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Gyarmati pondering choices for Noble Moon, Sweet Reason

Last updated: 9/15/13 5:08 PM

Sweet Reason has won her two career starts over sloppy tracks thus far

(NYRA/Adam Coglianese Photography)

After ending the Saratoga Race Course meeting on a high note, trainer Leah

Gyarmati has carried her momentum to Belmont Park.

Gyarmati won with two of her 22 starters at Saratoga, both with two-year-old

filly Sweet Reason, who gave the trainer her first Grade 1 victory with an upset

of the Spinaway on September 1.

Already, Gyarmati has matched her Saratoga win totals through the first six days

of Belmont's fall gathering, taking the meet opener with Smooth Bert on

September 7, and Saturday's 5TH race with promising juvenile colt Noble Moon.

A $200,000 yearling purchase last fall, Noble Moon is a bay son of Malibu Moon

owned by Treadway Racing Stables, which also owns Sweet Reason. Making his

debut, Noble Moon went gate-to-wire from post 1, holding off 4-5 favorite Divine

Energy to win by three-quarters of a length in 1:10 1/5 for six furlongs on the

main track.

"I knew he could run, but kind of like (Sweet Reason), he's going to probably

want to go longer and the post position was probably not ideal for getting a

clean trip," Gyarmati said. "It worked out great. In the mornings when he works,

if you put him off in front of a horse or next to a horse, he would work

dynamite. None of the other two-year-olds were able to beat him. But, if he'd

start out behind, he just wanted to play.

"(Jockey) Alex (Solis) got on him one morning and he schooled him," she added.

"He made him get dirt in his face and made him get up with the horses, but he

wasn't happy about it. That's why I was thinking it was probably not a good

scenario being in the one-hole if he does kind of get left or breaks short or

breaks slow, especially with that many horses. It was a 12-horse field and they

were all kind of playing around not wanting to go in (the gate), and he was

standing there so long. I was a little worried about that but, shoot, he came

right on out of there."

Gyarmati said she has no immediate plans on where to run Noble Moon next.

"It's kind of a nice problem to have, to be able to sit down and think where

you're going to go next," she said. "I'm not sure yet."

Meanwhile, Gyarmati is looking to bring Sweet Reason back in the Grade 1,

$400,000 Frizette for two-year-old fillies going a mile at Belmont on October 5.

The daughter of Street Sense broke her maiden at Saratoga on August 9.

"As long as she's doing well going into it, that's probably what we'll do," she

said. "We were talking about Breeders' Cup, and I guess I'm just thinking about

all these four races kind of in a row. What's better: do you wait and just run

in the Breeders' Cup, or do you try to do all of them? She'll tell me, when we

get closer. She's doing great, really well. Nothing bothers her. She just goes

with the flow."

Among the possibilities for Gyarmati's three-year-old New York-bred ridgling Smooth Bert is the

$250,000 Empire Classic, the highlight of Empire Showcase Day on October 19 at

Big Sandy.

"He ran huge. He got a big number, and that was great," Gyarmati remarked. "I

don't know what to do next with him. I don't see anything else for him. I don't

know if I want to run him against that caliber of older horses right now, but I

don't know that I have another choice. Everything's on the table."

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