MR. ALLEN M'DONOGH. 345 



The first cap and jacket Mr. M'Donogh wore was 

 when he rode Hugo de Lacy for the Hunt Cup, at 

 Tipperary, for Mr. Doolan. He then weighed only 

 5St., and won. His first racer was a mare named 

 Gulnare. At sixteen years of age he won a steeple- 

 chase on her at Loughrea. He subsequently bought 

 Rakeaway; and he soon brought back some of the 

 purchase-money by winning £60 at Athlone, after a 

 terribly severe race of four four-mile heats. Mr. 

 M'Donogh was very ill at the time, and was so 

 exhausted after the last heat, that he had to be assisted 

 back to the scales. He rode Rakeaway in 1834 for 

 the Corinthians at Loughrea, but Avas beaten. In 

 1835, Nimrod and Rakeaway were his only horses, 

 and he steered them both for a couple of times, but 

 not to victory. In the following year, Gipsy, Orleans, 

 Sir William, and Now-or-never comprised his stud. 

 At the Curragh June Meeting, on Gipsy, los. ylb., he 

 beat Mr. Powell's Majorum in a match, two-mile heats, 

 for 50 sovs. each PP. ; and on the last day of that 

 same re-union, he defeated a large field for the Corin- 

 thians on Orleans, a horse by Alcaston, or Philip I. 

 In August, a three days' meeting was held at Howth, 

 called " The Howth Park Meeting." There were 

 four races, all run in heats, decided, and no person 

 was allowed to ride except members of the Howth 

 Racing Club, or gentlemen qualified as for the Corin- 

 thians at the Curragh. The piece de resistance was the 

 St. Lawrence stakes, of 10 sovs. each, 100 added, one 

 mile and a-half heats. The first heat was won by Mr. 

 M'Donogh on Orleans, beating the late Lord Howth 

 on Emu, after a close finish ; Mr. Parson's Persse was 

 third on Mr. Knox's Zora. The second and final 



