{"id":30522,"date":"2024-04-14T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/alexander-butler-and-jurry-bleu-k-best-in-the-csi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix-at-spring-met-iv-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T06:54:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T05:54:07","slug":"alexander-butler-and-jurry-bleu-k-best-in-the-csi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix-at-spring-met-iv-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/alexander-butler-and-jurry-bleu-k-best-in-the-csi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix-at-spring-met-iv-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Butler and Jurry Bleu K best in the CSI3* 1.50m CHG Grand Prix at Spring MET IV 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The second week of Spring MET IV 2024 in Oliva Nova, Spain, concluded on Sunday with an Irish victory in the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by CHG \u2013 Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A as Alexander Butler and Jurry Bleu K (VDL Zirocco Blue x Couleur Rubin) topped a field of 59 horse-and-rider-combinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butler and the 10-year-old stallion secured the win with a time of 41.23 seconds after a jump-off between twelve pairs, followed by Australia\u2019s Gabrielle Chugg and Pss Levilensky (Levisonn x Cornet Obolensky) in second \u2013 0.9 seconds behind. Two British riders followed in third and fourth: Adrian Whiteway and Chacco Volo (Chacco-Blue x Carthago) who clocked a time of 42.43, then Adrian Speight and Millfield Baloney (Balou du Rouet x Kanudos) in 42.59 seconds. Brazil\u2019s Pedro Veniss and Nimrod de Muze Imperio Egipcio (Nabab de Reve x Tinka\u2019s Boy) completed the top five with their time of 43.40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought it was a very fair course,\u201d Butler said about Sunday\u2019s Grand Prix track set by Javier Trenor. \u201cIt had plenty of different options on the lines. There were many things to take into consideration on the distances, but it wasn\u2019t too big. I think the course builder definitely got the right amount of clears. There was a good standard of horses and riders in the class as well, and all in all it was a good course.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oliva, Spain – 2024 April 14: Gold tour 1m50 – Grand Prix during CSI Mediterranean Equestrian Spring Tour 4\n(photo: 1clicphoto)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wasn’t going to go really, really fast because I don’t know the horse that well yet,\u201d Butler said about his plan ahead of the deciding jump-off. \u201cI just wanted to do what I thought I could do best with him and then hopefully finish in the top three or top four. However, I think Jurry Bleu is naturally very fast and then the other pairs just found it hard to catch our time.\u201d

\u201cHe is owned by Vladimir Tuganov, who himself sustained an injury a month ago,\u201d Butler explained about his new ride, the 10-year-old stallion Jurry Bleu K. \u201cTuganov asked me if I could bring some of his horses to Oliva, and I did. I actually don’t know the horses very well at all, I am just getting used to them. Jurry Bleu K was already second in the jump-off class last Saturday, so I\u2019ve gotten a very good feeling from him. He seems to be a very clever, smart horse and quick with his legs. Today, I didn’t want to go too fast as he doesn’t know me so well yet and what I want, but he was very clever in the jump-off.\u201d 

\u201cThe facilities are fantastic, also for the grooms,\u201d Butler said about the venue at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova. \u201cAll the facilities are very good, which is important. Oliva is a place that we’ve been a good few times before and hopefully we’ll be back again.\u201d 

Spring MET IV 2024 continues next week and runs until April 21st<\/sup>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second week of Spring MET IV 2024 in Oliva Nova, Spain, concluded on Sunday with an Irish victory in the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by CHG \u2013 Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A as Alexander Butler and Jurry Bleu K (VDL Zirocco Blue x Couleur Rubin) topped a field of 59 horse-and-rider-combinations. Butler and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-met-2024-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30522","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=30522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30524,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30522\/revisions\/30524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}