Pleasant Colony trainer John Campo, 67
Posted: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005 6:47 amJohn Campo, a New York-based trainer for three decades who saddled Pleasant Colony, the winner of the 1981 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, died on Nov. 13 at his home in Hewlett, N.Y. He was 67.
His death was announced by his son Paul, who said he had been treated for diabetes and strokes.
Campo was a brash presence on the New York racing scene, a high school dropout known as the Fat Man (he was 5 feet 7 inches and 250 pounds or so) who roamed his barns in T-shirt and baseball cap, puffing on cigars.
“He’s by Damon Runyon out of a Don Rickles mare,” the actor Jack Klugman once said. … Read full obituary
