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...Kelso: the $108,900 Jockey Club Gold Cup, for the fourth year in a row, by four lazy lengths at Aqueduct. Cutting his own pace ("I couldn't control him," admitted Jockey Milo Valenzuela), the great gelding galloped to his eighth straight stakes victory, ran his lifetime earnings to $1,556,702, sewed up Horse of the Year honors for an unprecedented fourth straight year...
...millionaire in his own right (winnings: $1,197,115). Willie Shoemaker was riding Never Bend, and his strategy was simple: get out in front and stay there. Driving out of the gate, he opened up a four-length lead at the clubhouse turn. Aboard Kelso, Jockey Ismael Valenzuela tucked in along the rail and patiently bided his time. In the backstretch, Carry Back began to challenge, but Kelso moved alongside-and Carry Back wilted. Valenzuela clucked to Kel so, and the champion went after Never Bend. For a few brief seconds the two horses raced head to head. Then Never...
...next Eddie Arcaro will probably speak Spanish better than English. His name will be something like Baeza or Ycaza or Valenzuela, and he will grimace when gringo railbirds make it "Bazza," or "Yacca Zacca," or "Vaylinzella." But that will not matter much, because his saddlebags will be stuffed with Yanqui dollars and back home in Panama or Mexico he will be as popular as the classiest matador de toros. The Presidente will invite him to parties, generals will shake his hand, and when he wins the Kentucky Derby, the biggest race of all, his countrymen will drape sweet-smelling flowers...
...stands. But it was not the Americans' day. Biding his time back in the pack, Saint-Martin deftly drove Match II past the winded field, coming through on the rail, gaining on Kelso with every long stride. "I saw him coming," said Kelso's jockey Ismael Valenzuela, "but I just couldn't do anything about it." At the finish, Match II was 1½ lengths ahead and going away. Kelso's second-place finish will probably earn him Horse of the Year honors in the U.S. Match II went home with $70,000 winner...
...Horse of the Year in 1960 and 1961, considered by many U.S. horsemen to be the best thoroughbred since Man o' War: the $108,900 Jockey Club Gold Cup at New York's Belmont Park, for an unprecedented third year in a row. Ridden by Jockey Ismael Valenzuela, who never had to use his whip, Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's five-year-old gelding breezed to an easy ten-length victory, covered the two miles in 3 min. 19-4/5 sec.-breaking Nashua's track record. Kelso's $70,785 winner...