Three Queens for Breen

SHANE BREEN took his third Queen Elizabeth II Cup victory on a horse who was making her debut in the International Arena.

The Irishman and the 10-year-old Mylord Carthago mare Haya, owned by Breen Equestrian and Old Lodge, were last to go in the jump-off, knocking more than a second off the speedy time set by Nicole Lockhead Anderson and Tom Williams’ Miss Aragona PS.

Only three of the 28 starters had jumped clear in the first round, the third being Joe Fernyhough on Rowland Fernyhough’s Calcourt Particle, and Shane said the 1.50m track took as much riding as the previous day’s Nations Cup. It produced some big-scoring rounds from some of the country’s leading national riders and the water jump alone resulted in three eliminations.

“I thought it was plenty big enough,” Shane said. “When I went in the arena this morning to walk the