Breen and O’Brien share joint second place in Hickstead Derby

SHOW JUMPER Shane Breen and Captain David O’Brien were among five riders to share second place in yesterday’s Hickstead Derby, with the notoriously challenging competition providing just one clear round.

This came from Britain’s Tina Fletcher, riding Promised Land, but four faults from Sheen, on board Mullaghdrin Gold Rain, and Capt O’Brien with the Cruising gelding Mo Chroí was enough to earn the pair €17,000.

Joining the Irish duo for a share of second place were Briton Michael Whitaker (Animation II), his compatriot Ronnie Healy and another Cruising offspring, the grey gelding Carlow Cruiser, and defending champion Guy Williams (Richi Rich III), who last year beat Fletcher in a two-horse jump-off.