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She tried to take him Fox hunting after years of retirement, She ended up breaking her foot

I do the same thing, especially if I'm horny...KNAW MEAN?

KELSO WAS BETTER THAN SECRETARIAT. SEC, COULD NOT WIN THE WHITNEY STAKES. KELSO WIN THE WHITNEY 3 TIMES! SEC, LOST BADLY IN THE WOODWARD STAKES= KELSO WON THE WOODWARD 4 TIMES.

@@captainamericaamerica8090 correct m8 Kelso was the greatest plus Kelso was all ways carrying top wieght 👍👍

Beautiful tribute, bless your heart and, thank you. Kelso is forever tattooed in my mind and, heart. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

You have made me laugh and, cry, I couldn't put it better for the great kelso. Thank you and, bless your little heart. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

He was and, is the greatest race horse of all-times. Only 3 horses ever won the whitney, the woodward and, the jockey gold cup[when it was 2 miles] in one year, kelsos' the only horse to ever do that 2 times!!! I could go on about kelso but, there's almost no end to his acomlishments. Most amazing thing was he looked like a deer and, weighed 900-something pounds and, still was carrying all that weight and, beating big horses! KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN .

Kelso was crazy great. You're so correct. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

Great stats, great research, great information.

Damn!!!!!!!!!!!!! KELSOS' BIGGET FAN,

All the questions?!? Did he win a Grade 1 at 2?!? Did he win ANY of the triple crown races?!? Do some research first, son.

Fager is not the only horse they have used a rabbit, come on guy. It's not like he's the only horse they out a rabbit on, guy. Again, fager was s sprintert and, that's all for him. Never raced 1 mile and a half. Gee, I wonder swhat happened? Go look at his pps and, he never ran 1 mile and a half on any kind of surface. At 2 miles he might have died out of breath. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

I wouldn’t knock Dr Fager. He was a fabulous horse. But if he lined up against Kelso at 1.5 to 2 miles, I know where my money would be. A mile and a quarter between those two would have been interesting.

Yah, top that. This better be good. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

Hey guy, horse racing isn't just about sprinting. Fager was a great sprinter and, that's all he wrote. Kelso proved he could do it all. Oh and, he only weighed 900 pounds and, was still carrying all that weight. Kelso was and, is the greatest racehorse of all-times and, it's not even close, Kelso is in a class by himself. It was also in his genes, he was the great man of wars; great grandson.KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

Yah, well that weight gets heavier becoming a bigger burden the further you have to carry it Eistein. Kelso was great at all distances. To be one of the greatest horses of all-times you have to be great at all distances and, not just be a great sprinter. It alot easier to carry weight at shorter distances einstein! Live and, learn, Kelso was and, is the greatest race of all times and, he only weighed 900 pounds and, look at how much weight he carried for his weight einstein, go do some math. Fager was also a sucker for rabbits, no discipline, man. Give me forego over him and, easy goer had he not got hurt who knows. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

Teddy Lopez A mile and a quarter is not a sprinting distance teddy. And fager ran 3 of those faster than kelso ever did.

DR. FAGER' HAD RABBITS' AND DAMASCUS SETTING THE PACE. KELSO DIDN'T

+Mike Blast My favorite also!

So true, if you go pound for pound, it was darn unbelievable how Kelso carried all that weight and, still beat many bigger horses. He was a phenom and, a real freak. I loved him and, always will. My God, what a great horse he was. What a story also. Dick Jenkins who was kelsos' exercise rider, may he rest in peace, use to tell me fascinating stories on the great kelso. First thing he told me was how kelso weighed about 1000 pounds if,he did weigh that much, and, how that alone is scary being he carried all that weight and, won most. He was very special.

He was unbelievable really, considering he weighed about 900 pounds and looked like a deer. He was something else. Where did he get all that strengh to carry all that weight when he was so sklinny? Kelso was mind boggling.KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN TEDDY.

Best race comment I ever saw was for Kelso .........."With Complete Authority"

Yes sir he definately was one hell of a horse, as great and, awesome as it gets. ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A HORSE NAMED KELSO BUT, ONLY ONCE!'KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

I have my doubts that even Secretariat could have won 5 consecutive two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cups, breaking the world record three times the way Kelso could. Kelso was a svelte horse who was built for racing two miles and longer in the same way that light and slender human long distance runners are built for those distances.

