“WHAT started off the whole thing was when my parents brought me to the Dublin Horse Show one year. We sat up in the stands and watched Eddie Macken jump a clear round and they won the Aga Khan that year, and I remember saying to my parents coming home in the car, I definitely want to do that some time.”

That day triggered Shane Breen’s dreams of riding on an Aga Khan team in the famous RDS arena. And he has conquered that dream, twice.