# Dorans Pride

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Irish racehorse

Dorans Pride Racing silks of Tom Doran Sire Orchestra Dam Marians Pride Damsire Pry Sex Gelding Foaled 1989 Country Ireland Colour Chestnut Breeder Hugh Suffern Bloodstock Ltd Owner Tom Doran Trainer Michael Hourigan Record 73: 30-14-10 Earnings £657,357 Major wins Stayers' Hurdle (1995) Drinmore Novice Chase (1996) Powers Gold Cup (1997) Hot Power Chase (1997) Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup (1998) Boyne Hurdle (1995) Scalp Novice Chase (1997) Kerry National (1997) Morris Oil Chase (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000) Ericsson Chase (1998) Lismullen Hurdle (1994, 1995) Christmas Hurdle (1994) Irish Field Novice Chase (1996) William Neville & Sons Novice Chase (1996) Proudstown Hurdle (2000) Last updated on July 1, 2009

**Dorans Pride** (27 May 1989 – 13 March 2003) was an Irish thoroughbred [racehorse](/source/Horse_racing).

## 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](/source/Ballinrobe).

Hurdling beckoned and Hourigan opted to start Padjo in a maiden hurdle at the [Listowel Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Listowel_Festival&action=edit&redlink=1). 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](/source/Cheltenham_Gold_Cup) winner [Imperial Call](/source/Imperial_Call).

Not having contested [any Graded race](/source/Conditions_races), Dorans Pride lined up for the 1994 [Sun Alliance Novices' Hurdle](/source/Neptune_Investment_Management_Novices'_Hurdle) as an unfancied 14-1 shot but was disputing second with the [Nigel Twiston-Davies](/source/Nigel_Twiston-Davies)-trained [Corrouge](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corrouge&action=edit&redlink=1) when falling at the final hurdle. He won the [Stayers' Hurdle](/source/World_Hurdle) the following year.

Having resented his retirement, he returned as a 14-year-old to run in the [Foxhunter Chase](/source/St_James's_Place_Foxhunter_Chase) at the 2003 Cheltenham Festival but was killed when falling at the second fence.[1]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** "Hourigan has hopes crushed on day of sorrow" by Julian Muscat, *[The Times](/source/The_Times)*, page 50, 14 March 2003

- [Michael Hourigan's tribute](https://web.archive.org/web/20091231155555/http://www.mhourigan.ie/horses.html)

- [Racing Post Dorans Pride file](https://www.racingpost.com/profile/horse/84735/dorans-pride)

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