Break My Soul

The seven-year-old has won 3 times from 17 races, which works out at roughly 1 in every 6 — a solid but not spectacular headline figure that does not quite capture how her career has actually unfolded. She came to the yard having already won a point-to-point, but her first season did not go smoothly. Donoghue is candid about that: things did not go according to plan early on, but once the team resolved a few issues, she finished the season with two victories that he described as "extremely easy." One of those was her first career win at Chepstow in April 2024. That matters, because it tells you this is a horse whose ability was always there — it just needed the right conditions to show itself. And those conditions, Donoghue is clear, include fast, dry ground.

Her recent form makes for interesting reading. In her last six races the results run 2, pulled up, 3, 7, 4, 1 — which looks patchy at first glance, but the Gowran Park win at the end of that sequence was the one that lit up the yard. Donoghue admits he had wanted to go straight over fences but was talked out of it by his brother Keith. He is now backing his own judgement, planning to keep her to two miles over fences and willing to take on male horses to find the right races. That is not a throwaway comment — it signals a trainer who believes he has something genuinely good on his hands.

Her most regular jockey has been Nico de Boinville, who has ridden her in 7 of her 17 races and won once together, a 14% win rate or roughly 1 in every 7. The horse raced just one day ago and remains active, so this is a profile still being written. With a trainer this enthused and a horse whose best racing appears to be coming over fences, the next chapter looks like the most interesting one yet.