IRELAND'S FINEST IN CLOVER AFTER FINAL VICTORY

ONE of Ireland's top showjumpers, Shane Breen from Hickstead riding Marbridge Clover Diamond won the R & R Stevenson Jewellers (Haywards Heath) & Gatwick Mitsubishi South of England Grade C Championship Final, the final main ring jumping class at the South of England Show in Ardingly.

There were 11 clears in the first round and in the jump-off Breen was third to go and set an unbeatable time on the six-year-old Irish gelding,which is out of a Master Imp dam and by Clover Brigade, a son of Clover Hill.

Breen and his wife Chloe, daughter of Douglas Bunn the 'Master of Hickstead', have 14 competition horses in their yard beside the All England Jumping Course.

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The six-year-old is for sale and has been competing in 1.20 classes with stable jockey Martin Duffy and with Chloe's niece Lucy Bunn.

Breen is jumping the gelding in Ireland this week in a qualifier for the 6-year-old class at the Dublin Horse Show and then in a few 1.30s.

He said:" 'I think he will be a good one for the future. The Grade C Championship was fantastic for young horses with super ground, a fair course and a good crowd."

Alex Hempleman from Coolham was second on his seven-year-old Laurencetown Lad who he feels is 'a good horse with a great future'.

For full story and pictures see West Sussex Gazette June 27