Ascot Race Course 



the Ascot Stakes and Queen's Plate in 1865, Her Majesty's 

 Plate in 1867, and the Alexander Plate in 1869. 



Tom Cannon was born at Eton in 1846. He rode his 

 first race in i860, at Plymouth, in the Saltram Handicap^ 

 his mount being a filly named Mavourneen, which fell 

 whilst running. In the same week he rode Lord 

 Portsmouth's My Uncle, and won the race. His talent 

 soon attracted plenty of employers, and particularly Mr. 

 J. Day, who afterwards became his father-in-law. Among 

 innumerable feats of clever horsemanship may be cited his 

 riding of Petrarch for the Ascot Cup. Few jockeys have 

 had better luck than T. Cannon, extraordinary successions 

 of winning mounts having fallen to him on various 

 occasions. In his long list of Ascot victories the Gold 

 Vase figures twice, the Coronation Stakes twice, and 

 the Gold Cup in four consecutive years, from 1879 to 

 1882 ; while in 1880 and 1882 he also won the Ascot 

 Derby. 



In the ten years from 1870 to 1880, the chief place 

 is taken by ¥. Archer, of whom an account is given 

 below. The lesser lights of the racecourse are increasingly 

 numerous, as will be seen from the following list : — New- 

 house (7), Rowell (Gold Cup, 1870), W. Gray (4), Wheeler 

 (4), G. Jarvis (i), Jewitt (2), Lowe (1), Busby (2), T. 

 Jennings (i), Ashworth (i), W. Clay (i), Griffiths (2), 

 Glover (5), Loates (1), Hopkins (3), Harding (i), Dodge 

 (i), Morgan (i). Carver (i), Clement (i), W. Johnson (i), 

 Kellet (i), Luke (4), J. Macdonald (i), Morgan (i). 

 F. Webb won the Hardwicke Stakes three times, and 

 also the Gold Cup, Ascot Derby, Queen's Stand, and 

 several other races. Amongst Constable's eighteen suc- 



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