Go look at kelso at the dc international race and how he did that just 11 days after breaking his won record for the 2 miles jockey gold cup on a sloppy track and how kelso is the only horse to win the whitney, the woodward and the jockey gold cup in one year, two times ! He is also the only to win the handicap triple crown, the whitney, the woodward and the jockey gold cup in year! When he won the handicap triple crown he was only the 4th to win it but they only one to win all 3 races carrying over 130 pounds and, as much as 137 pounds and giving away 20 pounds to a runner up. Problem with yu and alot of people today is that you don't know much about the great kelso. Kelso was in a class by himself. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN TEDDY.

TEDDYBEAR definitely a great horse no doubt i believe also Dr Fager is also one of the gteatest to run on a track Forego is up there to great horses dont just run for two years so yes i agree totally guess i meant triple crown horses lol

Kelso could win at any distance. Fager was a speedball and his best distance was 7f to 1M. Kelso carried more weight at longer distances against the best horses that I ever saw. Every time he went to the post he was out to win.

I saw Big Red win the Belmont but he didn't race after 3. Kelso ran at 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and continued to win against all horses at every age. He ran to win every time he ran. He was a small but gallant horse who carried weights that would have stopped any other horse. He ran at every distance from 6f to 2m. Fred Capposella used to say "Kelso the strong horse in the middle of the track whipping and driving and coming alongside". Goosebumps!

Dr Fager was a beast no matter the short distance dominance is dominance enough said and Forego was def one of the greatest handicap horses of all times stats do not lie check them Forego was almost always carrying topweight and still won over any and all comers and been looking at Kelso Teddybear and yes he was a beast and dominant as any horse ever i agree.

Forego and Fager won horse of the year 4 times combined!!! Kelly won it 5 times, no comparison really.

Hey Ken forego won horse of the year 3 times. He ofcaurse doesn't add up to kelso if you look at the records. He ran on 3 legs they say though. Forego was ine of the very greatest I give him and citation who got hurt too alot of respect. Kelso was the greatest of them all besides his great grandfather mow. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

Michael I apologize for not responding to your post before this. I well remember Dr. Fager setting the world's record for 1 mile at Arlington in Chicago. I remember listening to Phil Georgeff's unique call when he set the record. I had goosebumps watching that race and hearing Georgeff's telling the world that "Dr. Fager was spinning out of the turn and into the stretch". By the way Georgeff wrote a book about Citation and considered him to be the greatest horse of all time. You have to respect Phil Georgeff's opinion. He called thousands of races and saw the best of the best. I did see Dr. Fager run at Rockingham and beat the field handily. I believe that he was best at a mile or lBess, though he could steal a race if he had the lead to himself. By the way the trainer Johnny Nerud was operated on at Dana Farber in Boston and the doctor who operated was Doctor Fager.

The great Allen Jerkens told he really thought Fager ducked the triple crown. Why? Because he wasn't a very smart disciplined horse and , was a sucker for rabbits. Fager was a great sprinter but he never ran 1 mile and a half never mind 2 miles. That's where kelso said goodbye to all horses. No horse was tested more than man of wars' great grandson. kelso could sprint and, go the distance and, rabbits didn't work with the great kelso, like Eddie Arcaro said kelso could run all kinds of ways and, he had great tacticle speed. Hell of a thing he turned out to be that great considering they had to geld him to calm him down and, still they say he was never really a nice horse[laugh]! What a story, somebody said why don't they make a movie out of him. He was and is the greatest race horse of all-times. Mindboggling how the year he became only the 3rd horse to ever win the handicap triple crown which some say is even harder than the regular triple crown, he was and, is the only horse to win all 3 races carrying over 130 pounds in each of the 3 races and he only weighed 900 pounds! In one race he was giving the runner up 20 pounds! That same year he became the only horse ever and, it still stands to win the handicap triple crown, the whitney, the woodward and, the jockey gold cup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and, the jockey gold cup was 2 miles then! When he broke his own record at the jockey gold cup the last time and, that was on a sloppy track he did 3.19 1/5 for 2 miles on dirt than broke the record for grass for mile and a half on e tight turns at 2:23 4/5 againts some of the best horses in the world, and that was just 11 days apart, they should have also voted him dirt champion and, grass champion, don't you thinK?Kelso was in a class by himself like some one said, that says it all. Just that he beat more great horses and, real good horses, giving away weight to most of them, makes him a hell of candidate for greatest racehorse of all-times. Never mind all the crazy things he did, some that only he's done! He was mindboggling really. I'm a kelso fan and, I find some of those things hard to digest[laugh]! Fager was a great sprinter, lacked discipline though. I would have liked to seen easy goer had he not got hurt so much. Might have been the secound coming of the great kelso. Just kidding, but, easy goer would have been one of way up with the best ever. Prove out had he not got hurt so much when he started, he ended up having to retire because of innjuires again after Allen Jerkens' had kept him healthy and, kept him from loggin in. He beat 4 hall of famers in the span of 2 months! So the secretariat fans shouldn't feel so bad that he beat secretariat. Prove out would have been one of the real greats. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

