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Cherokee Rose (USA)

1951 – 1973?

Princequillo (IRE) x The Squaw II (FR), by Sickle (GB)

Family 9-h

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While obviously a filly of some talent, Cherokee Rose was not as sound as her full sister and fellow Coaching Club American Oaks winner How and had a much shorter racing career. She was not a particularly successful broodmare during her own production career but later gained distinction as the second dam of 1971 American Horse of the Year and successful sire Ack Ack.


Race record

11 starts, 4 wins, 2 seconds, 1 third, US$62,800

1954:
  • Won Coaching Club American Oaks (USA, 11FD, Belmont)
  • 2nd Florida Oaks (USA, 8f+70yD, Gulfstream Park)


Assessments

Rated at 114 pounds on the Daily Racing Form's Free Handicap for American-raced fillies and mares of 1954, 14 pounds below co-highweights Parlo (the official divisional champion) and Miz Clementine.


As an individual

A handsome, strapping bay mare, Cherokee Rose was said to have been a more attractive individual than her full sister How. She suffered a career-ending tendon injury during the running of the Delaware Oaks.


As a producer

Designated as a Reine-de-Course by pedigree analyst Ellen Parker, Cherokee Rose produced nine named foals, of which seven started and six won. Her important foals are as follow:
  • Fast Turn (1959, by Turn-to) never raced but produced 1971 American Horse of the Year Ack Ack (by Battle Joined) and the stakes-winning Olden Times colt Buckboard. She is the third dam of 1980 Venezuelan champion 3-year-old male Sweet Candy and 2007 Grande Prêmio Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BRZ-G1) winner Onibus Espacial.
  • Lay Aft (1962, by Turn-to) was stakes-placed on the track. She is the dam of 1973 John B. Campbell Handicap (USA-G2) winner Delay (by Decidedly).
  • Shoshanna (1968, by Never Bend) never raced but produced 1974 Futurity Stakes (USA-G1) winner Just the Time (by Advocator). She is the second dam of 1990 Beverly Hills Handicap (USA-G1) winner Reluctant Guest and Grade 3 winner Dowery and the third dam of Grade 2 winner Minister Wife.
  • Hardy Climber (1970, by Never Bend) is the third dam of John the Magician, winner of the 1997 Breeders' Stakes (third leg of the Canadian Triple Crown).


Connections

Cherokee Rose was bred by Plain Dealing Stud, the breeding operation of Audrey Emery (who had resumed the use of her maiden name after her divorce from the exiled Georgian prince Dmitri Djordjadze). The filly was purchased privately as a yearling by Captain Harry F. Guggenheim and raced in the colors of his Cain Hoy Stable. She was trained by Eddie Hayward.



Pedigree notes

Cherokee Rose is inbred 4x5 to 1910 City and Suburban Handicap winner White Eagle and 5x5 to 1909 Derby Stakes winner Minoru. She is a full sister to 1951 Kentucky Oaks and Coaching Club American Oaks winner How, whose daughter Pocahontas was the 1965 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year. A daughter of Roman, Pocahontas is the dam of 1965 American champion 3-year-old male Tom Rolfe (by Ribot); Chieftain (by Bold Ruler), a major stakes winner at 2, 3 and 4; French Group 3 winner Lady Rebecca (by Sir Ivor; dam of the important European sire Alzao, by Lyphard); 1968 Blandford Stakes winner Wenona (by Larkspur); and Group 3-placed Irish stakes winner Ahdeek (by Reindeer). Returning to Cherokee Rose, she is also a full sister to 1957 Spinaway Stakes winner Sequoia, dam of 1973 Santa Anita Derby (USA-G1) winner Sham (by Pretense) and 1971 San Bernardino Handicap winner Dendron (by Tatán) and second dam of Grade 3 winner Top Competitor and 1972 Astarita Stakes winner Princess Doubleday.


Cherokee Rose and her siblings were produced from The Squaw II, a half sister to 1947 Grand Prix de Paris winner Avenger (by Victrix) and to Dynamite II (by Dogat), second dam of 1959 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes winner Toluene. The Squaw II's dam Minnewaska (by Blandford) is out of 1926 Cheveley Park Stakes winner Nipisiquit (by Buchan), also the dam of the good English stakes winner Raymond (by Gainsborough). Nipisiquit, in turn, was produced from 1918 Falmouth Stakes winner Herself (by Neil Gow), whose other foals include the 1933 Oaks Stakes winner, Chatelaine (by Phalaris).


Books and media

Cherokee Rose is profiled in Chapter 8 of Avalyn Hunter's American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 (2003, Eclipse Press).



Fun facts
  • “Cherokee rose” is the common name for Rosa laevigata, a wild rose from China that was introduced to the southeastern United States in 1780 and has since become naturalized. It is the state flower of Georgia. In American folklore, its white petals represent the tears shed by Cherokee women along the aptly-named “Trail of Tears” as the Cherokee were forcibly relocated from their homes in the southern Appalachians to a reservation in Oklahoma.
  • Cherokee Rose was the second American-bred filly of that name to achieve some distinction in American racing and breeding. The first, a 1910 daughter of Peter Pan and the English import Royal Rose, is usually seen in pedigrees as “Cherokee Rose II” and is the dam of 1917 American champion 2-year-old filly Rosie O'Grady (by Hamburg).
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Photo credit

Photographer unknown. From the private collection of Dale Wyatt; used by permission.



Last updated: October 26, 2020
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