Calgary Games
Readly Express Swe-Olympia Tilly Swe-Lindy Lane USA
By Peter Wharton
1st July, 2026
Acclaimed as the “best trotter ever bred in Sweden”, Calgary Games was undefeated in 10 appearances in his homeland as a three and four-year-old.
Unbeaten in three starts at three, Calgary Games took his career to a whole new level at four, winning his only six appearances and he was subsequently voted the 2021 Swedish Horse of the Year and 4YO of the Year.
He put an exclamation mark on his career when he captured the $800,000 Swedish Trotting Derby at Jagersro, covering the 2640 metres in a 1:55.2 rate – a new world record for a four-year-old trotter on a five-eighths track.
One month later, Calgary Games defeated the top four-year-olds in Europe in the Group 1 $400,000 European Trotting Derby at the Aby track in Sweden.
The total margin of victory in his 10 winning appearances was an incredible 51 lengths!
Retired to stud, Calgary Games served 33 mares in North America in 2022 and left 24 foals, of which 18 have started and nine are winners with seven in 2:00.
He has served full books in his first three seasons at Menhammar Stuteri.
With his oldest crop racing as three-year-olds, Calgary Games has made somewhat of a spectacular start to his siring career in Sweden. His progeny have had 230 starts, have around a 20 percent winning ratio and they have earned $1.18 million in stakemoney.
Calgary Games was the second leading first season stallion last year and is ranked second on this season’s sires’ list to Maharajah.
Among his standout performers are Busy Miss Lissy Busy (1:53.6), a Stakes-winning juvenile in America last year, the Group 1 European victor Cruiser and Icy Conditions, who has banked over one million SEK in earnings.
One of the first crop of the dual Swedish Horse of the Year and sensational sire Readly Express, Calgary Games is out of the dual Swedish Breeders Crown winner Olympia Tilly and is a close relative of Victory Tilly, Sweden’s richest trotter of all-time with a bankroll of $6 million and a world champion and twice European Grand Circuit Champion.
The service fee for Calgary Games is to be confirmed - frozen semen only payable on live foal. His progeny will be eligible for the Vicbred Super Series and the NZ Sires Stakes.