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Show So ft pldstfi cuslilcn SPORTS Not since Man o' War has a horse captured the public as has "Kelly"; is he mean brute, hc!ds danffurcs lighter pampered millionaire, almost-huma- n Here are answers from his trainer no-nonse- nse mean to his handlers or is he affectionate? Is he a pampered millionaire? Does he have a personality? As his trainer for six years, I'm asked these questions often, and here are the honest answers : Except for speed and stamina, Kelso is like most finely bred horses. He is not a pet ; horses can't be as affectionate as a dog because of size, for one thing. Oh, Kelso would love you if you had a handful of sugar cubes. When you ran out, though, he'd toss his head disdainfully. Mean to his handlers? Yes, Kelso has kicked or nipped groom Larry Fitzpatrick, but that isn't "meanness." In each instance, Kelso had just come out of a heated race and was simply 1,050 pounds of superb animal muscle key id to its highest pitch. A kick or bite then is sort of a reflex action, not meanness. Pampered? You can bet a f winner gets good treatment, but aa race horses.. You read that Kelso drinks special Arkansas mineral water at $5 a jug. True, but that's because, as with some human travelers, differences in water upset his stomach. It's also true his stable floor is covered with ground sugar cane rather than straw not to make life easier, but because he has stifle (a hind-le- g joint affliction), and cane provides a softer cushion. Yes, Kelso's picture is on Bohemia's ' sugar-cub- e wrappings ; he races with a yellow bow in his braids and sports a . blanket . given him by his jockey Mild Valenzuela and jockeys aren't renowned for giving- horses' gifts. But these are little flourishes that delight us humans. Kelso couldn't care less. What does he care about? He likes Charley, his stablemate, a dog grown fat lapping up shavings from Kelso's hooves.. (He will yap if you. disturb Kelso.) But all horses love small animals in their stables; anything from a chicken to a goat will do. As for Charley, he's an opportunist I think he likes Kelso's, soft sugar-can- e flooring as much as Kelso. While Charley seems to have a "personality I'm usually reluctant to ascribe human traits to a horse. Yet Kelso is a rlava I pnnlrl Creature) nf mrwvta On take you to the stables and show you two horses one proudly erect and the other with slouched head and ugly bones poking from his hips. Surprisingly, we ugiy one is Kelso. Come oack just a race, though, and see the true Kelso. He is breath-takin- g now that he senses a race. Head high, faultless in form, so alert he exudes an electric qual-- i do-mo- rot-tai- n full-bodie- d, De-fo- re . asosSre "personality ity. When he parades to the paddock, crowds applaud as they did such heroes as Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio., And, more than once, I have seen him stop and look in. the direction of a fan who has called out, "Kelly"! While Kelso doesn't "watch" starters, he does sense things. Before 'any human passenger, he knows when his chartered jet begins its descent. be knows when another horse is coming op behind him long before his rider .does. That's why we seldom give Kelso a workout with another horse. As soon as the other horse nears, Kelso is off to the races, straining all out despite his rider's restraining efforts. That's the "personality" trait that counts,, the' competitiveness that makes a champion. Rival jockey Walter Blum put it this way : "He's just a competitive He goea out on the track, witbihe. will to win. He knows what he's doing and he likes what he's doing." Last year Kelso was one of the two American horses invited to the InternaMd. Great horses from tional all over the world compete in that race, and some experts felt the '64 race would be "old Kelso's" swan song. First of all, he's not supposed to be strong on a turf track; second, he'd run three times in the International and always finished second; third, the other American horse was Gun Bow, who already had beaten him twice that year. The ; first time around, the experts seemed right; Gun Bow and Kelso already had beaten the foreign horses, but Gun lead. Then Kelso Bow held a started one of his famous moves, gaining steadily on Gun- - Bow as the crowd of a mile to go, screamed wildly. With neck and neck, setting a record they were of a mile neither horse pace. For about inch an then, almost imperceptibly, gave Kelso nosed ahead. With V mile left. Gun Bow cracked under the pace. Kelso never faltered. By the finish line, he had a lead, and the applause didn't stop for minutes later. Kelso had run the race in 2:23" 45 three-fiftof a second faster than the record. "Horses can't run that fast," said Laurel starter Eddie Bund. But- the proved "old Kelso" had. 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