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in the long-run. A very fine horseman and a very bold 

 rider is Cannon, and on the Epsom Course he always shines, 

 having no fear of the dangerous Tattenham Corner. At the 

 start in sprint races he is second to none. 



H. O. (" Otto ") Madden, who is a few months older than 

 Cannon, was born in Germany, and only made his first 

 appearance as a jockey in 1891. In that year he rode four 

 winners, and in the following year he had the same total, 

 while in 1893 the number was increased to seven, and in 

 1894 to eleven. Madden was then a light-weight and little 

 known; but in 1895 ne g ot a great deal of riding, and at 

 the end of the season had amassed the respectable total 

 of fifty-five wins. In the two following years he showed 

 consistent improvement, and in 1897 he came out at the 

 head of the poll, having had one hundred and sixty-one 

 successful rides, or eighteen more than T. Loates, who held 

 second place. Madden can go to scale at about 7 st 5 Ibs., 

 so that he gets an enormous amount of riding, and he can 

 now fairly claim to be one of the best half-dozen English 

 jockeys. He is a most determined finisher, and as bold as 

 a lion. He will dash for an opening apparently without the 

 slightest thought of fear, and most certainly his Oaks victory 

 on Musa was entirely due to the push he made when he 

 saw that Corposant was in trouble. It is this fund of 

 resource which has really brought Madden so quickly to the 

 front. He won the Derby on Jeddah in 1898. 



The brothers Sam and Tom Loates* are very good, and 

 indeed if it came to a question of whether Watts, Cannon, 

 Madden, S. Loates, or T. Loates were really the best, each 

 one of the five would probably have as many admirers 

 as the others. Sam Loates is thirty-eight years old and 

 T. Loates three years younger, and both have been riding 

 since they were old enough to be entrusted with a horse. 

 Sam rode Harvester when he ran a dead -heat with St. 

 Gatien in the Derby, and he also won the Blue Ribbon 

 on Lord Rosebery's Sir Visto. The Two Thousand has 



* As Tom Loates definitely retired from public riding towards the close of 

 the flat-racing season of 1900, my references to him must be considered as 

 dealing with the past. 



