Rose Time never took a stride on a racetrack, but her speed runs through the veins of top Appaloosa racehorses. Her sons and daughters created a place for her in the Appaloosa Racing Hall of Fame and established her as one of the greatest race broodmares of all time. Rose Time’s influence on the racing industry is evident in 1999 Texas Futurity winner Solid Effort, who’s owned by Wagon Wheel Ranch in Springville, Utah.
Charles Tanner Jr. of Morriston, Florida, bred the Appaloosa race mare Ocala Rose to the Thoroughbred stallion Half Time II, producing Rose Time on May 20, 1963. Charles used Rose Time as a broodmare before selling her to Donald O. Peterson of Brighton, Colorado, in 1976. Wagon Wheel Ranch purchased the mare in 1983.
Rose Time produced 13 foals including nine race starters who together won more than $219,600. Her produce include eight winners, four stakes winners, four stakes placed, two register of merit earners, four medallion winners and four champions. Olympics Lil’ Bro, Rose Time’s offspring with the greatest money earnings, made 79 starts for 22 wins and more than $44,055 in purse money.
Her son, Deep South, by Luminary II (JC), won $36,258.60 and a 12-7-4-0 record. Deep South passed Rose Time’s bloodlines to more than 400 foals. The stallion Time Flies, by Apollo (JC) and out of Rose Time, earned 11 stakes wins with an all-time record of 36-26-8-2. In 1978, Time Flies became the first Appaloosa to win at Los Alamitos in California. He passed Rose Time’s name to the pedigrees of 191 Appaloosas.
Wagon Wheel Ranch owned Rose Time until she died in November 1987. She weaned her last foal the year she died.
