Career
In 1927, Michell was the trainer for Green Briar Stable when owner by Frank Doctorate. Shea of Winnipeg, Manitoba liquidated his racing operations. That year he trained the Hertz"s filly Anita Peabody, retrospectively voted American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly honors and whose wins included the Belmont Futurity Stakes and the Churchill Downs Debutante Stakes. However, it would be future Hall of Fame inductee Reigh Count who would bring Michell his greatest success.
In 1929, Mr.
& Mistress Hertz brought Michell and Reigh Count to race in England where he raced on turf, winning the Coronation Cup at Epsom Downs Racecourse then finished second in the Ascot Gold Cup at Ascot Racecourse. In the fall of 1929 Michell left the Hertz stable to take over as trainer for the racing operations of Emil and Jennie Denemark of Chicago. Bert Michell raced at various tracks on the East Coast of the United States.
He made his home in Miami, Florida where he met with considerable success with the Denemark"s runners at Hialeah Park and Tropical Park racetracks.
Bert Michell died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1938 at age fifty-six.
