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Derby of 1884, thoroughly agreed with the justice of the cheering the public gave 

 him when he won on Galtee More, a race which his rival, Sam Loates, only puts 

 second to the victory of Sir Visto, which was recognised by an enthusiastic crowd as 

 a specially popular success for a Prime Minister. Sam preferred Harvester to any 

 horse he ever rode. Rickaby always liked Mimi and Canterbury Pilgrim, better 

 even than Sirenia, on whom he probably rode his best races. Troon, who was killed 

 by a fall while Tom Loates was riding him, was the favourite of the north-country- 

 man Robert Colling ; and " Tiny " White was never tired of praising Sailor Prince. 

 Kempton Cannon (whose most sensational win was Doricles St. Leger) has rarely 

 won a better fight than that against Tod Sloan for the Cambridgeshire ; he did all 

 that was possible for Mr. Leopold de Rothschild in 1902. Morny, who rode 1,524 

 winners between 1890 and 1900, made one of his best sequences during the 

 Doncaster St. Leger Meeting of 1894, when he won no less than ten events, on 

 Bushey Park, Grey Leg, and Throstle, who did not bolt, as Cannon expected she 

 would, but won the -St. Leger at 50 to i. His favourite mount was Flying Fox. 

 In 1902 he was slightly handicapped by the ill-luck of Porter's horses at Kingsclere ; 

 but he showed all his old dash and judgment on St. Maclou and William the Third. 

 The beautiful horsemanship of their father, Tom Cannon, was as well known in 

 Paris, where he won the Grand Prix five times, as in England. His first mount was 

 Mavourneen at Plymouth in 1861, who threw him over the rails and left him 

 unconscious. Being, however, only 54lbs. in weight, he rode Lord Portsmouth's 

 My Uncle to victory next day. At eighteen he scored the Cambridgeshire for the 

 Marquis of Hastings, and after that he put Shotovers Derby, three Oaks, the St. Leger 

 with Robert the Devil, and the Two Thousand to his credit. His pupil, John Watts, 

 won four Derbys and five St. Legers, besides a double victory in both the Guineas. 

 Another pupil, Sam Loates, won two Derbys, a St. Leger, and an Oaks ; and a third, 

 W. Robinson, rode Seabreeze and Kilwarlin in the St. Leger. It is probable that if 

 we combine race-riding, horse-training, and jockey-making, Tom Cannon possesses 

 about as much knowledge of all three as any other man alive. When he began to 

 learn to ride, there was fortunately no School Board, and he practically grew up in 

 the saddle, as his father was a horse-dealer. By seven he was as much at home on 

 a pony as in an armchair. Nowadays a boy can scarcely begin at all till he is 

 fourteen. In May, 1903, Mr. Brassey brought before the Jockey Club a proposal 

 made by Mr. Luscombe, which had been considered by a Committee composed of 

 Lord Marcus Beresford, Lord Enniskillen, Mr. T. H. Weatherby, and others. The 



