{"id":32054,"date":"2025-03-16T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/james-smith-and-juno-rose-23-open-spring-met-iii-2025-with-a-csi2-chg-grand-prix-win\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T08:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T07:27:26","slug":"james-smith-and-juno-rose-23-open-spring-met-iii-2025-with-a-csi2-chg-grand-prix-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/james-smith-and-juno-rose-23-open-spring-met-iii-2025-with-a-csi2-chg-grand-prix-win\/","title":{"rendered":"James Smith and Juno Rose 23 open Spring MET III 2025 with a CSI2* CHG Grand Prix win\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James Smith (GBR) and the 11-year-old mare Juno Rose 23 (Erdento x Nissan Caretano Z) won Sunday\u2019s CSI2* 1.45m CHG \u2013 Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A \u2013 Grand Prix at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain, where the third part of Spring MET 2025 kicked off earlier this week.<br><br>Crossing the finish line in 37.82 seconds in a jump-off between eleven horse-and-rider combinations, the British rider bested a field of 61 participants. P\u00e5l Flam (NOR) and Mega Special DC (I\u2019M Special de Muze x Landadel) took the runner-up spot in a time of 38.06 seconds, while Taisie de Gruchy (GBR) on La Presley CJS (Cicero Z x Lancelot) placed third in 38.34, followed by Sacha Beghuin (BEL) on Elcup Van Beek II Z (Elvis Ter Putte x Armitage) in fourth in 38.35 and Benny Naessens (BEL) aboard Gatsby du Tillard (President x Diamant de Semilly) in fifth in 39.64.&nbsp;<br><br>\u201cIt was a great class,\u201d the happy winner said afterwards. \u201cI was first to go in the jump-off. I know my mare is naturally fast, so I didn\u2019t take any crazy risks but stayed as tight as possible. She is such a trier and always gives her all for me. She also won Friday\u2019s world ranking class. With the two out of two, I think it\u2019s safe to say she likes it here in Oliva \u2013 as do we.\u201d&nbsp;<br><br>Spring MET III 2025 continues next week and runs until March 30<sup>th<\/sup>, followed by Spring MET IV in April.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/online.equipe.com\/startlists\/1060276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click here for full results.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Smith (GBR) and the 11-year-old mare Juno Rose 23 (Erdento x Nissan Caretano Z) won Sunday\u2019s CSI2* 1.45m CHG \u2013 Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A \u2013 Grand Prix at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain, where the third part of Spring MET 2025 kicked off earlier this week. Crossing the finish line in 37.82 seconds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-met-2025-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054","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=32054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32056,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054\/revisions\/32056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}