Many of the photos below courtesy of Gretchen Aitken

*RUSSETWOOD ROMANCE
WPCSA #B-46380, CAN #[B9099], UK WPCS #119831
View pedigree by clicking on her name, click your BACK button to return here
(Rotherwood State Occasion x Eyarth Gigi by Eyarth Celebration)
(See bottom of page for an article on Rotherwood State Occasion by Dr. Wynne Davies)
1999 Liver Cream (dark dapple [sooty] palomino) Section B mare
IMPORTED from the U.K.
See her 2014 FILLY by *WEDDERLIE MARDI GRAS LOM/AOE

*Russetwood Romance is IN FOAL, due July 26, 2017 to:
GOLDHILLS MASTER BRONZE LOM/AOE, WPCSA Legion of Merit and Award Of Excellence Recipient. Supreme Champion and many times  performance champion. WPCSA National High Score Champion. USEF Hunter  Regional HOTY. ISR Oldenburg NA Star Certified Stallion.
Click here to see her 2015 colt, Tri-Ef Royal Occasion, foaled 5/8/15
Click here to see her 2016 colt, Tri-Ef Romancing the Prince, foaled 5/21/16

*Romance's pedigree is second to none, being by one of the all-time most influential stallions in the UK, Rotherwood State Occasion, who topped the WPCS sire ratings TEN times!
Her dam side is no less illustrious, being out of Royal Welsh Winner Eyarth Gigi (Eyarth Celebration x Weston Twiggy), a full sister to the famous Eyarth Zsa Zsa, and herself an extremely successful producer. 
This superb mare combines some of the best breeding the UK has to offer. Her type is exquisite with the prettiest little head, big eyes and tiny ears. She has a beautiful, well shaped neck, level topline, and is very balanced with good bone, body and substance. She is a lovely mover also and brims with Welsh type, she brings superb, proven, unusual bloodlines to the USA.
Romance's Maternal Grand-Dam is the legendary Weston Twiggy, arguably one of the most well-respected & admired Broodmares of all times. Twiggy is the Dam of countless Champions but most notably Eyarth Athene (Royal Welsh Ch)  & Eyarth Zsa Zsa (Royal Welsh Winner) dam of the World-famous Stallions  Eyarth Beau Geste & Eyarth Rio.

BELOW ARE PICTURED MANY OF ROMANCE'S PREVIOUS FOALS,
SHE IS A PHENOMENAL PRODUCER!

CLANFAIR STRIKE IT RICH (click on name for pedigree)
Palomino Sec B Welsh gelding in Canada (son of *Russetwood. Romance & sired by Northwinds Haakin)

*Romance's Sire:  Rotherwood State Occasion  -  1979-2003  Welsh Section B Stallion

Rotherwood State Occasion, who died on 21st August 2003 aged 24 years, will go down in Welsh section B history as one of the five most influential sires of all times following in the footsteps of his ancestors Tanybwlch Berwyn (foaled in l924), Craven Cyrus (f1926), Criban Victor(f,1944) and his grand-sire Downland Chevalier (f. 1962)
State Occasion was bred by Mrs Elizabeth Mansfield of the Rotherwood Stud in Leicestershire sired by Keston Royal Occasion out of Rotherwood Honeysuckle a daughter of Downland Chevalier, who was Royal Welsh champion as a two-year-old in 1970 and again in 1978
State Occasion was shown very little but was purchased by the late Mrs Pat Johns-Powell of the Cottrell Stud in Glamorgan in 1981 after he stood reserve champion to his sire at the National Pony Show
His prowess as a sire began almost immediately and he topped the Welsh Pony and Cob Society sire ratings in 1985 a feat which he repeated a further nine times. The previous sire rating winners were his sire Keston Royal Occasion (who was exported to Australia in 1982) and his grandsire Downland Chevalier who was top sire eight times. Often State Occasion would have twice or three times as many sire rating points as his nearest rival but his son Cottrell Artiste came a close second in 1993 and 1994 and took over in 1995!
Possibly his most successful matings at Cottrell Stud were to the beautiful cream mare Downland Almond and, in addition to Artiste, their progeny included the 1995 Royal Welsh Champion Cottrell Aurora who was exported to Australia.
ln addition to his pure-bred progeny, State Occasion was a very successful sire of children's riding ponies such as Cottrell Statement who qualified for the HOYS six times.
After the death of Mrs Johns-Powell in July 1999, State Occasion returned to Rotherwood where he continued to produce exceptional stock including three lovely filly foals this year and there are two mares in foal to him for 2004.

Wynne Davies
(article written in 2003)

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