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For many of Menhammar’s horses, it is possible to
follow the theme of their name back several generations Duty Free (b. 1974) Liquorish (b.1982) Bourbon Eyes (b. 1994) Cognac (b. 1995) Daiquiri (b.1996) Roaring Drunk (b. 2010) Scotch Whisky (b. 2011) Under the Table (b. 2013) Woozy (b. 2014) Anything Goes (b. 2015) Margareta with her Hall of Fame statue at the Harness Racing Museum in Goshen. Better Tomorrow (b. 2016) Centi Liter (b. 2017) Down the Hatch (b. 2018) HALL OF FAME x 2 Årjäng and Goshen How to name A TROTTER? If anyone knows how to name a trotter, it’s Margareta WalleniusKleberg. After all, she has named each one of Menhammar’s foals – some 3,000 since 1948. E very crop of foals receives a name beginning with same letter from A to W. Margareta is currently making her way through the alphabet for the fourth time and 2019’s foals have names beginning with E. So far, the greatest challenge was to name 98 foals beginning with the letter. Margareta chooses the names herself, inspired by sources such as menus, crosswords, dictionaries and a dose of humour. Each foal’s name is inspired by its mother, so the foals of the mare A Gift from Heaven were given names such as From Above, Halle Luja, Eternal, Promised Land and Manna. If you are a real trotting fan, you can amuse yourself by attempting to figure out the mother of a particular horse found in the start list for a race. Reality Pride is the mother of Who’s Who, son of Maharajah, a name that proved to have a double meaning given that father and son are so alike that it is hard to tell them apart. CLEVER NAMES MARE • Hot Pants • Quarantine • Halle Luja • Not Yet • Overworked • Patina • Talk of the Town • Sleeping Beauty • Oink • Super Witch • Smokeslikeachimney FOAL • Undies • Alone • Vicar • Alittlebitlater • Dead Tired • Aging Well • Common Gossip • Don’t Disturb • Fat Pig • Ghost Story • Addiction In 2017, Margareta Wallenius-Kleberg became the first woman and the first Swede to be inducted into the United States Harness Racing Hall of Fame. Margareta had already been inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Nordic Trotting Museum in 2013. “I HOPE THAT I can live up to the expectations that go with being a hall-of-famer. As the first woman to be inducted, I also hope that I can be an inspiration to all of the girls and young women out there,” said Margareta, who received a standing ovation from the guests at the induction ceremony at the Harness Racing Museum in Goshen, New York, in July 2018. IN AN ARTICLE published in Harness Racing Update, Dean Hoffman, himself an inductee into the Communicators Hall of Fame in 2006, wrote the following regarding Margareta’s induction to the Hall of Fame: “In her quiet, behind-the-scenes I HOPE I CAN BE AN INSPIRATION style, Margareta has contributed immeasurably to the world of trotting both in Europe and in North America. She does it not for the glory but because she simply loves the game. She loves the game a lot. And she wants others to love it as she does. We’ll surely never know how many people she has encouraged and assisted to share her passion for the sport.” Both of these awards highlight Margareta’s enormous dedication to and significant efforts on behalf of trotting, both internationally and in Sweden. Thanks to her many contacts, Margareta has ensured that Swedish breeders have benefited from many of the world’s best stallions at stud, which have been made available for Swedish breeders, among them Menhammar Stud Farm. OUR WAY MENHAMMAR 5 PHOTO: MENHAMMAR