DOGWOOD STABLE HISTORY

1971 -- Mrs. Cornwallis won one of America’s most prestigious two-year-old filly stakes -- the Alcibiades at Keeneland -- to become Dogwood Stable’s first stakes winner.

1973 -- Dogwood Farm Corporation began. The farm was located in Greenville, Georgia, while the corporate office remained in Atlanta. Built on 422 acres, Dogwood Farm had a six furlong track, a lake for swimming horses, 52 stalls in two training barns, and lay-up and breeding stock facilities.

1977 -- Dogwood Farm’s newsletter premiered in June. The first headline read, "Dogwood Stable Colt Marches Toward Belmont." The article was about the three-year-old colt Singleton, a rapidly rising Dogwood star who, at the time of the newsletter, had won five of six starts.

1978 -- The year was marked by major stakes wins. Practitioner won the W. L. McKnight Handicap, the Canadian Turf Handicap and the Hallandale Handicap. Delta Flag won the Monmouth Invitational. Also, stable favorite Dominion won the Bernard Baruch Handicap, the Rumson Handicap and the Jersey Blues. And, to round the year out in a big way, Nizon won the Premio Roma in Rome.

1984 -- "Because Dogwood’s racetrack earnings hit a million dollars for the first time in 1983, because Dogwood has enjoyed steady growth for over a decade now, and because. . .just for the hell of it, Dogwood decided to have a dance," this copy was on the front page of Dogwood’s Newsletter in March. More than 350 people, including owners of Dogwood horses, friends in the horse business and many of Dogwood’s Atlanta friends, enjoyed dancing to the music of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra at the Piedmont Driving Club.

1985 -- Nassipour won the prestigious Rothmans International Stakes at Woodbine. A year later Southjet won the race as well, giving Dogwood back-to-back victories.

1986 -- Dogwood sold the Georgia farm and moved the training operation to Aiken, South Carolina. While Atlanta continued to be home for the Dogwood office, Cot Campbell cited several reasons for moving the horses: "We have been given a rare opportunity to avail ourselves of the use of America’s finest training facilities, while at the same time streamlining and simplifying our operation."

1987 -- Inlander won an Eclipse Award for Dogwood Stable as Champion Steeplechase horse. Trained by Charlie Fenwick, Inlander’s biggest victory came in the Colonial Cup. This same year saw Southjet become Dogwood Stable’s first millionaire, with purse earnings of $1,088,442. Dogwood Stable’s office relocated from Atlanta to Aiken.

1989 -- Summer Squall, who was to become Dogwood Stable’s "Big Horse," won four stakes races during a season that saw him undefeated. He finished his two-year-old campaign with a rousing win in the Grade 1 Hopeful at Saratoga.

1990 -- Summer Squall won the Preakness Stakes, avenging his second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby two weeks earlier.

1991 -- A Year at the Races is published, a coffee table book which chronicles the ups and downs of the Dogwood Racing Stable and highlighted by Summer Squall. The book is written by Robert and Joan Parker, with photographs by William Strode.

1992 -- Cot Campbell was the recipient of the John W. Galbreath Award for "exceptional entrepreneurial and management skills" in the equine industry.

1993 -- The Dogwood Dominion Award was established to honor racing’s "unsung heroes." The winner receives a $5,000 check and a bronze statue of Dominion (Dogwood Stable’s wonderful runner) during an annual luncheon in Saratoga Springs.

1994 -- Dogwood Stable was leading owner of the Saratoga meet! Wild Escapade won the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes by five lengths.

1996 -- Storm Song won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies stake on October 26. The talented daughter of Summer Squall was also named North American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly.

1997 -- Dogwood Stable had its fourth Kentucky Derby entry with Jack Flash. Also that year, Dogwood’s champion filly Storm Song was sold at Keeneland’s November Sale and topped the sale with a final bid of $1,400,000.

1998 -- Early Warning became Dogwood Stable’s 50th stakes winner when he won the Discovery Handicap on October 28 at Aqueduct.

2000 -- Our sprint star Trippi finished the year with $620,500 in earnings, with seven wins (five graded stakes), and represented Dogwood in both the Kentucky Derby and the Breeders' Cup. Impeachment was the only three-year-old to compete in all of the Triple Crown races. The stable compiled $2,112,021 in purse earnings for the year! Cot Campbell's Lightning in a Jar was published by Eclipse Press, a division of The Blood-Horse.

2001 -- Two-year-old Smok'n Frolic ran in seven stakes, winning three and placing in two others, and finished the year with $342,744 in purse earnings. Distilled won the Illinois Derby, and Amaretta, Finality, Trippi, Whitewashed, and Windsor Castle are stakes placed. By year's end, Cot Campbell's Lightning in a Jar was into its second printing and he had begun work on a second book, Rascals and Racehorses...A Sporting Man's Life (published in the summer of 2002).

2003 -– Dogwood Stable set a new earnings record of $2,204,564. Smok’n Frolic became the stable’s fifth millionaire and finished the year with $1,276,500 in career earnings. There were seven stakes winners during the year—Smok’n Frolic, Heckle, Limehouse, Fond, Finality, Hypnotist, and Windsor Castle. Cot Campbell is honored for his "outstanding contributions to racing" with the Clay Puett Award during the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program’s 30th annual Symposium on Racing.

2004 -- The Thoroughbred Club of America names Cot Campbell its 2004 Honor Guest. Dogwood's millionaire mare, Smok'n Frolic, brings $1,250,000 during Keeneland's November Breeding Stock Sale (she retires with earnings of $1,534,720). Campbell is also named Chairman of the Sales Integrity Task Force and in a December press conference at Keeneland Race Course the committee releases its Code of Ethics. Limehouse wins two graded stakes and finishes fourth in the Kentucky Derby - and he is one of six graded stakes winners for the year (Smok'n Frolic, Fond, Departing Now, Speedy Deedy, and United are the others).

2005 -- Dogwood breaks the earnings record set in 2003, with a year-end total of $2,688,782! Limehouse becomes Dogwood's sixth millionaire with his win in the Grade 2, $250,000 Brooklyn Handicap at Belmont Park on June 11. The colt retires after the Breeders' Cup with career earnings of $1,100,433, after winning stakes in all three years of his career. Limehouse will begin his breeding career at Vinery (Lexington, KY) in 2006. Twelve horses are stakes winners (Limehouse, Vicarage, United, Drum Major and Summer Rainbow) or stakes-placed.

2007 -- Cot Campbell is inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame. His third book, the autobiography Memoirs of a Longshot...A Riproarious Life, is published in April.