Round Table (horse)

Round Table (1954-1987) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is considered the best turf horse in American racing history. Because most North American races are run on dirt tracks, he raced primarily on the dirt but won 14 of his 16 races on the grass.Trained by Moody Jolley, at age two Claiborne Farm owner Arthur B. Hancock, Jr. sold an 80% interest in Round Table after his second start of the year to Oklahoma oilman Travis M. Kerr. His only significant win came in October when the colt won the Breeders' Futurity Stakes at Keeneland.Racing at age three, with Kerr having hired William Molter as his trainer, Round Table won the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in track record time. He then finished third to Calumet Farm's Iron Liege in the Kentucky Derby with the heavily favored Bold Ruler finishing 4th. After the Derby, Round Table was shipped back to race in California where he scored eleven consecutive wins, several of which would later become Grade I stakes races. He wound up the leading money winner of 1957 and won the first of three straight U.S. Champion Turf Horse titles.
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