DUBAI BELLE FIGHTS HARD FOR GRP 3 WIN (15th August 2012)

Saturday's Marton meeting saw the 2012 running of the Marton Metric Mile and Dubai Belle fought hard to kick home as the convincing winner, a great ride by Robbie Hannam to sit off the pace and kick for home early leaving the others chasing.

Dubai Belle was bred and is owned by Robin Hapi and was foaled down, raised, broken in and pretrained here at Mangatiti Bloodstock. She originally went to Francis Finnegan to be trained where she won three races for him but when he moved to Australia she was placed in the training hands of Tony. She has now won 6 including this Group 3 race, which was Tony's first black type win after having Sitting on a Hill and Ormond Road both black type placegetters.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ROBIN HAPI AND DUBAI BELLE!!! A WELL DESERVED WIN!!

Dubai Belle pictured as a foal a few days old then winning her Group 3!

Dubai Belle is a great advert for our Water Treadmill as she does her majority of work on it, and has only been to the track for a few days pacework and a quiet gallop and the rest of the time does all her work on the water treadmill.

Check out the video below we took of her this morning (Sunday 16th, the day after she won) bucking and racing round the paddock, a very happy horse and obviously thriving in the relaxed atmosphere of Mangatiti Bloodstock, where we cater for your horses individual needs and achieving great results!