Mike Campbell Racing Stable

September 28, 2006

Mike Campbell Racing Stable will be starting Kid Grindstone in the Grade II - $500,000 - Hawthorne Gold Cup on Saturday, Sept. 30 as well as No Tolerance in the Grade III - $150,000 Robert Carey Memorial Hdcp. at Hawthorne Race Course.

Lil Tree set a new track record for 5 1/2 furlongs on the dirt at Arlington Park for The Easy Money partnership - Jesse Campbell up. He ran in 22:0 - 44:32 - five furlongs in 56:19 (Wow!) and finished in 1:02:47. Congratulations!!!

September 4, 2006

Kid Grindstone won "The Minneapolis Stake" for Wexler Racing Stable, Jesse Campbell up.

July 8, 2006

Kid Grindstone won "The Dr. Fager" Stake at Arlington Park for Wexler Racing Stable, Jesse Campbell up. First start back in 3 months. Great Race.

May 29, 2006

No Tolerance won "The Mister Gus" Stake at Arlington Park for The Easy Money, 2006 LLC partnership. 1 mile on the turf - wire to wire - Jesse Campbell up.

April 12, 2006

"Kid Grindstone" WON

The Fifth Season Stake at Oaklawn Park

Grade III - $100,000

for Mr. Avers Wexler - Jesse Campbell up

About Mike Campbell

Mike grew up in northern Wisconsin on a horse farm (the same area that produced Wayne Lukas and Don and Linda Rice), watching my grandfather train horses and observing as his father took up the reins - jockeying in Florida, Kentucky, Illinois and Iowa. He loved everything about the racetrack lifestyle and learned the game from the ground up - caring for the horses, grooming, feeding and riding "as soon as I was big enough to climb aboard". He attened college for two years, but gave up the books for the saddle and began a career as a jockey.

Mike enjoyed immediate success as a rider, but an unfortunate accident at Oaklawn Park shortened his riding career. He turned in his whip for a condition book, and began training horses in 1974. He got started by conditioning a stable of three for his father but his stable grew quickly the next couple of seasons. He won the 1979 training title at Thistledown in Ohio and moved his horses to compete in Chicago on a full time basis in the early 1980s. He won the 1993 Gold Digger Stake at Hawthorne with First Flag, and the 1995 Illinois Fillies Stallion Stake Final with Shannon's Innocent. Mike's wife Janice also holds her trainers license and the two operate a public stable. The Campbell's formed "Get In The Picture Stable" parnterships in 2004 with the goal of brining new owners into thoroughbred racing. In 2004 the first "Get In The Picture" parntership brought in 35 new owners, they raced 5 horses for the partners with 8 winners, 9 seconds and 7 thirds. The 2005 "Get In The Picture" partnership has 45 owners, they are racing 6 horses with 11 winners, 3 seconds and 7 thirds through October 2005.

Their twin sons, Jesse and Joel, are both very successful jockeys. Jesse plies his trade in the Chicago area, always among the leading riders at Arlington Park and Hawthorne Race Course, while Joel is one of the top jocks at both Turf Paradise in Arizona and Prairie Meadows in Iowa.