I know he is a TB but he is big, solid, and with huge bone- and did he ever race?
BE has his pedigree listed as “unknown”. FEI doesn’t have anything other than listing him as TB. Can’t find anything that says anything else on him anywhere.
He looked more like an ISH to me but according to USEA he is TB. What is his history? Anyone know where he came from?
Kelecyn is Kevin McNab and his family’s prefix. Horse was competed extensively in Australia by McNab before being sent to England where he did not have nearly as good results as he had had in Australia.
There is no Cognac in either the Australian or New Zealand stud books that would do. I will say that several current Australian TBs with Cognac in their names that I’ve found were sired by Hennessey. One supposes that McNab has at least some idea of the horse’s breeding.
So he is anAustralian TB?
It would seem so, although not necessarily off the track.
Yes, Kelecyn Cognac xx is a full thoroughbred. (see his pedigree here: https://www.horsetelex.de/horses/pedigree/1709621/kelecyn-cognac). And let me tell you, that quality is no accident here. 
I have used a mare out of the same damline for riding and breeding (see family tree: https://www.horsetelex.de/horses/family/422850/dance-and-win-xx) with wonderfull results in showjumping and eventing. She is bred back to this damline 4 times, hence featuring it on both male and female side of the pedigree.
They have size, bone and quality in jumping and I often hear they look like a “real” riding horse. On top of that very clever, highly reactive and sound, she is very much a horse of a lifetime for me.
For more pictures see here: https://springblut.de/Zuchstuten/Dance-and-win-xx/
This damline has become highly popular in the thoroughbred industry in recent years as well, starring Sea the Stars xx, Tertullian xx, Galileo xx, Black Sam Bellamy xx, Adlerflug xx - some of the best stallions around in Europe. This has been a resurge of a once famous damline of Aster xx, today represented mostly by Allegretta xx. In sporthorse breeding we have seen Armand xx, Esteban xx and Apollonios xx, but also Praefectus xx and San Vicente xx for the older generation. I also love to see Persian Bold xx and Lord Gayle xx out of the same families in showjumping Pedigrees.
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Saw him with his new(er) YR competing in Ocala last weekend, looked great!
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I am so glad to see this thread up. It’s about time someone realized what a QUALITY horse that is – and a TB to boot.
For the record though, he is not Australian TB. He may have been foaled out in AUS and is registered in AUS, but he is a US bred-horse. His sire is 100% USA bred, and his dam, while born in IRE, is USA/CAN bred. I’m a stickler about this because I often see people correct others about their horse being a “Australian/Irish/British TB” as if that is a distinction from a “regular TB” - when their TB is by a USA horse, out of a USA horse. Those letters aren’t signifying what kind of TB it is - they’re signifying where the TB was born.
Here is his pedigree:
https://www.pedigreequery.com/heir+pegasus
Yes, his damline is incredible for sport - but not the whole picture here. FP and SW are known UL sources of talent in the modern TB.
If you saw many FP horses in person (I have - he was very common in NY) you would recognize that Kelecyn Cognac is very much representative of his sire. That’s how many of them move.
ETA: his height, solidness, and big bone – totally normal in a mature TB. :yes:
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Is he by FuPeg ? I have a FuPeg gelding. He’s the best !
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