SHANE Breen shared the top spot in last Friday’s Grandstand Media Five Fence Challenge with Britain’s Holly Smith and Helen Tredwell at the 2017 Horse of the Year Show at Birmingham’s Genting Arena.

The thrilling class featured a course of five fences which began at a height of 1.40m and continued through to four rounds when the fences stood at a massive 1.80m. Similar to a Puissance competition, the competition could only go to five rounds, with the fences getting bigger each time, and a fence down or a refusal signalled the immediate ringing of the bell and riders could not continue.