On Saturday, Alladin Bro surprised for the third consecutive February in the T75 start. Now the win was a huge bombshell for the players, because the rune’s multiplier was more than a hundred. For one player, Alladin Bro’s victory marked a solid day of reckoning.
- Alladin Bro’s victory was one of the biggest surprises in the history of the 75 game.
- The player from Kokkola mainly took most of Saturday’s ravi pot with that victory.
- Alladin Bro’s victory was only half a surprise to his owner-trainer.
Jutta Litmanen Bro, a gelding trained and owned by Alladin, has been quite a nightmare horse for gamblers.
Two years ago it won the T75 start in Mikkeli with a coefficient of 20.8, a year ago the same in Mikkeli with a coefficient of 40.5 and on Saturday in Kuopio, Alladin Bro pulled off one of the biggest surprises in the history of the 75 game by racing to victory with a coefficient of 107.30.
In the T75 game, Allad’s Bro’s game share was only 0.3 percent, and it made a devastating mark on the coupon stack. With the seven correct result, you finally got more than 48,500 euros. According to Veikkaus’ press release, the seven correct result was only in two games, one of which was played only in the highest winning category, in which case the winning share is 2.5 times.
The biggest pot went to an online player from Kokkola, who won a total of 121,453 euros with a system that cost 288 euros.
The second seven-correct result was in a ten-part group game by an online player from Mikkeli, of which the creator of the game had five parts. The creator of the game redeemed a good 26,000 euros, and the same amount was distributed to the five who bought a share.
Surprised and not surprised
As usual with big surprises, the key to Alladin Bro’s victory was a perfectly executed run. Director Maria Kurttila hid the gelding in the line of the inside track from the start, from where Alladin Bro got to the second track in a tight lap and at the beginning of the final straight to the free lanes at the count’s time. In the end, Allad’s Bro was clearly the number one by a sharp keel.
For owner-coach Litmase, the victory was and was not a surprise.
– When the run went so well, the victory was not surprising. However, the run rarely goes that well, and even now it really depended on the meters that there was enough space early enough. Maria did say that she waited the whole last lap for the hatches to open, Litmanen describes.
Getting to know each other from horse trading
Kurttila, 36, who lives in Ii, has been quite successful in recent years, especially at raves in northern Finland, but the 75 win was the first in Kurttila’s career. Litmanen and Kurttila, who live in Kuopio’s Maaninga, started working together a couple of years ago.
– I used to work as a food judge and I knew Maria’s father Juha Päkkilän of judicial districts. A couple of years ago, we had a horse for sale, and Juha then contacted us and asked about the horse, Litmanen recalls.
– That horse became a shop, and I got to know Maria when they picked up the horse from us. Since then, we have been in regular and irregular contact.
Kurttila was under the reins of Alladin Bro for the first time last fall.
– Ylivieska had a suitable series, but I didn’t really like the range of instructors. That’s when I came up with the idea of informing Maria, who immediately claimed the win. Since then, Maria has driven several times.
Both Litmanen and Kurttila enjoy raves in addition to their day jobs. Litmanen works in a drug testing company, Kurttila is a hospital physicist. On Saturday in Kuopio, Alladin Bro was Kurttila’s only driver.
– Alladin’s Bro is kind of careful about drivers and kind of not. It’s nice and good to drive, but you also have to know how to work with it. You can’t make too hasty decisions with it, Litmanen describes.
Power output in order
Alladin’s Bro, or Allu more at home, is Litmanen’s only coach. The duo’s collaboration began in the spring of 2020. At first Litmanen leased the gelding’s competition rights to himself, but for the last couple of years it has been entirely Litmanen’s.
– I already knew when I went to test drive the horse that it had ingredients, but there have been a lot of problems, Litmanen states.
– It had stomach problems, and in addition there were problems with the functioning of the hind end. It basically produced power from the front rather than the rear, where a trotting horse engine should be, and it wasn’t optimal.
Alladin Bro’s results improved with different training conditions.
– It has been trained on a very soft surface, on which it is forced to use itself in a different way. It has also been ridden a lot, which has helped in finding a balance, Litmanen lists.
Although Alladin Bro has been very successful at times, the gelding’s performance level has also varied significantly.
– Ice polo tracks suit it much better than sand tracks, which it tends to struggle with. There has also been a fault in myself, because competing has certainly not always been the most sensible, but Allu has had really tough starts.
The trainer is realistic about the continuation of the nine-year-old gelding.
– Even though there was a victory now, its career is starting to end. It has so many joint problems that I am prepared for this spring to be its last on the racetrack. However, we will see according to the situation.
Next, Allad’s road to Bro, Litmanen and Kurttila will take you to Sweden’s Boden anyway on Friday.
– Maria was going there with her own horse, and I informed Allunk there too, when there happened to be a good series available. Competing in Sweden has always been one of my dreams, and now that too is coming true, Litmanen rejoices.