Campfire (horse)

Campfire
Sire	Olambala
Grandsire	Ornus
Dam	Nightfall
Damsire	Voter
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1914
Country	United States
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Richard T. Wilson, Jr.
Owner	Richard T. Wilson, Jr.
Trainer	Thomas J. Healey
Record	14: 7-3-0
Earnings	$54,135
Major wins
Saratoga Special Stakes (1916) Sanford Stakes (1916) Hopeful Stakes (1916) Great American Stakes (1916) Belmont Futurity Stakes (1916) Toboggan Handicap (1917)
Awards
American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1916)
Last updated on February 22, 2010

Campfire (1914–1932) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Bred and raced by the co-owner and president of Saratoga Race Course, Richard T. Wilson, Jr., he was sired by Wilson's Olambala, a multiple winner of important races including the Latonia Derby and Suburban Handicap who also sired several top runners including the multiple Handicap winner Sunfire and 1922 Belmont and Preakness Stakes winner Pillory. Campfire was conditioned for racing by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer T. J. Healey.

Racing at age two in 1916, Campfire joined the great filly Regret as only the second horse to win all three Saratoga Race Course events for two-year-olds: the Saratoga Special Stakes, Sanford Stakes, and Hopeful Stakes, in which he defeated Omar Khayyam. Winning all three races was not matched for another seventy-seven years, when Dehere did it in 1993 followed by City Zip in 2000. In addition, Campfire won the Futurity and Great American Stakes at Belmont Park. He was leading money winner among all American horses in 1916 irrespective of age. His outstanding year led to his being retrospectively named American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt by The Blood-Horse magazine.