On Sunday, July 30, harness racing’s richest driver, John Campbell, who recently announced his retirement from driving, will have his final career drive during Clinton Raceway’s Legends Day.
For the past 40-plus years, most of us in the Standardbred industry have had the pleasure of watching Campbell drive. The I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club wants to hear about your favourite John Campbell race, memory or interaction. Was it a Breeders Crown Championship, a North America Cup victory, did you meet John at an event, or did he drive one of your horses?
In 250 words or less, tell us about one of your favourite John Campbell memories or experiences. (Photos can also be included)
The deadline to enter is June 29, 2017. Entries can be sent to: [email protected]
The winner will receive their choice of a special Legends Day package ($25 betting voucher, two tickets to the chicken BBQ, a photo with John and some FC swag) or a $50 gift card for the racetrack of your choice and a FC prize package.
The Hall of Fame reinsman has career earnings of $299 million from more than 10,600 victories in his four decades of driving. He has led all North American drivers in earnings 16 times and has won every major race in the sport -- including a record six Hambletonians –- at least once.
John Campbell guides L A Delight to victory in the 2016 Jugette
His remarkable career on the racetrack saw him elected to the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 1990 at age 35, the youngest person so honoured and the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1987. He was voted Stanley F. Bergstein-Proximity Achievement Award Winner in 2012; voted U.S. Harness Writers Driver of the Year in 2006 and W. R. Haughton Good Guy in 2002; the Harness Horse Youth Foundation Service To Youth honouree in 2003; awarded a Meritorious Service Medal for his commitment to harness racing by the Governor General of Canada in 2000 and is president of the Grand Circuit and a director of the Little Brown Jug Society.
Campbell was elected as the Hambletonian Society's next president and chief executive officer in a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors at the winter board meeting held this past March in Boca Raton, Florida. He will replace current president Tom Charters effective July 1, 2017.