Monastic Springs
2005 b c Sadler's Wells x Ipi Tombe

Pin Turn
2006 c f Pivotal x Ipi Tombe

Ipi Memorabilia
~ Because I am just that nerdy. ~

~ Ipi Tombe ~
1998 bay mare (Manshood x Carnet De Danse, by Dance In Time)

Great racehorses are rare, and great racing fillies can be rarer still. Precious few of them can consistantly dominate their own sex, let alone compete on the highest levels against males. Those that have are an elite company, like Busher, Twilight Tear, or Miesque. Ipi Tombe more than earned her place among them, winning 12 of 14 starts against all comers, from sprints to routes, and often as the high-weight in a field of males. She won races in 4 different countries on 3 seperate continents and was named a champion in 2 of them. But the story of Ipi Tombe is unique for more than just her accomplishments, brilliant though they are. Her's is one of racing's greatest rags-to-riches tales, beginning humbly in strife-torn Zimbabwe.


~ News ~

In a February 2008 poll on www.sahorseracing.com, Ipi Tombe was voted (in a landslide) the greatest racehorse since Horse Chestnut to grace South Africa's tracks.

As of March 2008, Monastic Springs is back in training! Ipi's Pivotal filly has been named Pin Turn. And still no word yet on Ipi's foal by Giant's Causeway. She ought to be due any day now.


Ipi Tombe's Race Record

Ipi Tombe's Pedigree


Acknowledgements: Many, many, many thanks to Kathleen and Barry Irwin for putting up with all of my questions and helping me meet Ipi; to Jim Devlin and Karen Klein for graciously sharing their photos with me and keeping me updated while Ipi was overseas; to Barbara Livingston for sharing her stunning photos; to Craig Bandorff, Gary Bush, Carrie Clark, and the rest of the Denali staff for letting me in. :-)

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