Sport: Hail and Farewell: The great gelding Kelso dies

The great gelding Kelso dies

A walnut horse so homely and cantankerous that he was gelded as a yearling heard the sweet cheers of a racetrack crowd for the first time in 17 years, and then he died of colic the next day at the age of 26. Kelso, the great-grandson of Man o' War, was fetched to Belmont in New York State the Saturday before last along with Forego, a younger pensioner similarly handicapped. The occasion was the Jockey Club Gold Cup, a stake that Kelso won five years in a row (1960-64), when he was the horse of the...

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