Significant Form Back at Belmont for Noble Damsel

The four-race losing streak by Significant Form to close the 2018 season seems a distant memory as the 4-year-old daughter of Creative Cause  has turned things around this season.

Stephanie Seymour Brant's Significant Form will look to add a third graded stakes win in 2019 when she faces an expected five other fillies and mares in the $200,000 Noble Damsel Stakes (G3T) Sept. 21 at Belmont Park. 

Trained by Chad Brown, Significant Form enters the one-mile test on the Widener turf off a narrow victory in the Aug. 24 Woodford Reserve Ballston Spa Stakes (G2T) at Saratoga Race Course. That effort gave her two wins in three starts this season, with the other coming June 6 in the seven-furlong Intercontinental Stakes (G3T), also on the Widener. 

Significant Form will try one mile on the turf for the first time since finishing fourth in the 2017 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) at Del Mar. She also won the Miss Grillo Stakes (G3T) on the Belmont inner turf that year.

Brown assistant Whit Beckman said Significant Form has settled nicely into her Belmont surroundings.

"Since she got here, she's been in good form and shown good energy," Beckman said. "She did the majority of her preparation for this race in Saratoga, but we know she likes the surface and has always performed well here, especially at a mile to a mile and sixteenth at Belmont."

Brown will also send out Madaket Stables, Michael Dubb, Kent Spellman, and Bethlehem Stables' Stella di Camelot off a third-place finish in the Aug. 3 Fasig-Tipton De La Rose Stakes on the Saratoga turf. Before that effort, she finished third in the Intercontinental.

"She looks to be in good shape," Beckman said. "In her last start, it looked like she had a bit of a difficult trip. Since then, all reports are that she's been training well, so hopefully she can work out a good trip and run to her top level."

Significant Form isn't the field's only runner with two graded stakes wins this season. Epic Racing's Valedictorian won the Suwannee River Stakes (G3T) in February at Gulfstream Park and the Eatontown Stakes (G3T) in June at Monmouth Park. Trained by Kelly Breen, the 5-year-old Temple City  mare will be making her eighth start of the season and competing at a fifth track this year.

Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott entered Capla Temptress for Juddmonte Farms. The 4-year-old Irish-bred daughter of Lope de Vega has one win from four starts this year, capturing the Just a Kiss Stakes in July at Delaware Park before finishing second to Got Stormy in the De La Rose. With two wins from seven starts at the distance, Capla Temptress will look to win her first race at Belmont in her fourth attempt.

Entries: Noble Damsel S. (G3T)

Belmont Park, Saturday, September 21, 2019, Race 8

• Grade IIIT
• 1m
• Turf
• $200,000
• 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
• 4:51 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Bellavais (KY)	Dylan Davis	126	Todd A. Pletcher	7/2
2	2Stella di Camelot (IRE)	Javier Castellano	122	Chad C. Brown	4/1
3	3Betty F (GB)	Kendrick Carmouche	122	Thomas Morley	15/1
4	4Capla Temptress (IRE)	Jose Lezcano	126	William I. Mott	4/1
5	5Significant Form (KY)	John R. Velazquez	126	Chad C. Brown	2/1
6	6Valedictorian (NJ)	Joe Bravo	126	Kelly J. Breen	3/1