Kelly Kip

Kelly Kip
Sire	Kipper Kelly
Grandsire	Valid Appeal
Dam	Marianne Theresa
Damsire	John's Gold
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	19 April 1994
Country	United States
Colour	Dark Bay or Brown
Owner	Hobeau Farm
Trainer	H. Allen Jerkens
Record	31: 15-3-4
Major wins
Tremont Stakes (1996) Sanford Stakes (1996) Forest Hills Handicap (1997) Bold Ruler Handicap (1998, 1999) Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash Stakes (1998) A Phenomenon Handicap (1998)

Kelly Kip is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse and active stallion. In a five-year racing career which was interrupted on several occasions by sickness and injury, he ran thirty-one times and won fifteen races, most of them over a distance of six furlongs. Although won he only once at Grade I level and never won a Breeders' Cup race or an Eclipse Award, he set track records at several major racetracks and was regarded as one of the leading North American sprinters of the late 1990s. His trainer H. Allen Jerkens called Kelly Kip "the fastest horse I have been around".

Kelly Kip was a dark bay or brown horse with a narrow white stripe. He was by far the most successful horse sired by the Illinois-bred Kipper Kelly, a horse which never won at Graded level. Kelly Kip was trained throughout his career by H. Allen Jerkens who was voted Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer in 1973 when his horses Onion and Prove Out both defeated Secretariat. In 1975 he had become the youngest trainer ever inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame at the age of forty-five. Like both Prove Out and Onion, Kelly Kip was bred in Ocala, Florida by Jack Dreyfus's Hobeau Farm. He was ridden in most of his races by the French-born jockey Jean-Luc Samyn.

Kelly Kip's first appearance was in a five furlong claiming race at Belmont Park on June 21, 1996. He led from the start and won by six and a half lengths in a time of 55.75 breaking the track record previously held by Lure. Two weeks later he was moved up into Graded stakes class and won the six furlong Tremont Stakes by six and three quarter lengths, leading to his being described as the "instant star" of the Belmont season. In July Kelly Kip recorded his third straight victory, and the second in stakes company when he won the Sanford Stakes at Saratoga Race Course by ten and a half lengths.

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