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...Kelso: the $54,400 Whitney Stakes, edging out Malicious by a nose and/ increasing the great gelding's record earnings to $1,954,144; at Saratoga Springs...
...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...
...Star: the $107,200 Brooklyn Handicap in 2 min. 3/5 sec. for the 1¼ mi., with Roman Brother second. Kelso, the five-time Horse of the Year, now aged eight and carrying the maximum 132 Ibs. (v. 121 Ibs. for four-year-old Pia Star), finished third, four lengths behind the winner; at Aqueduct...
...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...