Racing still remembers Steve Donoghue with a race named in his honour, the Apprentices Handicap.

Appropriate that the venue should be Epsom, where he rode six Derby winners over a decade, including a treble with Humorist, Captain Cuttle and Papyrus, and two years later he scored on Manna, who sired Manitoba, a highly successful sire when standing at The Nook, Nagambie, in Victoria.

Donoghue was also the regular rider of The Tetrarch, who had a short but outstanding career; his rider claimed he had never ridden a horse with so much power behind the saddle.

The Tetrarch, (the spotted wonder), remained unbeaten after seven races, claimed as the fastest in the world, proved a very successful sire.