Word: princequillo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Round Table inherited his speed from his dam, an English mare with a fast past named Knight's Daughter, and his endurance from his sire, the rugged. Irish-bred Princequillo. Foaled on the Kentucky farm of A. B. ("Bull'') Hancock, Round Table was running as a three-year-old in 1957 when he caught the fancy of his present owner. A younger brother of Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, with the same family paunch and financial punch (oil, uranium), Travis Kerr, 56, suspected that Round Table might become the great horse he needed for the mildly...
...except for his habit of getting away slowly, "in a class with Citation." Next month's mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, third and longest race in the triple crown, would be a major test. On pedigree, Hill Prince should like the extra distance; his sire, Princequillo, did. Said Arcaro: "We should have clear sailing...
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