Eire’s 2d group rider Trevor Breen produced a sensible transparent on his championship debut using his home-bred Highland President on the Eu Showjumping Championships on the San Siro racecourse in Milan, Italy (30 August-3 September).
The Sussex-based Irishman described the accomplishment as “very particular”.
The in-form duo put a dramatic slip at the back of them to put up an impressive transparent in 80.05sec to stay Eire seeking a medal.
“It’s all the time great to get underway with a transparent so we’re off and working now and confidently we will stick with it,” mentioned Trevor, who adopted pathfinder Michael Duffy’s transparent on Cinca 3. “We wish to stay in there at the hunt for a medal. In order that used to be an excellent get started.
“I’d similar to to were a bit faster – I simply had a slip turning again to the wall, which clearly misplaced somewhat of time, more than likely a 2d. It made me pass one additional stride to the water, which wasn’t the plan. So I more than likely used to be round a few seconds slower than I deliberate to be.
“However pay attention, I’m transparent, and the pony feels nice so we’ll take that to tomorrow.”
From home-bred to Eu Showjumping Championships
Highland President is an 11-year-old gelding by means of Clinton out of a Kannan mare and used to be bred by means of the fogeys of Trevor’s spouse Caroline, Heather and Ian Black.
“We bred him all the ones years in the past so you might want to say I do know him lovely neatly!” mentioned Trevor, who in reality discovered his team-mate Denis Lynch’s experience Vistogrand for his brother Shane Breen.
“It’s lovely particular, slightly romantic even, to get a horse that you simply’ve bred all of the approach to the championship. However he’s been a super horse – he’s by means of Clinton, so he generally is a little bit sturdy every now and then. However you understand when he will get to the leap that he’s extremely cautious and has quite a lot of scope. So it’s a excitement to experience him.
“I took him as a nine-year-old to Vilamoura with a view that we’d executed all of the two-stars in England and I’d examined him as much as that stage. With Brexit it’s so pricey to shuttle now. He stepped up the most productive of all my horses and jumped his first International locations Cup there and he used to be double transparent and we received.
“I all the time had prime hopes for him and I sparsely produced him alongside the best way, however I all the time had one thing like this earmarked for him. It’s very particular.”
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