MANY congratulations to Dylan Browne McMonagle who rode his first Group 1 winner at the Curragh last Sunday.

The Co Donegal native, who was well-supported at Headquarters by family and friends, landed the Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes for two-year-olds on the supplemented entry Al Riffa (9/1) who brought up a double for the jockey’s boss, Joseph O’Brien.

A Wootton Bassett colt out of the Galileo mare Love On My Mind, Al Riffa had finished second in a Curragh maiden in mid-July before gaining his winning bracket at the same venue early the following month. McMonagle had been on board the French-bred bay in both of those starts which had also been over seven furlongs.

Speaking to irishracing.com, O’Brien said of the jockey: “Dylan has been riding very well for the last number of years. He won on this horse and he was entitled to keep the ride on him. I thought he gave him a marvellous confident ride and he has a big future.”

This was Browne McMonagle’s 34th winner of the Irish season while he also partnered one winner in Britain.

In a period when many meetings across the water were cancelled due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, there was little jockey news.

35th winner

On the level, Patsy Cosgrave recorded his 35th winner of the campaign when landing the concluding extended mile and six handicap at Doncaster on Sunday on the Jim Boyle-trained Going Gone; on Monday, following the six-furlong handicap, Paddy Mathers visited the winner’s enclosure at Thirsk on the Rebecca Menzies-trained Cheese The One; while Martin Harley was on the mark the following day at Yarmouth where he won the opening five-furlong handicap on the Dark Angel filly Chanson d’Amour who is trained by Peter Charalambous and James Clutterbuck.

Over jumps, Brian Hughes landed the extended two-mile handicap chase at Worcester on Monday on the Laura Morgan-trained Clear The Runway before bringing his seasonal tally up to 73 with a double on Wednesday at Kelso. There he won the near two-mile, six-furlong handicap chase on the Menzies-trained Raecius Felix and, half an hour later, the two-and-a-quarter-mile handicap hurdle with Genever Dragon, who is trained by Donald McCain.

Danny McMenamin was also on the mark at that Scottish meeting when coming from last to first from two out to land the two-mile, five-furlong handicap hurdle on the Dianne Sayer-trained The Navigator.