{"id":28400,"date":"2023-01-15T21:22:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T20:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/constant-van-paescchen-and-diaz-du-thot-open-the-2023-season-with-a-win-in-the-csi2-grand-prix-presented-by-dammann-reitplatz-u-sportplatzbau-gmbh-in-oliva-nova\/"},"modified":"2023-01-15T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T20:22:36","slug":"constant-van-paescchen-and-diaz-du-thot-open-the-2023-season-with-a-win-in-the-csi2-grand-prix-presented-by-dammann-reitplatz-u-sportplatzbau-gmbh-in-oliva-nova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/constant-van-paescchen-and-diaz-du-thot-open-the-2023-season-with-a-win-in-the-csi2-grand-prix-presented-by-dammann-reitplatz-u-sportplatzbau-gmbh-in-oliva-nova\/","title":{"rendered":"Constant Van Paescchen and Diaz du Thot open the 2023-season with a win in the CSI2 Grand Prix presented by Dammann Reitplatz- u. Sportplatzbau GmbH in Oliva Nova"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2023-season has kicked off at the Mediterranean Equestrian Tour in Oliva Nova, Spain. The first week of Spring MET I 2023 concluded on Sunday with the CSI2* 1.45m Grand Prix presented by\u00a0Dammann Reitplatz- u. Sportplatzbau GmbH\u00a0and it was Belgium\u2019s Constant Van Paesschen and the 10-year-old\u00a0Diaz du Thot (Ready Boy des Forets ‘Hn’ x Diams du Grasset) that took the win after an exciting jump-off.<\/p>\n

A total of 16 horse-and-rider-combinations from the 66 pairs at start cleared the first-round track which counted 13 obstacles and 16 efforts with a time allowed of 77 seconds \u2013 and joined the deciding jump-off.<\/p>\n

With a time of 41.69 seconds in the jump-off, Van Paescchen and Diaz du Thot took the win ahead of\u00a0Abdelkebir Ouaddar\u00a0(MAR) and\u00a0Istanbull vh Ooievaarshof (Casall x Calido I) \u2013 who had to settle for the runner-up position when the clock stopped on\u00a042.45 for the Moroccan rider. Mariano Martinez Bastida (ESP) and Quark de Preuilly Z (Quaprice Boimargot Quincy x Cento) took the third place for the host nation with a time of\u00a042.66, while Gudrun Patteet (BEL) and Sea Coast Donna Z (Diamant de Semilly x C Indoctro) finished fourth in\u00a043.28 and J\u00f6rne Sprehe (GER)\u00a0fifth in\u00a044.11 aboard Hot Easy (Andiamo Z x Otangelo).<\/p>\n

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Oliva, Spain – 2023 January 15: Gold tour 1m45 – Grand Prix during CSI Mediterranean Equestrian Spring Tour 1
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\u201cShe is the type of horse that any rider would be happy to have in the\u00a0stable,\u201d Van Paesschen said about Diaz du Thot. \u201cShe has won so much, and she has a fantastic mentality. I have been riding her since she was six, and we have built a very strong bond together. She fights for me, and I know her \u2013 she is very special.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I made the difference in the roll-back to number three,\u201d Van Paesschen said about his winning jump-off. \u201cMy horse does not have the biggest stride, even though she is very fast, so I think I definitely won it in the turns.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been coming here since the very first year,\u201d Van Paesschen, who along with his family is a regular visitor at the MET, said about the venue in Oliva Nova. \u201cMy parents have a house here, and having them here with me always makes it extra special \u2013 it does not happen too often otherwise. We enjoy our time in Oliva Nova and come here every year for at least one of the tours.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first part of Spring MET 2023 runs through to 29 January, followed by Spring MET II from 20-26 February, Spring MET III from 7-26 March and Spring MET IV from 4-23 April 2023.<\/p>\n

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The 2023-season has kicked off at the Mediterranean Equestrian Tour in Oliva Nova, Spain. The first week of Spring MET I 2023 concluded on Sunday with the CSI2* 1.45m Grand Prix presented by\u00a0Dammann Reitplatz- u. Sportplatzbau GmbH\u00a0and it was Belgium\u2019s Constant Van Paesschen and the 10-year-old\u00a0Diaz du Thot (Ready Boy des Forets ‘Hn’ x Diams…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-met-2023-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}