Half-Sister to Lady Kipling at Karaka 2014

Classy Savabeel mare Lady Kipling (NZ) (Savabeel) improved her already impressive race record and added to the family’s pedigree page as she raced away with the Group 3 Eagle Technology Stakes (1600m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Lady Kipling (NZ) wins the Group 3 Eagle Technology Stakes.

A half-sister to Lady Kipling by first season sire Rip Van Winkle has been catalogued at Lot 350 for the 2014 Karaka Premier Sale with catalogues online now for New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series.

The well-performed daughter of Savabeel entered Saturday’s feature race in good form having had two starts this season, winning fresh up and finishing third in the Group 2 Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes seven days earlier.

Trained by the partnership of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman, Lady Kipling was astutely ridden by Leith Innes who positioned the mare well, mid-field with cover, from a tricky barrier draw of 12 in the 14-horse field.

The Karaka Select Sale graduate loomed up to the leaders at the 200m mark and raced away from the field, quickly putting the race out of doubt with a comprehensive 1.5 length victory in a good time of 1.34.79 on a Good 3 track.

“She is a good genuine mare that ran up to her form,” commented Baker. “She is as honest as they come and will have three more starts before she will be retired.

“She will go to the Cal Isuzu Sakes at Te Rapa before the Zabeel Classic and the Thorndon Mile. She is in foal to Rip Van Winkle so will have those last three runs before being retired.

“She was a lovely horse as a yearling. She is a very nice type and has a great temperament. She is by Savabeel and he has been going great lately.”

The six-year-old mare has now won 11 races from her 33 career starts with Saturday’s success the third stakes win in her career and has earned her owners G Candy & L I Redshaw $437,800 in prizemoney. Murray Baker purchased Lady Kipling for $62,500 from the 2009 Karaka Select Sale from Windsor Park Stud.

Bred by Alchemy Family Trust & Windsor Park Stud Ltd, Lady Kipling is out of stakes placed mare Akela (Al Akbar) and is a half-sister to another stakes performer in Lady Chapel (King’s Chapel).

Her sire Savabeel enjoyed a successful 24 hours with Lucia Valentina prevailing in the Group 3 Wellington Stakes on Friday taking the Waikato Stud stallion’s season stakes winners to seven. Savabeel has 47 horses catalogued in the 2014 Karaka Premier Sale.

Windsor Park will once again offer the progeny of Akela at Karaka 2014 with her daughter by Rip Van Winkle catalogued in the Premier Sale. Catalogues for the National Yearling Sales Series are available online now and will be in letterboxes this week. To order a catalogue, contact [email protected].