{"id":32762,"date":"2025-12-07T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/with-a-little-help-from-above-niall-talbot-and-charming-dream-z-top-the-csi3-oliva-nova-beach-golf-resort-grand-prix-at-autumn-met-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:55:22","slug":"with-a-little-help-from-above-niall-talbot-and-charming-dream-z-top-the-csi3-oliva-nova-beach-golf-resort-grand-prix-at-autumn-met-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/with-a-little-help-from-above-niall-talbot-and-charming-dream-z-top-the-csi3-oliva-nova-beach-golf-resort-grand-prix-at-autumn-met-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"With a little help from above, Niall Talbot and Charming Dream Z top the CSI3* Oliva Nova Beach & Golf Resort Grand Prix at Autumn MET 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ireland\u2019s Niall Talbot and the 10-year-old stallion Charming Dream Z (Carrera VDL x Cagliostro 161) won Sunday\u2019s CSI3* 1.50m Oliva Nova Beach & Golf Resort Grand Prix at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain, where the penultimate week of the 2025-edition of Autumn MET concluded on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Talbot, this win was an emotional one. \u00ab\u00a0I lost a very good friend, John Mulvey, this week,\u201d he shared. \u201cHe was a very popular guy and a great horseman in Ireland and he passed away after a long illness on Tuesday. His funeral was on Friday, and it was special for me to get a win like this now. Today was for him, I think we maybe had a little help from above.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a time of 39.40 seconds in a jump-off of ten, Talbot bested a field of 59 horse-and-rider combinations, taking the win ahead of Belgium\u2019s Bart Jay Junior Vandecasteele and Vamos de La Pomme d\u2019Or Z (Vigo d\u2019Arsouilles x Ogano Sitte), who had to settle for the runner-up spot when the clock stopped on 40.10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomma Thiesen (GER) and Macklemore Von Der Soehr (Manchester van\u2019T Paradijs x Quiwi Dream) took third with a time of 40.26, followed by Mariano Martinez Bastida (ESP) on Poseidon v\/d Molendreef (Comme Il Faut 5 x Casco 4) in fourth in 40.92, while a time of 41.35 saw the French legend Michel Robert aboard Calasto Z (Calvaro F.C. x Stakkato) finish fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe’s a horse we think a lot of,\u201d Niall Talbot said about Charming Dream Z. \u201cHe’s been jumping at this level this year, and all summer he’s been just kind of knocking on the door for a win. I’m delighted that we got one now this week at three-star Grand Prix level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explaining his winning strategy over the course set by France’s Gregory Bodo, Talbot detailed: \u201cI walked the jump-off course beforehand because there were some new jumps for it, and I just made my plan. The first line was from an oxer to a vertical with nine strides and because my horse has a lot of stride I knew I could get up there on eight. I think that’s probably where he won the class, in the first line where we left the stride out. Then for the rest, I just stuck to my plan and kept everything as tight as I could \u2013 and, thankfully, everything paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love it here,\u201d Talbot, a familiar face at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova, said about the venue. \u201cI’ve been coming here since the beginning of the MET. We come every spring and every autumn. I think it’s a great place to produce horses, and to bring students because they have competitions for every level. It’s a great place to work out of with all the rings quite close to each other, and the courses and surfaces are good. We really like coming here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Autumn MET III 2025 continues next week, running until December 14th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here for full results.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ireland\u2019s Niall Talbot and the 10-year-old stallion Charming Dream Z (Carrera VDL x Cagliostro 161) won Sunday\u2019s CSI3* 1.50m Oliva Nova Beach & Golf Resort Grand Prix at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova in Spain, where the penultimate week of the 2025-edition of Autumn MET concluded on Sunday. For Talbot, this win was an emotional one….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autumn-met-2025-fr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32762","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=32762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32765,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32762\/revisions\/32765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metoliva.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}