Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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California Gold. Trainer Molter was crowded off the plane, and Peters arrived alone just before the race. "We got to settle this right now, Doc," said Horse Trader Hancock as Round Table headed for the starting gate. "The price may go up after the race-or I might not sell at all." Veterinarian Peters quickly agreed to buy ("soundest horse I ever examined")-and then sat back to watch Round Table finish out of the money. When Trainer Molter finally showed up, he thought the colt looked discouragingly small. Says he: "If I had been there on time, I might...
...Round Table was taken to California by Kerr and promptly began to earn his keep on the hard-surfaced tracks that were to his liking. Kerr brought him east for the 1957 Kentucky Derby, where he finished a good enough third behind Ralph Lowe's Gallant Man and Calumet Farm's Iron Liege, then passed up the prestigious Preakness and Belmont to campaign against easier pickings in California. By season's end Kerr...
This year Round Table impressed railbirds by breezing home under 130 Ibs. to win Florida's mile-and-one-quarter $100,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap. His pace for the mile-and-one-eighth en route was just two-fifths of a second off the world record of 1:46.8. In his drive to top Nashua's moneymaking, Round Table is entered in this week's $100,000 Washington Park Handicap at Arlington and this month's $100,000 United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City, NJ. and the $100,000 Woodward Stakes at Belmont, L.I. Possible opponent...
...National airlines. Pan Am plans to lease at least one of its Boeing 707s to National every winter, when National's Miami business picks up. National would lease DC-8s to Pan Am in summer for busy North Atlantic route. Deal would allow National to make three jet round trips daily to Miami during coming Florida season, race ahead of competing Eastern and Northeast with first pure jets on route...
...CREDIT CARD for restaurants, shops, car rental, etc., round the world is planned by Hilton Hotels. Corporation already has 1,000,000 holders of credit cards used in Hilton's 33 hotels alone, last year did $60 million business with them...