Bella Bellini and Lady Chaos added their names to the list of three-year-old trotting fillies who have won a Pennsylvania Sire Stakes (PASS) event this season, taking the two divisions for the third preliminary leg at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono during the Sunday (June 6) card.
The Bar Hopping filly Bella Bellini posted a clocking of 1:53.1, a fifth off her lifetime best, but it was her last quarter of :26.3 which really drew the eye. Bella Bellini sat fourth while You Ato Dream, who won in the first two legs of the PASS, led the field to a :27.1 quarter, then yielded to favoured Anoka Hanover — a first-round prelim winner — as she trotted to the half in :57.2. The pacesetter passed three-quarters in 1:26.2, but by that time Bella Bellini was roaring up uncovered at her with Dexter Dunn, and the two fillies went at each other with fury all the way to the wire, where Bella Bellini beat her game rival by half a length.