NEWS
Kipling, sire of Kip Deville, headed to Crestwood
Posted: Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:07 PM
KIPLING
by Jeff Lowe
Kipling, the sire of NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) winner Kip Deville, will move from Oklahoma to Pope McLean Sr.’s Crestwood Farm in Lexington for the 2008 season.
A full brother to Remsen Stakes (G2) winner Court Vision, the 11-year-old Gulch horse out of Weekend Storm, by Storm Bird, will stand for $7,500.
Kipling, Oklahoma’s leading sire with $2,387,106 in progeny earnings in 2007, covered 70 mares this spring at an advertised fee of $2,500 at owner Warren Center’s Mighty Acres in Pryor, Oklahoma.
Center said he would retain a 50% interest in Kipling. Crestwood and Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Kentucky, both will own 25% interests.
“I’m sure Oklahoma Thoroughbred leaders are disappointed to lose a stallion of his quality, but he’s earned the right to go to Kentucky and see if he can get the volume and quality of mares that will give him the chance to see if he can be another Malibu Moon or Saint Ballado or a horse that’s come from somewhere else and made it big,” Center said on Thursday morning.
From just 51 starters in four crops of racing age, Kipling has sired five stakes winners. Kip Deville won the 2007 Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes (G2) and Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap (G1) prior to his Breeders’ Cup victory. Chad Schumer, Center’s bloodstock agent, bought Kip Deville’s dam, the Encino mare Klondike Kaytie, for $6,000 in 2001.
Kipling also is the sire of five-time stakes winner Dreamsandvisions.
“He’s done very well with a modest group of mares,” McLean said. “He’s from the family of A.P. Indy and out of a full sister to Summer Squall, so we’re definitely excited about him.
Kipling’s dam is a half sister to leading sire A.P. Indy. Summer Squall was the 1990 Preakness Stakes (G1) winner.
McLean projected Kipling’s book at around 100 mares for 2008.
Kipling was the $1.4-million sale topper in the 1997 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale. He failed to crack stakes company for trainer D. Wayne Lukas and owners Michael Tabor and Susan Magnier. Center bought him privately in early 2000.
Kipling covered 44 mares in his first season in 2001 at H & S Farms in Chelsea, Oklahoma. He stood two seasons at Tooth-Acres Farm in Arkansas before Center opened Mighty Acres in Oklahoma. His current two-year-old crop consists of just nine horses.
Bred in Kentucky by William S. Farish and W. S. Kilroy, Kipling won five of 28 career starts and earned $121,862.
Jeff Lowe is a Thoroughbred Times staff writer
