Dylan Browne McMonagle

Dylan Browne McMonagle was reported to be in good spirits on Wednesday after his heavy fall at Bellewstown the previous evening that saw him taken to hospital. The Irish champion jockey was thrown from the fatally-injured Mosel in the opening contest, with the meeting subsequently being abandoned after an unrelated incident in the second race saw two further fallers. Speaking on the Nick Luck Daily Podcast, Dr Jennifer Pugh, chief medical officer for the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), said, "Dylan had a good night. Obviously, it was a significant...

Racing at Bellewstown was abandoned on Tuesday after the first two races on the card each saw heavy falls, with Irish champion jockey Dylan Browne McMonagle said to be facing "a number of weeks" on the sidelines after his mount, Mosel, came down in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Maiden which kicked off proceedings. Mosel was beginning to mount a challenge when she fell approaching the final furlong, with a delay then following as Browne McMonagle was initially tended to on the track, before ground staff began their...

Not content with a Curragh five-timer on Saturday, Dylan Browne McMonagle carried over his streak to Deauville on Sunday when guiding Defiantly (Kameko) to a dominant win in the G2 Sumbe Prix Kergorlay. Sent to the front from the break, Australia Bloodstock's impressive Goodwood Handicap winner kept it honest throughout the 15-furlong test and as a result took the high-class mare Santorini Star (Golden Horn) and the 2024 and 2025 winner Double Major (Daiwa Major) out of their comfort zones. At the line, the margins were 5 1/2 and five lengths,...

Joseph O'Brien can do no wrong this year and the irresistible momentum continued to The Curragh on Saturday with a one-two in the G2 Alpha Centauri Debutante Stakes led by The Thoroughbred Racing Corporation's Green Empress (Saxon Warrior). Held up early by Dylan Browne McMonagle, the 11-4 second favourite who had been second to Sun Goddess in her maiden and the Airlie Stud Stakes was delivered late to swamp Ballydoyle's front-running 4-6 favourite Alpha (Sea The Stars) and stablemate Dancing Destiny (Magna Grecia). At the line, she had a neck...

Only the second runner in the Juddmonte silks to emerge from Joseph O'Brien's Owning Hill stable, Monogram (Kingman) gave all the right vibes on Saturday to become the sire's 39th TDN Rising Star, Presented by Hagyard. Heavily-backed into 4-6 for The Curragh's Coolmore Stud St Mark's Basilica Irish EBF Maiden, the son of the Prix des Reservoirs and Athenia Stakes winner Pocket Square (Night Of Thunder) was slowly away from his wide stall and forced to race in rear throughout the early stages under a visibly confident Dylan Browne McMonagle. Still with...

Ryan Moore returned after a 20-year break to win the Alistair Haggis Silver Saddle during Saturday's Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup. He led all riders with 47 points, and, alongside Dylan Browne McMonagle and team captain Saffie Osborne, secured the victory for Team Great Britain and Ireland with 81 points. Moore also won the Silver Saddle in his Shergar Cup debut in 2006. A three-time UK champion jockey, Moore finished in the first three in four of his five rides, winning the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Challenge on Asgard's...

The Glorious Goodwood euphoria didn't last long, did it? By Monday morning, the Jockey Club had announced its intention to join Ascot and Plumpton in discontinuing its membership of the Racecourse Association (RCA) at the end of this year. The Jockey Club's portfolio of 15 racecourses spans the length of England, from Carlisle down to Exeter, with the 'crown jewel' tracks of Epsom, Newmarket, Sandown, Cheltenham and Aintree in between. Once you add in the heft of Ascot, it's not simply a matter of there being more than a quarter...

The Joseph O'Brien show carried over to Saturday at the Qatar Goodwood Festival as Goodie Two Shoes (Fastnet Rock) conjured a last-gasp success in the feature G2 Qatar Lillie Langtry Stakes. Thrust a fraction of a nose in front of Santorini Star (Golden Horn) on the line by Dylan Browne McMonagle, the mare capped a stellar week for the combination who have also been enjoying the rub of the green at the Galway Festival. Also delivering a landmark first win at this meeting for J P McManus, the 8-1 shot...

Lining up for Thursday's G3 Gordon Stakes as the one potential improver, Enceladus (Sea The Stars) justified market support to continue the unstoppable momentum of Joseph O'Brien and Dylan Browne McMonagle and provide another Glorious Goodwood winner in the famed Niarchos silks. Mastering Royal Ascot's always-competitive King George V Handicap last month at the expense of the impressive subsequent scorer Al Azd, the 6-4 favourite travelled smoothly throughout and had first run on Geryon (Lope De Vega) approaching the final furlong. At the line, the homebred son of the Grade...

Shapoor Mistry's Oaks heroine Thundering On (Frankel) has been withdrawn from  Saturday's G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks at The Curragh. Reportedly off her feed on the morning of the Classic, her absence means that Wathnan's Ribblesdale winner Earth Shot (Time Test) is the likely favourite, with Dylan Browne McMonagle also likely to switch to Joseph O'Brien's second-string Johanna Walsh (Sea The Stars) who was second behind that William Haggas-trained rival at Royal Ascot.  

Jaber Abdullah's Star Of State (State Of Rest) shaped with a deal of promise when runner-up at Fairyhouse last week and the Joseph O'Brien-trained G2 Debutante nominee was an odds-on chance to break through in Thursday's Irish EBF Median Sires Series Maiden at Leopardstown. The €85,000 Tattersalls Ireland September graduate did just that, and then some, when outclassing 10 rivals in hugely impressive fashion to become her Rathbarry Stud-based first-crop sire's second winner and first TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard. "We liked her going to Fairyhouse, we were very...

Shapoor Mistry's G1 Oaks heroine Thundering On (Frankel) will face nine rivals in Saturday's G1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh after declarations for the Paddy Power-sponsored 10-furlong contest were confirmed Thursday morning. The Joseph O'Brien trainee will depart from stall seven, which also housed last year's victrix Whirl (Wootton Bassett) and Mistry's O'Brien-trained 2021 winner Thundering Nights (Night Of Thunder). She will be partnered by Dylan Browne McMonagle and accompanied by Carriganog stablemates Wemightakedlongway (Australia), runner-up in last year's G1 Irish Oaks, and Nyra (Isfahan), who ran third in...