Ake Svanstedt

Reports from Sweden indicate that 2021 Hambletonian winner Captain Corey has been injured and will not race again this season.

Captain Corey crushed his competition in the 96th Hambletonian on Saturday (August 7) at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, N.J., cutting the mile under intense pressure and prevailing to w...

One of the trotters that competed in both heats of the 2021 Elitlopp on Sunday (May 30) is headed to North America and into the barn of one of harness racing's top conditioners.

Ake Svanstedt has only one favourite memory of now-retired trotter Six Pack.

A stakes-packed card of harness racing on Saturday (Oct. 5) at The Red Mile featured established superstars and perfect freshmen in a number of lucrative events, with jaw-dropping speed and world rec...

Six Pack has just missed in a number of major stakes this year but the four-year-old showed his affinity for the red clay in Lexington with another world record performance in the $145,000 Allerage Fa...

Trainer-driver Åke Svanstedt swept the New York Sire Stakes events for two-year-old trotting fillies on Monday (Aug. 12) at Monticello Raceway, with Seventimesalady and Miss Jubilation proving tops in...

Cavill Hanover came off the stakes trail and promptly wired his rivals in a career-best 1:55 to take the $16,000 trotting feature on Wednesday afternoon (July 10) at Harrah’s Philadelphia.

With a returning Dan Patch Award winner (Six Pack) and multiple world record holder (Plunge Blue Chip) among his four-year-old trotters, it’s no surprise to find trainer Åke Svanstedt with a horse tie...

On Saturday night, May 18 at the Meadowlands, Ake Svanstedt–serving as both trainer and driver–won both divisions of the first leg of the Graduate Series for four-year-olds on the trot with Six Pack a...