Unbridled Humor redeems herself after suffering her first defeat at Saratoga, by winning in the Noble Damsel at Belmont Park
The Graham Motion trained 4-year-old filly, Unbridled Humor, had a little slip up in her last start in the Grade 1 Diana Handicap at Saratoga on 30 July, but she pulled it together like a true champion and won her first graded stakes win in the Grade 3 $100,000
Noble Damsel at Belmont Park on 18 September.
The daughter of Distorted Humor, out of Devotion Unbridled by Unbridled, Unbridled Humor set up a fast pace throughout the race to down the European Invader Thai Haku by 1 ¾ lengths.
It was enough to bounce back from the disappointing run at Saratoga, in the Grade 1 Diana Handicap, over a distance of 1 1/8 miles, a distance which she has only run over once before, and that too on dirt. The Diana Handicap was over Saratoga’s turf course.
Live Oak Plantation owned filly favours the 1 mile distance as she has gone to win thrice on it in as many starts, and it’s safe to say that Unbridled Humor favours turf over any other surface.
In the Diana Handicap, Unbridled Humor found herself doing the pace setting duties, a position that might’ve compromised her chances, but in Noble Damsel the conditioner and the jockey had figured out a different strategy for the filly.
Graham Motion wanted Unbridled Humor to get lost in the mix, and make her run when it really mattered, but jockey Ramon Dominguez got her going right from the get go.
Behind the long shot Twilight Memory, Unbridled Humor dwelled for a while in second position, but under strong urging from Ramon Dominguez forced her to take the lead from a flattened out Twilight Memory.
Unbridled Humor after taking the lead puffed her chest and with a stiff neck gained a considerable advantage over the rest of the field.
Like a freight train she kept going and could not be caught, as she covered the mile in 1 minute and 34.09 seconds.
Trainer Graham Motion would have liked her to be covered up, but the lack of speed made it impossible for Ramon Dominguez to do so, as he nicely guided the filly home after switching leads from Twilight Memory.
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