Cool Papa Bell, named after a great star of baseball's Negro Leagues who is widely considered to have been one of the fastest players ever, looked like his namesake in Saturday afternoon's $1 million Hambletonian for 3-year-old open trotters at the Meadowlands, getting up after angling out off an inside trip and springing the biggest upset in the history of the classic event. Sent off at 52-1, Cool Papa Bell stopped the teletimer in a career-best 1:51 3/5 to give Todd McCarthy the victory in his first Hambletonian drive and trainer Jim Campbell a sweep of both the Hambletonian and Hambletonian Oaks. Starting from post six, Cool Papa Bell took back off the gate and settled in eighth while Marcus Melander-trained Joviality S (Brian Sears) and Temporal Hanover (Orjan Kihlstrom) shot out from posts two and seven and lined up first and second at the quarter, which went on the board in just 28 seconds. 3-5 favorite Rebuff (Tim Tetrick) landed in third from post one, and he would brush to the top in the second quarter, clearing Joviality S nearing the 55 4/5 half. While that was going on up front, elimination winner Jiggy Jog S (Dexter Dunn) had raced two-wide in mid-pack from post five, but she got down to the inside coming to the half when Keg Stand (David Miller) made a break. That left King Of The North (Mark MacDonald), who had been following Jiggy Jog S, in the first-over spot, but he also went off-stride after the half, leaving Temporal Hanover to do the uncovered work out of third on the final bend. That gave Fast As The Wind (Yannick Gingras) a second-over ride and Jiggy Jog S tipped back out third-over, and it also allowed Cool Papa Bell to save ground by hugging the pylons. Rebuff maintained command around the final bend and to the 1:24 three-quarters with Temporal Hanover making his way up into second at that point and Joviality S just waiting for room from the pocket. Fast As The Wind couldn't keep up to Temporal Hanover's cover, and that allowed McCarthy to swing off the rail with Cool Papa Bell as the field neared the top of the stretch and set the stage for an exciting drive to the wire. In the lane Rebuff was called on by Tetrick, but he didn't have it today and was passed on the outside by Temporal Hanover and on the inside by Joviality S, who tried to give Melander his second 1-2 finish of the day, joining that result in the Peter Haughton Memorial. Cool Papa Bell, had other ideas, though, as he came up on Temporal Hanover's outside after being fed the clear racetrack by McCarthy, and Cool Papa Bell had the most trot when needed and defeated Joviality S by three-quarters of a length. Temporal Hanover, Jiggy Jog S, and Periculum (Mattias Melander) rounded out the top five. ► Sign up for our FREE DRF Harness Digest Newsletter "I can't thank Jim and the connections enough for giving me the opportunity to drive this horse in this race. For me, it's so humbling, and this is a dream come true," said a jubilant McCarthy, who pulled off Hambletonian Day's two biggest upsets with Kobe's Gigi and Cool Papa Bell. "I'm scared I'm going to wake up soon, but this is absolutely amazing. As expected, there's always a little action there early. Our hand kind of got forced, the outer flow wasn't an option at that stage. I kind of wasn't too worried about that then. I was happy to take a shot up the inside there. There were a couple moving late, and we just kept getting to sneak, sneak, sneak up the inside. I was fortunate enough just to be able to slide straight out, and when I showed him clear air at the top of the stretch, he only wanted to go one direction, so that was pretty exciting. "Out of the turn I didn't know [if I could get there], they were still looking pretty cozy there, and I wasn't quite sure how much I'd have left there, too. When that little fella straightened, he had his mind on the job today. Halfway down the stretch, if everything kept going well, we were going to be right there." Cool Papa Bell, a Chapter Seven-Blk Thai Optional gelding, was bred by Belmar Racing And Breeding LLC. and is owned by Scott Farber's Runthetable Stables. Cool Papa Bell, who sold under the name Seven Year Itch, fetched $100,000 at the 2020 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale and has seven wins, four second, and three thirds from 17 career starts. He has now earned $760,999, and he paid $106.00 to win. For Campbell, it was his second Hambletonian triumph, joining his 1995 success with Tagliabue, and completed a massive day for his barn, joining victories with Fashion Schooner in the Hambletonian Oaks and with Misswalner Fashion in the Continentalvictory. Campbell has also now produced the biggest upset in both the history of the Hambletonian and the Breeders Crown (Sandbetweenmytoes at 203-1 in the 2020 3-Year-Old Colt Pace final). "It's an unbelievable feeling. Like I've always said all along, the Hambletonian, the Hambletonian Oaks, and the Breeders Crown, they're our biggest races. To win these two races on the same day is just something I never dreamed of," Campbell remarked. "I thank all of my owners and my crew for the support and giving me the horses to train, especially to my crew for their hard work. They're the ones that do all the hard work behind the scenes. "For the most part I never tell a driver how to drive. Todd never drove the horse before. I just told him a couple of things about the horse. My last words were to him 'you've got to just feel it out and do whatever you feel is best.' He did a good job at it." For Farber, the Hambletonian win was all the sweeter because he's a local from northeast New Jersey and grew up close to the Meadowlands. "It's surreal. I'm here with my family, my huge group of friends, and with the Campbells in Bergen County, New Jersey, where I grew up three miles from the track," Farber exclaimed. "It's my home track and we brought it home."