Word: kelso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME reports [July 16] that Kelso "had his own water supply (Vichy, imported from Arkansas)." Arkansas has no Vichy. Arkansas does have Mountain Valley Water, which we've been delivering to Kelso through his five "horse of the year" campaigns and right to this minute. Other thoroughbred drinkers include Bold Ruler, Sword Dancer, Nashua, Round Table, Gallant Man, and, going back, Gallant Fox, Bimelech, Challedon, Bubbling Over, Black Toney, Johnstown and Omaha. Kelso has consumed more Mountain Valley than any other living being...
...great horse, but he still lost a race. Native Dancer was also beaten once, and Kelso now loses almost as often as he wins. A ticket on Bret Hanover, though, is more like a U.S. Treasury bond than a bet. A hulking, 1,100-lb. colt who sleeps like a baby (ten hours a day), eats like an elephant (twelve quarts of oats a day) and is hooked on peppermint drops, Bret Hanover has been to the post 28 times and won every race-by the total margin of 100-lengths...
...Jamie Kelso's "eyeball test" for determining college admissions ought to be adopted by all colleges. It certainly beats anything I've encountered, and I think I speak for most of the weary interviewing, form-filing, biography-writing, reference-gathering youth who have applied for college...
...Fosses. The houses contain the big-game trophies bagged by the family on African safaris, the pictures of such Du Pont yachts as the American Eagle (a 1964 America's Cup contender) and cups won by the family's thoroughbreds, including Mrs. Richard du Font's Kelso...
Richard C. duPont's seven-year-old gelding picked up $70,590, boosted his lifetime earnings to $1,803,362. That broke Round Table's alltime record, made Kelso the biggest money winner in thoroughbred racing history...