In the heyday of the mid-1980s, Dogwood Stable had fun with a whimsical marketing campaign center around its own sheikh....
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Cot offers a reminder on why good farm workers are so valuable and why bad ones need to be sent on their way....
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Cot Campbell extols the virtues of jockeys who possess a command of both language and diplomacy....
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Cot recalls a communication breakdown that derailed a French trainer's pitch to sell a filly by Northern Dancer....
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On the occasion the heart overrules the head, Cot thinks of Pipedreamer....
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Crooked Is As Crooked Does...
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The Washington D.C. International used to be a major event for socialites in the nation's capital. In 1984 the decorum and grandeur of a pre-race celebration got completely turned upside down by the enthusiasm of a diplomat's Irish Wolfhound. ...
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What makes a great racehorse? Legendary jockey Bill Shoemaker boiled it down for Cot Campbell in the saddling paddock at Hollywood Park in 1984....
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Cot Campbell relives the "disputed" purchase of a Northern Dancer colt in 1988....
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Back in the early days of 1975, we were making some headway. But we badly needed more outside (non-Dogwood) clients for training. The big breakthrough came, but not without its price....
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Cot Campbell kicks off his next series of stories from the world of Thoroughbred racing. Campbell recalls an attempt to woo the business of a Saudi prince with a homespun dinner that goes horribly wrong....
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Cot Campbell tells of his incredible ride with Palace Malice (not over yet)....
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Mickey Rooney, star of National Velvet and other racing pictures, was a savvy horse player and a stockholder in Santa Anita....
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Alfred Vanderbilt enjoyed playing tennis with me. The reason he enjoyed it is that he was a very bad tennis player, and he sought the company of others of equal ability. I fit the bill. He liked ladies — in every sense of the word, I'm sure — so it was usually mixed doubles at Saratoga. Typical of Alfred it suited him to play at public courts rather than the tonier Saratoga Golf and Polo Club, where...
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Fred Hooper understood livestock, liked racing, followed bloodlines and really did have an authentic eye for an equine athlete....
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When the legendary English jockey Lester Piggott walked into a paddock, or anywhere, you knew "somebody" had arrived....
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No one had a more impish, rapier-like wit that fueled an endless supply of deliciously spicy anecdotes than the renowned president of Fasig-Tipton....
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Trainer Doug Davis made everyone's life more interesting. He was a big man with a thunderous voice and a gaudy appetite for life....
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Horatio Luro was the larger-than-life trainer of Northern Dancer and many other stakes winners....
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Cot Campbell tells stories of renowned Hall of Fame trainer MacKenzie "Mack" Miller....
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Cot Campbell tells the tale of Leslie Combs and Los Angeles socialite Dolly Green during a high-flying evening at the 1980 Keeneland July yearling sale....
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Cot Campbell gives a behind-the-scenes look at the career of trainer Buddy Raines....
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Cot Campbell tells the tale of how father-son training team Ben and Jimmy Jones' got drawn into a "agreement" with notorious gangster Al Capone....
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Cot Campbell recalls the antics of renowned trainer Angel Penna....
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Cot Campbell shares tales of larger-than-life Kentucky owner/breeder Warner Jones....
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