ELMONT, N.Y. – Rubilinda is a raw talent who still has some things to learn. But if she does learn them, she could be a serious horse in the female turf division next year. Despite pulling on her rider, Jose Ortiz, and switching leads several times in the stretch, Rubilinda held on to beat the late-running Party Boat by a nose in Saturday’s $200,000 Pebbles Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park. It was a head back to Thais in third. The win was the third from four starts for Rubilinda, a daughter of the European-based stallion Frankel owned by Don Alberto Stable and trained by Chad Brown. The victory gave Brown and Ortiz a sweep of the Saturday stakes at Belmont as they teamed to win the Grade 3 Futurity one race earlier with Engage. Rubilinda’s first two wins came in sprints when she sat back last and came with a late run. Saturday, going a little farther with a slower earlier pace, Rubilinda was fourth, about five lengths off the pace established by Sylphide. Ortiz had Rubilinda behind horses for the opening half-mile, but she was tugging hard on her rider. “She trains like that in the morning, a little keen too,” Ortiz said. Around the far turn, Ortiz put Rubilinda in the clear and she began to advance to the leaders, drawing on even terms by the quarter pole. Rubilinda ran with Sylphide until the eighth pole when she took the lead. Thais, also trained by Brown, and Party Boat, last early, were gearing up for a stretch challenge to Rubilinda. John Velazquez guided Thais off the inside and into the five-path, while Rosario had Party Boat flying down the center of the track. Rubilinda began switching leads, but she was still moving rapidly and was able to just hang on by the slimmest margin at the wire. Rubilinda covered a mile in 1:34.72 and returned $4.40 as the 6-5 favorite. “Thankful to come away with the victory, the runner-up ran great as well,” Brown said. "[Rubilinda] looked like she was still a little green down the lane, switching leads and such. Jose said when he pulled her out into daylight a little earlier than she had been, she was pulling a little bit so she still has some learning to do, but she ran great.” Though Party Boat broke alertly, she dropped back to last, about seven lengths off the early pace before coming with a flying finish. “I got shuffled back a little bit in the beginning and it was okay, she was comfortable and I stayed there to see if she would have a finish at the end and she did,” Rosario said. “For a second I thought we won the race. I was happy with her race, too bad we got beat.” Brown said he would likely keep Rubilinda at a mile or shorter for the time being and didn’t discount trying her against older fillies and mares at a mile in the Grade 1 Matriarch on Nov. 26 at Del Mar.