BELLA BANISSA CAPTURES STREET DANCER.Byline: Staff and Wire Services ARCADIA Arcadia, region of ancient Greece Arcadia (ärkā`dēə), region of ancient Greece, in the middle of the Peloponnesus, without a seaboard, and surrounded and dissected by mountains. -- Bella Banissa led all the way and defeated Spy Aly by a length to win Friday's $45,200 Street Dancer for fillies and mares at Santa Anita's Oak Tree meeting. Ridden by Patrick Valenzuela, Bella Banissa covered 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside Hillside may refer to: Places
turf In horticulture, the surface layer of soil with its matted, dense vegetation, usually grasses grown for ornamental or recreational use. course in 1 minute, 12.15 seconds and paid $8.40, $5.40 and $3.20. The victory, worth $26,400, increased Bella Banissa's career earnings to $158,617, with threewins in 11 starts. Pure as Gold sidelined: Pure as Gold, who had been mentioned as a candidate for the Grade III Morvich Handicap The Morvich Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late October at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California as part of the Oak Tree Racing Association meet. on Oak Tree's closing day, Oct. 29, will be sidelined for the better part of a year because of bone chips in his knees. ``I'm going to give him some time off and clean up a few things,'' said trainer Jack Carava, who took the Washington-bred son of Stolen Gold for $100,000 on June 14, then won the Grade I Bing Crosby Handicap handicap In sports and games, a method of offsetting the varying abilities or characteristics of competitors in order to equalize their chances of winning. Handicapping takes many, often complicated, forms. in the gelding's next start. |
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