SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2018 SMALL TIME GOES BIG DOGWOOD FOUNDER By Lucas Marquardt COT CAMPBELL DIES Ocala horseman Bert Pilcher figured out a clever way to breed a Breeders' Cup favorite. Take a free mare, a free stallion season, foal an undersized pocket rocket dismissed by many, and turn loose one of the fastest horses we've seen in some time. That's the story of Imperial Hint (Imperialism), who has belied an unfashionable pedigree to become a dual Grade I winnerYand the early choice to go one better than his second in last year's GI Breeders' Cup Sprint. "This little horseYhe's a dream," Pilcher said of Imperial Hint, who is owned by Raymond Mamone and trained by Luis Carvajal, Jr. "We went to the Breeders' Cup with him last year and he ran his heart out, that little son of a gun. He's a real tough competitor." Cont. p4 Cot Campbell & Mike Smith following Palace Malice=s IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Belmont Victory in 2013 |Courtney Heeney/NYRA MAGNA GRECIA IN CHARGE AT DONCASTER Lifelong horseman W. Cothran Campbell passed away Saturday Invincible Spirit’s Magna Grecia takes out the G1 Vertem afternoon at his home in Aiken, South Carolina. He was 91. The Futurity Trophy S. under Donnacha O’Brien. Click or tap here founder of Dogwood Stable, and widely considered the to go straight to TDN Europe. progenitor of present day racing partnerships, Campbell developed the reputation of turning modestly priced horses into winners. Born Sept. 27, 1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Campbell began syndicating horses in 1969 shortly before launching the Dogwood partnership in Georgia. Based in Aiken, South Carolina since the mid-1980s, Dogwood Stable became irrevocably bound to the Palmetto State through the decades. With over 80 stakes wins to its credit, Dogwood campaigned a bevy of graded stakes winners, including Classic winners Palace Malice (Curlin), winner of the 2013 GI Belmont S., and 1990 GI Preakness S. hero Summer Squall (Storm Bird). Additionally, Dogwood developed a pair of champions--the outstanding juvenile filly of 1996 Storm Song and Inlander, 1987 American Steeplechase Horse of the Year. The operation also raced Grade I winners Nassipour (Blushing Groom {Fr}) and Southjet (Northjet {Ire}) and graded scorers Smok=n Frolic (Smoke Glacken), Limehouse (Grand Slam), Trippi (End Sweep) and Aikenite (Yes It=s True). Cont. p3 HIP 178 COVER SONG IN FOAL TO DUBAWI The BEST COMBINATION of AGE, PEDIGREE, ABILITY, and COVERING SIRE EVER OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION. 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However, he continued to campaign horses in subsequent years. AI=ve had an absolutely wonderful life,@ Campbell told the Aiken Standard in May. AA hell of a lot of it is due to the lady I married [Ann Campbell]. And a hell of a lot of it is due to the horses. My career in racing has taken me to Japan and Dubai, and all over Europe. I=ve done business with the Aga Khan, Queen Elizabeth and Sheikh Mohammed. My life has been adventurous, glamorous, exciting and tumultuous. And no one could be more aware of it and more appreciative.@ Cot and Ann Campbell |Sarah K. Andrew Campbell, who was honored as a >Pillar of the Turf= during his induction to the National Museum of Racing=s Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs this past August, has amassed an impressive string of honors and accomplishments during a career that spans a half century. A member of The Jockey Club, Campbell was the 2004 Thoroughbred Club of America=s Honored Guest and that same season, was a Saratoga Walk of Fame honoree. He was the Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce=s Man of the Year in 2006 and the following year, was inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame. Awarded an Eclipse Award of Merit in 2012, he was named the Aiken Standard Person of the Year in 2013. AI=m honored to be a Pillar of the Turf and I=m flabbergasted to be a Pillar of the Turf,@ Campbell said during his Hall of Fame induction in August. AMuch of my superb life is due to racing horsesYI am probably the only person in this buildingBor maybe this townBwho ever saw Man o= War. I want to thank Man o= War because he lit the fuse that caused me to pursue this wonderful life.@ Following almost five decades in operation and having TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • OCTOBER 28, 2018 Small Time Goes Big cont from p1. awestruck. "Really, truly, I'm not going to lieCit freaks me out when I see it because I think, >How is he doing that to those kind of horses?'" Pilcher said. And to think Pilcher bred Imperial Hint almost by accident. Ocala RootsY Bert Pilcher is an Ocala hardboot, if there ever was one. His father was a groom at Ocala Stud and Bert grew up learning the ropes from some of Florida's best horsemen. The Pilcher family founded Shade Tree Thoroughbreds, a small farm located 20 miles northwest of Ocala, in 1980. Click to watch Lucas Marquardt=s video on Bert Pilcher "We built the barns, the fences, everything, and we've raised horses here for that length of time," said Pilcher. "It's been a fun Yes he is. Beaten a length by eventual champion Roy H (More life doing something that you like, because I really enjoy horses. Than Ready) in the 2017 Sprint, Imperial Hint has bounced back It's a job, and it takes a lot of time, but there's a lot of with a sparkling 2018 campaign. He's gone four for five on the satisfaction in it when you get a good horse." year, and his last two winsCa first Grade I win in the Alfred G. Pilcher thought he had the horse of a lifetime when he came Vanderbilt S. at Saratoga July 28 and a second in the Vosburgh S. up with Three Rules (Gone Astray), who in 2016 won his first at Belmont Sept. 29Cwere accomplished with dominant ease. five races, including three straight Florida Sire Stakes. Three Imperial Hint earned a 108 Beyer in the Vanderbilt, and he Rules ran sixth in that year's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile at 7-1, surely would have shaded 1:08 in the Vosburgh had he not been and last year was third in the GII Fountain of Youth S. That may taken in hand in the final sixteenth. not seem like a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but for a Imperial Hint's recent humbling of his rivals leaves Pilcher blue-collar horseman, Three Rules was a dream come true. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • OCTOBER 28, 2018 ultimately, was the verdict. Even Mamone, down one day in search of young runners with his trainer, Luis Carvajal, Jr., initially wasn't convinced, according to Pilcher. Carvajal, on the other hand, liked what he saw when Imperial Hint breezed past. "Mr. Carvajal really liked him," said Pilcher. "He said, >He's built and he's got a good stride on him. We ought to get this horse.'" The price, later estimated to be around $25,000 by Mamone, would be a terrific bargain.