The John B. Campbell Handicap is an American thoroughbred horse race run annually at Laurel Park Racecourse, in Laurel, Maryland, United States.
Run in mid-February, it is open to horses age three and older and is contested on dirt over a distance of 1+1⁄8 miles (9 furlongs).
The race was named for John Blanks Campbell, an internationally noted racing secretary and the handicapper who set the annual Experimental Free Handicap weights, who died at age 77 on July 7, 1954.
[3] After the inaugural running, the race was set for the spring of each year beginning in 1955.
During the mid-1950s and 1960s the race was won by outstanding horses such as Sailor, Dedicate, Mongo, and the great U.S.