Ipi Tombe
| Ipi Tombe | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Manshood |
| Grandsire | Mr. Prospector |
| Dam | Carnet de Danse |
| Damsire | Dance In Time |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1998 |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Peter J. Moor |
| Owner | 1) Sunmark Stable 2) Team Valor, Sunmark Stable, WinStar Farm (August 2002) 3) Richard Santulli and Barry Weisbord (November 2004) |
| Trainer |
Noelene Peech (ZWE) Mike De Kock (S.A.) W. Elliott Walden (USA) |
| Record | 14: 12-2-0 |
| Earnings | US$1,529,799 (equivalent) |
| Major wins | |
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South African Oaks (2002) South African Fillies Guineas (2002) Woolavington Stakes (2002) Durban July Handicap (2002) Al Fahidi Fort (2003) Jebel Hatta (2003) Dubai Duty Free Stakes (2003) Locust Grove Handicap (2003) |
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| Awards | |
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South African Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (2002) Dubai Horse of the Year (2003) |
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| Honours | |
| Ipi Tombe Challenge at Turffontein Racecourse | |
| Last updated on 7 October 2007 | |
Ipi Tombe (foaled 10 October 1998 in the Marondera District of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe) is a champion Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She was bred by Peter J. Moor, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Thoroughbred Breeders Association of Zimbabwe. With that country in a state of turmoil and near economic collapse following implementation of the government's land reform law that resulted in confiscation and redistribution of horse farms, the granddaughter of Mr. Prospector was sold at the annual Zim Nation yearling auction in Harare for the equivalent of US$30 (thirty dollars). Purchased by a four-man partnership, she was given the name Ipi Tombe which in the Xhosa language (actually: "ipi ntombi") translates as "Where is the girl?"
Conditioned by Zimbabwe's leading trainer, Noelene Peech, Ipi Tombe began her racing career at age three. She made five starts at Borrowdale Park Racecourse in Harare, earning four wins and a second. Her demonstrated abilities were such that her handlers were able to syndicate her to a group of twenty-two South African investors who brought her to race there where stronger competition for higher purse money was available.
Racing under the syndicate's Sunmark Stable banner, Ipi Tombe joined the stable of trainer Noelene Peech and won four races from five starts in her native Zimbabwe. Showing the potential she did, owners Henk Leyenaar, Stephen Tomlinson and Dave Coleman secured half a share for R250 000, the other half remaining with the Sunmark Syndicate, of which Rob Davenport was the nominee, She was sent across the border to Mike de Kock in South Africa., Ipi Tombe's conditioning was entrusted to Mike De Kock, one of South Africa's leading trainers. She made her debut on 9 March 2002, finishing second in the South African Triple Tiara at Turffontein Racecourse in Johannesburg. She would never lose another race in her career.
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