Tell it to Noor!

Yah but look at kelsos' size and weight, forego was 17 hands something and, weighed about 1,200, I think he weighed more than secretariat. Forego had a bad leg sometimes but, kelso or his size was carrying 12 pct of his body weight [900 pounds]. He was carrying more weight than forego they said. When kelso did the 1 mile at his best he did 1.33 3/5 now that was carrying 133 pounds for a horse who weighed 900 pounds and looked like a damn deer. Kelso also could run the distance as you all know. Forego never won the whitney, the woodward and, the jockey gold cup all in one year. As a matter of fact Mike, only 3 horses have ever won that combo in one year, the great grandson of man of war is the only horse that ever done that package 2 times! Yes sir kelso was from another planet. Secretariat never won even one of those. He got his ass kicked in the woodward and, his butt kicked in the whitney and punked out of the 2 mile jockey gold cup to not face speed demon andm stamina horsey prove out. Kelso is also the only, only horse ever to win the handicap triple crown, which was harder than the regular triple crown, the whitney, the woodward and, the jockey gold cup all in one year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only 4 have ever won the handicap triple crown and, kelso was the only horse to win all 3 races carrying 130 or more in each of the 3 races andm mind you he weighed only 900 pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kelso was and is the greatest of all-times and like some fella said on here, man, it's not even close. Kelso beat 5 horses that had won triple crown races 12 times in his carear!!!!!!!!! He was beyound them all. KELSOS BIGGEST FAN.

Kelso always came to the races to win. He rarely threw in a bad race. Kelso was the consummate professional race horse.

Forego, you've got to be kidding. He was an average 3yo and faced mediocre all-time competition. Kelso at over mi 1/4 had 8 wins & 4 2ds in 12 stakes starts, won 2 as a 3yo. He beat 6 diff international champs on grass at mi 1/2. How many international champs did Forego beat? Forego only won stks races on 4 diff tracks while Kelso won on 11. Forego was beaten by multiple horses in 3 straight stks races TWO diff times while Kelso was beaten by multi horses in 2 straight only once. Kelso won 8 stks races needing less than 100% effort (incl. beating multi champs 3 diff times) while Forego never won with less than 100% effort. This is not just opinion. It is facts supporting a clear logical conclusion that Forego comes up short like all the others when being compared to Kelso as a true thoroughbred.

Man, kelso carried 12 pct of his weight definately more than forego was was 17 hands 2 and, weighed more than secretariat. That;s the most incredible thing about kelso that he looked like a deer and, still was winning carrying all that weight. Forego falls short with kelso, he was one of the greats forego and, I know he did have sort of a bad leg. So they say that would have to water him down after a race. Kelso was just in a class by himself. It's not like kelso was completely sound neither, kelso sufered from colic most of his carear, sopposedly he died from colic. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

Your boy fager weighed about 1,100 pounds and, Ed Bowen told me so, I would think you would know who Ed Bowen is, so that if the great kelso weighed about 900 pounds, that 200 pounds more then the great kelso, so if you're gonna compare how much these horses were carrying let' go by pound for pound for what they weighed and, common sense kelso was carrying more. All those horses were real good horses but, they all fall short when you compare them with the great kelso, for many reasons. Again fager was a great sprinter but, never even ran 1 mile and a half, I've seen his pps. He was a sucker for rabbits also. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

Yah and he won the jockey gold cup those 5 years too at 2 miles! Oh and, other things incuding coming secound 3 times againts the best horses in the world and breaking the record the last time. My God what a great horse that was. He was super great. Secretariat my ass. He never raced prove out again. Prove out kicked his butt and, his stable mate riv ridges' ass too at the jockey gold cup. Secretariat went to canada cause there was more money in that particular race and, good for him he was only carrying 117 pounds for a big boy. Oh and too many excuses for secretariats loses. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

You are lucky if they ever race 5 times.....the tail wagging the dog!

