It should not really work.
To buy a three-year-old chestnut for eight thousand who a few years later are the winners in a V75 race.
But that is exactly what happened to Malin Bylund from Kovland.
- I saw an ad and it was enough to see the head.
I would have that horse, says Malin on her farm in Säter, Kovland.
She reduced the price to eight thousand kronor.
Wanted a buddy
- I thought I wanted something to do.
A friend quite simply.
Got to do.
Then it immediately felt that there was speed in him.
But the first attempts to start in real trotting races went like this.
When the start went, Rubus ran to the wrong hole.
- It took three races before he started running in the right direction.
But then things went better.
Proud "math"
When Malin now looks at old trotting results, she herself is impressed.
- Yes, it's absolutely incredible to see.
He is so good, she says.
Aim for a million
Rubus has now run in just over nine hundred thousand kronor.
And this summer he won his first V75 race.
- He is eleven years old now and can compete until he is 15. The goal is that he should then have run in a million.
It's not so bad after all for a horse that only cost eight thousand.