‘I’d have won if my leg wasn’t broken!’ Top rider jumps clear with fractured fibula

Hickstead-based Irish showjumper Shane Breen finished fifth in a 1.45m five-star showjumping class in Saint-Tropez on Thursday (12 September) — only finding out later that he’d been riding with a broken leg.

Shane, who turns 45 today (16 September), had been warming up the 10-year-old mare Evita when the accident happened at the Longines Global Champions Tour event in the South of France.

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Article written by Jennifer Donald