Word: steves
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...sons of great men begin life under a handicap. They know that they are expected to do badly so that the older generation can use the phrase, "He's not the man his father was." Who would expect, say, the son of Steve Donoghue, England's greatest jockey to be able to ride? Or, if he could ride, who would expect him to win a horserace? And even if he won a horserace, who would expect him to win it on a 100 to 1 shot while his father, badly beaten, came tottering in unplaced...
Jockey Donoghue has a son, Pat by name, 15 by age. He can ride horses. The horse he rode last week was W. J. Belleroy's King of Clubs, the race the Lincolnshire Handicap. Steve Donoghue, on Argeia, came in unplaced...
...brought to the scene by a fleet of ten special airplanes, looked for a safe bet; Americans wandered about, each followed by a pickpocket. All Paris was thinking about two gray horses, one of which was pretty sure to take the Grand Prix-the swift Chubasco, the staunch Belfonds. Steve Donoghue, famed British jockey, up on Aquatinte, was liked next best...
...Queen Mary's Stakes. The Coronation Stakes were captured by Lord Astor's Saucy Sue and the all-important Ascot Gold Cup with a money prize of $20,000 was carried off by Andrew Barclay Walker's Santorh, ridden by that most famed of British jockeys, Steve Donoghue, six times a winner of the Derby...
...caused a slight depression on the Exchange. Lords and ladies, Knights and gentlemen, they saw pictures that pleased them-suave specimens of super-photography in oil, executed by the hand of man, unassisted by any machine. Sir John Lavery's adept portraits of George Bernard Shaw, of Jockey Steve...