Gee you must not know much about the great kelso, Let me just drop a nuclear bomb on you, in 50 stake races, kelso was passed at the stretch just once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you know that? Well, I hope you'll get an idea of kelso just by that. That's just a bit part of the great kelso. Some horses can't run on a sloppy track and, kelso set 2 records on 2 sloppy tacks, oh, there was standing water the first one, or he would havedone even a faster timing. You just don't know hell about kelso. Sadly that's the problem with alot of younger people and even some older not well informed and, brainwashed ones. Kelso was in a freakin class by himself and, he still is. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

Coz it was 🤔🤔

Right on brother, right on Tell the truth and, shame the devil! KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

@@teddylopez747 Uh, dude, why are you talking to yourself?

@@ginmarie6884 Maybe you talk to yourself. Go look up kelso and, then tell me about a great horse. Kelso is the greatest ever and, it's not even close. You must not know hell about the God of all racehorses. Kelso is in a class by himself. Kelso was crazy great considering his weight and, that he had to be gelded and, how great he became. Then again he was man of wars' great grandson, it was in his genes to be great. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

Kelso was great, but all day Big Red the Superhorse! 🔥

TJ Distance speed, surface, but he lost 24 times and only won 62% of the time.

Youb really need to look at the past performance charts of Kelso to understand what kind of horse he truly was. No 1) Kelso was a late starter and Carl Hanford often would enter him in one or two early prep races in order to get him ready for the rest of the year. Often those races were "tighteners" at shorter distances that Kelso's trainer was conceding. If you take out all the races that were strictly ""tighteners" then you see a horse that once the season really began was nearly always was first or second. No 2) In those days Handicap races that Kelso ran in were based on the racing secretaries adding weight to horses with better records and letting horses with less stellar records in with often far lighter imposts to carry. Take a look at the races where Kelso lost by a small margin and you will often see that the winner was often given a far lighter load to carry in races of 1 1/8 miles or more. Rarely did Kelso carry less than 130 lbs while his competition was conceded 10 to 15 pounds. Imagine carrying 132 lbs while your competitor is carrying 110 lbs or less. @@roundtable3501

@@richardyanco3229 Richard, I know all of these things. But that doesn’t change anything I said in my comment. My comment was entirely a response to the original commenter. It was challenging his point of view of Secretatiat vs Kelso. It wasn’t detracting from Kelso in anyway, but rather challenging his narrative about Kelso being far better at any distance, surface, etc. Which simply isn’t true. I have Kelso ranked top 5. It wasn’t an analysis of Kelso’s past performances. It was stating objective facts. Because Kelso had more races and carried more race, it’s obvious that he’s allowed more losses than other horses. Though I’d say it’s hypocritical as many Kelso fans love to justify Kelso’s losses, but give Secretatiat no excuses for his loses. However, with some of his losses, it goes beyond weight and early prep races. Kelso struggled at two main things. The first is races below 1 mile. Especially ones at grade 1 stakes level. The second is races on hard tracks. By hard tracks I mean the fast hard surfaces that were present in the Midwest and the west. He needed the soft and sandy tracks of the east to dominate. Because of those two main weaknesses, I think that deters him from being the GOAT. Someone like Dr. fager has the same weaknesses except in reverse. He struggled at the longer distances and struggled on softer tracks.

@@roundtable3501 Good stuff and quick too. What a surprise. I am working off the top of my head so excuse me. I saw Secretariat win the Belmont. He was outstanding in the 73 Triple Crown. Outside of Sham there wasn't that much competition. While Secretariat was great he also threw in some puzzling "clinkers", Onion for instance. I never saw Kelso when he didn't try his best. He was often beaten at the scales where Secretariat was beaten on the track. Do me a favor and look up Kelso's Past Performances and delete his first start or two of each season and then see what you are left with. Then look at who beat him and look at the weight spread. Kelso ran 63 times during his career and when you scratch his first starts of the year he was always in the hunt. Some of his other non-wins were possibly due to the weight disadvantage.

