{"id":28531,"date":"2023-01-29T21:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T20:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/steve-guerdat-and-is-minka-take-the-top-honours-in-the-csi3-chg-grand-prix-at-spring-met-i-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-01-30T08:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T07:25:05","slug":"steve-guerdat-and-is-minka-take-the-top-honours-in-the-csi3-chg-grand-prix-at-spring-met-i-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/steve-guerdat-and-is-minka-take-the-top-honours-in-the-csi3-chg-grand-prix-at-spring-met-i-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Guerdat and Is-Minka take the top honours in the CSI3* CHG Grand Prix at Spring MET I 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third and last week of Spring MET I 2023 in\u00a0Oliva Nova, Spain, concluded with a Swiss win in the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix, presented by CHG \u2013 Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A \u2013 with the 2012 Olympic Champion Steve Guerdat taking the top honours with his exciting future prospect Is-Minka.<\/p>\n

Eight out of the 34 horse-and-rider-combinations at start managed to clear the first-round track and join the deciding jump-off, where it became a battle between Olympic Champions: Penelope Leprevost\u00a0(FRA) \u2013\u00a0team gold medallist at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro \u2013\u00a0and Djagger Semilly (Diamant de Semilly x Apache d’Adriers) stopped the clock on 36.82, but had to settle for the runner-up position when Guerdat and Is-Minka (Mylord Carthago*HN x Flyinge Quite Easy 958\u00a0) crossed the finish line in 36.64. Olivier Philippaerts (BEL) and H&M Miro (Diamant de Semily x Kannan) placed third in\u00a037.24, Malin Baryard-Johnsson (SWE) \u2013\u00a0team gold medallist at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo \u2013\u00a0and Harley Davidson (Hip Hop x Calypso III) finished fourth in 37.63, while rising star Lily Attwood (GBR) took fifth in 38.49 aboard Calvaro\u2019s Up To Date (Calvaro F.C. x Up To Date).<\/p>\n

\u201cIs-Minka just turned ten, and I have her since she was seven,\u201d Guerdat said about his winning mount. \u201cShe is a very talented mare. However, she is very green, she did not do much as a young horse. That shows a little bit every time she goes into the ring; she gets a bit tense and her true abilities don\u2019t really come across when she feels like that. That is why I have taken it really slow with her, and at every show, and for every month, she gives me a little more. She is still not 100% how she can be, but she is getting closer to that and the day she gets there, she will be an unbelievable horse. At the level we jumped today, she is already very successful, and I think she has a very bright future ahead of her.”<\/p>\n

\"Steve<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to try,\u201d Guerdat explained about his plan for the jump-off. \u201cIt was the last class of a long trip, we had many horses, so today was about winning. She is very fast, and I wanted to give it\u00a0a go. The jump-off was very fast in general, so I tried to win \u2013 I did not think about the fences too much, I just wanted to have a quick time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is always very nice to be here,\u201d the Swiss Olympic Champion said about the venue at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova. \u201cIt is a good start to the year, good for the young horses and for the horses to get back in shape, the facilities are very nice here.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a week\u2019s break, the second part of Spring MET 2023 kicks off on February 7, followed by Spring MET III from 7-26 March and Spring MET IV from 4-23 April 2023.<\/p>\n

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The third and last week of Spring MET I 2023 in\u00a0Oliva Nova, Spain, concluded with a Swiss win in the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix, presented by CHG \u2013 Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A \u2013 with the 2012 Olympic Champion Steve Guerdat taking the top honours with his exciting future prospect Is-Minka. Eight out of the 34…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-met-2023-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28533,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions\/28533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}