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EAGLE LUCK Canada’s FASTEST SON OF CAMLUCK JULY 19, 2008 $85,000 CLASSIC SERIES AT THE MEADOWLANDS :26.4 :53.1 1:21.1 1:48.3 EAGLE LUCK takes his record defeating Won The West, Western Ace, Total Truth, Mr Feelgood, Palone Ranger, Western Shore and Casimir Camotion pacing his own last quarter in :27 in a 1:48.3 mile. • Winner of $250,000 Molson Pace in 1:51.1h over • At three won an elimination of the Confederation Western Fair’s half-mile track. Cup in 1:54.1h. • Captured a $135,002 Simcoe Stake division at • Multiple OSS winner defeating the likes of Mohawk Racetrack. Mister Big. • Won the $154,400 Clearwater Cup Final at Hiawatha • Finished second in OSS Super Final at three. Horse Park by 7 lengths in 1:50, a new track record. • Paced 9 miles in 1:50 or faster. EAGLE LUCK p,2,1:54s, 3,1:50s, 1:48.3-1:51.1s ($1,165,604) Camluck – Duncans Artsplace – Artsplace “From my perspective, he always gave me the supreme effort and was always passing horses at the finish line.” …driver JOHN CAMPBELL Photo by New Image Media SERVICE FEE - $2,500 Multiple foal discount. 9661 Trew Road, R.R.#1, Campbellcroft, ON L0A 1B0 (905) 797-2124 • Fax (905) 797-2081 Website: www.kendalhills.com • Email: [email protected] MAHARAJAH The Trotter That Never Tires Leading Swedish trainer Stefan Hultman has very high hopes for his trotter Maharajah calling the Viking Kronos five-year-old the best trotter he has ever trained. By Robert Okpu • Photos by Kanal 75 / Stockholm Top Swedish trainer Stefan Hultman has won the only thing that surprised those present was how the prestigious Elitlopp, beating world class trotters anyone at all could have voted against him. like Scarlet Knight and Victory Tilly. He has also won The whole of the Swedish racing community is the Prix de France in a world record time, defeating already looking forward to the probable super- a superstar like Jag de Bellouet. match in the Elitlopp in May: Lucky Jim versus But there is no hesitation whatsoever in his Maharajah. voice when he says: “Maharajah is the best trotter I Stefan Hultman is also looking forward to the have ever trained, by a wide margin!” summer. The five-year-old Viking Kronos son Maharajah “I know that Maharajah is definitely capable of is all the buzz on the Swedish trotting scene right trotting 1:52 on the outside of Lucky Jim on now. Solvalla’s 1,000 metre track without any problem at When the horse was voted Four Year Old of the all,” Hultman says. year at the annual trotting awards in Gothenburg in Having said that, although Maharajah’s sheer January he received 99.4 per cent of the vote and brute force has rendered those willing to challenge MAHARAJAH – THE TROTTER THAT NEVER TIRES him on the track in 2008 and 2009 as run Maharajah's outstanding showing in 2009 led to his nearly unanimous choice as over victims, it should be noted that for a Sweden's Four Year Old of the season as he received 99.4 per cent of the vote horse that his trainer claims is ready to leading some to wonder who would vote against him. conquer the world, Maharajah’s CV is still a bit thin. His reputation is mostly based on his emerged for the Derby: Yield Boko (also speed. seemingly enormous potential and the by Viking Kronos), a solid wire to wire win- Maharajah’s driver Orjan Kihlstrom ease with which he has won his races and ner who was much quicker off the gate shared those thoughts. After a safe start, above all, on one shattering performance than Maharajah in his races, more consis- he advanced his horse to the outside of at Jagersro in Sweden on September 6 last tent and with bags of speed. Yield Boko and soon Maharajah’s flowing year which may be viewed by clicking here. Yield Boko came to the Derby with stride was forcing Yield Boko to trot faster It was the Swedish Trotting Derby, the eight straight wins against good opposi- than Goop was comfortable with. biggest race for Swedish born four-year- tion and was undefeated at that point in Both horses were ripping off quarter olds, offering 1.6 million Swedish crowns 2009. Could Maharjah, with his possibly times as if it was a sprint race and Goop to the winner ($210,000 US). shaky form, really take this horse down? realized that he was stuck between a rock Normally Maharajah, who as a three- The punters could not make up their and a hard place. Giving up the lead was year-old had easily defeated the best in minds and the horses were sent off as joint equal to giving up the race and quite the crop in the most important show- favourites in the race. Yield Boko went for unthinkable, but standing up to Mahara- down, the Swedish Kriterium, would have the lead as expected, and driver Bjorn jah was likely to come at a heavy price. been odds on favourite in the Derby but Goop set his mind on another wire to wire The die was already cast. Goop held his summer had raised some doubts. victory. Maharajah off as long as he could, but on He had lost his only head-to-head But what happened next will never the far stretch Yield Boko was already battle with Stig H. Johansson’s German- be forgotten by the spectators present at beginning to struggle. Maharajah’s stride born star Nu Pagadi, albeit sick according Jagersro that Sunday. was even more flowing than it had been to rumours, and some people were begin- The Swedish Trotting Derby is raced at the beginning of the race and when ning to question whether Maharajah over 2,640 meters and the extra five- both horses came into the turn it was all really was the trotting monster that Ste- eighths on top of the mile were definitely over. fan Hultman had been talking about all in Maharajah’s favour and Stefan Hultman Yield Boko caved in completely, and it along. was counting on the strength and stamina was obvious he was not even going to And a formidable challenger had of his horse to outweigh Yield Boko’s come second or third for that matter. 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The winning kilometre time of 1.12.8 Maharajah is something else!” first time this year at the end of April or (1:57.1 mile rate) completely shattered the Stefan Hultman’s big dream for the beginning of May, and if everything previous race record. Maharajah is the Prix d’Amerique 2011. looks fine then we may very well go for Still Maharajah had not been pushed “There is so much left to improve in the Elitlopp,” says Stefan. to apply himself to the limit. this horse, his potential is scary. But I have “He needs to improve his technique a “There were fractions left, he could been very, very careful with him. If I had bit, he runs and shifts like we say in Swe- have gone even faster,” Hultman says. been a North American trainer of course I den, his gait is a bit French and it comes The next time Maharajah showed up would have had to prepare him for the from his granddam’s French-blooded sire was in Tammerfors in Finland some weeks Hambletonian as a three-year-old, which Tibur.” later, where he convincingly won the is what it is all about. But with this horse I Hultman believes that the mile trip in European Trotting Derby by many lengths, am in no hurry. the Elitlopp, while not ideal, is not a big completely humiliating the French horses “He has won the biggest races for the problem. that came to challenge him. three-year olds and four-year olds in Swe- “I do not have any horse in my stable Even though Maharajah never met den, and this season we are prepared to that can beat Maharajah over any dis- older horses during his three or four-year compete against anyone.” tance.