{"id":33407,"date":"2026-04-12T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/bh-gringos-legacy-keeps-winning-for-guy-williams-at-spring-met-iv-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:57:07","slug":"bh-gringos-legacy-keeps-winning-for-guy-williams-at-spring-met-iv-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/bh-gringos-legacy-keeps-winning-for-guy-williams-at-spring-met-iv-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"BH Gringos Legacy keeps winning for Guy Williams at Spring MET IV 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Great Britain\u2019s Guy Williams and the 11-year-old mare BH Gringos Legacy won Sunday\u2019s CSI2* 1.45m Grand Prix presented by Dammann Reitplatz- u. Sportplatzbau GmbH at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain, where the first week of Spring MET IV 2026 concluded with a Grand Prix ruled by the Brits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201cI thought it was a good course, it kept stretching up and down the ring,\u201d the happy winner said about the track&nbsp;set by Christian Wiegand (GER). \u201cIt was good for me anyway; there were&nbsp;not many&nbsp;clears.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In a jump-off of five, Williams and BH Gringos Legacy clocked the winning time of 40.88 seconds. \u201cTo beat the ones in front of me&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;and&nbsp;hope&nbsp;the one behind me did&nbsp;not&nbsp;beat me,\u201d Guy joked about his winning strategy. \u201cShe&rsquo;s&nbsp;a fast mare,\u201d he continued. \u201cShe won the first day&rsquo;s class&nbsp;here&nbsp;as well.&nbsp;She&rsquo;s&nbsp;ever so quick and I thought that if I could leave the&nbsp;fences&nbsp;up, we&nbsp;wouldn&rsquo;t&nbsp;be far away from the win.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BH-Gringos-Legacy-keeps-winning-for-Guy-Williams-at-Spring-MET-IV-2026-2-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BH-Gringos-Legacy-keeps-winning-for-Guy-Williams-at-Spring-MET-IV-2026-2-1024x819.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BH-Gringos-Legacy-keeps-winning-for-Guy-Williams-at-Spring-MET-IV-2026-2-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BH-Gringos-Legacy-keeps-winning-for-Guy-Williams-at-Spring-MET-IV-2026-2-768x614.jpg 768w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BH-Gringos-Legacy-keeps-winning-for-Guy-Williams-at-Spring-MET-IV-2026-2-580x464.jpg 580w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BH-Gringos-Legacy-keeps-winning-for-Guy-Williams-at-Spring-MET-IV-2026-2-860x688.jpg 860w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BH-Gringos-Legacy-keeps-winning-for-Guy-Williams-at-Spring-MET-IV-2026-2-1160x928.jpg 1160w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BH-Gringos-Legacy-keeps-winning-for-Guy-Williams-at-Spring-MET-IV-2026-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLast&nbsp;year, she jumped the Hamburg&nbsp;Derby and&nbsp;some four-&nbsp;and three-star Grand Prix and she won some ranking&nbsp;classes,\u201d Guy explained about his winning mount. \u201cI sold her to&nbsp;Tim&nbsp;Gredley,&nbsp;for Polly to ride.&nbsp;She&rsquo;s&nbsp;still Polly&nbsp;Gredley&rsquo;s&nbsp;horse, even though&nbsp;I got her back.&nbsp;She&rsquo;s&nbsp;been really&nbsp;good; she&nbsp;doesn&rsquo;t&nbsp;stop winning.\u201d<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cThe&nbsp;facilities&nbsp;are lovely, and the people look after you,\u201d Guy said about the venue in Oliva Nova. \u201cEveryone is&nbsp;really nice&nbsp;and&nbsp;friendly,&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;a&nbsp;lovely place,&nbsp;very welcoming.\u201d<br>&nbsp;<br>Great Britain dominated Sunday\u2019s Grand Prix, with three British riders following Williams. Alex Barr on Preben van de Doornakkers (For Pleasure x Nabab de Reve) took the runner-up spot 1.71 seconds behind the winner, while Carron Nicol aboard RHR Out of the Blue (Plot Blue x Livello) placed third. Leo Lamb with Las Palmas VG (Don Diego x Sam R) finished fourth, followed by the host nation\u2019s Pello Eloyduy Ibarzabal on Champenoise de Rampan (Voltigeur de Rampan x Quintal) in fifth.<br>&nbsp;<br>The fourth and final part of Spring MET 2026 runs until April 26th.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/online.equipe.com\/startlists\/1219244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here for full results.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spring-MET-IV-2026-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spring-MET-IV-2026-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spring-MET-IV-2026-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spring-MET-IV-2026-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spring-MET-IV-2026-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spring-MET-IV-2026-180x180.jpg 180w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spring-MET-IV-2026-580x580.jpg 580w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spring-MET-IV-2026-860x860.jpg 860w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spring-MET-IV-2026-1160x1160.jpg 1160w, http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spring-MET-IV-2026.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The\u00a0photos may be used\u00a0<em>only<\/em>\u00a0in relation to this press release and must include<br>photo credit to\u00a0\u00a9 Herv\u00e9 Bonnaud \/ www.1clicphoto.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain\u2019s Guy Williams and the 11-year-old mare BH Gringos Legacy won Sunday\u2019s CSI2* 1.45m Grand Prix presented by Dammann Reitplatz- u. Sportplatzbau GmbH at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain, where the first week of Spring MET IV 2026 concluded with a Grand Prix ruled by the Brits. \u201cI thought it was a good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33407","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\/33407","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=33407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33409,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33407\/revisions\/33409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}