{"id":33056,"date":"2026-02-01T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/seppe-wouters-and-quito-de-mariposa-outshine-their-elders-in-thecsi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix-at-oliva-nova\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:59:00","slug":"seppe-wouters-and-quito-de-mariposa-outshine-their-elders-in-thecsi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix-at-oliva-nova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/seppe-wouters-and-quito-de-mariposa-outshine-their-elders-in-thecsi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix-at-oliva-nova\/","title":{"rendered":"Seppe Wouters and Quito de Mariposa outshine their elders in theCSI3* 1.50m CHG Grand Prix at Oliva Nova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The third and final week of Spring MET I 2026 at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain concluded with an all-Belgian podium in Sunday\u2019s CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by CHG \u2013 Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A.
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After\u00a0a jump-off between eight horse-and-rider combinations, it was Belgium\u2019s Seppe Wouters and the 10-year-old stallion Quito de Mariposa (Comme Il Faut 5 x Air Jordan Z) that took the top honours\u00a0\u2013 crossing the finish line in 43.13 seconds. Wouters’ compatriot Bart Jay Junior Vandecasteele and Vamos de La Pomme d\u2019Or Z (Vigo d\u2019Arsouilles x Ogano Sitte) had to settle for the second place with their time of 50.17.\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00f4me Guery and Qartouche de La Pomme d\u2019Or Z (Vigo d\u2019Arsouilles x Ustinov) completed the\u00a0all-Belgian\u00a0podium in third after recording the quickest time of the competition \u2013 42.91\u00a0seconds\u00a0\u2013 on the\u00a0expense\u00a0of a fence down.\u00a0
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With four penalties each, Niall Talbot (IRL) on Charming Dream Z (Carrera VDL x Cagliostro 161) and Anna Power (GBR) aboard McQueen (Cobra x Nissan Caretano Z) followed in fourth and fifth respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt was only my second time jumping a three-star Grand Prix,\u201d the 18-year-old Wouters said afterwards about the course set by Spain’s very own Santiago Varela. \u201cI wanted to get experience, and just stick to my own plan. I think it was a tough class, with only eight clears. Luckily, my plan worked well.\u201d
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\u201cQuito is owned by J\u00e9r\u00f4me Guery and Alexander Oancea, they have given him for me to ride so I can get experience with him \u2013\u00a0which is very nice. I have had him for about two years now, and we know each other well. I hope I can do some more nice three-star shows with him now.\u201d
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\u201cIt is really nice for the young horses to build up and produce, and to take a few older horses for the ranking classes,\u201d Wouters said about the venue in Oliva Nova. \u201cI think the horses learn a lot there, the arenas are nice and big, you can go to the beach\u2026 I like it a lot.\u201d
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The Spring MET\u00a02026\u00a0now takes a short break and resumes\u00a0on February 10th<\/sup>\u00a0for three consecutive weeks of competition, followed by Spring MET III in March and Spring MET IV in April.\u00a0
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Click here for full results.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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he\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The third and final week of Spring MET I 2026 at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain concluded with an all-Belgian podium in Sunday\u2019s CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by CHG \u2013 Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A.\u00a0After\u00a0a jump-off between eight horse-and-rider combinations, it was Belgium\u2019s Seppe Wouters and the 10-year-old stallion Quito de Mariposa (Comme Il…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-met-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}