The title of the most successful horse of the year was fought until the last day of the year. In the end, All Star Mint won first place, winning twice in the last four days of the year.
On the last day of the year, Jarmo Kuusela got to celebrate All Star Mint’s 17th win of the season. Satu Pitkänen / Finnish Hippos
In the end, All Star Mint won 17 times and became the winner of the year, overtaking Furiosa, who had held the title for a long time. Even at Christmas, Furiosa was one win ahead of All Star Mint, and when it had more second places, in a tie, Furiosa would have taken the title of the year’s most successful.
On Wednesday, however, All Star Mint won in Vermo and joined Furiosa to 16 wins. Furiosa had the opportunity to decide the race on the penultimate day of the year, i.e. Friday in Turku, when the mare ran her last start of the year. However, it was second in the hard-level open group. However, the jostling could also stay, because Furiosa only got half of the space.
Furiosa’s seventh runner-up of the season knew anyway that if All Star Mint didn’t win on the last day of the year, Furiosa would be number one.
All Star Mint sought its 17th victory of the season in Lahti, where the trotters originally planned to be run in Vermo had been moved. Due to the heat wave, however, it was not possible to race in Vermo, so it was decided to move the competition to Lahti the day before.
The goal camera decided
That’s how tight it got. Jarmo Saarela’s All Star Mint reaches for first place in the middle before Hannu Torvinen’s Delightful Moment and Henna Halmee’s Ronaldo Malibu.
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The most victorious horse of the year could be excited right up to the finish line of the last race of the year, All Star Mint, because the gelding finished in a really tight front of three horses. However, in the battle of the final meters, All Star Mint showed why it is the most successful cruiser of the year in Finland, and narrowly won the race.
The owner, breeder and trainer of All Star Mint is from Gotholland Jarmo Kuusela. The last win of the season was driven by All Star Mint Jarmo Saarelabut the vast majority of the season’s first places are Tapio Perttunen guided by.
The five-year-old All Star Mint was overall the strongest riser of the season. It ran a total of 28 starts, of which it won 17 and was in the top three a total of 23 times. Ruuna earned 55,350 euros during the year, while in her entire previous career her winnings totaled a good 15,000 euros and a total of six wins
– I don’t know how it’s possible, but it’s developing and developing all the time. You don’t know where the limits are, Jarmo Kuusela described in Saturday’s winner’s interview.
– It is an impossibly good horse. I always praise it, we have such a unity in our eyes with it. It does notice that I am satisfied with it.