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Did Kelso ever run in any of the Triple Crown races?

I'm doing some research on him and can't seem to find any info on this please help me out.Thanks!

Kelso didn't make his first start as a three-year-old until June 22, after all the Triple Crown races of the year were over.

Kelso was not a precocious horse. He made three starts at two, winning a maiden special weights race and finishing second in two starts. He had none of the precocity and brilliance that inspire an owner and trainer to put a horse on track for the Triple Crown. As a gelding, there was no reason to push him to go for the Triple Crown; no stud value to be affected by his performance in Triple Crown races.

His first start at three was a 6 furlong allowance race at Monmouth park on June 22, which he won off by 10 lengths. He followed this up with a one mile allowance victory at Aqueduct, which he won by 12 lengths.

He was eighth in the Arlington Classic, which was won by TV Lark, who became a frequent rival of Kelso's. Thereafter, Kelso won his next six starts. He won the Choice Stakes, the Jerome Handicap, the Discovery Handicap, the Lawrence Realization Stakes, the Hawthorne Gold Cup and the Jockey Club Gold Cup. He earned over $239,000 in winning those stakes.

The Derby that year was won by Venetian Way, the Preakness by Bally Ache, and the Belmont by Celtic Ash. None of those horses had exceptional campaigns after the Triple Crown and the prep races leading up to the Triple Crown.

Allaire du Pont, who owned and bred Kelso, was an exceptional horsewoman who understood that if you want to let a racehorse be successful, you have to let him tell you what he wants to do best. You can't push a horse that isn't forward and precocious to race hard against the best of his crop in the Triple Crown races, because he isn't going to win and it will compromise his later career. She also understood, as so many people do not, that a horse can win a championship without starting in any Triple Crown races. Kelso had the momentum going through the summer and fall of the year and he raced against, and beat, the best horses in fall weight-for-age races.

Had Kelso been pushed to run in the Triple Crown by an owner who thought that was the beginning and end of Thoroughbred racing, it's likely he would never have won a stakes and certainly wouldn't have had the soundness to continue racing long enough to be named Horse of the Year 5 times.

If I may recommend some research materials to you: The American Racing Manual, a "yearbook" of racing and Thoroughbred industry news. the Blood-Horse Stakes Winners supplement, a yearly supplement with information about the horses that won or placed in major stakes during the year. William H. P. Robertson's book , "The History of Thoroughbred Racing in America," which covers racing up until the mid-1960's.

Websites: http://horseracing.about.com/od/famoushorses/a/aa070598.htm

http://www.spiletta.com/UTHOF/kelso.html

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