Shane Breen back in the saddle after falling off balcony
Showjumper Shane Breen is back riding after he broke his jaw and fractured his skull falling from a balcony.
His wife Chloe Bunn, daughter of Hickstead founder the late Douglas Bunn, told H&H that he is recovering.
“He’s back in the saddle and riding again. He’s obviously a bit tired but he’s fine. No long-term damage done, he was very lucky,” she said.
Shane lost his footing and fell 12ft from an internal balcony in a converted barn on the Bunn family’s estate in Sussex, just before Christmas.
Shane, who rides for Ireland, still plans go to the Jumping Amsterdam international horse show in a couple of weeks time (20-23 January).
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A graduate of Exeter University, Amy joined our news team from Redpin Publishing in 2008 as news writer. She was promoted to deputy news editor in May 2013 and became news editor in April 2015. She left Horse & Hound in March 2016 to take up an editorial position in Dubai.