Viking Kronos article added

“I don’t give a shit if you race in pink, do the business” … He may just be the best stallion Europe has ever seen.

He set several world records, is one of few horses to beat Varenne fair and square and went on to become one of the best stallions the world has ever seen. To his trainer, though, Viking Kronos was more than just a spectacular racehorse and stallion. He was everything. “God has created him, he’s a phenomenon. Then I have been given the great honor of taking care of him, for which I am eternally thankful”, Kolgjini said after the horse’s win in the E3 final in 1998.

When Mosaique Face impressively beat Maven and Papagayo E to win in 1.09,0 (1:51f) in Gävle one week prior to the 2015 Elitlopp, the interviewer asked trainer-driver Lutfi Kolgjini “surely this is the best horse you have ever trained?” expecting a positive answer. Kolgjini, however, immediately responded “not even close, that honor belongs to Viking Kronos.”

Exactly how high did Kolgjini rate Viking Kronos? The 1998 Hambletonian was won by Muscles Yankee who was the outstanding 3-year-old in the US crop, but Kolgjini wasn’t exactly fazed.

Read the rest of the article here. The horse that God Created by Lisa Harkema.