Don Fanucci Zet tenth horse ready for this year’s Elitloppet

Wednesday’s harness racing victory will take him back to Solvalla on the last Sunday in May. Don Fanucci Zet (Hard Livin) is the tenth horse ready for this year’s edition of Elitloppet.

– It’s fantastic that former Elitloppet winner Don Fanucci Zet is in such good shape and it will be great fun to see what he can do this year, says Anders Malmrot.

Don Fanucci Zet won Elitloppet 2021 when he sprinted past all his competitors after a whirlwind finish and Wednesday’s victory means that he will now participate in the world’s largest sprint race for the fifth time in his career.

He fulfilled the big favorite in the Elitloppet qualifier, Meadow Road’s race, during Wednesday evening at Solvalla and easily took home the win and secured a direct place in Elitloppet.

From the lead, Don Fanucci Zet won in a time of 1:09.8 over 1640 meters with auto start.
– He feels fantastic, said driver Örjan Kihlström after the race, he can’t feel better than he does now.

The nine-year-old stallion is approaching seventeen million kronor in earnings so far in his career. In addition to the Elitlopp success in 2021, which is the biggest victory of his career, he has taken three more Group I wins: SprinterMästaren 2020, Norrbottens Stora Pris 2022 and Hugo Åbergs Memorial 2022.

Don Fanucci Zet is trainer Daniel Redén’s second horse in this year’s Elitlopp, Francesco Zet has already been invited. There are now six places left for Elitloppet 2025.

Facts Don Fanucci Zet
Age: 9 years
Gender: Stallion
Sire: Hard Livin
Dam: Kissed By The West
Starter/Result: 58 (29-7-7)
Earned: 16,663,913 SEK
Record: 1.08.7 autostart (1609m)
Owner: Stall Zet (Daniel Redén)
Trainer: Daniel Redén
Groom: Ellinor Wennebring
Breeder: Brixton Medical AB (Daniel Redén)
Nationality: Swedish

Elitloppet is the main attraction during the Elitloppet weekend which is arranged at Solvalla in Stockholm on 23-25 May 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 meet in a final where the winner receives five million SEK.

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)

From Elitloppet