CASHEL-born Shane Breen scored a win at the three-star fixture at Lummen in Belgium last Saturday, as his new partnership with the gelding Guidam Van Het Achterhoek continues to impress.

The pair had recorded two runner-up placings at the beginning of April during the Hardelot three-star show in France. They went one better in Lummen, recording their first win since Breen took up the reins on the son of Wandor Van De Mispelaere at the start of March this year.

The 1.45m Longines ranking class in Lummen saw a huge field of 87 horses and riders reduced to 23 for the jump-off, with Breen coming out on top with the 10-year-old Guidam Van Het Achterhoek.

Breen had three-tenths of a second to spare over runner-up Bert Prouve, while Britain’s Joe Clayton finished third. Clayton later scored a win in a 1.40m speed class with the Irish Sport Horse Millioninmind, a nine-year-old gelding by Ard VDL Douglas out of a Glidawn Diamond dam, who was bred by Anthony Doherty in Co Donegal.

Tipperary’s Greg Broderick took sixth place in the same class after a clear round with Zuidam.

Derek McCoppin added to Irish prize-winnings with a sixth place finish aboard the Irish Sport Horse VDL Cassius in last Friday’s 1.40m, while Edward Doyle and Chirokko M finished seventh in a 1.45m a day earlier.