SPORTING

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1934, Page 6

SPORTING

| STEVE DONOGHUE'S SUCCESS

i WINS EUROPE'S CLASSIC- RACE

Press Association —By Electric | ; Telegraph—Gopyrigh fcl

LONDON; June 24,

I The -“Daily-Telegr-aphV’ Paris correspondent says : One of the greatest, strokes of luclc in h 1 s long-career came to Steve- D’onoghne to-day-.- • Hd flow to Paris" on v a : “bnshmdn’s ■ holiday” to see the • Grind Pm. -He had no mount-. Iffd.''watched: a- couple of- races from 'fihe stand; 1 then the' owner-tnainr of Admiral Drake, - who 'had planned for an apprentice to -Tide - the-- horsey besought Donoghue -to take - the mount; i Steve- T'ode - -great vT-ceV an d ‘won ihei .greatest nice on the Continent, on the-h-orse’which finished last-in-th 6 E-ilg-lishDerbyy

S The Grand Pvix resulted ; ! Admiral'Drake rridden by .Steve:-DonO-ghne'T by - V-at-ard 2 ; ©astxmk ridden 'by.' Gordon 'Richa-r-ds 1: 3.; Seventeen 'started'.'; Won' by - a length find- la half, with' the- same distance between' second and:, third,f The 'crowd -’was '-well- behaved -ard the Services of' the' extra police-were not- required. , ;