Pipalong
| Pipalong | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Pip's Pride |
| Grandsire | Efisio |
| Dam | Limpopo |
| Damsire | Green Desert |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 26 January 1996 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Yeomanstown Stud |
| Owner | Tom Bennett |
| Trainer | Tim Easterby |
| Record | 37: 10-7-4 |
| Earnings | £421,698 |
| Major wins | |
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Two-Year-Old Trophy (1998) Great St. Wilfrid Stakes (1999) Wentworth Stakes (1999) Palace House Stakes (2000) Cecil Frail Stakes (2000) Stanley Leisure Sprint Cup (2000) Duke of York Stakes (2001) |
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| Honours | |
| Pipalong Stakes at Pontefract Racecourse | |
Pipalong (foaled 26 January 1996) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She was sold cheaply as a yearling but developed into a top-class specialist sprinter who excelled on soft ground. Trained in Yorkshire by Tim Easterby, she was highly tried throughout her racing career, running thirty seven times between April 1998 and October 2001.
She showed very good form as a juvenile in 1998, winning the Two-Year-Old Trophy after finishing second in both the Queen Mary Stakes and the Cherry Hinton Stakes. In the following year she won the Great St. Wilfrid Stakes and the Wentworth Stakes as well as finishing placed in several other good sprint races. She reached her peak as a four-year-old in 2000 when she won the Palace House Stakes and the Cecil Frail Stakes before recording her biggest win in the Group One Stanley Leisure Sprint Cup. In the same year she finished third in the July Cup, Nunthorpe Stakes and Prix de l'Abbaye. Pipalong failed to reproduce her best form in 2001 but did win the Duke of York Stakes and again finished third in the Prix de l'Abbaye.
After her retirement from racing she became a broodmare and had some success as a dam of winners.
Pipalong is a bay mare with a narrow white blaze bred in Ireland by the County Kildare-based Yeomanstown Stud. She was the most successful horse sired by Pip's Pride, who recorded his biggest win in the Phoenix Stakes. Her dam Limpopo showed little ability, failing to win in five races. She was distantly descended from the British broodmare Merry Devon, whose other descendants have included Jeune and Lord At War.
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