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ROUND TABLE California Depends on Round Table Coast Fans Hope For Another Win Victories in Meadows Derby And Blue Grass Make Kerr Colt Threat This Afternoon CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 3 Round Table is a colt bred raised and raced in Kentucky who has become a California hero almost overnight He car ¬ ries the hopes and prayers of the West Coast for a third victory in the skein fash ¬ ioned by Determine and the mighty Swaps in recent seasons and has the qualifica ¬ tions to get the job done too tooPurchased Purchased by his owner Travis Kerr an Oklahoma Oil man for a reported 175000 thiu winter from Claiborne Farm Round Table has an overall record of seven vic ¬ tories in 16 starts with total earnings of 135551 which Jsnt exactly hay even in Texas TexasHighly Highly Successful in Kentucky KentuckyThe The son of Princequillo and the Irish mare Knights Daughter endeared himself first to hardboot racing fans when he won the Lafayette Stakes at Keeneland last spring then came back in the fall to cap ¬ ture the Breeders Futurity Unfortunately he stepped on a nail here at Churchill Downs in early November and was side ¬ lined for a while with what could have been a serious injury However he came around under the careful guidance of the astute Moody Jolley and hung a sixlength decision on Lucky Dip and Jet Colonel at Hialeah in February FebruaryThen Then came his sale to Kerr whose train ¬ er Willie Molter tested him first in the Santa Anita Derby at a mile and one eighth He finished third after leading at the eighth pole and running out Round Table caught a heavy track which he def ¬ initely doesnt like in the San Bernardino Handicap and was fifth after showing some speed to the head of the stretch He returned with a whopping triumph in the Bay Meadows Derby winning by four and onehalf lengths in 141 the fastest time ever turned in at that course by a three yearold In the recent Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland he shattered Correspondents old record for a mile and oneeighth with a sizzling 147 simply cantering to beat OneEyed King by six lengths lengthsPrefers Prefers to Be on Lead LeadRound Round Table a wellmade horse is nei ¬ ther exceptionally big nor noticeably small He boasts high speed and prefers to be on the lead or just off the pace although the boys who have ridden him say that he rates kindly As noted above both Jolley and Molter have tried him on off tracks and found that he simply doesnt extend him ¬ self in the goo gooThe The coifs breeding suggests that hell want to go a distance of ground despite his speed Calif orniaris remember that Bob ¬ by Brocato was considered purely a sprint ¬ er while he was racing in the East then went to the Coast and won many a handi ¬ cap over a real route Horses with speed can often carry their foot much farther than expected Swoons Sori remember won the American Derby at a mile and threesixteenths last summer and they dont come much faster than that good son of The Dge Princequillo Round Tables sire got Hill Prince and other good dis ¬ tance horses while Knights Daughter won Oaks events in her native Ireland IrelandThere There has been a tendency on the part of Easterners to dismiss lightly races won by horses in California Determine and Swaps wfiile hardly overlooked were not standout choices in the Derbys ttiey won Such distinguished horsemen as Ben and Jimmy Jones gave Round Table an excel ¬ lent clTance to get all the money here to ¬ morrow so you cant say you were not warned warnedv v JOE HIRSCH
