Patricio Muente

Pato Muente with Zera (2016)

Patricio (Pato) Muente (born March 23, 1974 in Buenos Aires ) is a show jumper . Until 2010 he competed in sports for Argentina, since 2011 he has been at the start for Slovenia.

Muente started riding when he was a little boy at Club Hipico del Norte . Later, due to his successful career as a juniors' show jumper, he moved to Club Aleman, Buenos Aires, for which he was able to win two national Argentine championships.

At the age of 17 he was called to America in Argentina by the Olympic trainer and rider Joe Fargis . Building on what he learned here, he opened his own stable, the San Jose Stables, in Middleburg, Virginia in 2000 .

Muente was in Wellington that winter and Middleburg for the rest of the year . He and his team toured national and international tournaments, grand prizes and World Cup qualifications along the east coast. He was one of the 60 best show jumpers in the USA. In 2006 and 2007 he took part in the US Nations Cup in Wellington (Florida) with the Argentine team .

In 2005 he met his wife, Antje Muente (née Armbrust), and they married in Germany in 2009. The first child was born in the United States during a horse show in Wellington, FL. In May 2010 he moved to Germany with his family and has since been based on the farm of his father-in-law Hans-Jürgen Armbrust in Timmerloh .

Since his mother is of Slovenian origin and it makes sense for European equestrian sport, Pato has been competing for the country of Slovenia since 2011. He takes part in national and international tournaments, mostly in Europe, but also in China.

Muente took part in the German Jumping Derby for the first time in 2016 , where he held first place almost until the end of the test, but then came ninth through the subsequent jump-off. He was awarded the style prize. With his 7-year-old youngster Caracho he competed in the tests of the Youngster Cup (CSIYH 1 *), Caracho, who switched to Lucy Davis in June 2016 , was one of three 7-year-old horses that went through the tournament three times without jumping fault points Exams. In June 2016, Patricio Muente played the Hickstead Derby with Zera .

During his second participation in the German Jumping Derby in May 2017, Muente and Zera were the only rider to make no mistakes in the jump-off and thus won the traditional test.

Important successes

• 2006:
  • Culpeper (Virginia, USA): Victory in the $ 50,000 Commonwealth National Grand Prix with As di Villagana
  • Lexington Spring Encore (Virginia, USA): 3rd place in the $ 25,000 Grand Prix with As di Villagana
  • Roanoke Valley (Virginia, USA): 5th place in the $ 50,000 Grand Prix of Roanoke with As di Villagana
  • Culpeper (Virginia, USA): 3rd place in the $ 40,000 Showday National Grand Prix with As di Villagana
  • Cavalier Classic Culpeper (Virginia, USA): 4th place in the $ 40,000 HITS Grand Prix with As di Villagana
  • Hampton Classics (Bridgehampton, New York, USA): 4th place in the $ 50,000 Gray Goose World Cup / GP Qualifier with As di Villagana

• 2007:
  • WEF Wellington (Florida, USA): 3rd place in the IHP $ 35,000 WEF / PBIEC Inaugural Cup with As di Villagana
  • WEF Wellington (Florida, USA): 4th place in the Nations Cup of Wellington (CSIO 5 *) with As di Villagana
  • Lexington (Kentucky, USA): 3rd place in the IHP $ 25,000 Rockbridge Grand Prix with As di Villagana
  • Lexington (Kentucky, USA): 4th place in the IHP $ 25,000 Encore Grand Prix with As di Villagana
  • Devon (Pennsylvania, USA): 3rd place in the $ 75,000 Grand Prix with As di Villagana
  • Roanoke (Virginia, USA): Victory in the US $ 50,000 Grand Prix with As di Villagana
  • Lake Placid (NY, USA): 5th place in the FEI IHP $ 75,000 Grandprix of Lake Placid CSI 3 * with As di Villagana

• 2014: Participation in the Nations Cup of Budapest (CSIO 3 * -W) with For Asgard
• 2015: Participation in the Celje Nations Cup (CSIO 3 * -W) with For Asgard
• 2016: Participation in the Nations Cup of Celje (CSIO 3 * -W) and Budapest (CSIO 3 *), each with Zera
• 2017: 1st place in the 88th German Jumping Derby (CSI 4 * Hamburg) with Zera
• 2019: 4th place in the Grand Prix of Werder (Havel), class S *** with jump-off, with Kavalier

Horses

• Zera 23 (* 2007), bay Holstein mare, father: Cero, mother's father : Calato; ridden by Victoria Vargas since summer 2017
• As di Villagana (* 1996), bay licensed Hanoverian stallion, father: Acord II, mother's father: Ferrari II, sold in 2007 and then ridden by Laura Linback

Web links

Commons : Patricio Muente  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• San Jose stable in Timmerloh

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FEI person detail: Patricio Muente
2. ^ Result Hickstead Derby 2016
3. ↑ ^{a b} Horse success database of the USEF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ News from USA, Canada and Great Britain , jorisdebrabander.be
5. ↑ FEI results database: Pato Muente
6. ^ Result of the Grand Prix of the Bonhomme Stud 2019
7. ↑ FEI horse database: Zera 23
8. ^ FEI horse database: As di Villagana