Ake Svanstedt

Ake Svanstedt has had a lot of success at Plainridge Park over the last couple of years and his trotters have made quite an impression in Massachusetts.

Swedish-born trotter Gone Baby Gone never had the opportunity to fulfill the potential trainer Åke Svanstedt saw in the filly at the age of two. Five years later, though, she is making her presence kn...

Breakfast With The Babies continued at The Meadowlands on the morning of Saturday, June 17 under perfect conditions with the Svanstedt stable sending out four winners on the morning.

It is not often Ake Svanstedt can do something he’s never done before, but that might be the case on Saturday, June 3 at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Svanstedt could have the race-time betting favourite in a...

"I have trained horses for 40 years, and driven a lot of horses, but it’s just a few horses that have had this instinct. She has it."

Ake Svanstedt has campaigned some of harness racing's top trotters over the past decade, boasting a successful record with horses developed in Europe that can adapt to the North American racing style.

Joe Holloway got some help from several horseflies to get Ammo to the races this season, which resulted in one of the biggest upsets in Breeders Crown history this past Friday (Oct. 28) at Woodbine Mo...

The $810,000 Breeders Crown for freshman trotting fillies was billed as a face off between Special Way and Righteous Resolve and it certainly lived up to expectations resulting in a track and Canadian...

"I really haven’t found a bad quality about him...He’s a pleasure to drive. He does everything right."

Since the inception of the Hambletonian Oaks in 1971 as the filly companion event to the Hambletonian Stakes for three-year-old trotters, two trainers — Jan Johnson and Jimmy Takter — have won both ra...

Rebuff, who won one of last week’s two Hambletonian Stakes eliminations and is unbeaten in three starts this season, drew post one for Saturday’s $1 million final and was made the 9-5 morning line fav...

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