Ian Patrick Donoghue

Downpatrick Fri, 18th Sep, 2026  Sea Of Doubt She eventually put her jumping together. I think it was August here last year, we thought she was a certainty in a handicap chase and she unseated Keith (Donoghue) at the fourth. She's a good, fun mare. I was just saying that's her 19th run for us, and she has only been out of the prize money five times and two of those were unseats. She's a great mare, she's not over-big. We knew they would go hard, so I said to Conor to take his time and just concentrate on getting her jumping. Fair chance she will come back here in October. She's back in a 0-100 hurdle as well, so she could come back for that.

Fri, 18th Sep, 2026  Sea Of Doubt She eventually put her jumping together. I think it was August here last year we thought she was a certainty in a handicap chase and she unseated Keith (Donoghue) at the fourth. She's a good, fun mare. I was just saying that's her 19th run for us, and she has only been out of the prize money five times and two of those were unseats. She's a great mare, she's not over-big. We knew they would go hard, so I said to Conor to take his time and just concentrate on getting her jumping. Fair chance she will come back here in October. She's back in a 0-100 hurdle as well, so she could come back for that.

Downpatrick Mon, 31st Aug, 2026  Beggars Rock I'd say the ground maybe turned up too slow (in Galway). I didn't even want to run him again after Galway and the owners said we will give him one more go. He's after winning two, thank God. He got it handy there in front today, his jumping is very good. I was worried that he was down in trip, but we were hoping Finnians Row would go a gallop and make it a test and he didn't, but Kevin was good on him. I was watching and at the fourth-last I was saying, 'Go on, kick him on!', and he wasn't. I’m delighted for the owners. I'd say we might end up coming back over hurdles the next day (in Downpatrick) - he's rated 100 over hurdles. I had him in at Fontwell on Friday and I was going to bring him and the English handicapper gave him 8lb, so I didn't bother. He repaid us there. I rang the boys and they let me go to Downpatrick instead, and it worked out.