Round Table (horse)

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Round Table
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Sire:	Princequillo
Dam:	Knights Daughter
Damsire:	Sir Cosmo
Sex:	Stallion
Foaled:	1954
Country:	USA
Colour:	Bay
Breeder:	Claiborne Farm
Owner:	Kerr Stable
Trainer:	William Molter
Record:	66: 43-8-5
Earnings:	$1,749,869
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Lane's End Breeders' Futurity (1956) Blue Grass Stakes (1957) Hollywood Gold Cup (1957) American Derby (1957) United Nations Handicap (1957 & 1959) Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (1957 & 1958) San Antonio Handicap (1958) Santa Anita 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)
Honours
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (1972) #17 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Infobox last updated on: October 27, 2006.

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.

Unremarkable as a two-year-old, Claiborne Farm owner Arthur B. Hancock, Jr. sold Round Table after his second start of the year to Oklahoma oilman Travis M. Kerr. At age three, the colt won the Blue Grass Stakes but 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 were 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.

In 1958, Round Table dominated American Thoroughbred racing, ending up as the winner of every racing award available to him including Horse of the Year. Five years old in 1959, he won 9 of his 14 races and won his third Champion Turf Horse title. Retired at the end of the racing season to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm, Round Table became one of the most important sires of the 20th century, according to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Round Table sired 83 stakes winners and his worldwide reputation both in racing and as a sire was such that when racehorse owner Queen Elizabeth II visited Kentucky in 1984, she asked to see the famous 30-year-old horse.

Round Table lived to extreme old age, dying at the age of 33 in 1987. He is buried at Claiborne Farm.