{"id":29789,"date":"2023-11-19T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/louise-simpson-and-cindy-r-win-the-csi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix-at-autumn-met-ii-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T08:11:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:11:05","slug":"louise-simpson-and-cindy-r-win-the-csi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix-at-autumn-met-ii-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/louise-simpson-and-cindy-r-win-the-csi3-1-50m-chg-grand-prix-at-autumn-met-ii-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Louise Simpson and Cindy R win the CSI3* 1.50m CHG Grand Prix at Autumn MET II 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The third and last week of Autumn MET II 2023 at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain concluded with a British victory in the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by\u00a0CHG – Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A.\u00a0

Ten out of the 50 horse-and-rider-combinations at start cleared the first-round track set in the beautiful Oliva Nova arena and joined the deciding jump-off, where Louise Simpson (GBR) and the 11-year-old Cindy R (Clarimo x Quidam de Revel, bred by Dietmar Rohling) clocked the quickest time. Stopping the clock on 39.69, the British duo took the win ahead of Koen Vereecke (BEL) and Halima van het Bonte Hof Z (Hos d\u2019O x Heartbreaker, bred by Leen Braeckmans) in second in 39.99.\u00a0

\u201cWhen there first were quite a few clears, I thought \u2018Oh God\u2019 \u2013 I did not think it was that easy, but as it turned out, ten clears was the perfect number,\u201d Simpson said about the course set by Gerard Lachat. \u201cI think the course was built brilliantly, I thought the wall quite tight out of the corner would cause more trouble than it did, but actually it jumped really good. It was into a short four stride distance, but actually most of them jumped the wall a bit steady so it worked perfectly.\u00a0\u00bb

\u201cCindy R is not the fastest horse and I have only been riding her for a few months, so I don\u2019t know her inside out. She does have a very big stride, so the only way I was going to be quicker than anyone else was that I planned to do seven from one to two, where I think most did eight. I stuck with that, and then again, her stride came into place to the last, where I could just keep going \u2013 and she eats up the ground. However, I did not think I would be anywhere near fast enough to win!\u201d\u00a0Simpson explained about her plan going into the jump-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe have had her for about a year now,\u201d Simpson said about her winning horse Cindy R. \u201cShe is a huge mare, and on paper you would definitely say she\u2019s a guy\u2019s horse. My husband David has been riding her for most of the year, but actually, ignoring her size, she is so sweet and easy that I kind of stole her three, four months ago and she\u2019s been a hero. The plan was to put me on her to speed her up, so I feel like I\u2019ve done that a bit now. She was actually just breeding until she was eight or nine, so she is not super experienced and she has kind of had a tough year to catch up, but she has definitely done so and come on really quickly.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe horses have improved from being here; you can break it up with jumping in different rings and going to the beach, and there is plenty for the kids to do as well. We have had a great time and we are definitely coming back,\u201d Simpson said about the venue at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vincent Lambrecht (BEL) and Varennes du Breuil (Jarnac x Fetiche du Pas, bred by Jean-Michel Lorin) placed third in 40.36, while Seamus Hughes Kennedy (IRL) and Cuffescrange Cavadora (Z Wellie 72 x Luidam, bred by Eamon Sheehan) finished fourth in 40.54 and Gaj Riossa (SLO) aboard Hero (Diamant de Semilly x Quidam de Revel, bred by Redfield Farm) fifth in 40.89. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Autumn MET 2023 now takes a break for one week before returning with Autumn MET III, which runs from November 28 to December 17. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The third and last week of Autumn MET II 2023 at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain concluded with a British victory in the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by\u00a0CHG – Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A.\u00a0 Ten out of the 50 horse-and-rider-combinations at start cleared the first-round track set in the beautiful Oliva Nova arena and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autumn-met-2023-fr-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29791,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29789\/revisions\/29791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}