Brown has three shots to extend Noble Damsel streak to five

ELMONT, N.Y. – Last month, trainer Chad Brown won his fifth consecutive Grade 1 Diana Stakes at Saratoga. Saturday, Brown will attempt to win his fifth straight Grade 3 Noble Damsel Stakes at Belmont Park.

In Blowout, Viadera, and Noor Sahara, Brown has three of the 10 entrants in the $100,000 Noble Damsel, a one-mile turf race for fillies and mares.

Blowout is 2 for 2 in one-mile turf stakes at Belmont Park, having won the Wild Applause and Pebbles here last year. In her lone start this year, she set the pace in a third-level allowance race at Saratoga only to get beat a neck by Sweet Bye and Bye, who is back in this field.

“Blowout, coming off a long layoff, did all the work in her race,” Brown said. “She should move forward.”

John Velazquez, a six-time winner of the Noble Damsel, rides Blowout from post 4.

Viadera reeled in Noor Sahara in deep stretch to win the De La Rose Stakes going a mile on July 17 at Saratoga. Viadera, who began her career in Ireland, is 3 for 3 at a mile. On Sunday, she worked with multiple Grade 1 winner Newspaperofrecord over the Belmont turf and was going slightly easier than that one late.

Joel Rosario, who won this race for Brown in 2018 (Uni) and 2017 (Off Limits), rides Viadera from the rail.

Before losing the De La Rose by a neck to Viadera, Noor Sahara was beaten a head when third in a second-level allowance race here June 12. Jose Ortiz rides from post 7.

Trainer Christophe Clement has won the Noble Damsel five times, the first coming in 1999 with Khumba Mela and the most recent win coming in 2014 with Annecdote. Saturday, he sends out Feel Glorious, who is coming off a win in the Perfect Sting Stakes going 1 1/16 miles on turf on Aug. 20 at Saratoga. Feel Glorious beat Blowout in the Memories of Silver Stakes at Aqueduct in April 2019, but has finished behind her three times since.

Clement is hoping there is someone to run with Blowout on Saturday to aid his late-running filly.

“As long as we get a decent pace, we’ll be fine,” Clement said. “You can’t change her style.”

Junior Alvarado rides Feel Glorious from post 8.

Sweet Bye and Bye makes her third start off a layoff, having finished third in the Caress Stakes going 5 1/2 furlongs on Aug. 1 and then beating Blowout in the aforementioned allowance on Aug. 26.

“She seems to have come out of the race the same way she went into it, just excellent,” trainer Tony Dutrow said. “With her experience over the course here at Belmont, we’re very confident that she’ll run well.”

Sweet Bye and Bye has a win and two seconds over Belmont’s turf.

Jose Lezcano rides Sweet Bye and Bye from post 2.

Juddmonte Farms owns Viadera and a second Noble Damsel entrant in Chaleur, a English-bred daughter of Dansili who won a one-mile allowance here in July for trainer Bill Mott. Most recently, she was second to Feel Glorious in the Perfect Sting.

Atomic Blonde, Lemon Zip, and Getmotherarose complete the field on turf. Another Broad was entered only to run on the main track.