Dunguib (foaled 8 April 2003) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who became the second horse to complete the Cheltenham and Punchestown double in 2009 for trainer Philip Fenton and owners Daniel Harnett and Lily Lawlor.
[2] Both told Fenton that if their son of Presenting was not sold on then they would put him in training at his Carrick On Suir base in the neighbouring county of Waterford.
After that convincing victory, Dunguib was moved to the highest level to contest the Champion Bumper at the 2009 Cheltenham Festival, a race Harnett and Lawlor had dreamed of winning for some time.
[6] Having landed his first Grade 1 connections were quick to win another naming the Punchestown Champion Bumper as his next target and gave him a short break before producing him in top condition that April.
Dunguib finished first,[7] but was later found to have been running with a banned substance [8] in his system and was disqualified, awarding the race to the second home Sweeps Hill.
Despite widespread anticipation that Dunguib would win the opening race of the 2010 Cheltenham Festival the horse failed to live up to expectations on the day.
Despite quickening up the Cheltenham hill, O'Connell and Dunguib were unable to catch the Philip Hobbs trained Menorah, ridden by Richard Johnson, with Get Me Out Of Here a close second.
Immediately after the race, some commentators were quick to criticise jockey Brian O'Connell, claiming he was too inexperienced to ride the horse in such a high-profile event.
A harsh Irish winter ensured an almost blanket cancellation of all racing during November and December due to heavy rain, frozen ground and snowfalls.
At the 2011 Cheltenham Festival, Dunguib failed to produce his best form on good ground in the Champion Hurdle, finishing eighth of the eleven runners behind Hurricane Fly.
On 16 February, the gelding recorded his first win in three years when he easily defeated the 5/4 favourite Zaidpour by six lengths in the Grade II Boyne Hurdle at Navan.