Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-23
Kerr's Star
Scores Eusily
By a Lengths

MIAMI, Fla, Mar. % Dr.
Kerr Stables Round Table won
the $110,900 Gulfstream Park
Handicap as expected today.
running the mile and a quarter
in l:59A to equal the track
record.
The biggest crowd in Gulf
stream Park In two years
Is, 389-nade Round Table the
odds-on favorite at / to 5.
The big bay colt showed his
superiority over the small field
under Jockey Willie Shoemaker,
winning easily by four lengths.
Tartan Stables Meeting was
q surprising second, q neck in
front of Brookmeade Stables
Oligarchy, winner of the recent
Widener Handicap.
Round Table, Juggling top
weight of 100 pounds, paid
$2.40 and $2.10. Meeting re-
turned So to place. There was
no show betting.
Others behind the three lead
ers were c. T. Chenery's Third
Brother, the d & H Stables
Pardala and Mrs. Sue Young's
Juamario, the latter an Argen-
tine-bred.
Third in Earnings
Round Table earned 500, 800
and boosted his lifetime win.
nings to $973,964. He now il
just behind Nashua and Cita-
ton in earnings.
Nashua won $1.288,565 and
Citation $1.OS5,76O His win
nings today sent him well ahead
Of Stymie's $918.485.
Fractional times for the mile
and a quarter were 0:24, OATS,
0:59. I'LL. 1:23A, 1855 and
1:47B. His time of 1898
equaled the track record set
March 10. 1949 by Calumet
Farms Coaltown. The world
record is 1:581s, held by Moor.
Round Table, owned by Mr..
and Mrs. Travis M. Kerr and
their daughter. Nancy Of Okla
homa City, Okla, was brought
here from California for the
race. richest handicap In the
43-day meeting.
Meeting was first out Of the
gate and set the pace to the
stretch turn. Oligarchy, under
Sammy BoulmetiS, chased the
leader while Shoemaker held q
tight rein on Round Table and
kept him in third place for the
first six furlongs.
Round Table, 4-year-old son
of Princequillo out Of Knights
Daughter. started moving
around the far turn and soon
collared Oligarchy. BY the time
they turned into the home
stretch, Round Table was in
front by half a length. He in
creased the margin as he sped
across the finish line.
Knew He Had It
II knew from the three
eighths pole that we had it."
Shoemaker said. "This was a
real thrilling experience and I
have been through a lot Of
them previously"
KCrr, on hand to accept the
trophy. said he always had
qualms when Round Table
runs, but II had no fears from
the time they neared the
stretch"
Trainer William Molter said,
Round Table is q really good
horse and I never worried, for
he was well placed all the way
and I figured he had the speed
to do it any time"
John Ruane. leading rider at
Gulfstream, said his mount,
Meeting, ran a good race but
Just wasn't good enough to beat
Round Table. Boulmetis said
oligarchy had mo excuses"
JuamariO Out in Cold
Meeting earned $4,000 for
his second-place finish. OIL
garchy picked up $4,000, with
$1,000 going to Third Brother
and $4,000 to Pardala, only
mare in the race. Juamario was
last and got least-nothing.
Round Table now has won
his last seven races, including
six this year. He won Is in %
starts as a 3-year-old, earning
$600,258 last year.
He will be shipped back to
California Monday and may
run in the Golden Gate Handi-
cap April &c. After that he will
go to Hollywood Park for q
campaign on that track.
Today's fans made up the
second largest crowd in Gulf
stream Parks history. Nashua
drew 32,522 March II. 1855
Betting on the nine-race
Gulfstream Park Handicap day
program totaled 1898, FOG.
That boosted the parks l6-day
handle to SOS, 183, 876-up one
per cent over the correspond
ing period of last year.
Drogheda, 1880 winner Of
the first race. and Night
Mission, at 5000, formed a
$l00.60 daily double today at