{"id":32168,"date":"2025-04-13T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/home-win-for-mariano-martinez-bastida-and-belano-vd-wijnhoeve-z-in-the-csi2-oliva-nova-beach-golf-resort-grand-prix-at-spring-met-iv-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T07:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T06:04:34","slug":"home-win-for-mariano-martinez-bastida-and-belano-vd-wijnhoeve-z-in-the-csi2-oliva-nova-beach-golf-resort-grand-prix-at-spring-met-iv-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/home-win-for-mariano-martinez-bastida-and-belano-vd-wijnhoeve-z-in-the-csi2-oliva-nova-beach-golf-resort-grand-prix-at-spring-met-iv-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Home win for Mariano Martinez Bastida and Belano vd Wijnhoeve Z in the CSI2* Oliva Nova Beach & Golf Resort Grand Prix at Spring MET IV 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The fourth and final part of Spring MET 2025 kicked off this week at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Oliva Nova, Spain, and it was the host nation’s\u00a0Mariano Martinez Bastida and Belano vd Wijnhoeve Z (Berlin x Darco) that took the win in Sunday\u2019s concluding CSI2* 1.45m Grand Prix presented by Oliva Nova Beach & Golf Resort.
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Fifteen horse-and-rider combinations from the 61 at start cleared the first-round track and joined the deciding jump-off, where Spain\u2019s Bastida and Belano Vd Wijnhoeve Z clocked the winning time of 37.45 seconds. Matthew Sampson (GBR) and Pretty Pi\u2019Que de\u2019Luxe (Party Dance x Viegaard\u2019s Come Back II) took the runner-up spot in 38.12, while Jessica Burke (IRL) and Express Trend (Future Trend x Condios) completed the podium in third in 38.60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The hosts were showing great form, with Teresa Blazquez-Abascal (ESP) on Nasa de Toxandria (Vertigo Saint-Benoit x Chopin van het Moleneind) finishing fourth in 40.36, followed by Thomas Whitaker (GBR) aboard Klaudius (Labor\u2019s VDL Indorado x VDL Empire) in fifth in 40.47.

\u201cThere were many horses in the jump-off, so I knew I had to take a lot of risk and go really fast to win,\u201d Bastida said about his winning strategy. \u201cOliva is like home to me,\u201d he added. \u201cWhenever I can compete at the MET, I try to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Spring MET IV 2025 \u2013 which runs until April 27th<\/sup> \u2013 continues next week with competitions up to CSI3* level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fourth and final part of Spring MET 2025 kicked off this week at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Oliva Nova, Spain, and it was the host nation’s\u00a0Mariano Martinez Bastida and Belano vd Wijnhoeve Z (Berlin x Darco) that took the win in Sunday\u2019s concluding CSI2* 1.45m Grand Prix presented by Oliva Nova Beach &…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-met-2025-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32168","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=32168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32170,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32168\/revisions\/32170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}