Soupi ampbell

i Maritimes and Rockingham, Foxboro, Lincoln and Scarborough in the United States. For many years he always man- aged to move his stable to Charlottetown during Old Home Week for the Gold Cup and Saucer festivities. In 2002 and 2003 Soupie operated out of Scarborough Downs, Maine with his son, Drew who did most of the driving.

“I just kept on going, hoping to get it over,” were the words Soupie used to describe his first lifetime race. He was 17 at the time and he was driving Bla/ee Hanover, a trotter owned by Stanley Mayhew. He remembered that he was nervous and that he finished second in 2:12 at Sackville Downs. His first win came shortly after with a nondescript mare, Coronation Lass which was also owned by Stanley Mayhew. Soupie appreciated and thought the world of Stanley Mayhew who played a major role in his career and that of many other fine horsemen as well. Coronation Lass was his first victory but there would be almost 1,800 more trips to the winnes’ circle on both sides of the 49th parallel. His fastest win was with Sberwooa’Abe in 1:55 at the new track near Moncton, New Brunswick. That was quite a trip with one of the most popular horses ever to race in the Maritimes.

In a career that spanned more than four decades, this veteran horseman was asso— ciated with hundreds of horses but who were his most memorable horses? King Mi/ee was a beautiful black stallion and

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the star in the Campbell Stable during the 1970s. Soupie co—owned him with the jandy Stable. He did well in the Gold Cup and Saucer, Robbie Keizer and other Maritime feature races. “Greenie Dean kept me alive for years in Maine. He was on the board in most of his races and he earned enough for my co-owner John De Salle and me to buy six or seven more horses,” explained Soupie. Maple Grove Shadow cleaned up in colt stakes action and raced in the Gold Cup and Saucer three times for the Maple Grove Stable on P.E.I. Diller Dean was a great old horse that he co—owned with the jandy Stable. Gliding Billy was one of the first horses he had for Stanley Mayhew and he was a capable trotter. Soupie took Mayhew’s trotter, Higbley’s Way to Rockingham where he had to compete against the pacers because he was too good for their trotters. Muriel Mayhew's Royal Showers took a record at age 14 at Scarborough Downs and Soupie hated tO quit with him that year. He raised and raced Dusty Treasure for his daughter, Vonda until Dusty was claimed at age six. There were many other exceptional and memo— rable horses in the Winston Campbell Stable for some great owners and Soupie was appreciative of the opportunity to have been associated with them.

Soupie told an interesting story about the acquisition of his favorite horse, King Milee. He related, “The jandy Stable and I bought him in Rockingham for the Robbie Keizer at Sackville Downs in the early 1970s Billy O’Donnell showed me