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...Lucien Laurin, who later would leave his mark on racing history as the trainer of Secretariat, Triple Crown winner in 1973. Then Campo worked as a groom for Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, trainer of Triple Crown legends Gallant Fox (1930) and Omaha (1935). Finally Campo joined the stables of Eddie Neloy, trainer of the great handicap horse Buckpasser...
That was Campo's big break. He started as a groom, and after four years Neloy promoted him to assistant trainer -and full-time protégé. In hopes of smoothing some of Campo's rough edges, Neloy went so far as to enroll him in a Dale Carnegie course. That effort failed. Though Campo could never acquire the social skills of the racing swells, he learned well the lessons of the barn and backstretch. Says Trainer Woody Stephens: "Johnny was a very hardworking guy. Eddie gave him his first push when he sent...
Died. Eddie Neloy, 50, one of the winningest trainers in horseracing history; of a heart attack; in Elmont, N.Y. At 14, Neloy ran away from the slums of Chicago's South Side to become a jockey. "How was I to know," he later sighed, "that I was going to grow up to be 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 lbs.?" Neloy took a $5-a-week job as a groom. He was hired by the Phipps family and wound up training such moneymakers as Successor and Buckpasser. In 1966 Neloy earned a record $2,456,250 for the Phipps...
Died. Gladys Mills Phipps, 87. grande dame of U.S. thoroughbred racing; in Westbury, N.Y. The wife of Financier Henry Carnegie Phipps, she founded her Wheatley Stable in 1929, hired such famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Bill Winfrey and Eddie Neloy, and bred and raced a long list of champions. The greatest of her stallions was Bold Ruler, which grossed $764,204, winning 23 out of 33 races, then became the sport's leading stud from 1963 to 1969, with progeny that won purses of more than $12 million...
...sense, it was the coup de grace for mighty Buckpasser. Soon after the race, Trainer Eddie Neloy announced that the strapping horse would run no more, would retire to stud in Kentucky. It seemed a sound decision. Since early last year, Buckpasser has been afflicted by painful cracks in his right forehoof; this year, the condition became chronic, and without making excuses, said Neloy, "it definitely compromised his abilities in the Woodward...