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DEATH OF SAM PICKERING Notable English Trainer Passes PassesOn On Scored Many Important ImportantTurf Turf Triumphs SPECIAL CABLEGRAM LONDON England June 4 Sam Picker ¬ ing the Newmarket trainer died last night at the age of 62 years He had been ill fcr several months with complications following a severe attack of influenza The veteran horseman was of an engaging and jovial disposition and one of the most popular trainers on the English turf He will be greatly missed missedPickering Pickering saddled the winners of many of the most important stakes He won four Liverpool Cups with China Cock in 1913 1914 and 1915 He trained Goldenrod for victories in the Stewards Cup in 1910 and 1912 In 1914 he prepared Outram for his Lincolnshire Handicap victory Pickering also trained winners of the Defiance Hunt Cup Brighton Cup lotkey duly Cup Good ¬ wood Plate AJcxandix Plate Doncaster Cup Cambridgeshire CiSy and Suburban Handicaps Chesterfield Cui stnd numerous other small handicaps Pkkerin trained among many otlicr gosd horses Gamnerin Abbotts Trace Vole and Velocity The tatter died after one season in the stud i