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r " f] ■ P so s« k tl a p ,,, |H ., M n HOW D0N0GHUE BECAME A JOCKEY G Twenty-three years ago a small Ik.v of thirteen. |c the son of an iron-worker of Warrington, ran away from home, writes a gossip La London Tit-Bits. Be ■ wanted to be a jockey and luckily met John I Porter, the famous trainer of famous horses. And began the turf career of Stephen Ponoghue. the i i»; leading jockey of 130, who rede lit winners during rr the season. For six yeara he has been the champion Jockej ami his earnings today cannot be much less than sximi a week. Once I asked him the secret of win M ning horse races. "A good start," he promptly r. • plied. "It is the same in horse racing as in biisi-ncss. Get first away and Jim are first past the : peat." : i Dnaogl by the way. is f 1 of football and almost every Saturday afternoon you will find him i watching the matches on the playing fields in the i suburbs of London, T
