V85, V86 and a track record

Trav & galopp 3 November 2026: V85 will be decided at the Bergsåker racecourse in Sundsvall on Saturday, with 42 million SEK in the jackpot pool, while V86 is shared between Jägersro and Solvalla on Wednesday. Over the weekend, Blizzard Diamant set a track record at Bjerke, and at Gävletravet, a driver and a horse owner were injured in an accident.

V85 at Bergsåker – 42 million kronor in the jackpot

V85 (a betting format involving eight races, in other words eight contests) is run at the racetrack (the arena for harness racing) Bergsåker in Sundsvall on Saturday 7 November. Ahead of the round, 42 million kronor is in the jackpot (saved prize pool) and betting closes at 15.00. Trav365’s V85 tips with Robert Lipovac single out 12 Svarte Petter in V85-5 and 6 Youans Son in V85-7 as two “spik”; a spik is a horse tipped as the sole winner of a race. Trav365

V86 at Jägersro and Solvalla

V86 (a betting format involving 8 races) is run on Wednesday 4 November at Jägersro and Solvalla. The betting deadline is 20.30. Trav365's V86 tip with Mario Lipovac highlights Mattias Djuse's 4 The Pope (V86-2) as his first pick and describes the round as betting-friendly. Trav365

Results: Track record and French victories

In V85-7 at Bjerke, 3 Blizzard Diamant won with driver Robin Bakker in Axel Jensens Minneslopp. The victory earned 300 000 Norwegian kroner and a new track record of 1.09,4. Trav365

At Vincennes in France, Nikita des Charmes and Paul-Philippe Ploquin won Prix Louis Tillaye (€120.000) for three-year-olds under saddle, meaning when the horse is ridden in the race. Sulkysport

In Årjäng, home trainer Kristian Lindberg won both the driving and training championships as the track wrapped up its season. Sulkysport

The accident at Gävletravet

An accident occurred in V65-2 at Gävletravet on Saturday evening. About 1 000 meters into the race, the horse Mare Mareh, driven by Lukas L Svedlund, was taken onto the safety track and overturned, colliding with One Bullet and Kingdome Come. Mare Mareh could not be saved.

The driver Karl-Arne Nordström, behind Kingdome Come, had to go to hospital together with a horse owner who came out onto the track and had the wing of the ambulance car land on his shoulder. Both have suffered rib fractures and are bruised but awake, and they will remain in hospital for a few days, according to Gävletravet's sports manager Mathias Gustafsson. Trav365

Horses, drivers and tracks

Filip Lindholm, 30, is a harness racing driver and tells Trav365 that he felt “seriously bad, mentally speaking”. He drove his last race at Bergsåker on 4 January and disappeared from the sport, but made a comeback after 8 months and has enjoyed success ever since. Trav365

Alf ”Jesus” Johansson, 76, amateur trainer, made his final start at Axevalla with the 14-year-old mare (she-horse) Charming Evy Sisu, who ran in her 104th race. After 50 years in harness racing, he says it is over “now, at least temporarily”. Trav365

Gimpanzee is back at the top of the Swedish stallion rankings, averaging 61,932 kronor per start, while Tactical Landing is second with 34,171 kronor. Sulkysport

In brief

• Daniel Redén leads the Swedish trainer rankings with SEK 1.942.053 ahead of Daniel Wäjersten with two months left of the year, and the Breeders Crown on 14 November could be decisive. Sulkysport
• Jörgen Westholm’s Ready Star is entered in Thursday’s Prix d’Avranches (€59.000) at Vincennes and will start from the front in the 2.100-metre race. Sulkysport
• Travtränarnas Riksförbund (TR) is abolishing the position of general secretary, and the board will take over the duties from November 2027. Sulkysport
• Jeffrey Snyder bought Coffeeshop Hanover, Maryland’s full sister, for $800.000 on opening day in Harrisburg. Sulkysport