Career
Involved in the oil and uranium business, he was the younger brother of Oklahoma businessman and Senator, Robert South. Kerr. A colt purchased as a three-year-old in 1957 for $175,000 from Claiborne Farm, Round Table was a United States. Racing Hall of Fame inductee who retired at the end of the 1959 racing season having earned a world record United States$1,749,869. Travis Kerr also bred Ole Bob Bowers, sire of the legendary John Henry.
Travis Kerr died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age sixty-eight in 1970 at his home in Beverly Hills, California.