Dont Go Yet

The detail that really makes this horse interesting is what happens when the rain arrives. On wet or muddy ground, Dont Go Yet transforms: 3 wins from just 8 races in those conditions, meaning it wins roughly 1 in every 3 starts when the ground is soft. That is a dramatic difference from its overall figures and tells you exactly what the team at Edward Cawley's Batterstown yard in Co Meath will be watching when they check the weather forecast. Finding the right conditions is clearly central to getting the best out of this horse.

And that approach is still working. Dont Go Yet won at Wexford as recently as St Patrick's Day 2026 — just two months ago — and raced again only yesterday. At an age when most horses have long since been retired to a field, this one is still knocking on the door regularly. The first win came at Navan back in March 2022, so this is a horse that has been producing the goods across multiple seasons without any sign of calling it quits.

Philip Byrnes has ridden the horse in five of its races and won on it once — a 20% win rate, or 1 win in every 5 rides, which actually compares well against the horse's overall record and suggests the partnership has something to it. With Cawley's yard having sent out three winners already this season, there is clearly some momentum behind the operation. If the clouds gather and the ground rides soft, Dont Go Yet remains very much a horse worth watching.