Steve Donoghue

Steve Donoghue (8 November 1884 to 23 March 1945) was a leading English flat race jockey of the 1910s and 1920s. Born in Warrington, Lancashire, to a steel-worker father with no racing connections, he left home at twelve and was apprenticed at fourteen to John Porter. He rode his first winner at Hyères in France in 1905, spent time in Ireland, and returned to England in 1911. As stable jockey to Atty Persse at Stockbridge he had early success on the two-year-old The Tetrarch in 1913. Donoghue was Champion Jockey ten times between 1914 and 1923 and won the Derby six times, including three in a row on Humorist, Captain Cuttle and Papyrus from 1921 to 1923. He was also closely associated with Brown Jack, winner of six consecutive Queen Alexandra Stakes at Royal Ascot.