David McDuffee has played the long game with Bella Bellini since she first stepped foot on the racetrack. His patience paid off handsomely, but all good things must come to an end.
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Bella Bellini, who in 2022 became only the second four-year-old mare in history to be voted U.S. Trotter of the Year, will kick off her five-year-old season Saturday (May 6) at The Meadowlands in the first round of the Miss Versatility Series.
"I was probably four or five years old and we had a circular carpet in the living room and I was racing my little cars and I'd line them up like a horse race and I'd move them, you know, this one's second-over, this one's third-over, then the whole field had to move around this turn and they'd all move positions. From that age, it's just always been there."