Mornington Cannon

Herbert Mornington Cannon, known as Morny Cannon, lived from 21 May 1873 to 1 June 1962 and was a six time champion jockey in the United Kingdom in the 1890s. Born in Houghton, Hampshire on the day his father, the jockey and trainer Tom Cannon, won on a colt named Mornington, he rode his first public mount in 1886 and won his first race shortly before his fourteenth birthday in May 1887. By 1900 he had won 1,542 races. His most famous mount was Flying Fox, on which he won the St Leger Stakes, the 2,000 Guineas and the Epsom Derby of 1899 to take the British Triple Crown. He holds the records for most wins in the Craven Stakes, Coronation Stakes and Prince of Wales's Stakes, and in 1894 he won ten races at the Doncaster St Leger meeting. He was admired as a master of style.