Press release from the Mediterranean Equestrian Tour 

The second week of the fourth and final part of the Spring MET 2025 in Oliva Nova, Spain, concluded with a home win for Spain’s own Teresa Blazquez-Abascal and Nasa de Toxandria (Vertigo Saint-Benoit x Chopin van het Moleneind).

With a time of 38.98 seconds in a jump-off of fourteen, the Spanish rider bested a field of 59 horse-and-rider combinations in Sunday’s CSI3* 1.50m CHG – Constucciones Hispano Germanas S.A – Grand Prix which concluded the second week of competition during Spring MET IV 2025 at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova.

Matthew Sampson (GBR) and Daniel (Heartbreaker x San Patrignano Mister) had to settle for second place after clocking a time of 39.58 seconds, while Sergio Alvarez Moya (ESP) and Kannan S Touch PS (Kannan x Baloubet du Rouet) took third in 40.26 – making it two Spanish riders on the podium. Pedro Veniss (BRA) and Duelante 3K (Lordanos x Zirocco Blue VDL) finished fourth with a time of  40.42, followed by Jessica Burke (IRL) aboard Good Star du Bary (Rock’N Roll Semilly x Oberon du Moulin) in fifth in 40.44.

“It was a nice course with an easy start, and after the triple it was all connected distances,” Blazquez-Abascal analysed the track afterwards. “You could not lose the concentration; it made you think and ride concentrated until the very last fence. Then the jump-off was a fast one! The long distance from one to two gave us the rhythm for the rest of the course.”

“Nasa is an unbelievably clever and fast mare,” she said about her horse, the 12-year-old Nasa de Toxandria. “She is a fighter and never lets me down. She is a dream horse, a horse of a lifetime for me.”

“Oliva is always our first choice in April,” the happy winner said about the venue at Centro Ecuestre Oliva Nova. “The main ring is unbelievably big, and the facilities are in general super nice.”