NOTED JOCKEY
WOULD LIKE TO RIDE PHAR LAP Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. AGUA CALIENTE, January 10. Steve Donoghue and Michael Beary, the British jockeys, were guests of honour at the track on Sunday. Donoghue said that the stress placed in the United States on the speed of horses and tracks militated against jockeys in England, where stamina in horses was valued more and racing was more of a sport and loss of a commercial venture than here. As a result horses carried much more weight in big races. When he was asked whether he would like to ride a horse in the Agua Callente Handicap Donoghue said he would if it could bo arranged. Discussing rumours that he had been asked to ride I'har Lap in the handicap on March 20, he said: “ I have not been asked to ride Phar Lap, and 1 am duo back in England on March 15, but if 1 am asked to, and Sir Victor Sassoon, for whom I ride, will grant an extension of my vacation, I will do en 11
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Evening Star, Issue 20998, 12 January 1932, Page 4
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177NOTED JOCKEY Evening Star, Issue 20998, 12 January 1932, Page 4
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