GI Tiara Caps Amazing Season for Bella Nipotina

Tara Madgwick - Saturday June 29

Pride of Dubai has two absolutely outstanding mares running for him this season and while Pride of Jenni has been off on a well earned break preparing for the spring, Bella Nipotina has been blazing a path to further G1 glory over the Brisbane Winter Carnival adding the $700,000 Group I Tatts Tiara (1400m) to her stellar CV at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Bella Nipotina wins the G1 Tatts Tiara - image Racing Queensland / Michael McInally

Bella Nipotina wins the G1 Tatts Tiara - image Racing Queensland / Michael McInally

The Ciaron Maher trained six year-old won the Group I BRC Doomben 10000 at her first start in Brisbane and followed with two close seconds in the G1 Stradbroke and Kingsford Smith Cup before rounding out her campaign with a dominant win in the Tiara beating her stablemate Semana by more than a length.

With her regular rider Craig Williams off on an aid mission to Ukraine, Ryan Maloney filled the role admirably allowing her to find her rhythm albeit travelling deep from her wide gate before she went into overdrive and showed her class.

“In the end it really didn't matter, she just toyed with them," Maloney said.

"She got into a nice enough rhythm and good horses do what they do, they just know how to win. It certainly makes your job a lot easier and a lot more enjoyable."

 

"To do what she has done, I thought we'd come up here for one run and maybe have a crack at 14 (1400 metres) in the Tiara," said Ciaron Maher, who continues to be amazed by what Bella can achieve.

"To run in all four and be as good in the last as she was in the first, phenomenal.

"And that's on the back of going to Perth, running in the autumn in Sydney."

Maher harbours a plan to get Bella Nipotina ready for the Everest, a race in which she missed a start last year before winning the $3million Giga Kick beating both Private Eye and Everest winner Think About It.

“She was an emergency last year, she is probably going better this year," Maher said.

"We will work back from The Everest, she probably has a run beforehand, and she will go back out now and freshen up."

Bella Nipotina was an $80,000 Inglis Premier purchase.

Bella Nipotina was an $80,000 Inglis Premier purchase.

An $80,000 Inglis Premier purchase for Lindsay Park Racing / Andrew Williams Bloodstock / Mt Hallowell Stud from the Rosemont stud draft, Bella Nipotina was bred by Michael Christian and partners at Longwood Thoroughbred Farm and they retain a share in her ownership.

Now a triple Group I winner, Bella Nipotina has the impressive record of nine wins and 23 placings from 52 starts with earnings topping $10.9million.

Bella Nipotina is the best of two winners from Bella Orfana, a placed sibling by Star Witness to Group winners Hallowell Belle and Fuddle Dee Duddle (dam of Group III winner Brereton)  from the family of Group I Caulfield Guineas winner In Top Swing.

Longwood Thoroughbred Farm sadly lost Bella Orfana earlier this year and her last foal is a weanling filly by Trapeze Artist.

Pride of Dubai stands for just $22,000.

Pride of Dubai stands for just $22,000.

Standing at Coolmore at a fee of $22,000, Pride of Dubai has sired three Group I winners this season with Bella Nipotina joining Pride of Jenni and New Zealand trained Desert Lightning.

He will finish a clear third on the Australian General Sires List behind only I Am Invincible and Zoustar.


 

Race Result - Tattersall's Tiara Gr1 1400m

Eagle Farm Track: Good(4) Time: 1:21.65
1
Bella Nipotina
- 6m Pride Of Dubai (AUS) x Bella Orfana (AUS) (Star Witness (AUS))
Tnr: C Maher Rdr: Ryan Maloney 57
2
1.1
Semana
- 4m Winning Rupert (AUS) x Festivity (AUS) (Nicconi (AUS))
Tnr: C Maher Rdr: Dylan Gibbons 57
3
1.4
Bubble Rock
- 5m More Than Ready (USA) x Reef Point (USA) (Giant's Causeway (USA))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: W Egan 57
4
2.2
Abounding
- 3f Rich Enuff (AUS) x Transonic (AUS) (Casino Prince (AUS))
Tnr: R L Heathcote Rdr: Martin Harley 55.5
5
2.7
Roll On High
- 3f Shamus Award (AUS) x All Highs On Me (AUS) (High Chaparral (IRE))
Tnr: P G Moody & Katherine Coleman Rdr: V Duric 55.5
6
2.8
Ausbred Flirt
- 5m Maurice (JPN) x Seven Year Itch (AUS) (Keltrice (AUS))
Tnr: Brad Widdup Rdr: Tyler Schiller 57
7
3.1
Roots
- 5m Press Statement (AUS) x Arctic Success (AUS) (Big Brown (USA))
Tnr: C J Waller Rdr: Tim Clark 57
8
3.8
Lekvarte
- 5m Reliable Man (GB) x Plumm (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: Joseph Pride Rdr: Reece Jones 57
9
4.1
Vienna Princess
- 4m Snitzel (AUS) x Graciousness (AUS) (Street Cry (IRE))
Tnr: C J Waller Rdr: J Byrne 57
10
4.5
C'est Magique
- 4m Zoustar (AUS) x Yau Chin (AUS) (Tobougg (IRE))
Tnr: C J Waller Rdr: B Shinn 57
11
4.9
More Secrets
- 6m More Than Ready (USA) x Secret Indulgence (NZ) (Fastnet Rock (AUS))
Tnr: M, W & J Hawkes Rdr: R Dolan 57
12
5.1
Comrade Rosa
- 5m Capitalist (AUS) x No Looking Back (AUS) (Redoute's Choice (AUS))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: Angela Jones 57
13
5.1
Coco Jamboo
- 4m Massaat (IRE) x Beta Tauri (USA) (Oasis Dream (GB))
Tnr: P & P Snowden Rdr: Tom Sherry 57
14
5.8
Zoe's Promise
- 4m Swear (AUS) x Kinz Funky Monkey (USA) (The Green Monkey (USA))
Tnr: K A Lees Rdr: M Rodd 57
15
7.4
Miss Joelene
- 3f Russian Revolution (AUS) x Cellargirl (AUS) (More Than Ready (USA))
Tnr: K M Schweida Rdr: James Orman 56
16
16.3
Opal Ridge
- 4m Rubick (AUS) x Chadana (AUS) (Myboycharlie (IRE))
Tnr: Luke Pepper Rdr: Tommy Berry 57
17
22.1
Banana Queen
- 5m So You Think (NZ) x Tropicana Lady (AUS) (Fastnet Rock (AUS))
Tnr: G Ryan & S Alexiou Rdr: Damien Thornton 57
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