Shane Breen on his Hickstead Derby victory: ‘Maybe one of my kids will win it one day’

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Shane Breen: Hickstead Derby winner
Shane Breen and Can Ya Makan win the Hickstead Derby in June 2022.
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Shane Breen says the history of the Al Shira’aa Hickstead Derby – and the place Hickstead holds in the heart of his family, as the Breens are based there – made his first win in the class last month particularly special.

“It was the 60th running of the Derby and my wife Chloe and I jumped in it together and were equal third, so obviously she knows what it’s like to go round there,” he says, in an interview on episode 112 of The Horse & Hound Podcast, supported this week by Bucas.

Pippa Roome
Pippa Roome
Magazine editor and eventing editor

Pippa is a true eventing geek and has been H&H’s eventing editor since 2005. She has first-hand experience of competing up to British Eventing intermediate and international CCI2*-L level, and has worked in the industry on a top event yard. Pippa enjoys nothing more than immersing herself in the sport at the highest level, reporting from the five-stars and international championships, including the Olympics.