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{{Infobox racehorse | horsename = Dorans Pride | image_name = [[File:Owner Mr T J Doran.svg|120px]] | caption = Racing silks of Tom Doran | sire = Orchestra | dam = Marians Pride | damsire = Pry | sex = [[Gelding]] | foaled = 1989 | country = [[Ireland]] | colour = [[Chestnut (horse color)|Chestnut]] | breeder = Hugh Suffern Bloodstock Ltd | owner = Tom Doran | trainer = [[Michael Hourigan]] | record = 73: 30-14-10 | earnings = £657,357 | race = [[World Hurdle|Stayers' Hurdle]] (1995)<br /> [[Drinmore Novice Chase]] (1996)<br /> [[Powers Gold Cup]] (1997)<br /> Hot Power Chase (1997)<br /> [[Hennessy Gold Cup (Ireland)|Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup]] (1998)<br />[[Boyne Hurdle]] (1995)<br /> [[Dr P. J. Moriarty Novice Chase|Scalp Novice Chase]] (1997)<br /> [[Kerry National]] (1997)<br /> [[Clonmel Oil Chase|Morris Oil Chase]] (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000) <br /> [[Lexus Chase|Ericsson Chase]] (1998)<br /> [[Lismullen Hurdle]] (1994, 1995) <br /> [[Christmas Hurdle (Ireland)|Christmas Hurdle]] (1994) <br /> [[Irish Field Novice Chase]] (1996) <br /> [[Knight Frank Novice Chase|William Neville & Sons Novice Chase]] (1996)<br /> [[Proudstown Hurdle]] (2000) | honours = | updated = July 1, 2009 }}

'''Dorans Pride''' (27 May 1989 &ndash; 13 March 2003) was an Irish thoroughbred [[Horse racing|racehorse]].

==Racing career==

Dorans Pride joined Michael Hourigan's yard in 1992 and was sold by the trainer to Tom Doran in February 1993, who gave the then nicknamed Padjo, his racing name. That season Dorans Pride won his only start in a bumper at [[Ballinrobe]].

Hurdling beckoned and Hourigan opted to start Padjo in a maiden hurdle at the [[Listowel Festival]]. He won it easily. During his next three starts he finished only second in average company but when stepped up to handicap level he claimed what later proved his greatest scalp so far, subsequent [[Cheltenham Gold Cup]] winner [[Imperial Call]].

Not having contested [[Conditions races|any Graded race]], Dorans Pride lined up for the 1994 [[Neptune Investment Management Novices' Hurdle|Sun Alliance Novices' Hurdle]] as an unfancied 14-1 shot but was disputing second with the [[Nigel Twiston-Davies]]-trained [[Corrouge]] when falling at the final hurdle. He won the [[World Hurdle|Stayers' Hurdle]] the following year.

Having resented his retirement, he returned as a 14-year-old to run in the [[St James's Place Foxhunter Chase|Foxhunter Chase]] at the 2003 Cheltenham Festival but was killed when falling at the second fence.<ref>"Hourigan has hopes crushed on day of sorrow" by Julian Muscat, ''[[The Times]]'', page 50, 14 March 2003</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20091231155555/http://www.mhourigan.ie/horses.html Michael Hourigan's tribute] * [https://www.racingpost.com/profile/horse/84735/dorans-pride Racing Post Dorans Pride file]

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