Sweden Cup elims complete, posts drawn

Three eliminations of the Sweden Cup (each elim for 100,000SEK to winner, 1640 meters autostart) are in the books and each was a ding dong harness racing battle.

The first elim went to 1.11.2kr timed Invictus Madiba (5m Booster Winner-Batignolles-Baccarat du Pont) with Bjorn Goop the pilot for Ecurie Hunter Valley and trainer Tomas Malmqvist. Off at 5.44/1 the winner was up in the final strides to score his first victory in his last 24 starts over the past two seasons and third victory in 44 career starts. Bepi Bi (6m Donato Hanover-Lorraine Bi-Lemon Dra) was second for trainer/driver Alessandro Gocciadoro at 1.76/1 odds. Third was Axel Ruda (6g Formula One-Michelle Ruda-Scarlet Knight) with Ulf Ohlsson at the lines.

The second elim saw 4.41/2 Iceland Falls (7f Iceland-Uppsala Kronos-Donato Hanover) score in 1.10.4kr with Magnus A. Djuse aboard for trainer Fredrik Wallin. This was her third victory in eight 2023 starts and 15th win in 61 career appearances. She defeated Benguriin Jet (6m Maharajah-Love Me Tender-Supergill) that rallied from last late in the last turn for trainer/driver Gocciadoro at 2.48/1 favorite odds. He went four wide to get past Eclat de Gloire. Finishing third was Night Brodde (8m Up And Quick-**Nagaika0Viking Kronos) for trainer/driver Conrad Lugauer at 6/1 odds.

Elim three of the Sweden Cup went to 1.10.1kr timed Four Guys Dream (7g Dream Vacation-JS Annabell-Exploit Caf) at 4//1 odds and reined by Stefan Persson for trainer Hakan K, Persson. He won for the 17th time in 58 career starts. Callmethebreeze (5m Trixton-Gilly LB-Supergill) was parked the distance and held third for Gabriele Gelormini and owner/trainer Philippe Allaire at 4.1/1 odds. Home third was the US bred Synergy (6m Father Patrick-Southwind Sauna-Muscles Yankee) at 7.9/1 reined by Dexter Dunn for trainer Gocciadoro.

The posts were then drawn:

ATG, Solvalla, Veikkaus.fi harness racing trots files/photos

by Thomas H. Hicks, for Harnesslink