Fiona Dowling
Committee Member

Fiona is from Listowel in Co. Kerry. Fiona completed The Irish National Stud course in 2007 and then worked for Gordon Elliott for many years at the start of his training career. During this time Fiona led up Silver Birch to win the 2007 Aintree Grand National and also held an amateur licence riding two winners on the point-to-point circuit. Following this Fiona spent time working in the thoroughbred industry in America, New Zealand, Australia and the UK and completed the Horseracing MBA from the University of Liverpool in 2019. Fiona previously set up Horseracing Degree programmes at Hartpury University in the UK and was Education Manager at The National Stud in Newmarket. Fiona now works at RACE in Kildare and also spends time in Co. Cork where she aims to expand a small National Hunt breeding operation.