Different rider, different track, same result. Kelso’s first two Jockey Club Gold Cups came at Aqueduct Racetrack with the Master, Eddie Arcaro aboard. Ismael Valenzuela was aboard at Belmont Park as the five-year-old gelding coasted to a 10-length win, a track record, Champion Older Horse, and Horse of the Year. How easy and dominate was the win? Donald Pierce, who rode runner-up Guadalcanal, said “My horse was so far back of Kelso that he thought he won the race,” as quoted in the New York Times.

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