It wasn’t a pretty ride to take The Everest, but jockey Craig Williams knew he had to trust his star mare.
Champion jockey Craig Williams has learned to trust the bigger, bolder Bella Nipotina in the past year and it was capped with victory in the $20 million group 1 Everest at Randwick on Saturday.
“She could have been in this race last year but Ciaron didn’t think she was ready. She would have run a good race, but that patience has been rewarded this year.Bella Nipotina has been to Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane since winning the Giga Kick Stakes during the Everest carnival last year. Williams has been everywhere with her.
Williams speared from the outside barrier intent on being positive instead of taking a sit back in the field as expected. Bella Nipotina ended up outside the leaders and three wide and was there to be beaten when she hit the front in the straight, but her rivals simply couldn’t. “Then I thought, I’ll challenge her early because she felt like if anything comes to her, she’s going to hold them off, and she did.”
It was the Queensland winter that earned Bella Nipotina the TAB slot in the Everest. She won the Doomben 10,000 and Tatt’s Tiara and was runner-up in the Stradbroke.
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