Beautiful Bella does it again in G1 Tatt's Tiara (Inglis)

Amazing mare Bella Nipotina (Pride Of Dubai) secured a third career G1 win and took her earnings to almost $11m with a breathtaking victory in today’s Tatt’s Tiara at Eagle Farm.

The Ciaron Maher-trained Bella Nipotina is an incredible racehorse – she has finished no worse than sixth at her past 17 starts and has been within 2.3L of the winner at 16 of those 17 runs.

In the past three months alone she has raced in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and WA and she has contested four G1 races during the Brisbane Winter Carnival – the Doomben 10,000, Kingsford Smith Cup, Stradbroke Handicap and Tatt’s Tiara, finishing in the quinella on each occasion including two wins.

Today she was forced to race three-wide without cover from barrier 17 but it mattered little as jockey Ryan Maloney guided her to the easiest of victories.

The 6YO mare will now be sent for a freshen up before being set for the $20m The Everest, to be run at Randwick in October.

Bred and raced by Michael Christian, Bella Nipotina (pictured) was just an $80,000 purchase out of the Rosemont Stud draft at the Premier Yearling Sale for Lindsay Park, Andrew Williams and Mt Hallowell Stud.

She is one of 99 individual G1-winning Inglis graduates since 2018 and one of 44 that could have been purchased for $100,000 or less in that period.

Christian described Bella Nipotina as a “freak’’ following today’s victory.

“I’m numb all over, I’m just in awe of her,’’ a delighted Christian said.

“It’s been an amazing day and she’s an amazing mare, a freak of a mare. In 51 starts before today, she’d only started favourite two or three times and while she doesn’t know the odds, it was quite nerve-racking today knowing so many people had backed her and I was just happy for the mare that she was able to deliver for those who had their money on her.

“The Everest is the clear goal now. Based on what she’s done against the absolute best sprinters – not only up here in Queensland but her 2nd in the [G1] TJ Smith she beat home some very good horses that day – I think she’s proven once and for all she can mix it with and defeat the best.’’

Bella Nipotina is $13 with Ladbrokes for The Everest, to be run at Randwick on October 19.

Winning trainer Maher added: “She’s just phenomenal, I don’t know what else to say about her.

“To race in all four [G1s in Brisbane] and be as good in the last as she was in the first, and that’s on the back of going to Perth and running in the autumn in Sydney, it’s phenomenal.’’