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Inside Track: Steel-Driving Man

Inside Track: Steel-Driving Man

There must be steel coursing through the veins of the Campbell family. Three generations of these steel-driving men have been blacksmiths, shoeing some of the finest Thoroughbreds on the East Coast.

 Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Retired Blacksmith Combs Dead

Herman Wesley Combs, a blacksmith for a number of prominent horsemen in the 1950s to the 1990s, died in Miami Feb. 10.

 Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Kentucky Blacksmith Errol Bradford Dead

Longtime Kentucky farrier Errol Bradford of Rabbit Hash, Ky., died Feb. 20 after a six-month battle with cancer.

 Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Blacksmith Elmer Campbell dead

Charles E. "Elmer" Campbell, a member of a respected family of blacksmiths that worked for generations at East Coast racetracks, died Jan. 31 at his Miami home. He was 83.

 Thursday, February 01, 2007