{"id":32554,"date":"2025-10-19T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/mathijs-van-asten-and-orlando-van-de-afspanningtop-the-csi3-chg-grand-prix-in-oliva-nova\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:20:40","slug":"mathijs-van-asten-and-orlando-van-de-afspanningtop-the-csi3-chg-grand-prix-in-oliva-nova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/mathijs-van-asten-and-orlando-van-de-afspanningtop-the-csi3-chg-grand-prix-in-oliva-nova\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathijs van Asten and Orlando van de Afspanningtop the CSI3* CHG Grand Prix in Oliva Nova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first part of Autumn MET 2025 in Oliva Nova, Spain, concluded on Sunday with the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by CHG – Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A.
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Eighth horse-and-rider combinations from the 59 pairs at start cleared the first-round track set by Louis Konickx (NED) and joined the deciding jump-off, where Mathijs van Asten (NED) and the 11-year-old gelding Orlando van de Afspanning (Kartouzo van\u2019T Kathof x Flamenco Desemilly) clocked the winning time of 37.13 seconds.
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By the smallest of margins, Mathieu Guery (BEL) and Time-Breaker S Z (Toulon x Calvados) had to settle for second when the clock stopped on 37.33 for the young talent. Kara Chad (CAN) and Igor GPH (Harley x Crawford 5) completed the podium in third, also finishing below the 38-second mark in 37.72.
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Finishing fourth, Nicola Pohl (GER) and Fee du Val Guerard (Cornet Obolensky x Ryon d\u2019Anzex) crossed the timers in 38.04 seconds, followed by Kim Emmen (NED) aboard Hellix du Seigneur (Curby du Seigneur x Calvaro F.C.) in fifth in 42.06.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe course built by Louis was nice and challenging, with a time allowed you had to think about and some lines with quite many options,\u201d van Asten analysed afterwards.\u00a0\u201cIn the end, we had a good group of clears, eight is a nice number in a three-star Grand Prix.\u201d
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\u201cI saw Kara go first, and she was fast,\u201d he explained about his tactic for the jump-off. \u201cThen I didn’t look too much anymore, and only saw Mathieu Guery just in front of me and he was even faster. I thought I’ll ride my own round, see how it goes and try to use the qualities of the horse. Sometimes you have these jump-offs where everything goes the way you really planned. I think the turn from number two to three in the jump-off was very tight.\u201d
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\u201cOrlando van de Afspanning belongs to a client of mine, Vani Khosla. Sometimes we share the horses a little bit, depending on the shows she does in America. I don\u2019t have much experience with this horse, but he really has a very good mind and wants to do a good job \u2013 and he proved that again today. He is a very nice horse.\u201d
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\u201cWe like Oliva,\u201d van Asten, a regular at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova, said about the venue. \u201cThe OC does a great job; they are\u00a0improving all the time.\u00a0We are always very happy to come here, it’s good to build up all your horses or get to know new horses, and to see a little bit where you stand at the end of the season. Together with the clients, we always have a great time in Oliva.\u201d
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The action at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova resumes on October 28, when the Autumn MET II kicks off for another three weeks of competition, followed by Autumn MET III in December.\u00a0
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Click here for full results.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first part of Autumn MET 2025 in Oliva Nova, Spain, concluded on Sunday with the CSI3* 1.50m Grand Prix presented by CHG – Construcciones Hispano Germanas S.A.\u00a0Eighth horse-and-rider combinations from the 59 pairs at start cleared the first-round track set by Louis Konickx (NED) and joined the deciding jump-off, where Mathijs van Asten (NED)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autumn-met-2025-fr","category-non-classifiee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32554","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=32554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32556,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32554\/revisions\/32556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}