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Brandon Cavanagh
By: 22639 Date: July 25, 2012, 10:14 pm
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Full Name:Brandon Shea Cavanagh
DOB: 08/26/1994
Sex: Male
Hair color: Brown
Eye Color: Hazel/Green
Height: 5'9”
Weight: 170 lbs
Nationality: Irish
Residence: Ireland
Personality: Outgoing, happy go lucky, yet, he can be
philosophical and serious when the situation calls for it. He
is confident with a boyish humility. He is goal oriented and
focused when it comes to going after those goals. He is
respectful of his elders and to all females...no matter their
age or station. He is athletic and played on his high school
soccer team all four years. He loves horses and has been around
them and riding since he was a toddler. He has 3 first place
trophies for the Grand National Steeplechase.
History: Brandon was born and raised in Ashfort, Ireland on a
small but profitable farm. When he was five years old his
father, Erin Cavanagh, won a thoroughbred mare in a poker game.
When Erin brought the mare home, Brandon fell in love with her
and named the sorrel mare, Eirean after a fairy in one of his
favorite children's stories. It was on the third time Brandon
rode Eirean when they made a discovery about the horse. Brandon
had gotten her into a full gallop in the sheep pasture but when
he began to approach the four foot rock wall that separated the
Cavanagh's sheep pasture from their neighbor's and he pulled
back on the reins, Eirean got control of the bit on her mouth
and no matter how hard Brandon pulled back on the reins, the
mare would not stop. Instead she soared over the wall...much to
Brandon and his onlooking parent's surprise. Brandon hung on
until Eirean landed on the other side of the wall, then he was
jolted out of the saddle and landed, face down, in the
neighbor's blackberry bushes. But in those few seconds that he
was soaring over the wall on the mare's back, he discovered what
he thought was heaven. He made up his mind that he was going to
learn to ride the jumper so they could fly over every wall,
fence, log and stream in the county.
When Brandon was 12, he rode in his first steeplechase He and
Eirean's replacement, Liath Saoirse (Gaelic for Silver Freedom),
a dapple gray Kinskey gelding took third. They continued to
ride in as many steeplechases as they could enter and when
Brandon was 14 he and his Kinskey qualified for their first
Grand National Steeplechase in Aintree, England. They took
second that year but they took first the following year.
Oir Strioc (Golden Streak), a Palomino colored half Thoroughbred
and half Arabian gelding, replaced Brandon's Kinskey after Liath
Saoirse began to show signs of arthritis setting into his joints
when Brandon was 16 and he and his golden colored jumper took
first place in the next two Grand Nationals.
After his first place win when he was 17, Brandon was invited to
be on the Olympic Steeplechase team for the United Kingdom and
he was ready to go when their plow tractor fell off of its
blocks when Erin was working on it and crushed him. There was
no way that Brandon could leave his mother to tend to the farm
all by herself so he declined the Olympic invitation and stayed
home to work the farm. Four months later, Shiobhan Cavanagh,
Brandon's mother, who had been pregnant at the time of her
husband's accident, had a miscarriage, which was caused from the
over work and emotional upheaval, and she began to hemorrhage
The doctors were unable to stop it and Shiobhan joined her
husband in the Afterlife. In order to pay the bills that had
accumulated, Brandon had to sell the farm. He managed to live
off what was left until he landed a job working for The
Smaragaid Parthas Ranch in Raheen, Ireland, 121 miles away.
Played by Mary
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