), Dream Mine (Sweden), Diva Ek (Italy), Gio Cash (Netherlands), Keep Going (France), Don Fanucci Zet (Sweden), Charron (Norway), Fine Manners (Finland), Luke the Spook (Sweden).<\/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 - Luke the Spook!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lyvNlCMvjG0?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>\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\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00f6pt efter ett flygplan under andra v\u00e4rldskriget.Och det \u00e4r, om inte en bomb, s\u00e5 \u00e5tminstone en knall att sista h\u00e4sten in i \u00e5rets Elitloppet \u00e4r Luke the Spook. \u2013 Luke the Spook har varit bra, men det k\u00e4nns \u00e4nd\u00e5 inte som vi sett hela hans register. Kolgjinis \u00e4r dessutom en x-faktor som \u00e4r extra f\u00f6rtjusta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7032","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\/7032","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=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7039,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions\/7039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitloppet.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}