ELMONT, N.Y. - Joe Bravo believes lessons learned riding Absatootly in two losses earlier this year led to victory in Saturday’s $150,000 Iroquois Stakes at Belmont Park. Absatootly, far back on the inside for the first half of the race, came with a strong closing kick along the rail in the stretch and outfinished 6-5 favorite Quezon by a half-length to win the Iroquois for female sprinters on the New York Showcase Day program. It was nine lengths back to Cozzy Spring in third. Wonderment and Picco Uno completed the order of finish. Royal Inheritance was scratched. Absatootly, trained by Charlton Baker for Donald Newman, returned $24.20 as longest shot in the five-horse field at 11-1. She covered 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:16.04. Bravo rode Absatootly to a third-place finish behind Picco Uno and Quezon in the Union Avenue at Saratoga and to a fourth-place finish behind fellow New York-bred Highway Star in the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom here Sept. 24. In both races, Bravo made a wide move on Absatootly, who would flatten out. Absatootly never left the inside Saturday, rallying inside of Cozzy Spring and Quezon in upper stretch and outfinishing Quezon to the wire. “The biggest thing I think I learned from her was I would swing her out and she’d come off the bit,” Bravo said. “Today, I wanted to keep her on the fence and let her run through the wire. Trial and error got the win picture today.” Though Absatootly had won five of her first 16 starts, including an open company stakes at Laurel Park, Baker always thought the 4-year-old daughter of Mineshaft had more to offer. Baker said he had been happy with how Bravo had ridden the filly in her previous two starts but left it up to him if he wanted to try something different. “I thought he was riding her good, I liked the style he was using, but she was just getting there with a big run and flattening out,” Baker said. “He made an adjustment, which was great.” Baker also trained Cozzy Spring, a 3-year-old, who broke outward, but then outsprinted Picco Uno for the early lead before fading. Baker said he would likely give Cozzy Spring the rest of the year off and bring her back as a 4-year-old. “I got to get her to rate, too; once he moves on her and goes you can’t get her to relax,” Baker said. Quezon won last year’s Iroquois and looked poised to win it again before Absatootly rallied past her. Trainer Robert Ribaudo said he wouldn’t have had Joel Rosario do anything differently on the mare. “Today, we got beat by a better horse,” Ribaudo said. “Time was legitimate if not better than legitimate.”