On top of that we had a friend and her horse stay with us last week as they came down to Stockholm to race in the V75 Finals (nation wide trot series) held Saturday. She gave the driver one specific order on how she wanted the horse drove, -"do NOT race inside and get stuck, we havn´t traveled close to 800 miles to chickenrace, I want the horse tired after the race!" The horse was in excellent condition, super fit and had a great chance at the 200.000 Sek ($35.000) check. What do you know, the catch "driver?" raced third inside and never saw the light of day!! The horse looked great and didn´t even get a chance to show his stuff!! Needless to say our friend Kia was steaming after the race!
El Sueco, (nr 9) third inside at the finishline!Winner in the 1.600.000 Sek ($240.000) Kriterium was the favourite, Raja Mirchi & trainer/driver Lutfi Kolgjini. The horse looked awsome and set a new Swedish record (1.13,8 a) on his way to the 1.600.000 Sek ($240.000) first prize.
Raja Mirchi crossing the finishline
On a less happy note, the prices at the yearling sales was down 30% from last year! Not quite as bad as I predicted but pretty close. Out of 624 yearlings, 85 were scratched (wonder why!), 125 were bought back by the breeder, 54 didn´t even get a bid and were thus unsold!
Didn´t get to watch the cowhorse finals as I was working more or less the entire Sunday but here are the results.
NRCHA Futurity result:
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