IN a notable double for Ireland, today (Sunday) saw two major international wins when Trevor Breen claimed the famous Hickstead Derby for the second year in a row and 19-year-old Bertram Allen and Molly Malone V won the Geesteren Grand Prix in the Netherlands.

Tipperary native Breen, who last year won the Derby on the one-eyed Adventure De Kannan, today took an early clear round with Patricia Brown’s Irish Sport Horse Loughnatousa WB and then had to watch 30 other competitors attempt to come home with a matching zero score.

Loughnatousa WB previously won the Hickstead Derby in 2012 with Waterford rider Paul Beecher.

Breen also competed Adventure de Kannan in the Derby, effectively jumping against himself, but Karen Swann’s 2014 hero had two rails down to finish further down the field.

With no other clear rounds recorded in the competition, Breen took home Hickstead's Boomerang Derby Trophy and the €42,000 winner’s prize, with Cork’s Billy Twomey coming closest to his fellow countryman with just four faults on Diaghilev, finishing in equal second place.

Afterwards Breen said: “It’s amazing to win this famous competition two years in a row. I was very nervous at the end, as the last few horses came out, and my fingernails were bitten right down. Loughnatousa B was magnificent, and he’ll have a couple of weeks off now."

At Geesteren, Wexford teenager Bertram Allen jumped what looked like an almost effortless two rounds in the Netherlands Grand Prix with Ballywalter Farms’s mare Molly Malone V, speeding home in the 13 horse jump-off in a blistering 42.79 seconds. Austria’s Julia Kayser came closest to Allen with the stallion Sterrehof’s Cayetano Z, but was over four seconds off the pace of the world’s number five-ranked rider.

Allen collected a Mercedes CLA car as his prize for the Grand Prix victory.