Steve Donoghue

Steve Donoghue
Steve Donoghue on the Epsom Derby winner, Manna
Occupation	Jockey
Born	8 November 1884 Warrington, Cheshire, England
Died	23 March 1945 London
Major racing wins
British Classic Race wins as jockey: 2000 Guineas (3) 1000 Guineas (1) Epsom Derby (6) Epsom Oaks (2) St Leger Stakes (2)
Racing awards
British flat racing Champion Jockey 10 times (1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923)
Significant horses
The Tetrarch, Pommern, Gay Crusader, Humorist, Captain Cuttle, Papyrus, Manna, Brown Jack, Exhibitionnist

Steve Donoghue (8 November 1884 – 23 March 1945) was a leading English flat-race jockey in the 1910s and 1920s. He was Champion Jockey 10 times between 1914 and 1923 and was one of the most celebrated horse racing sportsmen after Fred Archer, arguably only Sir Gordon Richards eclipsing him.

Stephen Donoghue was born in Warrington, Cheshire, England. His father was a steel-worker and the family had no racing connections. At the age of twelve he left home and decided to become a jockey after winning a prize for riding a donkey at a circus. Donoghue was apprenticed to John Porter when he was 14 years old, but ran away after being beaten for allowing a horse to get loose on the gallops. After working as an apprentice and work rider at two other British stables he accepted an offer to ride in France. In 1905 he won his first winner at Hyères, before moving to Ireland in 1907 and returning to England in 1911.

Donoghue accepted the post of stable jockey to Henry Seymour "Atty" Persse at and had his first major successes in 1913 on the outstanding two-year-old The Tetrarch. In the following year he rode 129 winners to claim the first of ten consecutive jockeys' championships.

His greatest triumphs came in the Epsom Derby which he won six times. The three consecutive wins in the early 1920s - on Humorist (1921), Captain Cuttle (1922) and Papyrus (1923) - were the high points. He was also associated with the horse Brown Jack - who he rode to six consecutive wins in the Queen Alexandra Stakes at Royal Ascot.