@@richardyanco3229 Okay, I’ll start with hard tracks, since that’s one of the major 2 weaknesses I listed. He was 0 for 4 on hard tracks, out of the money all 4 times. 2 of these were at Arlington, 2 at Hollywood. And just to clarify, by “hard,” I mean the dirt surface they used for those Midwestern and western tracks was a harder dirt composition than the softer more sandy eastern tracks that Kelso raced at for most of his starts. The first one I’d like to look at is the 1960 Arlington classic. It was at Arlington. He was 3 years old, it was his 3rd start that year, and he won the precious 2. He was carrying 117 pounds, so weight wasn’t a factor. He finished 8th beaten 7 1/2 lengths. Now, like I said, this was a habit of him underperforming on these hard tracks. The idea that he needs a specific type of surface (softer tracks) to dominate is problematic and very much hurts his case for being the greatest in my opinion.

Teddy Lopez, yes you can believe him. When Secretariat took those "huge sweeping turns", he went faster after each turn! It's called centrifugal force, that is what carried Secretariat. Ron Turcotte was Secretariat's jockey and rode him to many victories!

@@lired70 Those 2 huge sweeping turns sec took at belmont on that fast track right by the rail from tyhe begiinning, which is the shortest way around any track were way easier than those 3 tight turns kelso took for the dc international in 64' when he did 2:23 4/5 and, for 1 mile and a half on grass and, he did the last quarter faster than he did the first quarter!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn the stamina on that deer looking horse!!!!!!!!!!! Most people give that to kelso over secretariats' belmont. Oh and, look at the competition kelso had that was againts some of the best horses in the world. All sec had at belmont was sham and he broke down and, the other 2 horses were bums. One had lost 20 races out of 23. Looks like they wanted to make sure sec win that triple crown ah? Secretariat my ass. Kelso is in a class all by himself. In 50 stake races kelso was only passed at the stretch only 1 time. You're gonna have nightmares about kelso!!!! He was the most awesome thing, still is. My God and, he only weighed 900 pounds! Live and, learn, you'll get older. KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

@@teddylopez747 what about the Preakness? Secretariat crushed those tight turns with ease! He made A move that even his jockey couldn't believe to this day! Secretariat's stats still stand undefeated to this day, 46 years ago! Sham was a great contender for Secretariat! It's a shame that he broke down after the Belmont and never raced again!

@@teddylopez747 Just for fun Teddy, it seems like you don't think that Secretariat had much worth! Well his TC stats have never been equaled or beaten! Oh, check out his Preakness move, you might see Secretariat in a more positive light! The TC is the pinnacle of American Horse Racing!

@@lired70 How many horses ever set a record on a sloppy track? Some can't even run on one and, kelso set 2 records on w sloppy tracks with standing water on them! Neither secretariat or man of war ever set a record on a sloppy track. Oh, kelso did it when he was only 3. He was still setting records at 7, something else no horse has ever done. You just don't know much about kelso.It's easy to say one horse was better than the other when you don't know much about the other. Not knowing better can be pathetic alot of times. Kelso i in a class all by himself and, you'll find out. He was something else and, my God he only weighed 900 pounds and, at times was carrying 12pct of his body weight. Eddie arcaro who rode both citation and, kelso said that kelso would have beaten the shit out of citation and, he rode citation before citation got hurt and, citation was and, is one of the way up top greatest of all-times. For example citaion ran the 2 mile jockey gold cup at 3, before he got hurt and, did 3:21 3/5 on a fast track, kelso did the 2 mile jockey gold cup and, did 3:19 2/5 and, broke the record on a sloppy track with standing water!!!!!!! What the hell would kelso have done on a fast track then? Maybe 3:18 flat or, better? Go figure. Maybe Arcaro was right when he said that kelso would have beaten the shit out of citation. You have to ride a horse to really know. He rode some triple crown winners and, still said that kelso was the greatest horse he ever rode, he won about pct of the races he had with kelso. Somebody said it was so sad cause it was the greatest jockey at the end of his carear riding the greatest racehorse at the start of his carear. They were almost unbeatable together cause nobody understood kelso more than Arcaro, he had those strong hands and, kelso was a tough little horsey which was why he was gelded, amazing he turned out to be so great when he was so hard to train. Eddie said that at the very beginning he would hold kelso back a bit to keep them from putting even more weight on him! Imagine how many more recoords kelso might have set and, races he would have won by double digits had Arcaro let him go all out!!!!!! Then again they would have killed poor kelso would allthat freakin weight and, he might have lost to horses he would have beaten the hell out of at equal weights or, giving them less weight away. Kelso was something else Patty, he is in a class by himself, he was really mind boggling especially for what he weighed. Miss Dupont ws gonna sell him cause he was so hard to train but, they must have said 'wait a minute this man of wars' great grand son maybe there's some hope for him. It took the great trainer Charles Hangsford to bring it out in him. Kelso beat more champions, more international champions and, more hall of famers than any racehorse in history. Mind you and, his timings would have been even faster had he raced more at belmont than at aquaduct which has tighter turns!!!!!!!!!! Indeed kelso was something else, he was the freak and, to realize when he was horse of the year 5 times in a row for 5 years he wss beating the 3 year old champions of those 5 years and, at 4 he was beating them giving them the advantage by giving them weight away!!!!!!!!!!!!! Crazy cause some of those horse won triple crown races!!!!!!! Nobody did more. He was just the most awesome thing and, to think he looked like a freakin deer and, just weighed 900 pounds and, didn't look like a killer!!!!! Yes 'ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A HORSE NAMED KELSO BUT, ONLY ONCE' KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

