Round Table

Round Table

Trainer:Moody Jolley, William Molter
Owner: Claiborne Farm & Kerr Stable
Foaling Date: April 6, 1954
Pedigree: Princequillo and Knight's Daughter of Sir Cosmo
Dosage: 12-8-10-8-2 (40)
Dosage Index / CD: 1.67 / 0.50

Notes: Round Table was a popular thoroughbr ed racehorse of the United States horseracin g circuit. He is still considered as one of the best turf horse in history of the thoroughbr ed horseracin g. Though most of the races in the United States are run on the dirt surface: he managed to win fourteen races out of sixteen that he participat ed on the turf tracks in the united states horseracin g circuit. He was trained by Moddy Jolley and was sold with an eighty percent interest as soon as he raced for the second time. When he was three years old, he was hired by William Molter as his trainer. He posted a winning title at the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in a track record time. After taking part in couple of races, Round Table was shipped back to race in California , where he scored eleven straight-s et wins — he was the leading money winner of 1957 and the first of the three straight US Champion Turf Horse titles. He raced in a dominating fashion right the start of 1958 and began the year by snatching a victory at the Strub Series at Santa Anita Park. He became the first horse to post a winning title in the Malibu Stakes, the San Fernando Stakes and the Santa Anita Maturity. He finished the session by winning the Horse Of The Year Award in the same year. He has sired more than eighty stakes winners and died in 1987 at the age 33. Round Table is buried at Claiborne Farm. Queen Elizabeth II visited Kentucky in 1984 and asked to see Round Table.

Facts

Important Races Wins: — · Breeders' Futurity Stakes (1956) · Blue Grass Stakes (1957) · Hollywood Gold Cup (1957) · American Derby (1957) · United Nations Handicap (1957 & 1959) · Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (1957 & 1958) · Strub Series (1958) · San Antonio Handicap (1958) · Santa Anita Handicap (1958) · Agua Caliente Handicap (1958) · Gulfstream Park Handicap (1958) · Arlington Handicap (1958 & 1959) · San Marcos Handicap (1959) · Citation Handicap (1959) · Stars and Stripes Handicap (1959) · Manhattan Handicap (1959)

Racing Awards: — · U.S. Champion Turf Horse (1957, 1958, 1959) · U.S. Champion Male Handicap Horse (1958 & 1959) · United States Horse of the Year (1958) · Leading sire in North America (1972)

Honors: — · National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (1972) · #17 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century