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ating a potentially too-tight layout.“ We understand all parties need clarity about the future,” says Bengt-Ove Hedborg, vice chairman of Svensk Galopp, which has delegated contractor management to Skånska Fältrittklubben( SFK), one of its three member associations.“ We recently launched a new strategy for Swedish racing in which creating a new racecourse in southern Sweden plays an important role. We see this as essential not only for the future of Swedish flat racing but also for Scandinavian flat racing as a whole.” Kathrine Heiberg and Håkan Birger, chairman of SFK, envision stables being built on demand, with a fourmeter-wide training track inside a turf course. Unlike Jägersro, which is dirt-only, no dirt track is planned at Bara.“ A dirt track requires flat ground and daily maintenance,” explains Håkan Birger.“ I think it is too expensive to have both surfaces.” Regarding the deadline, Kathrine Heiberg maintains that“ it is still possible,” adding that“ if everything goes according to plan, and if we start construction in summer 2026, we could be ready by January 1, 2028.” That may seem ambitious, but Swedish flat racing has seen rapid construction before. Bro Park replaced Täby racecourse in Stockholm in 2016 and its construction began just a few years earlier. Though not a direct model, and with a long way still to go for the Bara project,
the swift arrival of Bro Park can be seen as an optimistic precedent for those concerned about the future of Swedish flat racing.
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By Cécile Adonias
A NEW HORIZON FOR MACIEJ KACPRZYK!
Settled since a year just a stone’ s throw from Abu Dhabi, Maciej Kacprzyk, the new private trainer for Al Ain Stud, talks to us about his journey and his new life.
Maciej caught the horse bug from his father. His parents are engineers, and they live in the city in Poland. His father bought an Arabian thoroughbred which he rode and competed with in endurance competitions. That was all it took for Maciej to want to follow in his father’ s footsteps. He started riding ponies at around 7 years old and began endurance rid-
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