And the Oscar Goes to: Mathieu Bordeaud’Hui in the €57,325 Andalucía Grand Prix CSIO 3*

By Jumper News on 2024-10-27

Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – October 27, 2024 – Today the highlight of the whole week was the very demanding Longines ranking class, the €57,325 Andalucía Grand Prix CSIO 3*. The results from this prestigious class count for the European Senior Championships 2025. With the 60 top riders of the week taking part, ten went through to the jump-off and the winner was the young Belgian rider, Mathieu Bordeaud’Hui (BEL) with Oscar The Homage, for Belgium in just 38.10 seconds.

After his win, Mathieu told us: “When I walked the course for the first round I knew it would be difficult, but OK, we made it to the jump off. Last week I was second, I had a good plan for last week but it didn’t go like I wanted. But now, again, I also had a good plan and now it went good. I’m very happy, my horse is just ten years old and I think I have I could have a great future with him, so yeh, we will see how it goes”. Oscar The Homage is a stallion by Quint VH Maarlo Z from an Arko III mare and is owned by Krismar stables.

Mathieu went on to say: “The course was quite difficult. It was I think ten clears out of 60 so that’s not so many (much) — There were two lines, from one to two you could do seven or eight (strides), I did seven, plus, to the last jump, it was a very long seven, but OK, I knew my horse has a big stride so he easily made it. I think that’s why I won my title.”

In second place in 38.85 seconds, an Irish rider, a favourite here at the Andalucía Sunshine Tour, Cian O’Connor (IRL) with Bentley de Sury, a horse by Sunday de Riverland, who top Spanish rider Eduardo Álvarez Aznar used to ride.

Third and fourth places were taken by French riders: Nicolas Sers (FRA) and Eleven de Riverland and Charlotte Leoni with Miss Marie Van’t Winnehof.