NEWS
Breeders' Cup Mile winner Kip Deville retired
Posted: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:35 AM
KIP DEVILLE
Bob Coglianese photo
by Jeff Lowe
Kip Deville, the 2007 NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) winner and ’08 Mile runner-up, has been retired following a recent bout with colic.
The six-year-old Kipling horse out of Klondike Kaytie, by Encino, is being treated at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, said Michael Iavarone, president of co-owner IEAH Stables.
“We’re just trying to get him better,” Iavarone said on Tuesday night at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale. “He’s finished racing.”
Stud plans have not been announced for Kip Deville, who captured the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (G1) on February 1 for his final victory. He finished eighth in the Fourstardave Handicap (G2) on August 2 in his most recent start.
Kip Deville retires as the all-time leader on the Oklahoma-bred earnings list with a bankroll of $3,325,489. Chief among his ten stakes wins was a one-length victory on soft turf in the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Mile at Monmouth Park for trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. He also won the ’07 Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap (G1) at Santa Anita Park and prevailed in back-to-back editions of the Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes at Keeneland Race Course, as a Grade 2 in ‘07 and as a Grade 1 in ’08.
Last fall, he finished second to Goldikova (Ire) in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita Park.
IEAH purchased Kip Deville privately from Roy Cobb and Mike Neatherlin in May 2006 after he won the Grand Prairie Challenge Stakes by four lengths at Lone Star Park. Andrew Cohen and several other partners joined IEAH in racing Kip Deville, who won 12 of 30 career starts.
Jeff Lowe is a Thoroughbred Times staff writer
