Source:  News Release/Colin McClelland (edited)

TWOMEY TRIUMPHS AND BREEN MAKES IT AN IRISH HAT TRICK
AT HORSE OF THE YEAR SHOW

THIRTY-five year old Billy Twomey chalked up Ireland's second win at the 2012 Horse of the Year Show in Birmingham this afternoon (Saturday) riding Sally Lane's Dutch-bred mare Wings Sublieme.

The Cork native, one of eight through to the jump-off at the indoor arena, finished with well over two seconds in hand in the final round, leaving French rider Eugenie Angot and the bay mare Atlete van't Heike in the runner-up spot.

Co. Down's Dermott Lennon took Ireland's first win at this year's British event on Friday, steering the Irish Sport Horse Loughview Lou Lou to victory in the morning's speed competition, while Tipperary's Shane Breen and Ominerale Courcelle claimed third place.

Twomey had also finished second in Thursday's Welcome Stakes at Birmingham with the grey mare Molly Malone V.

TIPPERARY rider Shane Breen made it a hat trick for Ireland Saturday night when he won the Accumulator competition with his own stallion Balloon at Birmingham's Horse Of The Year Show.

Breen saw off competition from British challenger Guy Williams and Larino, who trailed the Irish rider by almost one-and-a-half seconds at the finish.

In the same competition Anthony Condon kept Irish presence to the fore with a fifth place on Sue Davies's Irish Sport Horse Special Lux.

Breen's win came immediately after Cork rider Billy Twomey claimed victory in the jump-off competition at the British event Saturday evening with Sally Lane's Dutch-bred mare Wings Sublieme.

Co. Down's Dermott Lennon took Ireland's first win at this year's British event on Friday, steering the Irish Sport Horse Loughview Lou Lou to victory in the morning's speed competition, while Tipperary's Shane Breen and Ominerale Courcelle claimed third place.

Birmingham's Grand Prix takes place on Sunday night.

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