 In 1967 their horse Gilmore won the Canadian Derby at Edmonton's Northlands Park.Trainer Roy Johnson campaigned horses for Golden West Farms at Woodbine Racetrack during the 1960s where they won numerous stakes races including the Coronation Futurity Stakes and the 1968 Plate Trial Stakes then Canada's most prestigious horse race, the Queen's Plate.The partnership was dissolved on the death of Max Bell in 1972.