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I " f ■ ™ L t h ;. n j i, in n d v !- e ■- .- n ■- y is s i- s u . " at t . * „ , p ,1 "i J : of .f y e ,. E is d i- »- ie I. be ie •I up J 3 „ ,. •j - TOM CANNONS FINE JOCKEYSHIP. If a hundred students of turf history were asked I ! to name. say. the half-dozen finest horsemen of the liast century it is fairly safe to assert that seventy- ! live would include Tom Cannon among their little . lot. And the remaining twenty-five would not find it easy to account for the omission of his name. But that point need not be pressed over much. Suffice it to suggest that Tom Cannon was a flue rider. Tom Canon, senior — for it must not be forgotten i that the younger memlicr of the family bearing the uame is still much alive — was Itorn at Eton, o:i tlie ; fields of which the battle of Waterloo is said to [ have been won. on an April day nearly seventy r years ago, and his riding career extended over thirty years, during which period he rode numerous im- Kirtant winners, classic and otherwise, His first classic success was scored in the One „ Thousand of 18M on Lord Hastings Repulse, and j he won this particular race on two subsequent occa- _ sions. Pilgrimage 1S78 and Busylwdy UNS4 be- ing the winners. He won the Two Thousand on , four occasions — on Pilgrimage in 1S7S, Shotover in , 1N.S2. Enterprise iu I.NN7. and Enthusiast in 1SS1. In the last-named instance it was a case of the inferior horse being successful, for there is little , J doubt that Itoncvan, which was beaten a head, was much the better colt. But while Tom Cannon on Mr. Douglas Bairds son of Sterling rode one of f his finest races. Fred Barrett on Donovan did not. The Duke of Portlands colt took a spacious re- 1 venge subsequently, however. lie also won the Oaks on four occasions. Sir r V. Johnstones Brigantine 1869 was the first of his . winning mounts in the Oaks. Then followed Marie . , Stuart 1S73». Geheimuiss 1S82, and Busybody 11884. lie was less fortunate in the Derby and I St. Leger. though he managed to win each of these l events once. The former race he won on Shotover. I the second of the Duke of Westminsters four Derby winners, the daughter of Hermit defeating Quick- line bv three-qua iters of a length, with Sachem , third and the favorite. Bruce, which subsequently . . won the Crand Prix de Paris, fourth. Cannons St. Icger success was achieved on Robert the t licvil, which decisively turned the tables on his g Derby conqueror. Bend Or, which failed to obtain , a place. Cannon was again on the back of "Robert" when he wop the Cesarewitch. while he also won the long- " distance handicap on the French Tenebreuse. Other J handicap triumphs were scored on Iroiiomy and J LAliUsse de Jouarre in the Manchester Cup, the Cambridgeshire on Ackworth. and the Stewards Cup on Sweetbread. And these are only a few. He won the Grand Prix de Paris on no fewer than i five occasions, and the French Derby once. As an owner he won the City and Suburban with Reminder, and but for the intervention of Sir Visto , would have won the Derby with Curzon. For the e rest he was the father of Tom. junior, Mornington I and Kempton Cannon, all of whom have played more e than I minor part iu turf affairs.— London Sporting . "te-
