{"id":33315,"date":"2026-03-22T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/santiago-diaz-ortega-and-chasspleen-flamingo-z-triumph-in-csi3-chg-grand-prix-at-spring-met-iii-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:03:59","slug":"santiago-diaz-ortega-and-chasspleen-flamingo-z-triumph-in-csi3-chg-grand-prix-at-spring-met-iii-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/santiago-diaz-ortega-and-chasspleen-flamingo-z-triumph-in-csi3-chg-grand-prix-at-spring-met-iii-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Diaz Ortega and Chasspleen Flamingo Z triumph in CSI3* CHG Grand Prix at Spring MET III 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Santiago Diaz Ortega (COL) and Chasspleen Flamingo Z (Cardento 933 x Dollar du Murier) finished the second week of Spring MET III 2026 at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain with a win in the CSI3* 1.50m CHG \u2013 Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A \u2013 Grand Prix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a jump-off of eight, Diaz Ortega clocked the winning time of 35.81 seconds, leaving Alex Barr (GBR) and Preben van de Doornakkers (For Pleasure x Nabab de Reve) to the runner-up spot with their time of 38.11 seconds, and besting a field of 45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe improves every day, I am so proud of him,\u201d Diaz Ortega said about his winning mount, the 11-year-old gelding Chasspleen Flamingo Z. \u201cI have him together with Abdel Said and Jos Lansik, they were kind to give me an opportunity to ride such a nice horse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt was a tough one,\u201d Diaz Ortega analysed the competition. \u201cWhen I walked the course, I did not expect so many in the jump-off. We were lucky to be clear!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Diaz Ortega, the venue in Oliva Nova is a place he likes to return to. \u201cI always count the days to come here, it is the best show I can have with my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The margins were small among the top five; French legend Michel Robert on Calasto Z (Calvaro F.C. x Stakkato) placed third when stopping the clock on 38.16, followed by Martin Dopazo (ARG) with I.Umonia R 60 (Den Ham Blue R x Chellano) in fourth in 38.38 and Amanda Landeblad (SWE) aboard Springfield 21 (Stakkato Gold x Classiker) in fifth in 38.93.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring MET III 2026 continues next week and runs until March 29th<\/sup>, followed by Spring MET IV in April.Click here for full results.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0photos may be used\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0in relation to this press release and must include
photo credit to\u00a0\u00a9 Herv\u00e9 Bonnaud \/ www.1clicphoto.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Santiago Diaz Ortega (COL) and Chasspleen Flamingo Z (Cardento 933 x Dollar du Murier) finished the second week of Spring MET III 2026 at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain with a win in the CSI3* 1.50m CHG \u2013 Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A \u2013 Grand Prix. In a jump-off of eight, Diaz Ortega clocked the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-met-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33315","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=33315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33317,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33315\/revisions\/33317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}