Pregnant Bella going out on winning note

Bella Renza took full advantage of one of her few remaining racing opportunities when she turned her form around for an upset victory in the feature event at yesterday's Tauranga meeting.
The daughter of Van Nistelrooy's long odds win in the New World Mount Maunganui Open was her first success for nearly two years and was timely as the curtain is about to fall on her career.
The Graeme and Debbie Rogerson-trained mare is in foal to the former Cox Plate winner Savabeel and is likely to have one more start.
"She'll probably run in the Group One sprint at Te Rapa. She's been a very good mare to us," Graeme Rogerson said.
Bella Renza has won seven races and is a valuable broodmare prospect as the winner of a Listed Westbury Classic and in 2009 she finished fourth behind Mufhasa in the Waikato Draught Sprint.
From the family of the promising stallion Perfectly Ready and the Golden Slipper winner Belle Du Jour, Bella Renza is raced by Denise Howell, who has enjoyed a long and successful association with the extensive Rogerson operation.
Bella Renza was ridden yesterday by Chad Ormsby who settled her in behind the pace and, once into the open, she finished powerfully to beat the local hope Casabella Lane and stablemate Arlington.
Two eye-catching runs came from the next two runners home with the well-performed stayers Solid Billing and Passchendaele who finished fourth and fifth respectively.
Solid Billing was making just his second appearance since winning the Queens Cup at Eagle Farm during the winter while Passchendaele was resuming after a lengthy spell on the sidelines with a serious canon bone injury.
"The Matamata vets did a fantastic job with her when she split the bone right down the middle in her off-hind leg," Matamata trainer John Sargent said.
"She was boxed for three months and then in a small yard for another three months before she was on the water walker and then back to me."
Passchendaele was understandably lost for early speed but found the line well and may have finished closer but for rider Mark Du Plessis being cramped for room in the straight.
She will make her next appearance at Pukekohe before heading to the Darci Brahma International Stakes at Te Rapa and a possible tilt at the Auckland Cup.
Meanwhile, bright futures have been predicted for Tauranga maiden winners Big Quick and Chivas Regal after they opened their winning accounts in fine style.
However, in the case of the former it is highly likely that he will be plying his trade in Hong Kong in the near future after racing away with the Tauranga Livestock Maiden.
"I'll have to teach him to speak Chinese now," Cambridge trainer Fred Cornege quipped.
"It's unfortunate with the way racing is in New Zealand that you have to trade."
Big Quick had placed at his debut at Pukekohe and then turned in an outstanding effort at Te Rapa to finish runner-up to Chennai, who has since won again, after running extremely wide on the home bend.
"He should have won and I don't know who lost the compass, me or the horse," rider James McDonald said. "It was a huge run."
McDonald settled the Falkirk three-year-old at the tail-end of the field before looping the field across the top.
Big Quick held a strong gallop and, after hitting the front 100 metres out, coasted home.
Chivas Regal had finished runner-up in his three previous appearances before deservedly going one better in the Cancer Society Maiden.
Byerley Park trainer Sally Gillespie opted to remove the blinkers at Tauranga and rider Patrick Holmes feared the worst when the four-year-old was tardy from the barrier.
"He'd been missing the start with the hood on and he did it again," he said.
"I was lucky I got a good run through the field from the 400."
Chivas Regal produced a sustained finish to down Simfinnarley, a resuming Kuai Ma and the pacemaker Columbus Line who gave a sight in his New Zealand debut after transferring to Wexford Stables from the Melbourne yard of Tony Noonan.