Hell and if they gave kelso anything, they were just putting testostorone back into him that they took out to calm him down when they gelded poor kelso[laugh]! So true, the advantage was for the horses that were not gelded, if they gave them steroids. Oh and, if they gave kelsos' great grandfather man of war anything, it wasn't that same crap they were giving horses years later. Damn right! KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN TEDDY.

Well Clarence, lasix came in the 1970s. It is still illegal in other countrys in horse racing. Gee, I wonder why?KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN, TEDDY.

I kept a scrapbook on Kelso during the years he raced. I still think he was the greatest of all time.

I just wonder why Kelso was a gelding? Lasix was supposed to be used for bleeders! A horse's blood pressure goes up 4X the norm when racing. Then some cook, and bleed through the nose. A horse can pee out 10-20 pounds on a single dose of Lasix! Gee, does that make them lighter? They are prohibited to drink 4 hours before the race! Some of these horses really need it, then again there are horses who don't and get it anyway! Maybe Kelso was a gelding because he was a hard to control stallion? That is usually why they geld. My state of mind today is: I love these horses, I am beginning to hate the sport!

Well, yes, the great kelso had a terrible temper and, was hard to train as hell. They say even after they gelded him he was never really a nice horse. It's amazing he was still so great, because they have to be obediant. He was some horsey. He not only inherited his great grandfather man of wars' talents but also his temper. Man of war was also hard to train but, thanbk God they didn't geld him cause look at all the great horses that came out of him, his son war admiral who was a triple crown winner, grandson count fleet who was another triple crown winner down to his greatest decendent the great kelso. Mostly when they geld them it's because there is too much testostorone in them and, they take some out when they geld them. Kelso was the greatest racehorse ever all things considered all respects to his great grandfather man of war who was a hell of a horse considering the conditions he ran under.KELSOS' BIGGEST FAN.

I always considered Dr. Fager to be an outstanding "sprinter" who sometimes carried his speed a longer distance. When he won at longer distances it was usually because he "stole" the race and the jock was able to "rate" or "nurse" him safely to the wire. A sprinter carrying highweights was different than a router that had to carry highweights for 1 1/4 mile or better. I did see Fager win at Rockingham at 1 1/4 miles but I can't remember if there was significant competition. Also, "The Rock" was a real speed track. Again, I remember Phil Georgeff's call of Fager winning at Arlington and setting the world record for a mile. By the way, the horse was named for a Boston cancer doctor who saved the life of either Nerud or the owner and they named the horse after the doctor from the Dana Farber Clinic.

Kelso holds the three fastest times ever run for the two mile JCGC. The fourth fastest time belongs to Prove Out who was the conqueror of Secretariat. Cot Campbell, who has seen all of the great horses,, says the Kelso was the best he ever saw ever heard about or ever will see.

Kelso equalled a 7 furlong track record in a workout.

Cot Campbell, of Dogwood Stables, lists his top 5 greatest horses. 1.kelso 2.Secretariat 3.Man O War 4.Citation 5. Seabiscuit He said that Kelso is the best horse he ever saw, ever heard about or ever will see. To Quote the late Joe Hirsch - "Once upon a time there was a horse named Kelso," but only once.

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