orkers in most occupations get 
     
     i 2/ very little recognition for per— 
     
     forming their daily duties. This 
     
     axiom applied to Winston "Soupie" 
     
     Campbell. a transplanted Prince Edward 
     
     Islander, in the standardbred industry. In 
     
     fact, he may have been the best kept 
     
     secret on Prince Edward Island. In his 
     
     own inimitable manner, this multi-talent- 
     
     ed trainer/driver/blacksmith plied his 
     
     trade for four decades at racetracks on 
     
     both sides of the 49th parallel. For years, 
     
     Soupie was a regular during Old Home 
     
     Week at the Charlottetown Driving Park 
     
     in his trademark orange and black driving 
     
     colors. He could boast four appearances 
     
     in the prestigious Gold Cup and Saucer, 
     
     one with King Mike and three with Maple 
     
     Groz'eSbac/oa'. Active until his death. his 
     
     stable was based at Scarborough Downs 
     
     in Maine. Because of illness, he left most 
     
     of the driving to his son Drew. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Soupie grew up on Park Street which is 
     
     literally only a matter of yards from the 
     
     Charlottetown Driving Park. He ex— 
     
     plained, “I lived next door to the race- 
     
     track. I think I spent more time there 
     
     than I did in school. At age 15. I was 
     
     walking horses for Len O'Meara, Elwood 
     
     Shaw and Don Seaman." The first horses 
     
     that he worked around were Anthony L, 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     I’lloto: Gordon Slaunwhite 
     
    
   
   
    
     jnsl Betty's Mar/e, Real Fingo and Babe 
     
    
   
   
    
     Briz‘fon. The first horse that he jogged 
     
     was Freddy Scott for Len O’Meara. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Soupie served his apprenticeship and 
     
     was gaining valuable lessons from talent— 
     
     ed horsemen like Walter Craig, his broth— 
     
     er John “Buddy" Campbell, Elwood 
     
     Shaw. James "Roach“ MacGregor. Len 
     
     O‘Meara and Don Seaman. He stated. “I 
     
     admired all of them and learned different 
     
     things about horses from each of them. I 
     
     believe Walter Craig was one of the best 
     
     around. I remember that Don Seaman‘s 
     
     Stable was always clean and tidy. My 
     
     brother, 
     
     Elwood Shaw at that time and I learned 
     
     from both of them.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Buddy was working with 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1937. Soupie arrived home from 
     
     Montreal and got his first job working in 
     
     the Clark Smith Stable where the horses 
     
     by Stanley Mayhew. 
     
     Shortly after, in 1959 at Sackville Downs 
     
     in Nova Scotia. the Winston Campbell 
     
     Stable was started modestly with a few 
     
    
   
   
    
     were owned 
     
    
   
   
    
     horses owned by Stanley Mayhew. 
     
     Soupie's first boarders were Bla/ee 
     
     Hanover. Gene 1. Scotl. Polonaise, Gliding 
     
     Billy and Donley Darnley. After Lower 
     
     Sackville, his stable would move to such 
     
     places as Moncton and Saint John in the 
     
    
   
   
    
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