2022 JUNE (Late) Online Sale
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Buyer: Tony Ottobre - $30,000
Particulars
Name: | Keep de Rose (NZ) |
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Category: | Broodmare |
Sire: | Keeper (AUS) |
Dam: | Grove Nymph (NZ) |
Colour: | Bay |
Sex: | Mare |
DOB: | 30 August 2009 |
COB: | NZ |
Disclosures: | |
GST: | Yes 100% |
Location: | 7 Musk Creek Road FLINDERS VIC |
Broodmare's Breeding Status
In foal: | Yes |
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Covering sire: | Earthlight (IRE) |
Date of last service: | 10 November 2021 |
Selling with a foal at foot: | No |
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Description
Group 2 placed mare in foal to Champion 2yo!!
Keep De Rose is being offered in foal to Champion 2yo Earthlight by the champion Shamardal. Earthlight was an unbeaten dual Group 1 winning 2yo who had blistering speed to record 5 wins from as many starts at 2.
Keep De Rose was a 4 time City winning mare and was Group 2 placed in the VRC Matriarch Stakes amassing $240,000 in prizemoney. She’s from the Group 1 winning family of Just A Dancer and Field Dancer with other notable Stakes winners/performers Blanchard, Savvy Oak and Fairy Oak.
Keep De Rose has had 5 foals to date with a sale average of $112,500 with her highest priced being $300,000 and this years weanling making $100,000 at the recent Inglis Great Southern Sale.
She’s a good sized mare standing approximately 16.2HH and is easy to do anything with.
A great opportunity to buy a mare that produces a fantastic type in foal to an exciting First Season Sire!!
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Pedigree
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KEEP DE ROSE (NZ) | ||||
Bay mare | Foaled 2009 |
KEEPER (AUS) (1997). 7 wins to 1600m, SAJC Goodwood H., Gr.1. Sire of 729 rnrs, 476 wnrs, 35 SW, inc. Keep the Peace (New Zealand Oaks, Gr.1), Midnight Oil, etc. Sire of the dams of 411 rnrs, 243 wnrs, 12 SW, inc. Bostonian, Mana Nui, Daqiansweet Junior, Ruthless Dame, Germanicus, Belle Fascino, Let Her Rip, Seven Seas, Espresso Martini, She's Alight, Respin, No Pushover, SP He's Got Power, Initiative, Dame Margo Fonteyn, Lim's Kosciuszko, Appellant, etc.
1st dam GROVE NYMPH, by Grosvenor. 2 wins at 1600m, Waikato RC Ancroft Stud H., 3d ARC Kingfisher Products H., Dunstan Stayers' Championship Qualifier-twice. Three-quarter-sister to Queen Caelia NYMPH MONTE (g by Tavistock). 10 wins from 1600m to 2500m, NZ$268,407, CJC Metropolitan Trophy H., L, Spring Classic, L, Hawkes Bay Aon H., Egmont Cup, Waikato RC Greene Racing H., Hawkes Bay Horse of the Year Show H., 2d Manawatu RC Rich Hill Stud H., McDonalds H., 3d WRC NZ Campus of Innovation H., Hawkes Bay Fasttrack Insurance H., ARC Dunstan Feeds Qualifer, WRC Tui - Backing a Winner H., 4th Marton JC Metric Mile, Gr.3, CJC Metropolitan Trophy H., L, Wanganui Cup, L. Keep de Rose (f by Keeper). 4 wins. See below. Terrific Master Artaxerxes Athenry Sacred Spring
2nd dam FIELD NYMPH, by Northfields. Unraced. Dam of 17 foals, 16 to race, 13 winners, inc:- FIELD DANCER (g Star Way (GB)) 9 wins from 1200m to 2200m, NZ$429,565, A$17,300, ARC Easter H., Gr.1, New Zealand S., Gr.1, BOP RC Japan-New Zealand International Trophy, Gr.2, HBJC Byerley Thoroughbred S., L, 2d New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas, Gr.1, Wellington S., Gr.3, Rotorua Challenge S., Gr.3, Avondale JC West End S., L, BATC Chairman's H., L, Waikato RC P&M Plaza Purse H., L, 3d Avondale Cup, Gr.1, Manawatu RC Awapuni Gold Cup, Gr.2, Counties Cup, Gr.3, Avondale JC Allegra Park S., L. JUST A DANCER (c Star Way (GB)) 8 wins-1 at 2-from 1200m to 3200m, NZ$171,275, A$973,510, AJC Sydney Cup, Gr.1, 3200m-in track record time, QTC Brisbane Cup, Gr.1, ARC Queen Elizabeth H., Gr.2, Great Northern Guineas, Gr.2, VATC Herbert Power H., Gr.2, Royal Show H., L, ARC Derby Trial S., BOP RC Te Puninga Stud Juvenile H., 2d AJC St Leger, Gr.2, STC Hill S., Gr.2, AJC Craven P., L, 3d New Zealand Derby, Gr.1, STC Kingston Town S., Gr.3, 4th VRC Queen Elizabeth S., Gr.2. Successful sire. BLANCHARD (f Kaapstad) 7 wins from 1200m to 2400m, NZ$139,225, A$61,200, WRC Trentham S., Gr.3, ARC Autobahn Café H., Swiss Deli H., More FM H., Waikato RC Norris Ward McKinnon Lawyers H., Avondale JC Cats 'n' Jammas Cattery H., 2d GCTC Prime Minister's Cup, Gr.2, ARC Dunstan Stayers Championship Qualifier, Waikato RC Dunstan Stayers Championship Qualifier, 3d Wellington Cup, Gr.1, Hawkes Bay Tumu Timbers H., Rotorua RC Lowe Schollum & Jones Ltd H., 4th Auckland Cup, Gr.1, WRC Captain Cook S., Gr.1. Dam of 4 winners- ZARA DANCER (g Savabeel) 4 wins from 1400m to 2100m, NZ$58,675, A$96,950, ATC Frank Underwood Cup, L, Waikato RC New Zealand Bloodstock H., ARC Babcock Fitzroy H., 2d Matamata RC Stanley Group S., L, ARC JT Anderson Farewell H., 3d ARC Nathans Memorial H., ATC Good Luck Daniel Geale H., 4th ARC New Zealand S., Gr.1, ATC Neville Sellwood S., Gr.3, Hawkesbury Gold Cup, Gr.3. Mont Fay GRAND CHANCELLOR (g Savabeel) 5 wins from 1400m to 2000m, A$123,520, HK$2,729,450, SAJC Port Adelaide Guineas, L, Adelaide Cup Raceday P., HKJC Stevenson Cup, Collection H., 2d SAJC Chairman's S., Gr.3, Drink Drive Grow Up H., HKJC Staunton H., Fung Wo H., Mei Lam H. Queen Caelia FAIRY OAK (f High Chaparral (Ire)) 2 wins at 1600m, 1800m, A$77,525, SAJC Auraria S., Gr.3. Producer.
Race Record: 4 wins from 1600m to 2100m, A$240,400, VRC Visit Victoria P., MRC BMW H., Cranbourne TC Pinker Pinker P., 3d VRC Matriarch S., Gr.2, MVRC City Jeep H., MRC Sportingbet H.
Produce Record: Dam of 2 named foals, 1 to race, 1 winner. 2016 Rose in Rio 2017 (c by Smart Missile). 2018 Kentucky Ruler 2019 Missed to Brazen Beau 2020 (c by Rubick). 2021 (c by Shalaa (Ire)). Missed in 2019. {Served by Earthlight. Date of last service, 10.11.2021. |