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  • Bella Vella Reunited With Pannell for Snippets

    Friday, 15th January 2021

    Jockey Todd Pannell will ride Bella Vella (Commands-Forget the Weather, by Stormy Atlantic) in Saturday's $1million Magic Millions Snippets Plate over 1200m, reports theracessa.com.au. Pannell last rode the mare in May when she won the Gr1 Sangster Stakes, while she has been ridden by Jamie Kah in her last three starts (a win, a third, and a ninth). "She's really thrived up there – she hasn't missed a beat," trainer Will Clarken said. "She's definitely better than she was at the end of the last prep. She might have trained off a little bit. She's carrying a bit more weight now… and hopefully she's in as good a form as we get her." Bella Vella joined the Clarken stable in 2019 after being purchased at an Inglis Digital Sale for only $22,500. "Todd's done all the work on her," Clarken said. "He rode her beautifully in the Sangster and he deserves a ride. She's fairly hard to place now because we've been fairly successful with her. She needs to run in these sorts of races, because there wasn't a lot for her in Melbourne. It's not ideal, being first-up over six furlongs, but I've got a theory that she might get it a little easier being fresh over the 1200m. She's been a ripper mare to us. She owes us nothing. I think she's won about $700,000 in a year and a bit, so we're playing with their money to find out."