7 Jul 2014
It's easy to see why Cambridge Stud's Group One-winning Danehill horse KEEPER has risen to the top of the New Zealand Stallion Premiership for individual winners.
The success keeps rolling in with a seven day period at the start of this month (01 to 07 July) reaping 4 winners and 8 further placegetters.
Three of Keepers winners came at home - on three different tracks around New Zealand - while he also landed further success in Hong Kong.
Here's an overview of the winners in calendar order...
04 July - Ashburton
* Give Me a Reason (Keeper ex O'Malley's Girl, by Kingdom Bay)
05 July - Te Rapa
* He's Dan (Keeper ex She's Possessed, by Deputy Governor)
05 July - Awapuni
* Bel Sorriso (Keeper ex Balbeel, by Zabeel)
06 July - Sha Tin (HK)
* Flying Keeper (Keeper ex Alicia Markova, by Entrepreneur)
For the record, the 8 placegetters during the period 01/07 July were...
* Queenofthepalace
* McConaughey
* Archippus
* Natural Nine
* Illuminati
* Hey Hey Renee
* Tihi Keepa
* Nottoobad
Keeper's overall statistics are...
* 333 individual winners (from 509 runners)
* 181 of his winners are colts or geldings
* 152 of his winners are fillies or mares
* 26 indiviudla SW (45 black type races won)
* 6 individual Group One winners
* LEADS NZ STALLION PREMIERSHIP FOR WINNERS (58 in NZ alone so far this season)
* Joint-Leading NZ 3YO Sire by Winners (18 - equal with O'Reilly)
All statistical information courtesy of Arion Pedigrees