{"id":29650,"date":"2023-10-22T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/ben-maher-and-ginger-blue-conclude-autumn-met-i-2023-with-a-win-in-the-csi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T05:58:09","slug":"ben-maher-and-ginger-blue-conclude-autumn-met-i-2023-with-a-win-in-the-csi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/ben-maher-and-ginger-blue-conclude-autumn-met-i-2023-with-a-win-in-the-csi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Maher and Ginger-Blue conclude Autumn MET I 2023 with a win in the CSI3* 1.50m CHG Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The third and final week of the first part of this year\u2019s Autumn MET at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Oliva, Spain, concluded on Sunday with the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by CHG (Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A).\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>After winning the CSI2* 1.45m Grand Prix presented by Dammann Reitplatz- u. Sportplatzbau GmbH during the first week of Autumn MET I, Great Britain\u2019s Ben Maher\u00a0\u2013 the reigning Olympic Champion\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and the 12-year-old Ginger-Blue (Plot Blue x Royal Bravour, bred by\u00a0P. Verberne and owned by Jane Forbes Clark and Ben Maher) ended their tour in Oliva with another Grand Prix win.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Eleven horse-and-rider-combinations out of\u00a0the 45 at start cleared the first-round track and joined the deciding jump-off, where Maher and Ginger-Blue were the quickest pair \u2013 taking the win in 35.15, nearly a second faster than the runner-up pair\u00a0Nicola Philippaerts (BEL) and H&amp;M Luna van\u2019T Ruytershof Z (Levisto Z x For Pleasure, bred by Stal \u2018t Ruytershof and owned by Team Philippaerts and Stutteri Arch).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ben-Maher-and-Ginger-Blue-conclude-Autumn-MET-I-2023-with-a-win-in-the-CSI3-1.50m-CHG-Grand-Prix-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ben-Maher-and-Ginger-Blue-conclude-Autumn-MET-I-2023-with-a-win-in-the-CSI3-1.50m-CHG-Grand-Prix-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ben-Maher-and-Ginger-Blue-conclude-Autumn-MET-I-2023-with-a-win-in-the-CSI3-1.50m-CHG-Grand-Prix-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ben-Maher-and-Ginger-Blue-conclude-Autumn-MET-I-2023-with-a-win-in-the-CSI3-1.50m-CHG-Grand-Prix-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ben-Maher-and-Ginger-Blue-conclude-Autumn-MET-I-2023-with-a-win-in-the-CSI3-1.50m-CHG-Grand-Prix-2-860x573.jpg 860w, https:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ben-Maher-and-Ginger-Blue-conclude-Autumn-MET-I-2023-with-a-win-in-the-CSI3-1.50m-CHG-Grand-Prix-2-580x387.jpg 580w, https:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ben-Maher-and-Ginger-Blue-conclude-Autumn-MET-I-2023-with-a-win-in-the-CSI3-1.50m-CHG-Grand-Prix-2-1160x773.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/metoliva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ben-Maher-and-Ginger-Blue-conclude-Autumn-MET-I-2023-with-a-win-in-the-CSI3-1.50m-CHG-Grand-Prix-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Hughes (USA) and Melodie-K van\u2019T Kattenheye (Cornet Obolensky x Kannan, bred by Tonny Raman and owned by Stephex Stables) completed the podium in third, while Nano Healey (IRL) and Oak Grove\u2019s Clown FRH (Cascadello x Balou du Rouet, bred by H.G. Van Wijlick and owned by Gest\u00fct Eichenhain GmbH) finished fourth, followed by Kendra Claricia Brinkop (GER) aboard Nector vd Bisschop (Echo van\u2019T Spieveld x Darco, bred by Tom De Craene and owned by Stephex Stables and Scuderia 1918 Capital SRL) in fifth.&nbsp;<br><br>The Autumn MET 2023 continues on October 31<sup>st,&nbsp;<\/sup>running until November 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;with three consecutive weeks of competition, followed by Autumn MET III from November 28<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;to December 17<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/online.equipe.com\/startlists\/886033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here for full results.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third and final week of the first part of this year\u2019s Autumn MET at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Oliva, Spain, concluded on Sunday with the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by CHG (Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A).\u00a0\u00a0After winning the CSI2* 1.45m Grand Prix presented by Dammann Reitplatz- u. Sportplatzbau GmbH during the first week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autumn-met-2023-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650","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=29650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29652,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650\/revisions\/29652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}