The legendary Kelso trainer Carl Hanford Died on 14 August in his home at Delaware

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The legendary Kelso trainer Carl Hanford died on 14 August in his home at Delaware
The legendary trainer, Carl Hanford, died at the age of 95 at his home in Delaware. The Hall of Famer was the conditioner of the extremely determined horse, Kelso, who was the reason why Carl Hanford got inducted into racing’s Hall of Fame in 2006.
The trainer was mostly famous for the strength of his work on the five-time Horse of The Year, Kelso.
He was the only horse to achieve that award for 5 times in his career. Kelso went on to attain a marvelous racing career with 39 wins out of 63 lifetime career starts with a 50 plus winning average.
In the 1960 season, when the legendary horse was racing in his 3-year-old career, he went to keep a remarkable winning streak, where he won almost every race he contested in, all except one.
At the end of the year, Kelso’s racing stats were amazing with eight wins from nine starts.
Kelso's success can be trained back to his trainer, Carl Hanford, who trained him for a long period of 30 years, but he wasn’t known to the world when he worked on other horses prior to training Kelso.
Ms. Du Pont, who owned Kelso, selected the trainer for the horse and went on to select trainer, Carl Hanford, in light of the positive feedback given by her farm manager.
When the selection process was finalised and Hanford was sure that he was going to work for his new owner, Ms. Du Pont sent seven 3-year-old fillies to the trainer and along the seven females she sent a tough gelding, Kelso.
Hanford and Kelso developed an amazing bond, and in Hanford’s later years he would talk about Kelso with an overwhelming sense of wonder and admiration.
This profound emotion made him say that Kelso was a determined horse, right before his induction in the 2006 Hall of Fame.
Hanford further commented about Kelso that if there was a horse in front of him, it did something to Kelso and he wanted to beat the horse by getting in front of it, rather than tracking him.
He was a versatile horse and it wouldn’t make a difference if Kelso was set up in the front or the back because he was a sound horse, light on his feet.
Carl Hanford was a former jockey and he went on to win his first race in the Suffolk Downs, way back in 1935.
The desire was established because his brother, Ira also known as “Babe”, was also a very successful jockey.
He was an inspirational jockey for his brother, Carl, as Ira became the youngest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby.
Retired in 1968 and settled near Delaware Park, Carl Hanford worked as a steward after retiring from training but he actually hung up his boots from racing in 1988.