Windsor Park’s Karaka consignment received a boost when high class mare Lady Kipling won the G2 Cal Isuzu Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa.

Lady Kipling (4m Savabeel – Our Akela by Al Akbar) has won four times for trainer Murray Baker this season and went into the Group 2 off the back of a good win over 1600m at Counties.

Competing against some tough opposition, including the G1 Queensland Oaks placed Shez Sinsational (Ekraar), the Savabeel mare proved too good when asked to quicken by jockey Matthew Cameron at the 200 metres.

Windsor Park will offer her yearling half-sister by High Chaparral as Lot 36 at the NZ Bloodstock Premier yearling sale on January 30.

Lady Kipling is the 13th stakes winner for Savabeel who can do little wrong at present.  Making a solid start to the season, the Cox Plate winning son of Zabeel has also sired NZ bred stakes winners Sangster (G1 VRC Derby) and Strike the Stars (G3 ATC Gloaming Stakes).

Standing at Waikato Stud, Savabeel has a draft of 54 yearlings at the 2012 Karaka Yearling Sales.

Bred by Alchemy Family Trust and Windsor Park Stud, Lady Kipling is raced by Geoff Candy and Lawrence Redshaw.  She cost $62,500 from Windsor Park at NZ Bloodstock’s 2009 Karaka Select Sale.

Saturday’s Te Rapa meeting saw NZ Bloodstock graduates notched up a stakes double at Te Rapa with Mydiamond Bracelet (Al Akbar) winning the Listed Ag and Turf Sprint (1400m).

Mydiamond Bracelet (NZ) was bred and sold by Mark Corcoran.  She was purchased by trainer Graham Richardson from the 2008 NZB Karaka Festival Sale for $26,000.

 LADY KIPLING
Savabeel mare wins G2 at Te Rapa

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