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...best in the country." Like New York City's Koch, Schaefer is a lifelong bachelor who returns his city's enthusiasm with total attention and visceral emotion. He will storm, fume and curse when he feels Baltimore's interests have been slighted. He cheers frenetically at Colt and Oriole games. He hoards trinkets and tokens from municipal events. Schaefer has never left his birthplace and still shares a West Side row house with his mother Tululu, 86. Even his education was home grown...
...obscure colt upsets a famed favorite in the Belmont
...built his stable into one of New York's best. In 1970 he won more races than any other trainer in the state and, by shrewdly picking up future winners in claiming races, kept improving his record. In 1971 he broke into the big time with a colt named Jim French, which finished in the money at the Derby, Preakness and Belmont. Then it was discovered that the colt's hidden owner was Robert Presti, who had been banned from racing in New York State for alleged connections with the Mafia. Stewards for the New York Racing Association...
Thus Campo was a controversial figure long before he rudely announced after the Wood Memorial in April that his colt would win the Kentucky Derby because the rest of the field was "a bunch of garbage." The remark was vintage Campo. He refuses to make his sentences parse or his opinions palatable. He also pre-empts criticism about his appearance (5 ft. 7 in., 250 Ibs.) by proclaiming himself the Fat Man. Says one New York trainer: "He's got a huge chip on his shoulder, an inferiority complex that he defends by putting on a superiority complex...
...Still, a colt like Pleasant Colony is a once-in-a-lifetime creature, a rare congruence of speed, stamina and heart. The racing world was surprised when the relatively unknown son of His Majesty took the Derby (1¼ miles). Horsemen conceded him the shorter Preakness (1 3/16 miles) but are now murmuring that he will fade in a race as long as the Belmont (1½ miles). Not Johnny Campo. He has no doubt that Pleasant Colony will become history's twelfth Triple Crown winner. The rapid-fire, near-shout Noo Yawk accent softens only when he speaks...