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I . I I j ; s Noel Cannon, British Trainer, Succumbs J Sent Out Winner of St. Leger J And Newmarket 1 ,000 Guineas s j Special to Daily Racing Form SALISBURY, Wiltshire, England, May 14, Reuters. Noel Cannon, who trained horses in Britain over a stretch of twenty five years, died today in Salisbury Infirm- i ary at the age of sixty-one. He had been j seriously ill for over a year. Cannon was a cousin of the great Vic- torian Jockeys, Mornington and Kempton. i He was also a member of one of British Racings most famous families and was the i last of his line to be connceted professionally with the sporfc He assisted his brother J for several years before he set up as a 1 public trainer in 1933. Two years later he became a private trainer to the late J. V. Rank at Druids Lodge near here; one of the best equipped training stables iii the i world with 3,400 acres of land. When Rank died in 1952 he had ninety-eight horses at Druids Lodge. On Ranks death, the establishment was purchased by the late Jack Olding, tractor firm chief, and last year it was sold to Felix Fenston for areport .60,000. Training stables have now been closed. Among the best horses that Cannon trained were Scottish Union, winner of the Doncaster St. Leger in 1938. Also the former hurdler, Epigram who took the Good-i wood Cup, the Doncaster Cup and the Queen Alexandra Stakes at Ascot the same year and Festoon, winner of the Newmarket One Thousand Guineas in 1954.
